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Old-school sketch - fall sweater cat! I actually drew this last year on a road trip.

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Simon and Stella, part I (in happier times). Part II will be the damaged and broken version.

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Good grief. I’m basically here for the art but every time I log in, I have to block at least 3 scammers who have decided to follow me. 😣

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I did a digital drawing inspired by hawaii: part II, feat. Simon, the siren, Stella octangula, ocean, palm trees, rainbow. Drawn by zooming in a lot in Adobe Illustrator and using loads of Bézier curves & point edits.

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Nobody IRL knows what my shirt means 😭, so I figured I would post this here.

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I’ve never been to hawaii but my parents have, and now I want to get them to listen to hawaii part II and let me know if it in any way encapsulates the intangibles of the experience.

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We brave into the labyrinth

No prior plan for our descent

But charge in hand that might implore

The circuits of the minotaur

Fire with Fire

Bolt for bolt

The god of the maze will meet our ghost

And Hearts again might understand

The sap of tree, the blood of man

(Painting inspired by Dirt Poor Robins’ “It Tore Your Heart Out”)

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I haven’t used tumblr in literally years and dang hawaii part II gets me back on here for the relevant content because the rest of the internet doesn’t have enough 😭😭

this song has me in a vice grip

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I am still deep in the practice phase as far as learning to cut dovetails, but I am quite happy with how the practice is going lately. The photo here is of a through dovetail I did using scrap oak floorboard wood. The joint actually held the boards at 90 degrees with no glue, etc., which is kind of the point of dovetails. :D

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!!!

Dark Lens

Cédric Delsaux has integrated Star Wars characters and vehicles with urban and industrial landscapes.

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Wow. Looks like something out of a sci-fi movie!

Livable

Dutch photographer Bas Princen captures desolate landscapes throughout the world (the above image was shot in China), seeking out areas where man has attempted (and usually failed) to shape a stark and harsh natural environment into a more livable space.

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[hyper-realistic 3D images of 1980s-era cassette tapes on a white wall]

These things (tapes!) were such a huge, HUGE part of my childhood, on both functional and aesthetic levels. One of the first Really Significant Presents I got as a toddler was a tan Fisher-Price tape player/recorder. I would alternate between listening to tapes (Peanuts, Disney, Star Wars stories, show tunes) and recording my own random babble. 

But the tapes themselves had an appeal that went beyond the utilitarian. They were more than just a means of storing sound-sequences -- they were Things Unto Themselves, and moreover, they fit into a particular category of things that I've always been drawn to, wherein you have a bunch of objects built on the same basic template but that vary in color, etc. 

I remember rooting through my parents' cassette library in search of tapes that were, for instance, translucent green, or blue, or that had less familiar-looking labels (I had a lot of opaque red tapes from my Disney story cache, and a bunch of opaque red ones, and some generic black ones in "my" collection, which made it a rare treat to find a perfectly clear cassette or a bicolor one or one that had a different sort of logo on the sides).

I remember laying them out on the floor, arranging them according to color and texture. I remember the process of figuring out how to lightly lift a loop of ribbony brown tape-material above the little foamy square tape head(?) thing so I could gently push it up and down and feel it subtly sproing back up. Eventually I got curious enough about what was going on inside cassettes that I began pilfering tiny screwdrivers from the garage and performing "exploratory surgery" on them, which ultimately progressed to "transplanting" the innards of one favorite tape into a different, cooler-looking shell. 

All that said, I'm fully prepared to admit that maybe I was a Weird Kid for having that level of fixation on the inner workings of cassettes. But I'm figuring I can't be the ONLY one who did stuff like what I've described here. Tapes were tangible. They were interesting to look at and hold, as much as they were to listen to. It is absolutely no mystery to me why they keep showing up in the artwork of the 2000s.

Axonometric Array,

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View from overlook bridge/walkway at Highline Park, NY. Photo by Anne Corwin. Who likes the "color accent" setting on her little Canon point-and-shoot a little too much. :P

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Univac computer panel at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California, USA. Photo taken by Anne Corwin (me).

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Last Of Its Kind, photo by Anne Corwin, 2011. 

[broken yellow payphone, seen at light rail station when they were doing renovations].

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A good example of "art I like entirely for itself". I have no idea what, if anything, it is meant to "symbolize", but it reminds me of reading Choose Your Own Adventure books (at least the more sci-fi-ish ones) and is therefore awesome. :D

The Last Known …

By  Karezoid Michal Karcz