#Saturday news

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[texaschainsawmascara]

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Letterman, ‘94

#julia louis dreyfus #seinfeld #elaine benes #veep #selina meyer #the new adventures of old christine #90s #saturday night live #snl #valentina allegra de fontaine #the falcon and the winter soldier #the falcon & the winter soldier #mcu #mceu #marvel #marvel universe #contessa valentina allegra de fontaine #black panther 2 wakanda forever #black panther wakanda forever #black widow

[neondreams83]

#retro #vhs #vintage #80's #80s #1980s #eighties #betamax #neon #haze #City #retrologic #new reto wave #Saturday #FM

[reynaruina]

oddly intimate

#iz #invader zim #zim #dib #zadr #my art #sneaking time into my new schedule to remember to post arts #this time on saturdays and maybe tuesdays could be good

[gunsatthaphan]

"I really like you."

#cherry magic #cherry magic th #taynew #karanachi #karan x achi #cherry magic th ep6 #tay tawan #new thitipoom #gmmtv #thai bl #bl drama #😩😭 theyre my saturday serotonin fix #dont know what i would do without this and cooking crush tbh #they help with my sat-sun emotional recovery lol

[julykings]

summer’s end

#had a really nice weekend to round it out u kno #saw Sarah on Friday for pasta and watching reality tv #picked wildflowers on Saturday and went to the dog park and some yard sales with my sister and we had such a good time we’ve been kind of #distant lately so that was really great. and time and my bf went to a mug decorating workshop and then tried a new restaraynt and got giant #margaritas . and watched survivor #Sunday gym kicked ass + moved furniture around and helped my bf paint his bedroom #today went to work first thing then to the lake for swimming and napping in the sun then more work and more gym which also kicked ass #then groceries and making out with my bf now home laundry etc getting ready to go to bed so I can wake up early and take Winston to do some #thing before work and my first classssssss yayyyy #can u tell im tired I made so many typos and fully just used the wrong words… we painted his bathroom . #personal

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

There's this website I like using with my students sometimes that has a bunch of simple lil virtual models on it to teach various aspects of ecology, like this one that shows how two species of bacteria compete in a petri dish to illustrate niches, and this one that shows both how to estimate field vole populations using mark-recapture but also how their trap preferences affect the results, and this much fancier one showing how barnacles are affected by sea level rise. They are simple and fun and pedagogically useful. I like them.

I also want to make one of my own to teach climate proxies; sediment cores using foraminifera and their temperature-induced spiralling shells, for example, or pollen or beetle casings or what have you. Tree rings. Ice cores. Shit like that. So, the student would have an image of a layered sediment core, the model would generate random-but-within-parameters numbers of clockwise or anti-clockwise spiral foraminifera, in each layer, boom. Past climate record generated.

THE PROBLEM: I am a fucking moron when it comes to coding. I have tried so many times. It just absolutely resists my ability to understand. It's my Achilles heel. I'm an imbecile. A cretin. A joke.

THE POSSIBLE SOLUTION: my friend Dan who knows how to code.

THE NEW PROBLEM: there has been an XKCD-style assumption about baseline knowledge

#THE NEW SOLUTION: we are meeting up in person on saturday so he can hold my hand and probably ultimately do it for me out of disgust #the professional world of careers and tasks

[dadrielle]

I can't draw anything for valentine's day today because I am in the final phases of moving hell but I LOVE THEM I HAVE TO POST SOMETHING SO HAVE AN OLDER SKETCH

#imodna #imogen temult #laudna #critical role #my art #cr art #referenced from a mead schaeffer saturday evening post cover #I cannot wait to get to the new place tomorrow my god to not be stuck in airbnbs anymore will be a gift

[catsinmugs]

#ts4 gameplay #ts4 screenshots #ts4 legacy #ts4 family #reshade #current #sasaki household #ts4 #the viewsssssss windenburg has #chefs kiss #speedbuild of their new rental on saturday #as i’m writing this my pc is completely resetting so hopefully my sims saves somehow still exist…………

[justjonesingaround]

happy stampede saturday y'all

#trigun #trigun 98 #vash the stampede #meryl stryfe #milly thompson #million knives #stampede saturday #breaking in the new fandom with some memes #disasterdraws #fanart #id in alt text

