what the rose water gave me

You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

if the universe were not so cruel the "Tailor Swift" would be a beautiful bird that elegantly sews its nest together

I don’t think Taylor swift should be allowed to use words like “fresh out the slammer” like. Someone should have stopped her

Anna Brown Ehlers (right) and her art, made using Chilkat weaving techniques. Ehlers is Tlingit, born and raised in Juneau

h/t twitter.com/womensart1

Chilkat weaving is the absolute pinnacle of fiber art, and Anna Brown Ehlers is *the* master weaver.

Japan has a system where skilled traditional craftspeople and performers are recognized as “Living National Treasures”. These are people who have mastered their art and ensure that traditional techniques are kept alive and passed on. The tangible objects they create are masterpieces of great value, but their intangible skills and knowledge are priceless. It is a great honor to be a Living National Treasure, and the Japanese government has a specific grant to subsidize these artists so that they can continue to create and enrich the culture of Japan.

Indigenous artists deserve this level of recognition and support. Anna Brown Ehlers and Jennie Thlunaut were both awarded heritage fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, but that is really insufficient recognition for the work they’ve done to preserve and revive and teach the art of Chilkat weaving. Not only the weaving technique, but also the art of formline design itself.

I have very strong emotions on this topic.

Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

ok what’s your florence + the machine song. mine is rabbit heart (raise it up)<3

2003-2006

(greeting someone u would die for)  well well well… look who crawled out of the primordial FILTH

Florence Welch photographed by Alice Chérie Hansson

she allegoried on my cave til i [JOKE PENDING]

Tatry, Poland by Mikita Karasiou

i love looking back on shit i did as a kid and realizing… oh that was gay. i was a lesbian child

Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it

'Six AM', 1930 - William Wolfson

Hi, I'm a janitor. The facility I work in had its first floor flooded with sewage and while a restoration company came and sucked up all the water and placed fans everywhere to try the place out, I still cleaned the entire floor and threw away all the contaminated furniture. Same thing happened last year, but only a couple of rooms flooded on that floor and it was only water from a sprinkler system. This year was so much worse and I feel like no one in management gives a shit. The entire upstairs was absolutely going to shit because I was focused on the downstairs. Despite the work I do, I have to beg folks to spread around my little bear commission posts every month because I simply can't afford to live on what I'm paid lol

So, truly thanks to everyone who makes and shares posts like these recognizing sanitation workers. It's really a thankless job.

entering my florence + the machine era

i've been thinking about @saxifrage-wreath's tags for a month

Mosaic from the impluvium of the House of Gometric Mosaics, Pompeii

Roman, 1st century AD