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Vegetabrella by Yurie Mano
This is pretty rad-ish, but lettuce not get too excited, the umbrella will allow your head to romaine dry but it’s not very tasty. I know the puns are corny but I really don’t carrot all.
Reblogged for puns. Peas stop.
Adventures in the Pacific Northwest - depicting one of literature’s finest young adventurers, now having traveled to the beautiful, exotic north-west coast of North America.
Made for the exclusive VIP VanCAF artbook! Thank you to all the good people who came by the festival last weekend to say Hi! Excellent times were had by all.
Deconstructed Binding Studies by Benjamin Reynaert
Selection of various exposed-spine or “deconstructed” bindings. These sewing patterns have been learned through study and many are original techniques I have developed that expose the structure of the binding and reveal all of the elements of a handmade book.
My last minute entry for the Let’s Draw Sherlock Challenge: Reinterpreting Famous Works.
Based on an a double self portrait by Egon Schiele from 1915.
lets take a minute to talk about how fucking badass my little cousin is?
I was doing face painting at my niece’s third birthday party today, and my 9/10 year old cousin tyler was there. (he’s the awesome dude with a butterfly on his face)
Now let me start off by saying, tyler isn’t a particularly feminine or “girly” boy. He plays sports and such, but also happily attends his older sister’s dance recitals. Long explaination short… at nine or ten (idk)
He already understands that things, and hobbies, and colors, and interests are not split up between boys are girls.
when he came up and I asked him what he wanted he chuckled a bit but very clear and confidently said he wanted the butterfly. he wanted the pink butterfly.
he got a little shit from some family who would see his face, laugh, smile, and say “hey Ty, aren’t butterflies for girls?”
he would just respond with “they are a part of nature… nature isn’t just for girls”
and that was that.
I fucking love my little cousin.
What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that cause.
These days, Memorial Day is arranged as a day “without politics”—a general patriotic celebration of all soldiers and veterans, regardless of the nature of the wars in which they participated. This is the opposite of how the day emerged, with explicitly partisan motivations, to celebrate those who fought for justice and liberation.
The concept that the population must “remember the sacrifice” of U.S. service members, without a critical reflection on the wars themselves, did not emerge by accident. It came about in the Jim Crow period as the Northern and Southern ruling classes sought to reunite the country around apolitical mourning, which required erasing the “divisive” issues of slavery and Black citizenship. These issues had been at the heart of the struggles of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
To truly honor Memorial Day means putting the politics back in. It means reviving the visions of emancipation and liberation that animated the first Decoration Days. It means celebrating those who have fought for justice, while exposing the cruel manipulation of hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members who have been sent to fight and die in wars for conquest and empire.
Read more here.
