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Everyday Chores

It's hot and it's taken all my energy to just do my dang job these past few days.

Here's some cool art by Tatsuya Tanaka.

An art photograph of a miniature figurine of a woman in an old fashioned maid uniform with an ancient iron, she is ironing ripple chips and making them flat. There is a stack of ripple chips on one side of her and non-rippled on the other side.

I prefer my chips un-ironed, if given a choice, but whatever you've got is fine.

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Giving Beauty the Middle Finger

Photographer Waleed Shah is obviously the coolest and has a book of photographs called Rock Your Ugly: A Middle Finger to Toxic Beauty Standards. He had people pose featuring their biggest insecurities about themselves and the result is powerful and gorgeous and you could probably write a dissertation about it.

A black and white photograph of a woman standing sideways and holding her shirt up to reveal a scar on her ribs.

A black and white photo of a woman sitting on the bathroom floor next to her toilet. She is facing away from the camera, holding a small mirror that reflects her eyes back to the camera so she is looking at us.

via Creative Boom.

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Visions of Motherhood

Honestly, in my little corner of the internet, it's nothing but nuance about the experience of motherhood. And yet, apparently, a lot of people still hold a monolithic view of what this means to be a human who had a baby. Photography collective The Luupe's series of 100 visions of motherhood is on.

A portrait of pregnant woman. She is wearing a large pink sombrero with a veil on it, she is wearing a pink Nike sports bra and pink pants and is holding her exposed, pregnant belly. It seems like a take on Beyonce's pregnancy photo.

A photo of a woman looking out a curtain from behind. The curtain takes up the whole wall and is 70's style paisley. She is standing with her back to us in a red dress, holding a baby, and looking through a crack in the curtain.

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Follow These Plates

Marie-Claude Marquis' decorative plates are generally wonderful and this one, in specific, is glorious.

A photo of a decorative plate with a picture of Jesus in the middle and the text says "follow me, I'll follow back." It's the white, Catholic Jesus and the plate is gilded with gold.

And honestly, I can see the youth group I went to back in the day getting really into this sentiment.

Expressing the opposite sentiment to my youth group is this next plate, another fave:

A photo of a china plate with the text "whatever floats your boat" on it. The plate is white with a delicate floral pattern dotted around the edges and also in the centre of the plate.

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Here Are Some of My Collages

I've been making collages! Here are some of my faves:

Collage art. The main feature is a flying saucer with a beam of light pulling up into it a cupcake, globe, front of a pig, and a candy heart that says "be true" on it. There are a few more flying saucers around. The background is abstract, a mottled pink and yellow.

A piece of collage art. The background is a photo of a lake with glass-still water and some trees on the far side. In the foreground is a woman with a helmet over her head holding a doughnut in one hand and a black rabbit on her shoulder. In the background is an astronaut horizontal over the water, like they will smack into it with their whole front. There are three doughnuts above them, attached with strings like maybe they are balloons that will hold the astronaut up.

Collage art. The background is a flat shot of water, like a lake or ocean. The top of a giant salt shaker emerges into the image from the top left, and coloured lines come out of it as if it's salting the water with colour. There is a woman floating in the middle of the water. On the bottom right is a cat, just its eyes and ears poking out of the water.

Collage art. It's a still lake with some slight waves on the water and trees on the other side. In the centre of the lake stands an astronaut on the water, with some flowers behind its back. Emerging from the water is a green hand holding a crystal ball and next to that is a very small cactus. The text on the picture says "it is real"

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That's Some Kind of Poem

A photo of an art exhibit of John Giormo poetry paintings. The wall has large block text on it that says "Space Forgets You" and then small square paintings are over it saying things like "the world just makes me laugh", "we gave a party for the gods and the gods all came" and "when the going gets rough the tough get gorgeous"

Photo by corno.fulgur75 on Foter.com

I'd never heard of poet John Girono, but now I'm sad I never got to hear him read one of his poems. (I guess I probably could look something up on YouTube). The man's work reads like a deadpan, angry rant and I've never encountered poetry like that.

I don’t
know
what
you’ve been
doing
today
I don’t know what
you’ve been doing today,
but today
was one
of the worst
days
of my life
but today was one
of the worst days of my life
but today was one of the worst days of my life,
and you’re walking
down 2nd Avenue
coming to
St. Mark’s Place
-Excerpt from Eating the Sky by John Giorno

Like... COME ON!!!!

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Weakness of the Flesh

I was hypnotized by this short dance film featuring Emma Rosenzweig-Bock dancing in a sea of... herself. Weakness of the Flesh.

An animated gif video clip showing multiple versions of a woman standing and lying down on the concrete (like she's been cloned and turned into various mannequins or frozen in space). There is a real version of her that is lying on the ground, spins on her stomach and raises her head up in an incredible backbend. She is wearing a long black skirt and a black long-sleeved crop top.

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Why Aren't You Listening to Amanda Sum RIGHT NOW???

You know when someone recommends the BEST BOOK EVER to you and you read it and it's incredible and then it turns out the book is in a series and the series isn't complete yet and now you just have to... wait... for the author to finish it?

Get ready for the musical version: AMANDA SUM.

Full disclosure, I know her and I like to think of her as a friend but really we're more like friendly acquaintances and people who worked together once and now are on social media together, but I have a big ol' giant crush on her and her work and you should too!

