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timecowboy: Sally May #8[twitter] [instagram] [store]

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:42:26 +1300

timecowboy:

Sally May #8
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Plimmerton to Paekakariki 14 January 2018

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:58:59 +1300

Plimmerton to Paekakariki 14 January 2018

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Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:52:49 +1300

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newyorker: The photographer Douglas Levere was looking for a...

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:28:41 +1300

newyorker:

The photographer Douglas Levere was looking for a manageable side project, one that wouldn’t conflict with his day job or require too much travel away from where he lives, in a suburb of Buffalo, New York. He settled on something that is easily accessible, and seemingly inexhaustible, in that part of the Northeast: snow.
Levere caught his subjects as they fell or swept them up with a fine paintbrush, sometimes from off the hood of his car. He put them on glass slides and brought them to his garage, the only place in his house where it was cold enough to work, and then, using a homemade device—more or less a microscope lens attached to a digital camera—he photographed them in close-up, often as many as fifty times per snowflake. Finally, he combined the many images into one sharp portrait.

Photo

Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:08:43 +1300

The Goose is Loose!

Sat, 23 Dec 2017 22:46:05 +1300

The Goose is Loose!

The impossibility of intelligence explosion – François Chollet – Medium

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:43:06 +1300

The impossibility of intelligence explosion – François Chollet – Medium

danismm: Experimental Underwear Association Perfect name for...

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 21:04:13 +1300

danismm:

Experimental Underwear Association

Perfect name for an indie college band. Not sure what genre though.

merigreenleaf: yoga-and-rainy-days: I’m a little nervous to put...

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 20:01:38 +1300

merigreenleaf:

yoga-and-rainy-days:

I’m a little nervous to put this out into the wide world, but I’ve just opened an Etsy story with downloadable coloring pages, and I’d like to invite anyone interested to come check it out. I’ll keep adding coloring packs as I’m able to get them done.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/lattesandraindesigns

Ooo, I’m glad you made an Etsy because I’d been admiring your mandalas. They’re so pretty!

(Psst, check out my friend’s Etsy shop, everyone!)

moralesja: I should have embraced pessimism much earlier in life.

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 20:20:29 +1300

moralesja:

I should have embraced pessimism much earlier in life.

I WILL BE CENSORED AFTER DEC 14TH

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 20:09:12 +1300

polararts:

ask-lil-brother-bendy2:

xxkittenxxyt:

your-paperbag-pal:

asklalalexxi:

Good, I’ve got your attention. I’ve heard about this net neutrality bullshit returning. I fought it when it started popping up a few years ago, and I’m going to fight it again. Guys, it’s BACK AGAIN and even worse theres a big chance it will END UP PASSING!

https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form

This could literally mean a shit ton of you wont be able to see me anymore if your provider decides that they want to regulate/censor, sayyy overly sexual content. You’ll also have to pay extra money to even use Tumblr!

https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form

Please guys, we defeated this shit once, we can do it again. They’re trying to do it now while people are distracted by the holidays and fucking Justice League. As of today, it seems as though there have only been 266,810 calls made to Congress. This is NOT good enough!! MILLIONS of people use the net, and if each one of them took 60 seconds to call and protect it, holy balls do you KNOW how much of a difference that would make??? But noooo, you’re busy streaming an ecchi anime that wont be available to you soon!!!!!

Heres a direct link to make a difference (theres also links to other sites of the same nature on here), and yes, YOU can make a fucking difference because this is YOUR internet at stake here. If you’re not going to make the call, share this and maybe SOMEONE fucking will!! This is important as shit and we cant afford to lose. Dec 14th is the deadline.

https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form

I know this doesn’t sound important but….

The reason they started this again is because… the timing.

Coincidence? I think NOT.

Everyone is so obsessed with something else, The FCC are manipulating us.

I seriously don’t want to give up Tumblr and YouTube all together because of this crap..

:’(

They’re deleting it every 20 hours too, don’t stop rebloging this!

Yeah, everyone should be worried about this, without net neutrality, freelance artist will suffer and lose their jobs, long distance relationships will suffer. online job applications will be a nightmare. It’s not good.

Atomic Age Christian Indoctrination!(By Charles L. Paddock,...

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:59:19 +1300

Atomic Age Christian Indoctrination!

