#submissions in space

[peapodsinspace]

[scratches chin] hmm…it seems something is…aTOE here…*

*I say aTOE because I do NOT have a foot fetish

[70sscifiart]

Heavy Metal (1981)

[todaysbird]

Today’s Bird is: this pair of Eurasian Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus)!

[paintdoktahwho]

submitted by @cipher-fresh

[kaijuno]

Submission from Shenandoah National Park

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Dax is Queer and Genderfluid and uses varying pronouns based on presentation!

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Helix nebula reporting in!

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[peapodsinspace]

She pepper on my mint till I bark 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[70sscifiart]

hi! i just saw your space crowd saturday post and i hope you don’t mind but i wanted to share one of my favorite book covers that i feel fits the bill. the piece is “With Friends Like These” by Michael Whelan, used as the cover for an anthology of the same name by Alan Dean Foster. every time i see it it makes me smile :) image sourced from Michael Whelan’s website. thanks for all you do, i always love seeing your posts!

That's a great one! I'll feature this for sure, and probably pretty soon.

Looks like its was published in Dec 1977, right after Star Wars popularized the concept with the Mos Eisley Cantina. I'm really interested in seeing how many pre-Star Wars examples of this trope I can find this year. It's very big in the 80s and 90s with the cyberpunk genre, but I'm sure it existed before A New Hope, too.

[hellenhighwater]

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.

[lesserknownwaifus]

vel-dar from captain simian and the space monkeys

[liminalspacesandplaces]

Courtesy of @heywhatsupfolks

[blamemma]

stopped crying now just feel the rage of a million fires inside me actually i can fit 5 people in my mini 6 if someone gets in the boot lets go on a road trip and lets go burn down sky sports f1 red bull milton keynes and every other fucker who let this happen

[the-wolf-and-moon]

I have a picture of M13 as my background and Enceladus as my lockscreen. Just wanted to share the astronomy joy 😊

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