Otters just having a jam session.

Fitzrovia Chapel, London.

Formerly the chapel of the now demolished Middlesex Hospital

I want to be so disgustingly over educated that the second anyone has a question they automatically know I have the answer to it

PIH is working hard to reduce poverty while improving human health.

Glass Galaxy Snails // Nocco Noccoo on Etsy

ghost of summer

watercolour on arches paper

fuck it, Toshiro Mifune fancam set to Kate Bush

Morozumi Osamu was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1948. Initially he studied sculpture, but finally he devoted himself to woodblock print and won international recognition in the 1970s. Morozumi developed his own technique of printmaking which employs indentations made in the blocks with nails of various sizes. His forms, possessing a sculpture-like quality, are rendered in vivid colours highlighting the atmosphere of changing seasons.

Top to bottom, left to right: Rice Field in Hakuba Village (1995); Evening Light at Mt Fuji (2006); Byobu Rock Wall in the Autumn (2003); Preparation for Winter (2006); Mt Yari in the Autumn (1996); Azumino Village in Twilight (1998). Source: https://ukiyo-e.org/           

Mood

I AM FEELING OVERHWLEMED

A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

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Reblog if you're comfortable receiving crabs on Crab Day (July 29th) so all your beloved followers know who they can comfortably crab on crab day (July 29th) without feeling nervous about crabbing someone 9n Crab Day (July 29th).

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Make do and MEND

"The French government has announced a €154 million ($173M) five year scheme which will pay consumers to have their clothes and shoes repaired rather than throw them away and buy new ones.

Under the scheme, announced by the Secretary of State for Ecology, Bérangère Couillard, contributions to repair costs ranging from €6 ($6.70) to €25 ($28) will be available depending on the complexity of the work."

We need more of this everywhere - and also to bring back the businesses that did this.

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Swan upping is a real thing, and it is totally weird.