(By Charles L. Paddock, Pacific Press Publishing Corp., 1956)

@danismm - they might like it.

I can relate to this.

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:59:33 +1300

I can relate to this.

sirfrogsworth: The FCC wants to make the internet suck. Suck big giant hairy smelly balls. I’m not...

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:56:33 +1300

sirfrogsworth:

The FCC wants to make the internet suck. Suck big giant hairy smelly balls. I’m not sure many people realize how bad they want to make the internet. Companies could make you pay extra for visiting certain sites. If they are in competition with Netflix, your ISP could block Netflix all together. It’s super bad.

This is really important. Congress is the only thing that can stop this. Which probably means we’re screwed, but I would like you to do me a favor anyway.

Figure out who represents you. Send them a message. Give them a call. Send them a fax (yes this really works). Mail them a postcard. Do all of these things if you have the time. Don’t let your apathy take over. We need to find our willpower and make ourselves heard. Tell them Net Neutrality is good. The FCC can suck it. Keep our internet free from corporate tampering. Don’t let the internet suck balls. Pleeeease.

danismm: Sneezing Every damn time.

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:28:43 +1300

danismm:

Sneezing

Every damn time.

I don’t normally post horror vids, but this one is modern,...

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 20:12:25 +1300

I don’t normally post horror vids, but this one is modern, short, to the point, and will inevitably be optioned, ballooning in its death throes to six two-hour movies, each outdoing the other for vapidity, body count and lack of imagination.

chrishallbeck: 🎉🎈🎁🎂🎁🎈🎉 patreon.com/chrishallbeck

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:00:20 +1300

chrishallbeck:

🎉🎈🎁🎂🎁🎈🎉
patreon.com/chrishallbeck

Zineage!

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 22:28:36 +1300

Guess who got an Issuu account? I might redo these for readability on the web, as what’s currently there are the print-ready layouts. Sorry.

sticky-institute: Travel Diary: Zinefest Christchurch, by Bryce...

Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:51:00 +1300

sticky-institute:

