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My Christmas card design for this year!
You can buy this card on my Redbubble store http://www.redbubble.com/people/wolfskulljack
Aw man, I really like this... I wish the type was handlettered instead of an awkward squished font. :/
Photo Credits: @visitneworleans | @murielsnola
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
I love the french quarter during xmas.
Portrait of LGBTQ+ icons, Sailor Uranus (Haruka Tenoh) and Sailor Neptune (Michiru Kaioh), from Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon for the Moon Prism Power Sailor Moon Art Show, hosted at The Gallalery. Prints available through Little Print Monster.
Oh wow! I hadn't seen this before but I thought "Looks like Alice's art!" before I even scrolled down. :D
“It will be full of gays next”
2006 (age 24) vs. 2016 (age 34).
Better skin, better hair, better eyes (thanks Lasik), and better eyebrows. Getting old is awesome.
Dear fellow white women: we have a bad habit of self destruction. We have to stop aligning ourselves with white men. We are not ‘one of the guys’ socially or politically. They have and will actively try to ruin our lives. They only care about us when… …it suits them.
And our alliance with them HURTS NON-WHITE women. This is key! Women of color lead the way. They know how to fight. If you don’t care about non-white women, first fuck you. Second you are just hurting yourself. I’m ashamed most white women went for Trump but that’s only our most recent act of violence. White women: get your fucking shit together.
If you’re a white woman uncomfortable with this kind of call-out, check yourself. We don’t require acknowledgment of basic human decency. There’s a reason WOC mistrust us. If you don’t like it, BE BETTER. And they’ve been telling us this for years. But if you won’t listen … … to them, first fuck you, second listen to me, then: WOC mistrust of WW is founded. We need to get sorted.
I’m not going to tell Trump voters to unfollow me because I want this kind of post on your timeline. Wake up.
The sort of white ally I fuck with.
*applause*
yes, please, keep calling us out, we need to hear this and believe it
I love how she’s wearing all red now. I hope she has plans to cycle her wardrobe through the entire rainbow.
For Thinking Tree Spirits, our goal was to create an interactive packaging experience with the playful exuberance of storybooks and Rococo scrollwork, all evocative of the lush bounty of Oregon.
We designed the Thinking Tree brandmark for flexibility, personifying the brand as a contemplative woman collared and crowned with ornamental branches that either gently germinate or grow wild to fill the canvas, be it the small circular icon on the cap, or front and centre on the hangtag.
For the illustrations, we were inspired by Late Baroque mirrors to create highly dimensional packaging, using the main label for deep background artwork, and layering over it a hangtag of duplexed cardstock with a pop of purple foil and, finally, a colourful ornate frame raised to its highest relief with sculptured embossment. Hidden throughout are local and mythological life, from Odin’s ravens (‘thought’ and ‘memory’), to the polyphemus moth (whose eyespots are named after Homer’s cyclops) and its caterpillars, down to the great horned owl, whose face is composed of oak leaves.
On the hangtag’s verso, the linework is reproduced by a letterpress, whose raised ink, along with the purple string that ties tag to neck, all add to the rich tactile experience. Here, one is invited to be creative, whether scribbling thoughts or verse, notes on a new infusion, or a kind gift-letter to a friend.
Beneath the hangtag is a fable of our composition that sets down the brand’s folktale roots:
Once, there was a forester who planted a seed in the earth. When the seed grew into a great tree, the forester placed an egg at the top of the highest branch. When the egg hatched into a great owl, the forester returned with gifts. “I have the gift of speech,” said the forester, “and the gift of thought.” The tree and the owl listened. “I can give only one gift each, and each gift only once,” the forester said. “First, one of you will receive the gift of speech.” Growing impatient, the owl asked “who?” And the Thinking Tree shook her leaves knowingly.
Dat emboss... dat purple foil stamp. #printdesignnerd
Congratulations, B.o.B., a dude more than 2,000 years ago figured out what you still can’t understand despite the benefits of free public school, generations of documentation and the internet at your fucking fingertips.
To be honest, I’m mostly reblogging this for the Carl Sagan explanation.
Ancient Egypt was insane with their astronomy and giant buildings. The damned pyramids line up with constellations and specific stars
Yep. This is why I hate the aliens and the mysticism explanations.
