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ekimdesonbaharbaskadir · 2 years

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What To Do In Chicago 2021 | Chicago in 3 Days Travel Vlog Things to do in Chicago

What To Do In Chicago 2021 | Chicago in 3 Days Travel Vlog #NewYork Things to do in Chicago #thingstodoinchicago #travel #chicago Watch the What To Do In Chicago 2021 | Chicago in 3 Days Travel Vlog video till the end. 39995 Views – 670 Likes. You also like and comment. This video will give you an idea about the subject you are wondering about. What to do in Chicago in 2021! I recently headed…

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cldhead · 1 year

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roommates <3

[kofi]

#i think they should get a fun little apartment in indy or chicago together #poor robin.. living together with the 'we have matching scars' bfs #also if u arent getting stoned w ur best friends in the bathtub on a hot summer day #then what are u doing #robin buckley #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #steddie #ronance

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hellenhighwater · 5 months

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Have you taken any pottery classes or were you entirely self taught? I REALLY want to get into it but classes are quite expensive

I took some sculpting in undergrad, but it was in the context of casting and mold-making, not ceramics. So I'm fairly comfortable with clay as a medium but not so much with clay as an end product--not being able to do armatures and having to think about firing is weird. (If I had the opportunity to do bronze casting again, though, I would, no hesitation.) That puts me in the minority of my current pottery peers, who are largely self-taught or only learned in our studio.

I do pottery now at a co-op studio space, and technically that means that I'm taking classes there--but the classes are more like guided lab time? There's not really assignments or anything, and there's only a couple other people who sculpt, none of whom are in my class. Mostly the class just means that the person in charge demonstrates a technique or two once a week and then lets us do our thing.

Personally I think that shared studio space is the absolute best way to go. You spend less in startup costs (kilns are EXPENSIVE, running kilns is expensive, glaze is expensive) and it plugs you directly in to a group of fellow artists who can help and support you at whatever skill level you're at. Yes, classes are expensive--my class is $250 per season. But for me that includes lab space, 50 lbs of clay per season, almost all of the glaze I use, kiln time, and other people doing all the maintenance and kiln loading/unloading etc. Very much money well spent.

Artist-run shared spaces are often not turning a profit on anything with studio fees, just covering operations costs, so while it's pricey, it generally is just...what it costs to do that hobby. And it is sooooo much easier to be motivated when you're going to what is, basically, Grown-Up Art Club.

But if costs are prohibitive for you to do pottery via classes, and you want to learn to sculpt, then get some polymer clay and see what you can do. It's a different game than actual clay, but form is form, and the medium is secondary to figuring out how to translate an idea into reality.

Polymer clay is relatively affordable and doesn't require nearly the infrastructure of ceramics. If you can't spend the money on classes or a shared studio, then polymer clay is a great way to develop technique and an eye so that when you're in a position to spend the money, you already have the skills to make it worth what you're spending.

#most people who have home pottery studios are either in a position to easily afford that #or are selling their work at a caliber to justify the expenses of making the studio space #which is not what will happen when you are starting out.#pottery is far and away my most expensive hobby and that means #that when it's done #the Minotaur series is going to get sold #probably for as much as I think i can get for it #and probably that means I am going to have to Find A Gallery and Submit Work To Gallery and be #in short #in hell. i have not had to think about doing gallery submissions in so long #and i am dreading it.#anyway if anyone knows a gallery in like. michigan or chicago and can hook me up #i have some sad cows that need homes #i kind of want to keep my sad cow mans forever but also where would i even put them? better to be treasured by someone else #and maybe i will make one extra sad cow. for me.