Travel Diary: Zinefest Christchurch, by Bryce Galloway
I used to go to all of New Zealand’s annual zinefests, but now that there’s six of them (!?!?) I only go to my hometown zinefests - Hamilton/Wellington, and one other, in strict rotation. I’m weird like that, just ask my friends.
Last time I was here (2013) I was in a lonely hotel on the edge of Cathedral Square, telling the assembled locals to go zine, cos it was one of the best cultural vehicles for a city lacking infrastructure. Christchurch (Ōtautahi) was post-quake. Christchurch is still post-quake, just a little less so.
This time round I’m staying with friend, artist, musician and Content Manager at inde radio station RDU - Gemma Syme. I slept on Gemma’s coach, until drunken friends and flatmates woke me with their banter and late-night fry-up. I listened to the drunken Pakeha boys try and argue their iwi (tribal) status with the Māori girls. What, with the sleeping bag over my head, I totally missed that one of the boys in question was friend and zinester Spencer Hall. Once they’d left I got up and checked they’d turned the oven off. Those, “don’t drink and fry” ads, ya know?
I see nobody from Christchurch Zinefest 2013 at the 2017 event. This must be a completely new local zine spasm. However, Christchurch’s ongoing love of the risograph and the influence of designer/art school lecturer Luke Wood are still present, extended by Jane Maloney’s riso press (M/K Press Ltd) and her pre-Zinefest riso-zine workshops.
Christchurch Art Centre are providing this space by virtue of the fact that they have a zinester in their ranks - Louise Sutherland. Otherwise, Alice Bush is the primary organizer of this year’s event.
Louise’s zines precede her. She be the author of the wonderful Coaster Frenzy, here today for just “$1 or swaps”. Alice and I gush our respective roller coaster stories at the Coaster Frenzy author. Alice has the world’s highest rollercoaster under her belt. I have the world’s highest vertical-drop rollercoaster under mine, which is surprising, I HATE heights. I launch into the Dead Kennedy’s rollercoaster disaster anthem Funland at the Beach, and later kick myself for the inappropriateness of that song in the context of post-quake Christchurch!!!
Louise says she feels privileged to have been part of the Christchurch rebuild, “It’s a moment in history. How many of those do we get to share.” Louise contends that Christchurch art and music have benefitted from the quakes; that a formerly closed scene, full of hierarchies, is now open to all players. That’s very ziney. It’s a sentiment echoed in issue two of the riso music journal Cheap Thrills (at Zinefest with editor - Erin Kimber). In the opening article - On the Value of Music - Matt Scobie writes, “I believe these events allowed or encouraged us to break free of the shackles of competitive individualism driven by exchange values and start acknowledging the importance of seeing the Ōtautahi music community as a synergetic whole…”
Hey, there’s Cameron from riso design journal Strips Club. His Strips Club collaborator’s moved to Berlin. Maybe there won’t be another volume of Strips Club. “Awe, do a White Fungus.” I encourage. “Berlin/Chch to their Taiwan/Wellington. Interview White Fungus’s Hanson brothers.” We talk politics, voting patterns, Winston Peters, the “king-maker” in post-election New Zealand. Cameron tells me about the massive Justice Building, that cynically opened for election season photo ops with members of the incumbent National party, closing again for ongoing construction as soon as the polling booths were shut.
I do the stall-holder circuit, it probably takes about an hour to get a reasonable handle on the qualities of the various zines on offer. All the zinesters are doing the same thing; doing the whole circuit before deciding how to spend their budget of $5, $10, or $20. I spend every cent that I make in sales of my own zine - Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People. I get all zinesters to sign their work.
There are approximately 20 stall-holders here according to Alice: Asian exchange students have written about racism against their own, David Merritt has his foldout poetry housed in upcycled books and banana box linings, there’s a zine from the Christchurch Women’s Centre, Spencer’s pop-up comics and satirical propaganda commands (Spencer also passes round a folded piece of paper for a comics jam on fictitious FX pedals), there are other inde comics, second hand books, witch zines, potion zines, stickers, handmade jewelry, cassettes, CD-zines, creative writing, sci fi stories, photo zines, travel zines, cat zines, music zines, even a zine about zines.
I sell more zines when I’m not on my stall than when I am there!?!? I’m not surprised, zine shopping is a potentially self-consciousness experience in the extreme. Where else do you examine someone’s art while they examine your face for signs of enjoyment, waiting for you to decide whether their art’s good enough to purchase. Imagine being installed next to your own gallery painting, with your hand out!? But that’s also the best thing about zinefest, you meet ALL the artists.
Bleeeurh! A bit tired and hungover now. Need coffee. The worst busker in the world sits in her wheelchair outside Bunsen Café warbling some churchy dirges over karaoke backing. Too good to be full-o-character, too bad to forgive her genre of choice.
My zinefest neighbor is a scrapbooker from the US, so I’m compelled to ask her if she thinks the scrapbooker kits one finds in art/stationary shops are a rip. Thankfully, she does. She appears to be afloat in NZ, not knowing if her art school back in the US will be restructured out of existence or not. Is looking to find an arts program in New Zealand.
Cameron of Strip Club packs up early. Bastard! Makes a huge hole in the wee zinefest presence/footprint.
I’m just not acclimatized to this Christchurch cold. They’ve put the Wellington guy in exactly the wrong place, by the draughty doorway. Locals chit chat in tee shirts while I hug myself, jacket zipped, hat pulled tight!?!?
I’m encouraging Louie of Dunedin Zinefest and Alice of Christchurch to get committees of helpers. They’re both currently running their zinefests solo!?!?
Spencer tells me to check out his story about NZ alt rock legend Bruce Russel being the alter-ego of NZ alt rock legend Martin Phillips, as printed in his Lyttelton Rotten Radio zine.
It’s nearly 5 PM. I pack up and make short work of my farewells so that I can catch a bus to the airport and relax knowing I’m in the right place for my flight back to Wellington.
Back home and checking the best of my haul:
Cheap Thrills Issue 2 - an elegant risographed volume of NZ music past and present
Wandering Wolves is a gorgeous riso, the very first zine of Prabha Mallya, made at one of the workshops leading up to zinefest. Poetic mix of tagged animal narrative, poetry, illustration, photo and collage.
Field Notes from The Crescent City – July 2017 “It’s a very efficient and sensible method of burial that ensures you can never ever escape your family, even in death.”
Louise Sutherland’s holiday snaps and memories of New Orleans (including its cemeteries), well enough written and photographed to transcend any photo album limitations
A Most Elusive Species – by Louise Sutherland’s brother Robert. Photo essay of seemingly empty zoo enclosures. A subtle variety to the picture-by-picture approach creating a rewarding sense of narrative.
Burn Out is a pun. Yes, there are cars, but the scars are not the result of spinning tyres but of the sun’s rays peeling the paint off that once proud finish - by Robert Sutherland.
The cutest wee Untitled zine that pitches it’s teensiness against clipped horror narratives from Greek myth.
Cuss Weird cussing birds. Inexplicable.
OX OX OX… a CDR economically clothed in a folded A3. Rockabilly are the first chords, with hints of Ramones and Stooges. Next song is quite different, same vocal stylings but over “Dunedin Sound” meets Fall repetition. In the zine, we’re regaled with some pretty compelling “um and ah” misadventures from the band’s singer. Now they play a kiwified Joy Division cover. Sweeet!
Strawberry Stories runs some loopy narrative logic, or lack thereof. And some nice red spot-colour on the strawberry coloured one, though s/he’s not actually a strawberry eh, s/he’s like a person with a tree growing outta their head!?!?
A Zine Fanzine Beautifully designed and laid out riso about zines. Tightened up my own understanding about the provenance of zines, though changes to conjecture when talking about post internet zines.
Misc - Excellent poems by Arwen Miriama Sommer. “Snow is built of feathers and birds are built of trees”
All About the Sex* The Christchurch Women’s Centre decide to distribute their newsletter at zinefest, so it’s a zine now. An intro to the Woman’s Centre and their weekly discussion forum, plus an intro to the Red Tent movement and editorial about aging women’s identity.
Rotten Radio Zine - Spencer Hall’s good at writing original meandering comedy nonsense about music and culture.

