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put-process-pattern · 11 hours
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dentistry2004 · 7 months
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My stuff in a show yesterday
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empty-movement · 4 months
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Chiho Saito’s 1999 Revolutionary Girl Utena Original Illustration Collection
IT’S HERE. IT’S DONE. IT’S FINISHED. NOW…IT’S YOURS. Happy Holidays, my friends.
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Vanna here! I have posted some already about this project, and the responses I got, public and otherwise, have been absolutely incredible. Y’all have been reblogging and hyping this before it even finished…I haven’t felt so encouraged about an Utena project since the musicals! (Yes, streams soon, I promise.) You can read the other post to get more details, and catch my post here with more details about the process if you’re interested. The long and short of it?
This is the first artbook I ever scanned. I did it in 2001. In Photoshop, using multiple scans per page that took hours to process. But it was 2001. A half megabyte file that was 1250px wide was considered extremely hardcore and impressive. That’s just always been the business I’m in when it comes to Utena art, you know? 
It’s now the latest artbook I’ve scanned, and so much of the process, and effort involved, is unchanged. What has changed, is the result. Welcome to your new desktop background. Your new phone background. Your new poster print. 
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What I’ve done here is attempt to create definitive digitized images of Chiho Saito’s work as offered by this book--I have removed the print moiré of the original scans, and used my literal decades of experience to try and tease out as much information from them as possible. Without being physically in front of the original artwork (which is a thing I’ve had the great fortune to get to do) this is The Most Chiho Saito you are ever going to get. I’ve tried my best to make sure there is a way to get it that works for everyone:
Do you just wanna scope 'em out? Look at some disaster gays? Grab your favorite one or two? This is the path for you! Check out the ‘compressed’ (not very) 10k ‘web friendly’ (not really) copy at the Bibliothèque, the media archiving wing of the Something Eternal forums at Empty Movement*. All the following links are also available from here. Do you want these copies? All of them? Don't just grab them individually, friend. This batch is 375MB and can be downloaded as a zip of the individual files here on our Google Drive.
Do you like digital archiving? Are you looking for a copy that preserves the archival quality of the effort but sits nice and comfy in a single file? This is for you. A minimally compressed 10k, 513MB version worked into a PDF is now up, shiny and chrome, on the Internet Archive. Do you like the idea of the minimal compression, but want the individual files in a zip? Yep I did that too, here's the drive link.
Are you looking to print these in a larger size? This is probably the only reason on Earth you’d ever want them, and yet a bunch of you are going to go straight for these. Here are the zero-compression JPG full size copies, most of them are 15k across, like simply a ridiculous size. Pick your fave and download it from our Google Drive! 
I am genuinely really proud of this work.** I was able to tease out so much new detail from these…her incredible layering techniques, the faintest brush of her highlights, and the full range of her delicate hand at whites and blacks… details commonly lost in digitization. I sincerely hope you find something here that you’re looking for, as an artist looking for inspiration, as a weeb looking for a desktop, as an archiver excited to see incredible 90s manga artwork saved forever in the digital realm. I feel like I have already said so much about them, and could keep going, but you know what? This work speaks for itself. Enjoy, use, explore, and definitely tell us what you think!
We love y’all. ~ Vanna & Yasha
* AHEM ASTERISK AHEM
You might be wondering what any of that is. Something Eternal? Biblewhatawhat??? EmptyMovement.com? You might even have done a double take at the word ‘forum.’ And you should!!!
I have a confession. This artbook was my ‘side project’ as I worked on this, *the main project.* For a couple years I’ve been banging around with a new domain, and originally I had other plans for it, but Elon Musk ruined my Twitter and Discord is well along on its way to enshittification, and well….we joke on the Discord a lot about ‘reject modernity, embrace forums’ and you know what? We’re right. So Yasha and I are putting our money where our mouths are once again, and doing something insane. We are launching, in 2023, a website forum. Obviously, this is not the official ‘launch’ per se, but I cannot announce the artbook without directing you to the forum, since it sits on the attached very cool gallery system. Oops! Told on myself. Another post more focused on the forum will be forthcoming, but if you are just that motivated to get in right away, you absolutely can! (This will help stagger new arrivals anyway, which is good for us!) If you would rather wait for the ‘official’ launch, by all means that’s coming, including a lengthy screed about how and why we’re doing this. In either case, remember: this is a couple weebs trying to make internet magic happen, we are not website developers by trade. Give us grace as we iron things out and grow into this cool new website thingie…hopefully along with some of you! :D
If you do join up, naturally, there is a thread about this project!
** If you like this kind of content, consider helping us pay for it! We do have a Patreon! If you’re wanting to use these in some public-facing distributive way, all we ask is for credit back to Empty Movement (ohtori.nu or emptymovement.com, either will work.) 
I would like to say ‘don’t just slap these files on RedBubble to get easy money’ but I know that saying this won’t effectively prevent it. Y’all that do that suck, but you’re not worth letting it rain on the rest of this parade. :)
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brokebackmtndew · 11 months
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a strange tenderness : an exploration of transmasc leatherdyke desire
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houseofpurplestars · 2 months
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A small list of some Palestinian Archives:
Palestine Poster Project
Palestine Image and Film Archive
Palestine Films
Palestinian Museum Digital Archives
Zawyeh Gallery
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thoughtportal · 5 months
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Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
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necroticbliss · 3 months
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shiningidoll · 1 year
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yoonsicles · 7 days
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𝀿᭢ຶ⵿  ͠͏🚭 変なメリーゴーランド
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Starting December 2023 Google plans to purge inactive “personal” accounts. “Inactive” to Google is an account that has been inactive for only 2 years. They’ve backed off deleting accounts with YouTube videos “at this time”.
Okay, so we’ve won. For now.
The Internet Archive is embattled. They’ve put forward a weird, unstable, and untenable defense that has lost them the first round of lawsuits. Money they have, but so do publishers. Apparently, a library online is no longer a library. In the U.S. at least, legislation lags far, far behind for handling digital media, let alone if the judges and officials involved even have enough basic knowledge to handle decisions involving it.
Speaking of libraries, in the U.S. the Library of Congress “provides access to archived web content selected by subject experts”. And they do store videos. Selected by “subject experts”? Nope. They teach you how to archive your own personal videos. Libraries still focus on digitizing and preserving their own archives, which is also super important, but they usually don’t have the resources or staff to try to tackle preserving internet content.
This is just a friendly reminder that in the near future all of us everywhere around the world must somehow take relatively collective action to preserve our online content. Because private companies don’t want to, public institutions may not be able to, and activist groups will need help to do so.
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dentistry2004 · 7 months
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Up close :0 !!
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disastrid · 24 days
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We are excited to announce that the Kim Deacon Collection photographs are now digitized and available to the public on provlibdigital.org!
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usnatarchives · 24 days
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With the National Archives Catalog, you can dive into the fascinating stories of American women who soared to new heights in aviation! The National Archives Catalog reveals the daring and determination of pioneers like Amelia Earhart, Ruth Law, and Bessie Coleman, who broke barriers and set new records in the sky.
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houseofpurplestars · 2 months
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Sudan is suffering a media black out right now. People are sharing what they can, knowing it could be their last message to the outside world. Millions of people are starving and displaced.
But the Sudanese people will survive, will continue on, to rebuild and tell their stories.
Please talk about Sudan today. Learn something about Sudanese culture.
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