I mean, come on, y’all. The ancient Egyptians were just smart, okay. And we owe them.
The conspiracy theories are a side effect of a common mistake.
People now are not, on average, smarter than the first anatomically modern humans (and probably not smarter than Neanderthals or Denisovans either).
We just have better libraries.
How smart was the first person who invented fire? The first woman (almost certainly) who realized that deliberately dropping seeds near her camp meant that the tasty or medicinal plant would grow right there where she could get it?
The first man (most likely) who realized that if he used an extra stick he could throw a spear further and more accurately - creating the spiritual ancestor of modern firearms.
And then you get to Egypt - which did have good libraries. And a solid labor surplus.
Or, let’s take the Mayans, Chichen Itza. I’ve been there. Big pyramid. Sports court. Lots of little rooms. Chichen Itza was a university. It was where they trained their priests.
It also has this:
That’s the Chichen Itza observatory.
Compare it with this:
That’s the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.
The Chichen Itza building was actually more cylindrical than a dome. It had star watching platforms inside it. But you can see that building #2 is intended for a similar purpose to building #1. As far as we know they did not have a telescope in it, but certain forms of glass rot…so we can’t be sure, and the Mayans sure as heck knew their astronomy.
Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian city we know of in North America (I say we know of because with everything that happened, we may have missed one if it was made entirely using wood) had observation platforms and a woodhenge similar to the ones in Europe.
It seems that every time a human society has enough of a surplus of labor and materials: Astronomy happens.
The pyramids, with their alignment to the stars. The observatory at Chichen Itza. Stonehenge.
These things are the spiritual ancestors of Curiosity and Voyager - and took just as much intelligence, curiosity and desire to understand the universe to build.
What I tell people all the time: just because YOU don't understand how it happened, doesn't mean aliens did it.
So has this been done yet or
For all my fellow Americans.
I’m still here for intellectual Americans I’m still here for LBTQ+ Americans I’m still here for PoC Americans I’m still here for female Americans I’m still here for Americans with disabilities I’m still here for Muslim Americans I’m still here for immigrant Americans
You are my nieghbors. You belong here and I support you.
What’s infinitely more important us YOU are still here and the majority who voted against Trump are still here.
We did not disappear.
We were not erased or silenced and we will remain to support one another.
I’ve officially “noped” from facebook until after the election. I can’t deal with it, I just get sucked into a black hole of anxiety where I end up mindlessly scrolling and reading a neverending stream of horrendous comments. My friends are all at each other’s throats and some of them are sharing the worst memes possible. I’m sure I don’t have to call out which side is the culprit for 99% of that mess... y’all can probably guess. I voted last week so it’s not as if their hateful ‘trumpeting’ (pardon the turn of phrase) will change my mind.
Working at LUSH: the saga
I have had men some into a store I used to work at asking if “this hairspray will work on men” and when I said yes they said “but it’s purple”
My whole life!
A man walks into a store to buy shampoo. He walks down the hair care aisle and spots a pink shampoo bottle that promises to give you luscious locks. The man is determined, for his hair lacks luster. He asks the nearest store clerk, “Will this work for men? It’s pink, so I’m not sure.” The store clerk looks at the man, then at the shampoo. He shrugs his shoulders in ignorance. The man resolves to purchase the shampoo anyway.
After arriving at his humble abode, the man takes a shower with his new shampoo. He opens the bottle and tries to pour the soapy substance into his hand, but alas; the shampoo refuses to fall onto his manly skin.
The man crumples down in utter defeat, sobbing as the shower water softly cascades down his rippling shoulders. The shampoo will never work for him, for he is a man, and the shampoo he bought is unfortunately in a pink bottle. “I should have known,” he cries out in a whimper. “I should have known.”
No lie, I heard most of these when I worked at Lush, though my favorite was the dude who said “Do you have anything that smells more manly?” and when I asked him to clarify he said, “You know... like pot!!”
Liz Taylor’s character/storyline in AHS Hotel is one of my favorites.
Official White House photographer Pete Souza captured an estimated 2 million photos over 8 years while Obama was in office… Here’s a selection of some of his favourite shots.
I’ll never stop loving this man
I’m really gonna miss Obama’s sense of humor. He brought a lot of youthful energy to the White House that I haven’t really ever seen before.
