#asheville illustrator

[ellenfoxart]

Tired of fighting.

Find me on instagram, patreon, redbubble, and Facebook as ellenfoxart

[nikkiaart]

I was commissioned to make some more regional variant Mikus xD we have: Asheville Miku, Boone Miku and Ohio Miku! If you want me to draw a regional variant of your favorite character, DM me! My commissions are open

[dreamingcowboyy]

thinking of asheville

[allaroundartsy]

After Hurricane Helene came through my town, I drew these to process my feelings. ❤️‍🩹

Art prints + book

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[cricketpress]

NEW art-print available in our Etsy Shop!

Rivendell Weekend - Original Screenprint

This is an original, screen-printed, limited edition event poster…used to commemorate a weekend gathering of Rivendell bicycle owners held in Asheville, NC!

Details: 4 color screen print 16" x 20" edition of 40 signed and numbered

[allycattt]

Selling these prints for mutual aid to western NC. Link if interested!

[hamsteriffic]

Asheville Secret Santa

Guess what, I was your Secret Santa, @iamthejags!! 🎄

I made this illustration for your most recent chapter of Miraculous Yin Yang.

Thank you to @jigglypuff1994 and @fandomofone for your stealth and information gathering abilities.

If you like fluff go read it!! It’s adorably fluffy.

[kafk-a]

This watercolor drawdown and four drafts illustrate a weave pattern known as Velvet Rose. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of musical notation; a drawdown is a visual grid that illustrates a single weaving block. This drawdown was made by Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944), who recorded weaving patterns she collected in and around Asheville, North Carolina. On one of the drafts, Goodrich wrote, "Copied in 1914 from Frances Colquit's." The top carries an instructional note, "it takes 992 threads to go through the draft 4 times."

[frankendykes-monster]

Engineers at the plant saw that water was rushing out of the facility at more than double the normal rate, which could only mean one thing: the 36-inch pipeline connecting the plant to Asheville’s network of 1,800 miles of pipes below must have ruptured. A backup line also was destroyed. “Water from the plant was just blasting out, creating a 50-foot-deep crater,” said Brendan Kelley, the water plant supervisor on duty during the storm. There was no choice but to shut the plant down, leaving almost no water for a system that serves 160,000 people. The city’s other big treatment plant, called William DeBruhl, was largely knocked out as well. Only a smaller plant remained operational. Days later in Florida, Milton ripped through the state, knocking some water treatment plants offline for hours or days. Numerous boil-water notices are still in effect. The situation is worse in western North Carolina, where residents went weeks without water. Service in Asheville has largely been restored, but the water isn’t yet safe to drink and “there’s no accurate timeline” for when that will change, according to Clay Chandler, public information officer of the city’s Water Resources Department. While “a significant amount of repairs have been made” at North Fork, more work is needed to improve the water quality, Chandler said. The William DeBruhl plant is still offline and requires more repairs, he added. The city’s woes illustrate how the age of the nation’s water infrastructure, combined with the increasing pressures of climate change, can push systems to collapse. That means what has happened in Asheville, absent mitigation efforts, is likely to play out in slightly different ways in communities across the country.

[finishinglinepress]

FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: questions by Sheri Sherman

On SALE: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/questions-by-sheri-sherman/

questions include #poems that bring a focused attention on everyday events and places to find the #extraordinary in the #ordinary. These poems are meditations on memories, #nature, or a spot in time that crystalize how we live: moment to moment, within a specific landscape and through #individual #experience. The use of little to no punctuation is to illustrate the continuity, interrelatedness, and near simultaneous nature of how we experience space, time, and thought. Within each of these poems there is an inherent question, sometimes obvious, sometimes implied, that does not beg an answer, only further inquiry.

An MFA writing graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, Sheri has worked as a copywriter and freelance journalist. Having lived in every region of the United States, she grew up in Virginia and now resides in San Diego and Vermont. Sheri graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from American University in Washington D.C. Prior to beginning her MFA, she attended the summer Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poetry has been published in Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts and Poetry Miscellany, U-T Chattanooga. A critical essay was published in The Asheville Poetry Review as well as a literary paper in the Ljubljana University Journal in Slovenia. Her micro fiction piece, “Hospital Stay,” was published in On the Run. Sheri’s landscape photography and poetry feature the natural world and her interest in how time and space are experienced within our landscapes, our senses, and the human consciousness.

PRAISE FOR questions by Sheri Sherman

The poems in Sheri Sherman’s debut collection engage all the senses and enact deep noticing and mindfulness. The speaker notices “a tiny violet flower” on her mother’s eye after she has died, the speaker touches “the edge of a cloud,” and the speaker hears a single pine needle fall. These are poems of rapt attention.

