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Doechii Best Rap Album acceptance speech at the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards | February 2, 2025
Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923) "Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)" (c. 1890) Oil on canvas Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States
Porter was among the first African American artists to exhibit his work nationally and the only one to specialize in still lifes. The painting's subject—originally an African gourd brought to the New World by seventeenth-century Spaniards and cultivated by colonists—is significant. Porter chose to paint a watermelon, an earlier symbol of American abundance—and during the Civil War period one particularly associated with free Blacks—when it was increasingly defined by virulent stereotyping. By reclaiming the subject in artistic terms, Porter challenged a contemporary racist trope.
thanks google but i don't think i'm very interested in hearing what a youtuber named 'TheAlmightyLoli' has to say about politics in disco elysium. somehow
The modestly domestic and gently retro Formica table and vinyl-backed chairs contrast with the screaming graffiti that cover even the refrigerator. Artist Haring loves life in the visual fast lane - his apartment is an orchestrated riot of color and image, a nonstop, constantly evolving neo-Dada festival.
Rooms by Design, 1989
all my digital artworks of 2024
my first ref sketch of 2025, from January
It’s really telling when a man’s immediate response to women advocating for equal rights and gender equality is to bring up things like fair fights, the ability to hit women back, or being drafted into war. If your first reaction to women wanting equality is violence or placing women in dangerous situations, perhaps you should consider self-reflection. “Feminism” and “gender equality” can be annoying for some to hear, and questions may arise like, “Aren’t women equal today? Why is this still a thing?” But the reality is that women still face social inequality and are at a higher risk of violence from men (physically, sexually, etc). Also, in many countries, women are nowhere near equal to men in terms of legal rights and autonomy. So, if your first thought is hitting women and having them join the military, you’re part of the problem.
Favorite thing about the rise in indie animation is the sheer amount of it that's horror, and filled with dark themes. I don't *remember* the last time I saw a trailer for an original movie by a Big Company™, meanwhile I can name like 7 indie shows that do what the big brands truly could never. It's beautiful and I really missed it. The multi-month wait between episodes always feels worth it cuz the quality is always so high
my biggest issue with the httyd live action-and just about any live action reboot is that it seems that the live action adaptations are being made to make the original “better”? like, so many people talk about a live action spiderverse, a live action hercules, a live action PRINCE OF EGYPT (dont piss me OFF.)-like animation is a beautiful work of art, and for some reason putting real people and cgi in it is supposed to be an “upgrade”? im probably being that friend that’s too woke or whatever, but i just think it’s so disrespectful to act like something that takes so much time and effort and energy is immediately considered as lower because it is animated. animation is beautiful, and it is one of the most heartfelt art forms there are, and erasing that for the sake of a cash grab is downright degrading to animation as a medium.
'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now