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flaticeball · 8 months

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hey! as the first season of connor bedard gets underway i, your local indigenous hockey fan, have a request of you: please don't let this kid's sure to be marvellous and jaw-dropping rookie season make you complacent with the racism of the blackhawks as an organization. it is beyond heinous that they were able to secure the first overall pick this year for a number of reasons i'm sure we're all familiar with, but i am pleading with the hockey community not to let the racism of this org fall through the cracks.

they drafted connor bedard and handed him a jersey with a giant racist caricature on the front. their mascot is named tommy hawk. they continuously fail to curtail their fans' egregious displays of anti-indigenous racism at games.

i'm not going to ask anyone not to post about bedard. i know he's huge news and i'm bummed as all hell that i won't be able to enjoy the beginning of what is sure to be an incredible career myself. but i am asking, given that his presence on the team is likely to increase the prevalence of people making and reblogging posts about the blackhawks, that you please care, loudly and actively, about the racism of this organization and how much it hurts indigenous fans to see that go unquestioned so often.

consider mentioning it in posts. consider amplifying the voices of indigenous fans and community members about the issues of these types of sports organizations. consider reading up on the history of the person they claim to 'honour' with their hideous effigy of a logo. consider censoring the logo in your posts if you are able to (please do this if you are able to). consider tagging posts so that indigenous fans are at the very least able to blacklist that team and not have to see it.

above all, please just. don't forget about it. don't forget about us. we belong here too.

#gav gab #connor bedard #chicago blackhawks #i jsut. it makes me feel sick every time i see that thing.#this racist caricature of a native man's head on their jerseys on their ice in their locker room #a native man who had his body mutilated in death including having his head removed #it's fucking grotesque and it makes me literally sick #i was really looking forward to see what that little wizard boy could do!#and now it is wholly ruined for me #and i keep seeing people just. posting about it like this team is normal. like it's any other team #no ethical consumption under sports is true but some things ARE worse than others #and there is no justification or excuse for being a blackhawks fan in the year 2023. there just isn't.#and like..... it bums me the fuck out for bedard himself too #like he didn't choose this #he just got like. put into this situation #it sucks #he's a teenager and now he's in the middle of this whole mess he didn't create and isn't responsible for #and i can't expect him to do anything about it #but boy was i excited to see him play #and now it just..... yeah #well.

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notbecauseofvictories · 1 year

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My best friend and I had a call recently---she’s back with her family for a bit helping out with some hometown stuff. As part of the stuff, she’s been going through a (deceased) relative’s scrapbook, compiled in the American Midwest circa 1870-1900 and featuring mostly cut-out figures from the ads of the day.

She talked about how painstaking this relative’s work was. (Apparently the relative was careful to cut out every finger, every cowlick; this was by no means carelessly or hastily assembled.) But she also she talked about how---the baby on the baking soda ad is ugly, it is so ugly, why anyone would clip this heinously ugly illustrated baby and paste it into a scrapbook? Why would you save the (terribly told, boring) ghost story that came with your box of soap?

(Why include these things in the first place? we asked each other. ”There’s a kind of anti-capitalism to it,” she mused.)

And we discussed that for a bit---how most of the images, stories, artists, and ads were local, not national; they’re pulled from [Midwestern state] companies’ advertisements in [Midwestern state] papers, magazines, and products. As a consequence, you’re not looking at Leyendecker or Norman Rockwell illustrations, but Johann Spatz-Smith from down the road, who took a drawing class at college.

(College is the state college, and he came home on weekends and in the summer to help with the farm or earn some money at the plant.)

But it also inspired a really interesting conversation about how---we have access to so much more art, better and more professional art, than any time in history. As my bff said, all you have to do to find a great, technically proficient and lovely representational image of a baby, is to google the right keywords. But for a girl living in rural [Midwestern state] of the late 1800s, it was the baking soda ad, or literal actual babies. There was no in-between, no heading out to the nearby art museum to study oil paintings of mother and child, no studying photographs and film---such new technologies hadn’t diffused to local newspapers and circulars yet, and were far beyond the average person’s means. But cheap, semi-amateur artists? Those were definitely around, scattered between towns and nearby smallish cities.

It was a good conversation, and made me think about a couple things---the weird entitlement that “professional” and expensive art instills in viewers, how it artificially depresses the appetite for messy unprofessional art, including your own; the way that this makes your tastes narrower, less interesting, less open.

By that I mean---maybe the baby isn’t ugly! Maybe you’ve just seen too many photorealistic babies. Maybe you haven’t really stopped to contemplate that your drawing of a baby (however crude, ugly, or limited) is the best drawing of a baby you can make, and the act of drawing that lumpen, ugly baby is more sacred and profoundly human than even looking at a Mary Cassatt painting.