She's got three singles out, this is the first one, and the rest are also incredible. She just released Hot Headed Egos and ooooooof.

Listen! Watch! Fall in love! And then waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait with me as she slowly releases more singles! (I think an EP is coming!!!)

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The Will

This is called The Will by Seamless and I am in love with it.

An art photograph of a woman ascending up in a blue sky. She is very small, the photo is mostly blue sky with some clouds at the bottom, and she is wearing an orange dress and holding a pink balloon. Her body is positioned upright, as if she is standing.

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Halfway Houses

When new owners purchased half of a duplex in Ruhrgebiet, Germany, disparate renovations and paint jobs began to emerge. Wolfgang Fröhling has photographed these two-faced houses and they are kind of incredible to look at!

A photo of a house straight-on. The house was renovated on one side by one person and the other by someone else. The house appears to have been designed to be mostly brick with an accent square in the middle of the face of the house. One half of that square is white, the other half is painted yellow with some brick accents built onto it.

A photo of a one-level house. Half of it is painted a light blue, the other half is almost entirely covered in leafy vines, with just a bit of dark grey stucco showing on top.

(Via Colossal)

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When Your Big Mood is No Mood at All

A photo of a wall with an electrical outlet on it. The two ports for the outlet are covered with orange stickers. The top one says #self and the bottom says #mood. The wall has an orange grid painted on it, like it's graph paper.

Ruffa Jane Reyes

I shall spend my moods
Like a rose discards leaves
And die without moods.
-Lewis Grandison Alexander

Is it just me, or is this the moodiest little haiku you've ever read?

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Anti-Racist Street Art Database

Love this: an interactive database of anti-racist art from Minnesota and around the world. Inspired by the art that was popping up across the city to remember George Floyd, it now encompasses a variety of anti-racist works from around the world, ranging from quick tags to murals or community pieces.

A colorful mural painted on plywood- a person with an Algeria flag above their head. The person's neck reads "BLM" and they are standing with a Black lives matter fist.

Emily Magyar

This mural in Idlib, Syria features the words "I Can't Breathe: No to Racism." The artist painted himself wearing a gas mask next to a portrait of George Floyd. In addition, this mural is in the remnants of a bombed out city.

Aziz Asmar

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Another Round of Animals on Tinder

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Joanne Swirska Makes Me Want So Many Tattoos

I may need to get another tattoo, now that I've seen Joanne Swirska's work. Not only is the artistry up to chef's kiss level, but she does animals in adorable and whimsical situations!

A photo of an arm with a tattoo on it. The tattoo is of two cats lying together playfully, surrounded by cute little mushrooms and pine branches.

A photo of a tattoo that shows a kangaroo wearing a bright blue backpack, surrounded by flowers

via Colossal.

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Johanna Goodman's Collages Are Swell

Johanna Goodman's collages! All the whimsy we look for in collage with something to say. Love. It.

Collage art. It is a person, the head is an older statue with headphones on it. The body is an old fashioned, courtly dress with giant skirts made up of different colours and textures collaged together. The bottom is white legs wearing sneakers. It is like a woman from an earlier time came here, changed her shoes, and popped on some headphones.

A collage image that is meant to depict a nurse. The face is the photo of a Black woman wearing full PPE (hair covering, face shield, mask). The body is an oversized collage of various blue PPE items as well as a few COVID molecules. She is in a hospital.

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There's Something About Tulle

There is something about tulle. Ana Maria Hernando really captures it.

A photo of what appears to be the side of a castle wall somewhere in Europe. Through two windows, giant streams of blue and green tulle fabric flow out to the ground, like waterfalls

A photo of the side of another castle or old stone building with tulle coming out the windows. The tulle is red and pink and some pieces fall straight out the window, while others are tied up in each other or stuck in another window. It is beautiful disorder.

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The Most Delightful Animal Portraits

Is it just me, or are Helga Stentzel's clothesline animals pure delight?

via Colossal.

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Ana Santos' Portrait Compilations Are Actually Everything

I went to Ana Santos' Instagram page because I had come across some stunning portraits she did where faces were blending with flowers in magical ways, but then I fell in love with these little image compilations she shared instead. Her captions are in Spanish, but Google translate indicates these are simply compilation images she made while playing around. I am seeing them as portraits of characters, with elements that all represent that person, and honestly, I would love one of these.

A sort of collage image, with a number of independent elements all present but not directly related. The central image is a person who appears to be female sitting cross-legged holding a book open in front of their face, wearing a red sweater. There is a black cat near them. Other images include flowers, moths, a bird, a whale, and a moon.

An image compilation or collage-style image. There is a person who appears to be a young woman with short, straight black hair facing away in the top right, as if she is walking out of the illustration. Below her is a line drawing of a young woman's face with an open book, as if she is reading. There is a tall, skinny dog looking at us. Other images include a few more faces, a hand raching down, flowers, a bird, red leaves, and a cat's head.

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Franck Bohbot's Dear Winter

New York photographer Franck Bohbot captured an unusually quiet city during the winter of 2020. (It may never sleep but it sure does lull.) These shots remind me of when my cousin volunteered as a doctor in NYC during the first wave. He took a photo when he went for a jog and Times Square was EMPTY. So weird.