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Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

[oleiah]

And why does artificial intelligence need a gender at all? Why not imagine a talking cat or a wise owl as a virtual assistant? I would trust an anthropomorphized cartoon animal with my calendar. Better yet, I would love to delegate tasks to a non-binary gendered robot alien from a galaxy where setting up meetings over email is respected as a high art. But Julie could be the name of a friend of mine. To use it at all requires an element of playacting. And if I treat it with kindness, the company is capitalizing on my very human emotions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/opinion/sunday/why-do-i-have-to-call-this-app-julie.html

#ai #artificial intelligence #virtual assistants #siri #alexa

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...if you sprinkle magic on top, you can sell people anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/06/i-was-an-astrologer-how-it-works-psychics

#magic #astrologer #astrology #capitalism #marketing

[oleiah]

I also learned that intelligence and education do not protect against superstition. Many customers were stockbrokers, advertising executives or politicians, dealing with issues whose outcomes couldn’t be controlled. It’s uncertainty that drives people into woo, not stupidity, so I’m not surprised millennials are into astrology. They grew up with Harry Potter and graduated into a precarious economy, making them the ideal customers.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/06/i-was-an-astrologer-how-it-works-psychics

#woowoo #astrologer #new age #tarot #astrology #superstition

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Data Visualization Catalogue

#data viz #data visualization #graphs #charts #infographics

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Data Visualization Project

#data viz #data visualization #charts #graphs #infographics #data #big data #dataviz #sciviz

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breathing animation

#calm #breathe #breathing animation #meditate #sacred geometry #1 800 273 8255 #breathing exercise #brllnt

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🚫POP🚫

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make it ‘pop’ more.

>> seen on the 360° tour of Taoti Creative office

#designer humor #graphic design #make it pop #taoti creative #design firm #360 tour #mine #clients from hell

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For those of you in a trying time, I offer you

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[oleiah]

You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered… Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden. It is time to speak your truth. Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for your leader. Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

Hopi Elders' Prophecy, June 8, 2000

#we are the ones we've been waiting for #hopi elders #eleventh hour #come together

[oleiah]

Milky Way Analogue Isolated Disk Galaxy

I saw this animation in a video about space and thought it was so cool. It sparkles! Beautiful.

✨🌌🔭✨

From:

National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“The properties of disk galaxies are determined by a balance between self-gravity, angular momentum, and "feedback" from the supernova explosions produced by young, massive stars. Gravity causes gas in the interstellar medium to condense and collapse, forming new generations of stars. After only a few million years, supernova explosions produced by the most massive newborn stars in turn disrupt their natal star forming regions, preventing further star formation and redistributing gas from lower densities. Later, the gas recondenses, and collapses forming another generation of stars. This ongoing cycle of stellar collapse, birth, death, and rarefacation proceeds for billions of years, until the gas supply is slowly exhausted. This movie shows the evolution of a simulated analogue for the Milky Way galaxy over the course of 50 million years.”

#mine #space #astronomy #universe #milky way #supercomputer #sparkly #simulation #astrophysics #cosmology #galaxy #stars #star birth

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https://extraordinaryroutines.com/austin-kleon/

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Lloyd Kahn on his NorCal self-reliant half-acre homestead

#homestead #slow living #sustainability #DIY #make your own

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13 Ways To Commit Career Suicide - A How-To Guide To Professional Failur...

omg

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Women’s lib movement sketches & scrapbook/photo album by Candice Marion Vadala (aka Candida Royalle).

Screenshots from the documentary “Inside her Sex: An Exploration of Female Sexuality” on kanopy

#scrapbook #photo album #women's lib #women's liberation movement #memory keeping #candida royalle #blind contour #bronx coalition coffee house

[oleiah]

Original handcrafted wood music box. Just turn the handle and it will play this well-known tune from Harry Potter.  This music box makes a great gift for any music lover.  Check them out HERE 

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Happy fall from @sixpenceee! I’m literally so excited for the upcoming months and especially for Halloween!