#rainbow history

[emotranscripple]

new books also my first ever manga ❤️‍🔥📚

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

We are often asked if multiple ink colors can be used on a single impression. In this video, Jared letterpress prints a phrase about museums showing that 6 ink colors is possible. The phrase “Museums are not neutral” was printed with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple ink using our Washington hand press. The wood type used is 15 line pica in size and the typeface is French Clarendon.

Our museum, like all museums, is not neutral. People often argue that museums should be neutral or that museums can’t be “political.” However, museums actually are cultural institutions that originate from colonial acquisition and they are about power. History is often written by the victors. It is important for museums to focus on multiple sources and perspectives, especially historically underrepresented groups. Promoting diversity is important to understanding a more holistic history of events.

[amnhnyc]

Have you ever seen the magnificent rainbow scarab (Phanaeus vindex)? This colorful dung beetle can be found in parts of the eastern and central United States. While most dung beetles are dull shades of brown or gray, this species is one of a handful adorned in striking iridescent colors. Males also sport large horns on their heads! Like other dung beetles, this insect rolls dung into balls to incubate its young. It also digs dung-filled tunnels nearby to ensure that the newborn beetles will have enough to eat. 

Photo: Thomas Shahan, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday Gilbert Baker!

Born on 2 June 1951, in Chanute, Kansas, Gilbert Baker was instrumental in the creation of the rainbow flag, now an internationally recognised symbol of the queer community.

In 1978, openly-gay politician Harvey Milk asked Gilbert to design a symbol for that year's pride celebrations in San Francisco. Gilbert chose the rainbow as a symbol that was beautiful, diverse, and natural.

Gilbert, along with other artists and volunteers, created the first rainbow flags by hand, dyeing the fabric in huge rubbish bins, and then rinsing it out late at night at a local laundromat.

The rainbow flag was first flown as a symbol of the queer community at San Francisco Pride on 25 June 1978.

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[justdavina]

SO HOT! 🏳️‍🌈

[yourbelgianthings]

lesbian herstory archive button collection

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[katarinanavane]

Two mini rainbow curio collection shadowboxes.

[wh0-is-lily]

Raquel Welch wearing a rainbow design by Marijke Koger, 1971

[gaywebcorenostalgia]

Rainbow Wireless, 1997

[bixels]

I'm obsessed with your rarijack post. I would love to hear your thoughts on flutterdash. That one was always my favorite but rainbow was often a victim of the new writers not understanding her and writing her weirdly

SHE SOLD HER INTO SLAVERY!

[angelstitss]

i have nothing else to say about this. i am absolutely batshit.

confused? let me show you because after my months of analyzing this song i did not see this a SINGLE TIME until it was pointed out to me.

i’m going batshit insane. this is the reason why i need to be locked in a padded room.

right after alastor said that vox asked him to join his “team” and alastor said no.

there is no other explanation for this.

LALALALA IM GONNA DIE ‼️‼️‼️

WHAT WAS THE FUCKING REASON.

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

We have shown what printing large wood type in multiple ink colors looks like recently but we have received a lot of inquiries about what it would look like using one of our old letterpress cuts.

The order from left to right in the galley tray at the beginning is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Some of the inks are oil base and some are rubber base. In this video, Jared letterpress printed a large halftone of the most prominent part of our state flag, the California Grizzly bear.

This halftone is a reproduction of Charles Nahl’s drawing, ��Grizzly Bear,” which he designed in 1854. We also thought this print was great for this time, since June 14th is the anniversary of the Bear Flag Revolt and when the first Bear Flag was created.

[amnhnyc]

Behold the dazzling colors of an iridescent ammonite (Placenticeras intercalare)! A relative of today’s squids, this ammonite lived some 80 million years ago near what is now Alberta, Canada. This fossil’s spectacular coloration is the result of millions of years of high temperatures and pressures. As these forces acted on nacre in this ammonite’s shell, it was transformed into a gemstone known as an ammolite. Along with amber and pearl, ammolite is one of only a handful of gems made by living organisms. You can spot this rare specimen in the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Collections Core in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation!

Photo: © AMNH

[queerasfact]

“We stood there and watched and saw the flags, and their faces lit up. It needed no explanation. People knew immediately that it was our flag.”

- US Activist Cleve Jones

It’s 45 years today since the rainbow flag was first flown - on 25 June 1978 at San Francisco Pride - as a symbol of gay pride and the queer community!

[Image: two rainbow flags flying on flagpoles above a group of people out on the street at San Francisco pride. The flags have eight coloured stripes, and one has a blue-and-white star pattern in the top left corner.]

[lionofchaeronea]

The Rainbow: Osterspai and Filsen, J.M.W. Turner, 1817

[hooked-on-elvis]

ʀᴀɪɴʙᴏᴡ ꜰʀɪɴɢᴇ ʟᴇᴀᴛʜᴇʀ ᴊᴀᴄᴋᴇᴛ I believe this is hands down an all-time fans favorite pieces coming from E's personal wardrobe, am I right?

DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS White shirt, green shirt, white shirt with blue pattern, black shirt + blue scarf

ON THE ROAD

How bold was he to wear something like this and how good it looked on him!