Mica powder mixes beautifully with transparent airbrush paint, imparting a lovely warmth. Note to self: next time, genius, do your mixing in another room, and remember to wash your hands. That shit gets everywhere. I’ll be dealing with it 5 years from now.
Finally. After what seems like a thousand coats of stinkhorror. Vala’s given up on me breaking out the paint. Black backgrounds are dramatic, but what a pain in the arse. Of course, if there is a pain in the arse way to do something, I’m sure to find it. The Simurgh is 25″ x 12″.
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A man takes pictures of “hate tweets”, a part of the art project “#HEYTWITTER” created by Shahak Shapira, outside Twitter office in Hamburg, Germany August 4, 2017 in this picture obtained from social media. Youtube via REUTERS.
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German-Israeli artist who accuses Twitter of failing to delete hate speech tweets has taken matters into his own hands – by stencilling the offending messages on the road in front of the company’s Hamburg headquarters.
A post on video-sharing site YouTube showed Shahak Shapira and fellow activists stencilling tweets saying “Germany needs a final solution to Islam” and “Let’s gas the Jews” – clear references to the Nazi regime’s World War Two genocide of Europe’s Jews. [youtu.be/jzMTBINlLFU]
Shapira said he had reported some 300 incidents of hate speech on Twitter but had received just nine responses from the company.
“If Twitter forces me to see these things, then they should have to see it as well,” he said in the video, posted on Monday, describing the comments as violations of the social network’s community guidelines.
A very clever idea! You can read more about this at Reuters.
Capucine (Nasturtium). J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées.
and that’s it for today. Seems like everything is conspiring to be as annoying as possible this day. I’ll pick up tomorrow.
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Okay, hauled the screen outside, set it up, where it promptly fell down in wet grass. Everything’s okay, just one of life’s little heart attacks. Click for full size. There’s a bunch, so most below the fold.
You can see all six of these magnificent chromolithographs by William Sharp (1854) and read a bit about them at The Public Domain. Exquisite work!
Fleur De Grenadier (Pomegranate). J.J. Grandville, Les fleurs animées. I love this one. Love pomegranates too. And, I want that dress.
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I avoided the Aberdeen Bestiary, because I’d be trying to cram everything on, but I forgot about the mythical Halcyon, and she is another absolute.
Getting goldwork and detail done today. Click for full size. This morning, Vala and I started on the same note, by getting our hair good and gessoed. Such fun.
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Image: Generation.
This is very cool, textile maps of the textile arts of various parts of Pakistan, which has a rich heritage when it comes to textile art.
Pakistani clothing company Generation has found a clever way to remind us how much textile art can demonstrate the richness of culture. Their textile map of Pakistan, which uses native embroidery techniques to mark different regions, has become a viral sensation, with more than 20,000 shares on Twitter.
From traditional Swati embroidery to the balochi taanka stitch, the map is a beautifully visual way to explore Pakistan’s cultural heritage. And this isn’t the first textile map to catch our eye. Generations may have been inspired by Craftsvilla, India’s largest online ethnic store, which put out their “fabric tour of India” several months ago. Using a similar concept, the map explores different hand-woven textiles by Indian state.
And if you really want to delve into things, Craftsvilla also breaks out each state and its respective textile, giving a little historical insight across the country. Certainly, both maps are a good reminder of how traditional textiles and textile art help shape culture across different countries.
You can read and see much more at The Met.