And even if that isn’t the case....there was this girl in [American Midwestern state] for whom it was very, very important that she capture every finger, curl, and bit of shading for that ugly soap ad baby. And some one hundred years later, her great-something-or-other took pains to preserve her work---because how terribly human it is, to seek out all the art we can find that resonates with us, preserve it, adore it.

It might be the most human impulse we have.

#I of course went on a tangent about henry darger because I love darger and he was also pulling/tracing/finding inspiration in local ads #I was also thinking of the scenes in banshees of inisherin where gleeson plays the fiddle in the bar and the woman sings #clearly not professional! nowhere near mozart.#but you know what? those people are making art. they are engaged in the most human thing you can possibly do #my mother once talked about how when she was growing up in the chicago area the irish immigrants would sing and play at parties #and her mother (one generation removed from immigration) would scoff #because who did they think they were! they weren't professionals. they were making a spectacle of themselves.#''and then it died out. no one sings and plays at parties anymore'' she said quietly #celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge

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ullybug · 3 months

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acts of god by heather mchugh, poetry february 1981 issue

(x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x)

#sorry for calling wayne gretzky a dead god over betting ads do you still think im sexy. etc #why am i listing the publication of this poem? bc there is another by the same author bearing the same name from a different collection #why is that? no idea.#jack hughes #wayne gretzky #alexander ovechkin #connor mcdavid #connor bedard #chicago blackhawks #sidney crosby #john tavares #<- uh. in essence #that's what its meant to be about anyway #hockey poetry #mine own edit #edit²¹

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courfeyracs-swordcane · 29 days

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[pointing towards you emoji] favorite blaseball team. go

(if you want to practice drawing in another style, then draw yourself as a transformer OR as a human character)

WE ARE FROM CHICAGO

#THANK YOU THIS WAS VERY FUN 10/10 #This also took Actual Years but that’s mostly bc I have really no idea what I look like #it’s not especially this tho #top one is better than the bottom one #but still #ah fuck I forgor to color in the Chicago across the chest on that one #whoops #oh well. too late #blaseball #Chicago firefighters #I do not know if we have a generally agreed upon uniform this was just what I found in the server #also technically TECHNICALLY max ballad brothers was vaguely supposed to be a transformersona #that did not so much happen lmaooo #<— nobody say anything about catalyzer I’m better than him #and also. more importantly. would not look like that.#just me #look I drew a thing #am I allowed to maintag this? I don’t know.#sorry if you don’t want to see it I’m gonna want to be able to find it later and my Blaseball tag is way smaller than my art tag.#and technically it’s related but still. augh #<— overthinking this

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cozylittleartblog · 1 month

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ANIME CENTRAL (ACEN) is officially Two Weeks Away now and i am going to implode. Come see me in the Artist Alley at booth H29 !!! I will have damn near my entire shop's catalogue with me (except stickers, as they are not allowed by the convention center itself, though I will have washi tape), and two new charm sets I made for this con specifically. Leftovers will be listed on my Etsy some time the following week !

#anime central #anime central 2024 #acen #acen 2024 #artist alley #rosemont #chicago anime cons #anime con #i will be adding to the music player charm set more in the future with more iconic songs but theres just 4 for now #although i've asked con staff about it and i will be allowed to have a sticker Display for people to look at #so if you want to Look at my stickers before you go online and buy them. all you need do is ask for my sticker binder 👍#everything is taped into place so people can't reach in and run off with anything #i dont know what outfits im gonna wear yet but i know at least one day i gotta wear the aperture hoodie and dress like my sona #i'll even clip my hair back on one side to bring back the sidecut for a day lmao #acen was my first con its so so so cool that its my first artist alley too....

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ekimdesonbaharbaskadir · 2 years

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TOP 10 things to do in CHICAGO [Travel Guide] Things to do in Chicago

TOP 10 things to do in CHICAGO [Travel Guide] #NewYork Things to do in Chicago #thingstodoinchicago #travel #chicago Watch the TOP 10 things to do in CHICAGO [Travel Guide] video till the end. 379320 Views – 6085 Likes. You also like and comment. This video will give you an idea about the subject you are wondering about. Chicago travel guide, covering the top 10 things to do in Chicago, plus a…

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sarah-cam · 4 months

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I HAVE NEVER KNOWN WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LOSE!!

