Different Stories Resonate with Different People

I will always reblog this.

I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.

And now for a different kind of robot! 

“what if, LOTR but little animated animals.” by jessica a. m

Come at my place tonight. You’ll reign over the skies. | By @iambrandon747 on IG.

new ebbits! new site!

this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk

can someone explain this to me?

Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).

In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time

So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time

But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.

SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.

This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.

TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”

ooh i love the explanation

Rebloging for that in depth and not even a little snarky explanation. 10/10

Artwork for recent music releases by Scuba

Space ring: ah cool

Overgrown apocalyptic space ring:

Ah. Cool.

A tomar por culo la abuela. Aprended a hacer croquetas.

Gandalf, taking a hit from his joint: Did you guys know that mithril is super expensive? Like insanely valuable? That it’s very much a finite resource mostly plundered from the earth and invaluable due to its many uses? And also Sauron has most of it so it’s now lost to its Elven and Dwarvish makers? And to think Bilbo’s precious gift of mithril mail is probably sitting in the local Useless Dumb Artefacts Museum. Just makes you think lol …

Gimli, a dwarf who has lost most of his people’s cultural artefacts: … I’m sorry Bilbo was given what and did what with it

Frodo, secretly wearing Bilbo’s mithril mail at that very moment but only after nearly 70 years of it sitting in the Useless Dumb Artefacts Museum gathering dust because Bilbo had no idea his cool shirt was worth approximately the net value of their entire country:

Lord of the Rings is a comedy

him

yes

devour the dumpling child

who is he

I thought human eyes could not see him...

Cthulhu pumpkin?

@steampunktendencies #steampunktendencies 👈

#funny #steampunk #pumpkin #halloween #cthulhu #kraken #octopus #tentacles https://www.instagram.com/p/CEEg9J2IjO1/?igshid=uh58ey2uy7p

Joaquín Vaquero Palacios

Expressionist architecture (roughly, 1905-1935) utilized emerging technology and unexpected building blocks to realize organic forms. This meant that structures were inspired largely by the forces of nature (rock formations, sloping mountain sides, seashells…) but were built under modernist principles. Consequently, there was a large focus on unconventional massing; novel materials created shapes that served function as equally as the pursuit of emotional expression. There was nothing subtle about this sort of architecture and the urge to push the boundaries of proper form has afforded us with incredible buildings to admire many years later. Not least of which are Joaquin Vaquero Palacios’ hydroelectric plants.

Though he began to design his famed hydroelectric plants in the 50’s (far after the heyday of expressionism), the links to it are undeniable. He came of age exactly as this movement’s trajectory swelled. Born to a father who was one of the founders of Spain’s Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, it wasn’t a far stretch for Vaquero Palacios to lend his imaginative mind to this unlikely branch of engineering, and to take the principals of expressionism along with him. The Proaza plant, for example, opened in 1968. The multi-planar facade resembles the rocky side of a mountain, concrete “glaciers” pierce the landscape. It’s bold and unconventional, and seems to far outshine its singular purpose as a hydroelectric plant. This is what is so beautiful about Vaquero Palacios and his dedication to the seemingly mundane.

It’s easy to question why one would spend a career on the design of these sorts of buildings. Why do they deserve such thoughtful attention? To this, Vaquero Palacios responded: “All our day-to-day activities are saturated so we need to be appeased in some way to survive the tensions which we are subjected to.” It’s simple, he believed in the power of granting attention to the simple things, to the the places and the routines we take for granted. This idea, to bring artistic dignity to every aspect of our lives, is something we work towards as well, and it’s a philosophy we are so happy he had.

The images we have here are of various plants he completed during his over thirty year career.

Miedo

Sound On

Costume. Chitons.

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

that genuinely is it

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

lets bring back sheetwares

also chlamys:

and exomis:

trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

That last one looks dope