[buglaur]

#hellooooo it's been a long week for sure #got my exam results. did a lot better than i thought i'd do!!! #also had an interview for a place in a community college which i got #but i hopefully got into uni (i'll find out 2pm tmrw) so i mightn't need it!!! #i'm so scared man i'm used to class sizes of like.. 8 😭 #and now i've gotta get 4 buses a day to the city and back instead of a 20 min stroll up the road 😔 #did a pub crawl saturday to celebrate. had a lot of fun #been having fun with bg3 too!! i'm still on act 1 #my ear is blocked again 😔 it's €60 to get it drained ughhh i'll just suffer on #getting my first tattoo soon though 🥳 #enough about me lol i need to make a personal sideblog one of these days #i'll def have a lot less time to be active with sims stuff if i'm starting uni so i'll be sure to make one ^^ #ANYWAYS here's ms macmahon #/roxana #i swear to god i'm going to catch up with all the new kmik posts when i wake up tomorrow #if i don't assume me dead #ts4

[lunavagans]

Okay but like

Why haven‘t I seen anybody talk about how uneven the red is on his cheeks? And he looks like he‘s about to cry? I‘m connecting the dots, and it‘s unpleasant.

EDIT BECAUSE HOLY SHIT THIS STILL HAUNTS ME: The job of painters usually is also to make someone look better than they actually do, meaning this being shown was a deliberate choice. It‘s not just that Gepetto hit him. It‘s that he chose to show it, too. What the hell

#lies of p #carlo #new headcanon acquired: gepetto hit him before making him sit for this portrait and the painter couldn‘t do shit about it #all the whump for you guys #lies of p carlo #raine‘s #ah so it‘s stewing-in-misery saturday how wonderful

[betashift]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022-)

SEASON 1 — Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

#trekedit #snw #strange new worlds #snwedit #startrekedit #star trek: strange new worlds #rainbowgifs #usergif #tvedit #scifiedit #flashing gif tw #this is bound to flop because it took ages to make and I'm posting it on a saturday night lmao but. #in any case... I finished my rewatch in prep for season 2 and I could cry I love the show so much <333

[nomaptomyowntreasure]

shiny pretty hair and smile.

#fall out boy #fob #pete wentz #saturday #peroxide princess #foborlando #pete I'm begging you let me make a new rose harness for you

[aprilblossomgirl]

Cherry Magic Thailand (2023-2024) Episode Twelve (FINALE)

#cherry magic #cherry magic th #cherry magic thailand #cherrymagicedit #*gifs #april.gifs #tw: flashing gif #karanachi #karan x achi #taynew #tay tawan #new thitipoom #first saturday without karan and achi and i miss them already so here's their little flashback during the wedding

[petite-madame]

There is not just one musician in the family - (2022)

There's one thing a lot of people don't know about the Holmes brothers: Sherlock isn't the only musician in the family.

ETA: I’m spoiled! This artwork inspired four fics in a span of only a week. A big thank you to the authors for their hard work, I’m so happy. Please, enjoy the following stories:

Cello by janto321 (FaceofMer) (Greg Lestrade/Mycroft Holmes - General audiences - Fluff, domestic fluff - 465 words - Greg comes home to hear Mycroft playing his cello )

You are the only one who sees me by Mimisempai (Greg Lestrade/Mycroft Holmes - General audiences - Fluff, established relationship - 1081 words -  Greg comes home early from work and surprising Mycroft, he discovers something new about his lover...)

Playing in the Dark by InnerSpectrum (Greg Lestrade/Mycroft Holmes - General audiences - Established relationship - Implied/Referenced Character Death - 360 words - Greg awakens to music in the dark house and is reminded Sherlock is not the musician in the family...)

Compositions by afteriwake (Mycroft Holmes/Molly Hooper - General audiences - Pregnant Molly Hooper - Dead Sherlock Holmes - Developing Relationship - 654 words - Mycroft is composing a lullaby for Molly and Sherlock's son.)

#mycroft #mycroft holmes #sherlock #mark gatiss #BBC sherlock #myart #This one wasn't on my WIP list either #I drew it yesterday and today #But I'm posting a new Johnlock art on Saturday #Promise #I just have to find a title #mysherlockart