#burzek #chicago pd #oc lb #text #ALL I DO IS WIN WIN WIN NO MATTER WHAT

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go-to-two · 4 months

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You're joking 😂

Okay, I don't want to hear Gwen say another word about trauma and relationships. Every choice she made for Jay and Hailey was intentional. If you dismantled them because you subscribe to some archaic belief that only one couple can be happy, say that. If you're mad that actors left, say that. Let's not pretend you have some deep thoughts about trauma and relationships while Kim and Adam are making it work.

#chicago pd #this isn't even against kim and adam btw #i don't care what they do with them #it's about the writing for jay and hailey #just to be clear

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kindahoping4forever · 10 months

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👁️👄👁️

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notbecauseofvictories · 14 days

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I tried to watch season 2 of the bear, and flamed out tragically when I saw all the famous people in episode 6. I'm sorry, those are Faces, I know who they are and therefore the illusion is broken entirely and completely.

#like. that's jamie lee curtis. what is she doing in chicago splattering sauce on the ceiling.#I also think that I'm not suited to s2. it felt like...#well a while ago I turned on a south african cooking show (it's called the cook-a-long)#which to its credit KNOWS it's shilling for the tourist board. its entire purpose is to make south africa #look interesting and vibrant; full of delicious food. which it does spectacularly!#but I do not want to turn on the bear and be sold on denmark or watch syd get advice from actual chicago chefs #that is for cooking shows; not my fiction.#putting very famous actors in there feels like the same thing.#(also STOP SHOWING SHOTS OF THE LOOP I KNOW THESE PEOPLE LIVE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY YOU'RE LYING)#anyway. done with that show.#the bear

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mychanicalbrides · 5 months

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soo apparently my dad knew pete wentz??? he was in a band called firstborn in the 90s and would play at a bunch of shows in chicago as openers, like they were everywhere you went. pete wentz was guitarist and my dad knew the singer becaus he made a zine for him... he never knew pete like directly but holy shit i was like What.

#fall out boy #pete wentz #like i dont even like fallout boy that much but WHAT #he said “do you know i know the guy from fallout boy”#literally WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!?!??! NO????#he also made fun of pete wentz for not even being from chicago instead from the suburbs 😭😭 like okay

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fischiee · 4 months

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why is nashville considered music city when every chicago artist has absolutely destroyed my life with the power of their writing

#like WHAT do they put in the water there???#what is it about chicago that makes people write such incredible music #fob #fall out boy #djo #the smashing pumpkins #there's so many more but im too tired to list them all

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blujayonthewing · 2 months

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pitched battle inside my brain between the part of me that's desperately shaking myself by the shoulders going "YOU HAVE GOT TO ACTUALLY LIVE THE KIND OF LIFE YOU IMAGINE INSTEAD OF JUST SITTING AROUND IMAGINING IT UNTIL YOU DIE!!" and the part of me that's clutching my face going "is this allowed? is this allowed?? is this allowed???"

#trying to plan a solo cicada pilgrimage and getting brainworms about it yeehaw #'making a lot of plans and never actually doing things in real life' has been a problem for literally as long as I can remember #but I also feel like I've developed a learned helplessness over the last several years that's gotten worse as I've gotten older??#me age twenty: I think I'm gonna take myself to chicago next week because I feel like going to the zoo #me age thirty: am I allowed to go camping alone. am I allowed to do a solo road trip. I need a grownup #to be extremely clear I am very much allowed and this is not justin's fault and I don't know where it comes from #like I'll run things by him lowkey seeking 'permission' that I don't even need and he'll be like 'yeah that sounds good to me'#and then I STILL won't do the thing because like. my brain keeps insisting there needs to be a grownup in charge?? HELLO I'M GROWNUP #anyway I'm doing cicada trip solo BECAUSE-- the drive is so long I want to do five days because two of them will just be driving #and he can't get that much time off work right now #AND because I literally only want to Be Camping and Looking At Bugs but he'd get bored of a week of that he likes Activities #me this morning getting insecure and weird: what are your thoughts... on cicada voyage....#him after at first not even understanding the question: I'm SO excited for you?? you deserve to get to go absolutely feral???#I do.... ;n; 💕 why am I so scared to be a person.......#about me #cicada quest

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