Four Coloured Stripes

slowartday: Delphine Lebourgeois

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:26:42 +1000

Delphine Lebourgeois

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Tue, 21 May 2013 10:19:31 +1000

"I remember as a child, sitting in the back seat of the car driving through the leafy, bush suburb..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:08:15 +1000

“I remember as a child, sitting in the back seat of the car
driving through the leafy, bush suburb where I grew up, looking out
of the car window. My mother was telling me about Australian
light. She said that Australian light is different from all the other
light in the world; because of the expanse of the country, because
we are surrounded by the ocean, because of the curve of the sky. All
of the colours in Australia are different, because they are washed in
Australian light. She told me that I would notice the difference
when I visited somewhere that was not here.”

- Sarah Jones, New Age: New Media

sadburro: The Winged Woman Frederick Carter

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:12:05 +1000

sadburro:

The Winged Woman

Frederick Carter

lostinpattern: Triangle pattern by Peggy Hung

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:49:40 +1000

lostinpattern:

Triangle pattern by Peggy Hung

fyeahwomenartists: Kate MacDowellOutfoxed, 2011 (via Kate...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:37:55 +1000

fyeahwomenartists:

Kate MacDowell
Outfoxed, 2011

(via Kate MacDowell - “outfoxed “)

fyeahwomenartists: Kate MacDowellBadgered, 2010 (via Kate...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:37:29 +1000

fyeahwomenartists:

Kate MacDowell
Badgered, 2010

(via Kate MacDowell - “badgered”)

invisiblestories: Christopher Pratt, Ice, 1972 (via...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:34:53 +1000

invisiblestories:

Christopher Pratt, Ice, 1972 (via arcticanstars)

galasai: Lúa Ocaña She, 2012

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:53:01 +1000

galasai:

Lúa Ocaña

She, 2012

dyeknittinkdye: nymph-hopes: Best thing ever. It’s like...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:44:41 +1000

dyeknittinkdye:

nymph-hopes:

Best thing ever.

It’s like watching the Matrix, but with kittens.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 22:37:38 +1000

birminghamupdates: Happy International Day Against Homophobia...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:58:01 +1000

birminghamupdates:

Happy International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia!! Find out more here http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/

Sneaking in an IDAHO shoutout before bedtime. Was too involved in lunchtime chats to instagram the Queer collective’s All Love Is Equal installation on the library lawn today before they packed it up. But it was a perfect afternoon to bask in the sun, surrounded by a picket fence of pink lovehearts.

koboldfacedlie: “One of the most fascinating archeological...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:48:26 +1000

1. Onfim the Warrior

2. Onfim the Beast

3. Onfim's Friends and Family

4. People

5. More people

6. Battle Scenes

7. Yet more battle scenes

8. More people

9. Onfin and his badass dad

koboldfacedlie:

“One of the most fascinating archeological finds in Russia has been the discovery of hundreds of “birchbark documents” (messages written on the bark of birch trees with a sharp stylus) that were created from the 11th to the 15th century.

The birchbark documents of Novgorod are a major source for information about life in Medieval Novgorod because they are not the writings of church theologians or political leaders, but rather, personal messages, IOUs, love letters, shopping lists, and so on. One of the most fascinating items, in my mind, is a collection of children’s drawings that have been unearthed.

Children’s drawings in the Middle Ages?! Even if such things were created in period, how could they have survived to the present day? After all, finger paints, magic markers, and crayons were not yet in use, paper was far too valuable of a commodity to waste on children, and refrigerator doors were unavailable for the display of Junior’s artistic genius. Most of the products of childhood inspiration probably were expressed on the ephemeral canvas of dirt or sand.

But birchbark was a different story. The bark was widely available (although there are indications that excessive use of the medium caused a decline in the local birch population) and easily cultivated. Anyone could use it. When one was finished with the message, it was simply thrown into the mud, where the presence of water and clay created an unusually bacteria-free environment which preserved the documents. So, we have the ideal medium: cheap, easy to come by, and (thanks to unique geology) preserved for hundreds of years.

The drawings from Novgorod that we have found appear to all come from a Russian boy named Onfim, who lived at the end of the twelfth century or beginning of the thirteenth century in the city of Novgorod. By the estimate of the archaeologists who unearthed his works, he was around seven years old at the time that he made these drawings.

Onfim was being taught to write, but he was obviously restless with his lessons and when he could get away with it, he intermixed his assignments with doodlings. In this first example, he started to write out the first eleven letters of the alphabet in the upper right corner, but got bored and drew a picture of himself as a grown-up warrior impaling an enemy with his spear. To remove any doubt about the identity of the warrior, he even labeled the person on the horse as “Onfim.”

Fantasies of becoming a mighty warrior were not the only things that Onfim thought up though. In another example, he took the piece of bark that he was practicing on (left), turned it over (right), and drew a picture of himself disguised as a wild beast (which he identified by writing “I am a wild beast” [Ia zver’] over it). The beast, with its long tongue (or fiery breath), is apparently still a friendly beast as it is carrying a sign that reads “Greetings from Onfim to Danilo” [Poklon ot Onfima ko Danile]. Danilo (i.e., Daniel) was probably a friend, perhaps even a schoolmate sitting next to Onfim.

Onfim liked to draw people and while his artistic aptitude may have been lacking, he was prolific.”

source: http://www.goldschp.net/SIG/onfim/onfim.html

Totally misread these as contemporary S&M outsider art. Heh heh oops.

leviohsa: always I whistle at cats :)

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:31:24 +1000

leviohsa:

always

I whistle at cats :)

tufworld: I’llHealU I need this next to my computer

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:20:54 +1000

tufworld:

I’llHealU

I need this next to my computer

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Thu, 16 May 2013 18:02:58 +1000

"In my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:48:45 +1000

“In my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.”

- Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading (via blue-voids)

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Thu, 16 May 2013 10:58:33 +1000

catasters: “What are you looking at? I will beat you...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:24:42 +1000

catasters:

“What are you looking at? I will beat you up!!”

Mreeeeoooooowwnnnooooo

ltched: huade: Despite its name, the maned wolf is not a wolf...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:47:16 +1000

ltched:

huade:

Despite its name, the maned wolf is not a wolf at all, nor is it a fox, coyote, or dog. It is the only member of the Chrysocyon genus, making it a truly unique animal, not closely related to any other living canid. One hypothesis for this is that the maned wolf is the last surviving species of the Pleistocene Extinction, which wiped out all other large canids from the continent.

oh my gosh

they look like runway model foxes