–Arthur Sze

In questions by Sheri Sherman, “moments stack up angry little waves pushing each other into/ not quite silence a sloosh of energy.” These short poems have all the power of a riptide. They knocked me over again and again until they pulled me into the sublime depths of her imagination, a place where the creatures of the deep (love, memory, time) breach the surface and make themselves known.

–Tomas Q. Morin

Straddling the line between poetry and prose, Sheri Cohen has invented her own form here to hold her complex questions about what it means to live in a world where she can begin with a pine needle and quickly move to where she leans her “head against / the sky.” This is a masterful accomplishment. Or we move from insects to “rows of houses like plastic bouquets” that are “covering catacombs of years below.” It is that mystery beneath the real that Cohen explores which is also to explore our own depths. Along the way we meet a cast of real and literary characters, intimate and expansive places, hidden in her white spaces, for this is a sophisticated poetry where she embraces that mystery of the commonplace just as she lets “the stars slip into my eyes.”

–Richard Jackson, Author of The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems.

Please share/please repost #flpauthor #preorder #AwesomeCoverArt #poetrybook #read #poems #life #nature #world

[ellenfoxart]

I chose the beast.

Again and again.

I love me a good grumpy scary monster who is soft for one person in particular trope. *chef kiss*

[infinitejourneysinfiniteworlds]

Better CR: Roseburrough, NC

I wanted a better CR set in the Appalachians, so I scripted this. Roseburrough doesn't exist here in this CR (as far as I know) but I scripted that it's pretty close to Asheville.

Most of my better CRs (with a couple exceptions) are fairly close to my original CR's past. I do have a couple "Better Family" CRs but for the time being I just feel like I want to get some distance from the family in a CR so I can work through some of these issues in a safe place.

I usually don't script "perfect world" alt CRs because it just doesn't feel real to me. But what I do is take my current reality and modify it here and there, vastly improving some things, making other things just a bit less awful, and just overall re-shaping reality to be not just more tolerable overall but much better in many respects. And I always, always include the caveat that I can permashift to another CR if I ever want to, whenever I'm ready to move on.

So in this reality, I was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. My grandmother (my dad's mother) was from Roseburrough; she had a gorgeous old farmhouse on fifty acres that's been in the family for multiple generations. I'm living there now, just my dog, my cats, and I (she passed on over a decade ago, like she did in the original CR).

There are stories of witches, healers, people with the Sight, and people with magic going back along my grandmother's line. She herself taught me a lot of folk magic that had been passed down to her, a lot of German folk magic and some of the newer Appalachian folk magic traditions that evolved when her ancestors immigrated to the U.S. Grandma has a lot of old family journals and heirlooms that she showed me while she was still alive; they're still in the house. I haven't read through all of them yet but it's something I've been wanting to do.

My parents still live in Charlotte. I have gone very, very low contact with them, and they know why.

I have a group of close friends in Roseburrough who have become my family. Lorna is a single mother, a Wiccan, and owns a nice little pub in town. Andrew and Jonas are a couple; Andrew is a pediatrician and Jonas owns a construction company. They own a small farm a little down the road from me. Jeremy is a trans man living in town; he is our resident computer geek, and works as a freelance coder. Rosa is my best friend, and her large family has basically adopted me. She owns a plant nursery and is a practicing bruja.

I also have the same friends in this reality that I have in my original CR.

In this reality, I worked in my 20s and 30s for a company called "Art in the Parks," a group that hired out "art guides" to various resorts and national parks around the country. I would take guests on easy guided hikes, and then give them a plein aire painting lesson. I had an RV that I lived in, and traveled around quite a bit between the seasonal jobs. I also became something of an acclaimed "magical landscape" and faerie artist during that time. I also made some smart investments, so when I quit my job at Art in the Parks, I was pretty well off.

I moved in with my grandmother in 2012 to help take care of her, and began building a freelance art career. I did a lot of book covers, comic covers, game art. I still work as a freelancer, but I don't have to take a lot of projects because I've got a very nice nest egg saved. I'm currently focusing a lot on my own illustrated novel series project.

A.I. as it exists in the original CR doesn't exist here, but there is a different sort of A.I. that doesn't harm the environment or steal from creatives. It makes things such as 3D modeling, animation, game creation, moviemaking, and gameplay/character scripting much more streamlined and easy while still maintaining full creative control.

There is also a virtual reality system called DreamTime that essentially lets you project your consciousness into the highly realistic virtual space. The base program is highly versatile, so you can build your own characters and adventures, but you can also purchase games based on various IPs as well.

