I've been collecting too many lichen photos, so here's a small photo dump of a few of them. I find the flat ones just as interesting as the curly ones, and they're all the more interesting the closer you look.
That last one was an alpine forest species, and much larger than the others
please help Rae! ze is disabled and has bills to pay and a family to feed. ze can't donate plasma for 4 months due to surgery. buy zer photography! anything helps!
"Two years ago, I wrote about Jeff Dieschburg, an artist in Luxembourg who took [w]ork by others, made trivial edits, and won awards with paintings of the results."
please help wren with their utility bills before they get shut off! their internet already went out and their data is low. almost funded, just needs $50!
I'm looking for British artists - ideally from marginal backgrounds, including BIPOC, disabled, working class, queer etc, who work on the environment and climate from an activist perspective. If can think of any names (or if that describes you!) please do let me know.
And boost for visibility please - thank you all kindly
New sketch! It's the classic Apple ]+, the first computer my family ever had... 40+ years ago I got my start with programming and computer graphics on one of these.
#art#history: o, the ignominy of admitting that i'm not extremely intimate with the oeuvre of my subject...
still, she sounds so rad that i had to make sketchy ode to adrienne rich (born #otd in 1929). an essayist & poet who centred the oppression of women & lesbians in her work, adrienne was also a jewish pro-palestinian activist involved with the new #jewish agenda who supported the #BDS movement. #adrienneRich#illustration#poetry#freePalestine#ceasefireNow#feminism
"Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505, died 1610. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disembowled, drawn and quartered... Not exactly a man of the people"
Right-wing Australian billionaire and money-bag climate change denier Gina Reinhart apparently doesn't want people to see her portrait by the Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira in the National Gallery.
Received my toy camera today. It was on sale for 20% off, which made it about $30, including three rolls of thermal receipt paper to print onto. Thanks to @rasterweb for pointing it out to me! #photography#art#toyCamera
Microbial art — the process of creating living paintings with bacteria — has been around for nearly 100 years. It was first created by Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin in 1928 and was also an amateur artist. Atlas Obscura looks at this blend of art and science, some of the skilled folks who make it, and the potential health risks if it's not done carefully.
Hey #ttrpgcommunity ! I'm prepping some free content for my solo RPG Dungeons of Galora that will be rolled out on itch.io next month and I just finished the cover art I'll be using for it!
This is my most viewed image on Fickr. A pov shot looking up towards the dome in the sanctuary of San Vitale in #Ravenna. Gives a good sense of the mosaic program. Over 11K views!
👤 António Xavier Trindade, c. 1932
🏛️ Fundação Oriente Delegation in India ・ Panaji, India
António Xavier Trindade’s Forsaken represents a westernised 20th century interpretation of the rejected lover with roots in the Subcontinent and Persian literary traditions. The inspiration for this work seems to come from Nayika, a character p(...) #portugal#museum#art