As you know, I am at heart either a bougie bitch or a hippie, or some odd mix of the two, and I buy the majority of the soap I use at the farmer’s market from people who handcraft it. Well, I don’t know what the status of those will be this summer, and I …
Artists In Our Midst
Kannon Recreates a Famous Painting
satby, aka Grandma Sharon, sent these this morning. Too awesome not to share. BARTOLOMEO PASSAROTTI, PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH A DOG, 1585, MUSEI CAPITOLINI KANNON (LAST NAME WITHHELD), PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A DOG, 2020, BALLOON JUICE ***** Kannon had one of those art projects for school where they recreate a famous painting. …
Open Thread: If You Need ‘Inspiration’ to Stay in Your Bunker…
I used some twitter pics of these ‘Subpar Parks’ posters in a respite thread on Saturday, and commentors were kind enough to find artist Amber Share and her website. Much of her stock, you will not be shocked to learn, is on back order. But I’m getting a Sequoia Park print as soon as one’s …
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What We Preserve – Ourselves
You guys need a break. It’s far too easy to keep obsessing about what’s going on. Frankly, there’s not much you can do besides educate yourself, get others to know what’s happening and text your Senators via ResistBot to remind them there’s a little thing called rule of law and it doesn’t give a damn …
Congrats to Commenter R-Jud
Long, long time commenter R-Jud is at the Austin Film Festival, and she won a big award: She won the writing award for the Fiction Podcast Script and got to sit in a room with David Benioff and Dan Weiss of Game of Thrones, Ron Bass who wrote Rain Man among many other things, Craig …
Repost / Update: Helping Out Jacy
This is just one example of jacy’s amazing artwork. Re-upping an abbreviated version of TaMara’s original bleg, because we’re *so* close… Friend and fellow jackal jacy, as many of you know, has battled cancer and other health issues. She’s run into a bit of a problem and has set out a plan to get herself …
Sunday Morning Open Thread: It’s A Gift
Currently making these Christmas ornaments: pic.twitter.com/orhjwS07qG — K. Cunningham (@bluntforcellama) December 13, 2018 Okay, it’s a box. But all boxes belong to cats, by divine right. Betty had a wonderful thread earlier this week asking for gift ideas and highlighting the artists among us, but Sunday morning tends to be a quiet time for those …
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