Our Refuge and Strength!
Psalm 46:1-3.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Because I have an inquiring mind, I did some research this morning before starting to…
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thank god this beautiful pen sold out because i am not about to start buying bottles of fountain pen ink, but it's also really cute and i'm not immune to coffee motif stationery
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Tumblr Prompt Week Day 2
Family
I'm sorry if you ever felt like you couldn't tell me - Sarah Nelson
When I first held you in my arms,
All red and wrinkled and angry,
You already had my heart
From nine months spent beneath it.
I held you in my arms again
As you sobbed wondering how
Your father could forget you birthday,
And I felt my heart shatter.
And as you grew and withdrew,
My fledgling searching for his wings,
My heart fluttered with worry,
Wondering if I had done enough.
And when your heart found its love,
In the arms you never had expected,
My heart hurts yet filled with pride,
Watching you so worried to tell me.
Once again, I hold you in my arms,
And always and forever in my heart.
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I know we all make fun of Ecthelion because of the drowning in his own fountain incident, but in all honestly, running into the lord of balrogs twice his size like a bull with his spiky helmet and toppling him in is incredibly badass
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Not sure if this question is just gonna get thrown into the void, but it is worth a shot
Does anyone have any fountain pen recommendations? I’ve always wanted to have a personal and refillable pen, but there’s so many to choose from
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Thinking about image model generated art and gifmaking is giving me some weird vibrations about how there really is some weird association of the virtuesvirtues of a medium with the virtues of the people working in it. Gifmaking being associated with KPop fans doesn't make the concept of frame interpolation racist, and someone marketing themselves as a cheaper alternative to some other artist doesn't make the concept of generative art inherently class antagonistic.
It's somehow reminiscent of CJ the X's distinction between "stupid art" and "evil art", how a medium that has a low skill floor can produce things that are very stupid and easy to perceive as low-effort but how that's not the same as them having something wrong with them. If you look at my animation tag, most of it is motion graphics done with AfterEffects, and while it's probably wrong to call it a low skill floor program the way an AI art generator is... there is still a world where instead of programmatically telling shapes to whizz by on a screen, a different Van would have drawn those same animations frame by frame, producing exactly the same animation.
And I don't think the fact that I did them programmatically somehow invalidates the artistic intent that went into them, y'know? I could open AE right now and produce a 250x250 looping gif of clouds and while I know how to do that quick, to make it look good and to make me like it, I would have to spend time considering how the various elements, colours, timings and whatever the particle system/noise generator I use spits out fit together. I would have to fiddle with seeds and levels and timings to make it look good. I would have to spend a long time just staring and thinking about what I'm making before I could make it good.
I don't know enough about generative art tools to know how much fiddling goes into them once they're taught and ready to go, but I do know enough about deep learning to know it's a haphazard, frustrating process that you as the artist have only limited control over, which is why it doesn't appeal to me. But I have made gifs in the past, and I know how that process requires an eye for consistency and composition, framing and colour that a lot of other visual artists don't have because they're not working with time as one of the creative dimensions.
And like... who am I, from my high horse as someone in possession of these skills, to tell someone who is still developing these skills or who has a different aesthetic concept of what is good than me, what they're making is low-effort. That's not my judgement to make. I didn't make it. Only the artist themselves can say if somehing was low-effort or not. I don't see why I should have so little faith in other artists to assume they have no interest in putting in any effort.
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@mamoru I thought you’d also enjoy this lamy pen I got for hannukah this year from my mom which I’ve already been using at work enough that the cartridge it came with is nearly empty
My mom is a calligrapher so I have like, inherited knowledge that I find hard to quantify in many ways bc it’s just whatever I absorbed without being directly taught.
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