All of this technology is completely safe and ethical. This world is a much better place overall, though there are still some pockets of religious fanatics and such. The shitty people are very much the minority and are ostracized by the rest of society.

The house interior is laid out almost like the interior of my grandmother's house in the original CR, but the upstairs is a bit different, with more rooms. I had it fixed up a bit a few years back, because it was starting to get a bit run down and was having some issues with the plumbing and wiring and a leaky roof. It's in good shape now. It's on an absolutely gorgeous tract of land, with lots of old forest growth, a river, and a waterfall. I have a very nice garden and keep a few chickens for eggs. My dog Shadow is still with me in this world, and I also have two cats, Ember and Morpheus.

I have all the same DR scripts here that I have in my original CR, and whatever shifts I've experienced are also mirrored here, so I can pick off wherever I left off in any DR whenever I permashift here and start shifting again.

I am happy and content living alone and single in this world; most of my romantic relationships are in DRs that I shift back and forth from.

[alexesguerra]

Appalachian Witchcraft for Beginners: The History, Remedies, and Spells of a Rich Folk Magic Tradition Appalachian Witchcraft for Beginners: The History, Remedies, and Spells of a Rich Folk Magic Tradition Contributor(s): Lily, Auburn (Author) Publisher: Callisto EAN: 9798886501322 Physical Info: 0.5" H x 8.9" L x 6.0" W (0.71 lbs) 161 pages AUBURN LILY found her home in Appalachia 13 years ago. She now works in the healing arts, offering online classes and cultivating a community to support others in their magical awakenings. " Appalachian Witchcraft for Beginners perfectly illustrates the deep wisdom and magic found within the region. This book is a must-have for anyone wanting to diversify their practice or get in touch with their roots!" --Shelby Graves, Appalachian Witch & Business Owner in Asheville, NC. Connect to the wisdom of the mountains and become a more powerful witch Appalachian witchcraft is a melting pot of magical practices that are united by a deep reverence for the land and traditions of Appalachia. Part reference guide and part spell book, Appalachian Witchcraft for Beginners is filled with introductory information and easy-to-follow rituals for witches of all backgrounds. You'll discover how to harness the magic of the mountains as you connect with the culture of Appalachia, practice folk healing, and manifest your desires. Demystify the practice--Learn about the origins of Appalachian witchcraft and how it differs from other forms of magic, then expand your understanding of signs and omens, Appalachian traditions, and the role of the modern witch. Prepare for spellcasting--Find guidance on cleansing yourself and your space; drawing power from the earth and sky; and elevating your magic with tools like herbs, churchyard dirt, and candles. Strengthen your skills--Hone your craft with spells for bolstering your connection to the land, conjuring protection, and supporting your personal relationships. Unlock the power of Appalachian folk magic with this introductory witchcraft book. Contributor Bio: Lily, Auburn AUBURN LILY found her home in Appalachia 13 years ago. She now works in the healing arts, offering online classes and cultivating a community to support others in their magical awakenings.

[fahrni]

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️

I don’t know if allergies are trying to kill me or if I’ve picked up a cold somewhere. No matter, I’m so sleepy I can barely keep my eyes open. 😃

Ok, so, here we are, three hours later. 🤣 I passed out. Couldn’t keep my eyes open.

Hope you enjoy the links.

Dan Gillmor

I became a blogger because of Dave. Blogging changed — in a great way — the trajectory of my career.

A lot of us were influenced by Dave’s work.

Dan’s a really great writer and someone you should follow.

Pao Ramen

What follows is the talk that Ethan should have given to the team. Instead, he pedaled away on a stolen bicycle, developed a game that flopped commercially, and now roams the streets of San Francisco, high on fentanyl. Meanwhile, David and the rest of the team sold the company for peanuts but landed comfortable positions at the acquiring firm, earning twice as much while working half as hard. So, in the end, it probably didn’t matter. But if you’re interested in sync engines, read on.

This piece is about writing a sync engine for your application. The beginning of the article is a fun read but it does eventually get to the meat of the subject after the comedic intro. I really dig the diagrams.

Todd Vaziri

Near the end of David Fincher’s 1995 masterpiece “Seven”, John Doe takes Somerset and Mills to the middle of nowhere to reveal his final surprise. They drive to a desolate area surrounded by high tension power lines and towers. A combination of long lenses and wide lenses were used to alternate between images of long-lens compression of the space (the first image below), and scattered wider lenses to illustrate the desolation of the environment (the second image below).

What a great film! Todd’s breakdown of the scene and seeing how much a camera lens can completely transform an environment is amazing!

