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Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) dir. McG

The Starry Night (1889) by Vincent van Gogh. Oil on canvas.

Currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Sketch of a wild peregrine that landed half a metre from my face at RSPB Bempton Cliffs a few months back.

I’m in the middle of finishing my Masters thesis but aiming to get super back into art once its all done at the end of September :)

vTasty- Visually Tasty Food Blog Tahini Mochi Brownies via Tumblr

So I got bored and drew a Buddha…

free mind

Budda 

Hōkan Miroku (Maitreya)Nyorai - bodhisattva/Buddha of the Future, 

Early 7th century, red pine Wood, 84.2 cm, Koryu-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan National Treasure.

Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am i to disagree?

“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”

— Steve Maraboli

“To heal a wound you need to stop touching it.”

— Unknown

“Never let the sadness of your past, and the fear of the future, destroy the happiness of the present.”

— Unknown

“I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give - except for a rare few.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

what i read in october 2021:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class & race

the grief of victoria’s covid-19 pandemic is not being shared equally (australia)

‘people shunned me like hot lava’: the runner who raised his fist and risked his life (usa)

the flood that drowned american dreams

behind squid game is a real debt crisis shaking south korea

his name was emmett till (usa)

gender & sexuality

for some, being a tradwife is about more time with family. for others, it’s a dangerous far-right ideology

‘i’m just trying to survive’: a gay man’s terror while hiding from the taliban (afghanistan)

beijing’s crackdown on 'sissy’ men could lead to a rise in gender-based violence, experts warn (china)

why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over?

gay in south korea: 'she said i don’t need a son like you’

silent spouse abuse – how coercive control is at the heart of family violence

politics, environment, & covid

dead white man’s clothes (ghana)

why hasn’t covax, the global covid-19 vaccine programme, worked out as promised?

‘our opinion was never valued’: wilcannia speaks out (australia)

in samoa we are born into land, climate change threatens to take it away from us

the cartels that capture, extort and torture migrants (mexico)

cities worldwide aren’t adapting to climate change quickly enough

history, culture, & media

my nigeria: five writers and artists reflect on the place they call home

being persian

the allure of the nap dress, the look of gussied-up oblivion

built on the bodies of slaves: how africa was erased from the history of the modern world

how a massacre of algerians in paris was covered up

facebook changes its name to ‘meta’ but not its path to track our data

i officially have a degree in english literature! it’s been a hard but incredibly rewarding past three years.

“A year ago, I would never have pictured the way my life is now.”

— Unknown

Agrippa ~ Of the seals, and characters of natural things.

Everything therefore hath its character pressed upon it by its star for some peculiar effect, especially by that star which doth principally govern it: and these characters contain, and retain in them the peculiar natures, virtues and roots of their stars ….

when things are not FINE / ma.c.a

Some of Syd Mead’s concept paintings for V’Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. His first pieces of movie concept art, they’re the direct result of director Robert Wise’s demand that the movie show an object that “no man had ever seen.”

Images scanned from The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist. 

Don't ask for help. God is your help.

R.I.P Pac