animatedamerican: ruffboijuliaburnsides: run-up-the-sail: ruff...

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 19:13:16 +1300

animatedamerican:

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

run-up-the-sail:

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

nelc:

Ursula Vernon’s Certificate of Bad Artistry, for those days when it’s just not coming together.

Or for those of us who are still in the “really kind of crap” stage of learning. Thank you Ursula Vernon.

I’m just gonna go ahead and interpret this as permission to write badly as well.

Writing is art. You are allowed to make bad art. So write bad shit.

Hell yeah, writing is art. So are a lot of other things that aren’t visual. This absolutely includes singing off key and forgetting half the words, playing a musical instrument fumblingly and without rhythm, dancing with no coordination and no idea what the steps should be, and, yes, writing for crap.

Your art does not have to fit anyone’s standards for quality or even basic competence, not even your own, for you to be allowed to make it.

Bemused. Geek. NZ.

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Plimmerton to Paekakariki 14 January 2018

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newyorker: The photographer Douglas Levere was looking for a...

Photo

The Goose is Loose!

The impossibility of intelligence explosion – François Chollet – Medium

danismm: Experimental Underwear Association Perfect name for...

merigreenleaf: yoga-and-rainy-days: I’m a little nervous to put...

moralesja: I should have embraced pessimism much earlier in life.

I WILL BE CENSORED AFTER DEC 14TH

Good, I’ve got your attention. I’ve heard about this net neutrality bullshit returning. I fought it when it started popping up a few years ago, and I’m going to fight it again. Guys, it’s BACK AGAIN and even worse theres a big chance it will END UP PASSING!

https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form

This could literally mean a shit ton of you wont be able to see me anymore if your provider decides that they want to regulate/censor, sayyy overly sexual content. You’ll also have to pay extra money to even use Tumblr!

https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form

https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form

The reason they started this again is because… the timing.

Everyone is so obsessed with something else, The FCC are manipulating us.

They’re deleting it every 20 hours too, don’t stop rebloging this!

Atomic Age Christian Indoctrination!(By Charles L. Paddock,...

I can relate to this.

sirfrogsworth: The FCC wants to make the internet suck. Suck big giant hairy smelly balls. I’m not...

danismm: Sneezing Every damn time.

I don’t normally post horror vids, but this one is modern,...

chrishallbeck: 🎉🎈🎁🎂🎁🎈🎉 patreon.com/chrishallbeck

Zineage!

sticky-institute: Travel Diary: Zinefest Christchurch, by Bryce...

Travel Diary: Zinefest Christchurch, by Bryce Galloway

animatedamerican: ruffboijuliaburnsides: run-up-the-sail: ruff...