I know nothing about photography or filmmaking but I learned something new.

Mathew Ingram

I realize that many people may not know or care who or what Matt Mullenweg and WordPress are, or why some people are upset about them, but after giving it a lot of thought (okay, about 10 minutes of thought) I decided to write about it anyway.

The wild story that is the WordPress vs. WPEngine saga continues.

I really hope they can get this sorted out and it doesn’t destroy the WordPress community in the meantime.

Jessica Wakeman • The Guardian

Hurricane Helene destroyed Asheville’s flourishing arts community. Can they rebuild what was lost?

Kim and I were supposed to visit Asheville two years ago for an anniversary weekend. We didn’t go because I’d injured my back as was unable to stand for long periods of time. Now I really wish we’d gone. Those poor people were hit so hard. Here’s to a full recovery! ❤️

Saajan Jogia • Newsweek

Former Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo, who remains without a seat after his ousting from Red Bull’s junior team VCARB, will be handed the “Keys to the City” honor.

I guess Danny Ricciardo is an Austin fan favorite.

Heck, now that he’s available I think a NASCAR team needs to convince him to run a road course NASCAR race next season! 😃

Gary Marcus

LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

There’s nothing Intelligent about this software. They’re just really good at guessing the next thing.

Sure, they’re really great guessers, but can also be very wrong. Keep that in mind.

Oh, and can we stop the craze of stuffing “AI” into all the things? Thank you.

Frank Schwab • Yahoo Sports

Aidan Hutchinson undergoes successful surgery after gruesome leg injury in win over Cowboys

Under Dan Campbells guidance the Lions have become real threats to win the Super Bowl. I hope losing Aidan doesn’t prevent them from staying in the hunt for a title.

All the best to you Aidan. I hope that leg heals perfectly and you’re back to sacking Quarterbacks next season.

Jan de Mooij • Spidermonkey

75x faster: optimizing the Ion compiler backend

I like working on stuff more under the hood of software. Network, data structures, and making data generally available. I also love making reusable frameworks so others can get their jobs done in less time and with higher quality.

This effort is nothing short of amazing. I love articles like this! 👍🏼

[thoughtswordsaction]

snakesnakewhale. - Castle, PA

“Castle, PA” is the latest single by snakesnakewhale, an Asheville-based quintet. It’s their first song in 2024 and an adequate follow-up to “You’ll Get Than On These Big Jobs,” another exceptional single released last year. Soundwise, snakesnakewhale combines several different but complementary music genres to illustrate such a rich and luxurious ambiance. Perhaps modern emo sound comes to mind…

[scrabblings]

The Doo Doo List #nsfw

The tourney here in New Orleans is run by the Word Game Players' Organization (aka WGPO). 99% of the tourneys I've played in are run by their arch nemesis, the North American Scrabble Players Association (aka NASPA). The drama between the two would make an episode of Real Housewives look like child's play. Another source of drama in the Scrabble community was the decision by NASPA to remove a list of offensive words from the lexicon in June 2020. The IMPORTANT and RELEVANT thing is that WGPO allows use of the expurgated word list (aka the Doo Doo list). The Asheville Scrabble club has a good breakdown of these words for the curious.

So any good player would need to study this word to make sure they don't miss out on the opportunity to drop some high-scoring slurs or offensive words on the board! Here are some highlights of the words I've been re-committing to memory.

NANCY, NANCE, NANCIER, NANCIEST, NANCIFYING

I, for one, am THRILLED for NANCY to be back in play. Nancy (middle) made the last-minute (even more last-minute than me) decision to come to New Orleans and I am so grateful! New Orleans has been NANCIFIED! We are sad for Diana not to be here but she does live on an island and graces us with her presence more infrequently.

2. PEPSI

I have no idea what this means and I'm afraid to look it up based on this GIF I found. But it's good! Thrown down your PEPSI and your PEPSIS!

3. POOF, POOFY, POOFIER, POOFIEST

I am glad to see this come back because I never knew it got taken out in the first place and have gotten BURNED on POOFY. You know I love a 5-letter word that ends in Y.

4. SUPERBITCH, SUPERBITCHES

To illustrate this I have included a gif of the OPPOSITE of a SUPERBITCH - Wonder Woman. Now you may be wondering, this has 10 letters in it ... I thought you only had 7 letters in Scrabble?!? This is true. But when cool thing is that sometimes someone throws down a word and you "extend" it - potentially stretching it to a 10+ point word. So someone throws down BITCH (acceptable in both WGPO and NASPA) and I extend it to... SUPERBITCHES!

That's just a brief overview of some of the prep work that goes in to playing a tourney.