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“Could it be that human beings—whether Indian or Japanese—are like fishermen who cast their nets to fish but can only reach relatively shallow waters? We know a lot of things and are constantly learning more, but maybe what we have most in common with each other is what is unknown to us. The depths of the ocean, and our relationship to that world, still remain hidden and mysterious.” - Mayur and Tushar Vayeda

Brothers Mayur and Tushar Vayeda made this artists’ book.  They are from the indigenous Warli community in Maharashtra, western India and grew up in the village of Ganjad. After studying animation and business management in Mumbai, the brothers taught themselves the traditional art of Warli painting.

Warli art is traditionally created by the women in the community, who decorate the walls and floors of their homes, as well as community spaces and for festivals. As such, Warli paintings were temporary, constantly renewed and recreated.

Today, both women and men make Warli painting, and they are also made more permanent on paper or canvas. The Vayeda brothers incorporate traditional Warli painting style but create a new vision.

In this book, the Vayeda brothers tell their journey from Ganjad to a small Japanese island called Awashima, connecting the village stream they knew from their childhood to the deep oceans they encountered in Awashima.

The deep for the text Arun Wolf and Gita Wolf from an oral narrative by Mayur Vayeda and Tushar Vayeda. Chennai : Tara Books, [2020] Vayeda, Mayur [artist] Vayeda, Tushar [artist] HOLLIS number: 99157144381803941

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Victorian drag portraits, anyone?

These photos (1, 2, 3) from the James Gardiner Collection are open access and available to view on JSTOR courtesy of the Wellcome Collection.

Dating from the 1850s to 1890s, the hand-colored portraits come from a Victorian album of 35 cartes de visite showing private and theatrical female impersonation. While many of these performances were intended as entertainment, the images also gesture toward gender nonconformity and queer expression.

See more from the album.

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Source PhD comics

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Spurious Latin plurals are great fun if you're a specific flavour of nerd, but improperly constructed verb tenses are a game anyone can play. The past tense of "screenshot" is "screenshat".

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Source

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streetkunst — bologna

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Source

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nancy panels recreated in blender. ernie bushmiller surrealist king

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willapa bay

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recent 3d stuff

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de chirico blender studies <3

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some of the comments on my censorship post are like “um I think books should be rated like movies because some books feature stuff like gang rape that teens shouldn’t be allowed read”

ok. now imagine being a librarian and looking a teenager who’s been gang raped in the eye and saying “oops, sorry, can’t allow you to read this one, it’s for big kids and you’re not ready for it”

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We know it looks delicious, but please don't eat this book!

Lock, Rolf, and Dierick, Ingela. Mon sucre d'orge : II ; there was an old man. Plombières, Belgium : Buchbinderei und Einandkunst Ingele Dierick, 2024.

2025H-8

Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Watched my first Final Destination movie. Takes:

Might be the best depiction of what unmedicated generalised anxiety feels like

The deaths are funny but not laughing material for me

The music choices however were HILARIOUS: 10/10

Ok I did close my eyes multiple times to avoid seeing the gore

I can't related with people trying to escape death

This movie conveys the message about death as the only certainty in life waaaay better than many other pieces of pretentious fiction

The old woman in the end is the evil kid at the beginning: she didn't die because she has transitioned*

*galaxy brain idea courtesy of my roomie

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~ Face with skin mask (xipe-tlazolteotl).

Place of origin: Veracruz, Mexico

Date: A.D. 300–700

Medium: Ceramic and paint

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The beef between night owls and early birds is so silly. We complete each other. Evolutionary-speaking, wouldn’t it be useful to have people naturally alert at dawn to watch for saber tooth tigers and people alert at midnight watching for like, wolves?? Keeping us safe with internal clocks set to random.

All times of the day are beautiful.