Valentine’s Day is just around the corner…
Enjoy my horrible sense of humor and low key whit!
Miniscule Masterpieces by Karen Libecap
Alabama-based artist Karen Libecap, illustrates adorable, miniature paintings of intimate objects, fuzzy animals, and pop-culture references. Composed in an impossibly tiny frame, Libecap’s hyperrealistic paintings are created from a variety of materials, which include oil, watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, pen and ink.
Smaller than a coin, the illustrations pay homage to tiny art and big ideas. Using a steady hand and a set of precise tools, the artist navigates through the texture of our favorite furry friends with calculated placed shadows and quick and fine brushstrokes. The luscious mane of our favorite feline, the delicate, fragile body of a baby duck, and the adorable pink tongue of a cat are captured with impressive detail. Although her pieces are meticulously crafted, she admits, “One extra dot on a tiny painting and it no longer looks like them.
Libecap manages to adorn each of her minuscule masterpieces with a variety of shades in a small space and allot each figure its designated features, which impressively resemble the size of a fleck of dirt. You can find her entire collection in her Etsy shop.
Look at these birbs
Today is annoying so here are some smol fat birbs
@neuroflux okay maybe not fat but definitely ROUND
Stunning Anatomical Collages by Travis Bedel
Mixed media artist Travis Bedel composes stunning symbolic collages, which combine anatomical illustrations with a strong fusion of flowers. Representing life and energy in his work, Bedel’s surreal collages are conceptually and physically beauty. They symbolize the coexistence between nature and humanity. You can buy his work on Society6 and Etsy.
How to sound like you’re hacking into the mainframe in seven languages.
(Printing a new book through Kickstarter, more info here!)
Hi! This is such an important thing to be discussing. I have made a very big point at making sure my personal feminism includes everyone- and educating myself and discussing these topics have really helped.
Issues that are commonly thought of as feminist issues include sexual assault, rape, abortion, Planned Parenthood, domestic violence, equal education, and the wage gap. Feminists have also adopted marriage equality and gay/lesbian rights as their issue which is wonderful.
However, with as many issues as feminists have succeeded in adopting, many of us seem to have not accepted the fact that police brutality and race issues are our issues too.
“White feminism” forgets all about intersectional feminism. The way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality. Likewise with trans-women and Hispanic women. While white women are making 78 cents to the dollar, Native American women are making 65 cents, black women are making 64 cents, and Hispanic women are making 54 cents. Kimberlé Crenshaw said it perfectly in 1989 when she said “The view that women experience oppression in varying configurations and in varying degrees of intensity. Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated, but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.” This includes trans women especially, who have been robbed of their souls when they are told they are not “real women” It is SO important to protect trans women and trans youth as they are incredibly at risk when it comes to sexual assault and hate crimes. People also seem to forget that black women are victims of police violence too- from Sandra Bland to India Clarke- a trans woman who was beaten to death in Florida just a month ago.
The fact that when Amandla Stenberg wrote this beautiful and truthful piece http://instagram.com/p/5D-u1Vm1c8/ she was automatically labeled the “angry black girl” says enough. We are so quick to applaud white women for commenting on race issues/discussions like #BlackLivesMatter, and #SayHerName, but when a black girl comments on it- she is told she is overreacting or being angry.
Comments like the ones you mentioned in your question drive me insane. I have personally seen men get called gay/ f**/ pu*** for wearing anything even remotely feminine. Gay is simply not an insult. Also, let’s not forget that black men cannot wear hoods without being stereotyped as thugs.
To only acknowledge feminism from a one sided view when the literal DEFINITION is the equality of the sexes is not feminism at all. We need to be talking about this more. Discussion leads to change. Xo, Row
Because big, bulky boxes are not obvious at all.
wow this is simply amazing
gasp. game changer
It even does a little spin *heart eyes*
Edge by Mikko Lagerstedt
Captivating and illuminating, Finnish photographer Mikko Lagerstedt’s (previously featured here) series entitled, “Edge” featured photographs taken from the “edge of the world.” Covering the seashore and open wide starry sky, Lagerstedt’s photography demonstrates nature’s infinite beauty at the precipice where land and the water meet. Symbolically speaking, he reminds us that each end has a beginning, which reinstates the philosophy of the circle of life.
