part 2 of my experiment: what english-speaking country are you from, what region and what do you call the following images? if you don't know what the first image is please try to guess i'd love to see it

❤️ Dr. Ally D.D.S. 🪥💪

I have found the best ally

Straight and cis people will say that they are allies, but you will NEVER measure up to my dentist.

Me: "Hey, is it ok if I can change my name on my info from [DEADNAME] to Sai?"

Random woman that I wasn't even talking to in the chair next to me: "Honey, if that's the name you had at birth, [DEADNAME] is your only name."

My dentist, very slowly turning her rolley chair towards the woman: "Shush."

Random woman: "Excuse me?"

Destist: *closes privacy curtain while staring bullets at the lady*

Me: *pissing myself laughing*

My dentist while changing my name in my info (reminder that English is not her first language, she immigrated from Russia): "There, Sai, you have pretty boy teeth. Smile and make all girls swoon."

Me not having the heart to tell her I'm not transmasc but I'm Agender, and still pissing myself laughing: "Thank you [DENTIST NAME]."

Vivaldi played by the South African elementary school Goede Hoop Marimba Band

Turn ON the sound

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

A Hungarian-born American artist, Agnes Denes (b. 1931) is a pioneer in environmental, ecological, and conceptual art. Her family survived the Nazi occupation in WWII and migrated to Sweden before settling in the United States.

In 1982, Denes planted a 2-acre wheatfield on a landfill in Manhattan two blocks away from the Wall Street and the World Trade Center. Against the backdrop of Wall Street, this golden wheatfield stood for four months and mesmerized many New Yorkers. Denes said in regard to this work, “… the work had to have a meaning, a strong message, and, of course, the paradox. … the work turned out to be one block from Wall Street, facing the Statue of Liberty, for which this country stands, in the middle of traffic in a bustling city. A large golden field of grain on land meant for the rich, on expensive real estate.” (From an interview with Ulrich Obrist)

Today, more than forty years after she created this monumental work entitled “Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan,” her vision touches even more deeply given the ever-increasing degradation of our environment, the ongoing mismanagement of land and food systems, and the widening divide between the poor and the wealthy—all the result of corporate capitalism, as well as geopolitical control of resources.

Denes said that this work represented “food, energy, commerce, world trade, economics” and referred to “mismanagement, waste, world hunger.” She also said, “My decision to plant a wheatfield in Manhattan, instead of designing just another public sculpture, grew out of the longstanding concern and need to call attention to our misplaced priorities and deteriorating human values.”

At the age of 88, Denes finally had her retrospective at the Shed in New York in 2019. This publication presents more than 130 works from the exhibition, spanning the artist’s entire 50-year career.

Agnes Denes : absolutes and intermediates New York, NY : The Shed, [2019] English Catalog of an exhibition held at The Shed, October 9, 2019-January 19, 2020. HOLLIS number: 99153868498803941

But is there a frog with a mushroom?

(Sorry for subjecting you to my random thought.)

creativity in the toilet of late and I’m struggling to write anything at all, so have a preview of Antagonism™ from a storm that took everything

this is my upcoming (🤞🤞🤞) gothic romance. there are ghosts, mushrooms, a sprawling house that does nothing but consume, and a terrifying lake! will Damen make it out alive?

(it is sort of happening… I’m doing more editing than writing atm but it’s alright, things are progressing a bit, so any encouragement is appreciated in the hopes it will help me get my groove back!)

“…wedding bells tinkled at the chapel, which invites guests to marry ‘whomever or whatever’ they want. It was Heller who came up with the concept for Luna Luna more than three decades ago.”

@thickenmyblood, you and @savoytrufflephd should get married at the Luna Luna installation. I will pop the champagne and throw the confetti.

Because i feel like i might be overestimating what the average is, i shall Conduct Research

This isn't about how many languages you speak, but how many youre able to count up to at least 10 in, since basic numbers are some of the first words you learn in a foreign language and sometimes you catch them without having studied the language at all

Laurent and Steph from EIAT are excited about this one, @irregularcollapse. Scroll down to the last illustration. Do you see a Pallas there?

“In ‘300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love From the Ancient World,’ the collaborators Luke Edward Hall and Sean Hewitt breathed fresh life into virile butches, feuding gay guys and androgynous lovers who just so happened to be drawn from Greco-Roman mythology.”

A rich perfume wafts through the sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, where the installation of Ed Ruscha’s full-dress survey “Now Then” is underway. You sense it before you see it: a room where the white walls are turning velvety brown. A chocolate room.

The photos are priceless.

“Weighing animals can be challenging. Zookeepers use different ways to get them to step — or hop, skip or jump — onto the scale and stand up straight for measurements.”

My spouse and his parents are from New Jersey. He’s 100% proficient at pumping gas. But one time his parents were traveling out of state and they both got out to try to solve the pumping puzzle. Somehow this ended up with my mother-in-law pumping gas directly onto her husband’s crotch! 😆 Of course it soaked through his pants and apparently gasoline burns when it comes into contact with skin. 😱

Parts of the country where self-service gas pumping is illegal.

“‘Streets’ are understood to be populated by the untrustworthy, the dangerous. Young people strolling are understood to be prowling the streets and up to no good. Public space is fought over as if it were private. Who gets to enjoy a park, a beach, a street corner? The term 'public’ is itself a site of contention.”

— Paradise, Toni Morrison

Cool, but I feel the header may be a little misleading. I’m sure these parks are well worth visiting for a number of reasons, but they probably don’t provide the best wildlife viewing experience among all of the national parks. The map actually shows the 20 national parks with the highest number of animal species per 100 square kilometers. So the list prioritizes smaller parks, most of which are probably gems, but this doesn’t mean the resident wildlife will be easy to spot. The list represents the number of species of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles present in each park, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the species are numerous or easily viewed by visitors. These parks may be home to awesome amphibians, fabulous fish, and reclusive reptiles that are tricky to find. It’s always worth knowing what wildlife to keep an eye out for though.

The Best Nationals Parks in America for Wildlife Spotting

Joe Cardella published the limited-edition periodicals titled “Art/Life” from 1981 through 2006. As you can see in this video, these limited-edition periodicals contain many strange objects you don’t normally expect to find in books or periodicals. Of course, we don’t recommend that you do this to our library books! But you can view these unique periodicals in our Special Collections Study Room.

Art/life Published: [Santa Barbara, Calif. : Joe Cardella, -c2006. -v. 11, no. 6 25 v. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm. Frequency note: Monthly (except. Jan.) English Began with 1981. Editor, <1983>-2006: Joe Cardella. Published in limited edition. HOLLIS number: 990087654310203941

Image description: video of flipping through pages. Many pages contain collage using unusual objects including bottle cap and wheat painted in gold.