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New Project — Ellie Fernald Wall Hangings
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4 quilted wall hangings:
1. A fantastical dragon with a sunsettish sky behind it, its fire exhalations blown back over its head in the wind and its claws digging into a pile of rocks.
2. Several highly realistic cows in a field, one eating, one's head up but not visible, and the third lowing at the fourth wall, surrounded by a heart-shaped border of elaborately quilted flowers.
3. A zebra mid-gallop, behind layers of tall grasses that are, somehow, also a sky field with stars on a base of clouds.
4. Two cats on a windowsill deep enough to curl up on, one orange, and one grey with white mittens. Outside the window is a rich, dense flower garden, and behind that a neighbor's house where a tuxedo cat is looking at the foreground. Ellie used a panel of clear plastic for the window panel, which is shown in the up position.
1. A fantastical dragon with a sunsettish sky behind it, its fire exhalations blown back over its head in the wind and its claws digging into a pile of rocks.
2. Several highly realistic cows in a field, one eating, one's head up but not visible, and the third lowing at the fourth wall, surrounded by a heart-shaped border of elaborately quilted flowers.
3. A zebra mid-gallop, behind layers of tall grasses that are, somehow, also a sky field with stars on a base of clouds.
4. Two cats on a windowsill deep enough to curl up on, one orange, and one grey with white mittens. Outside the window is a rich, dense flower garden, and behind that a neighbor's house where a tuxedo cat is looking at the foreground. Ellie used a panel of clear plastic for the window panel, which is shown in the up position.
Ellie Fernald was among my strongest influences as a child. She was in a performance troupe (music and vaudeville-style comedy) with my dad when I was in grade school, her house was a riot of fabulous art (both hers and others), and she had an inspirational collection of gorgeously illustrated children's books. I thought of her as a potter for the most part, because her entire basement was a pottery studio, but she was also an expert quilter and painter, and she explored many forms over her lifetime.
These are some wall hangings that have ended up in my dad's house, and my sister, Erin, and I are undertaking some restoration work on them — cleaning them, repairing some places where stitching has come undone, and in a couple of cases removing and repairing internal wooden frames that have broken. It's going to be a lot of work! But I'm excited to spend some time with these beautiful pieces, enjoying her painting and quilting brilliance.
A little bio sketch of Ellie : https://publicforms.whitworth.edu/art...
(So tempted to add this to the "Wonder Woman" shp :D)
These are some wall hangings that have ended up in my dad's house, and my sister, Erin, and I are undertaking some restoration work on them — cleaning them, repairing some places where stitching has come undone, and in a couple of cases removing and repairing internal wooden frames that have broken. It's going to be a lot of work! But I'm excited to spend some time with these beautiful pieces, enjoying her painting and quilting brilliance.
A little bio sketch of Ellie : https://publicforms.whitworth.edu/art...
(So tempted to add this to the "Wonder Woman" shp :D)
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Amazing!
Learn a book.
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Cecily Strong as the Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party, her reoccurring Saturday Night Live Weekend Update character. She is wearing a pink dress, holding a blue purse/handbag, waving her left pointer finger in the air, and saying "Learn a book."
source: https://www.reddit.com/media...
But, it's look at a book. AI can't read lips.
Café, Paris, 1959. Saul Leiter. Chromogenic print.
Best-Kept Boy in the World
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The very interesting, but short, life of Denham Fouts
Truman Capote once joked that if Denham Fouts had accepted Adolf Hitler's advances, the Second World War might never have happened. It's the kind of outrageous claim that sums up Fouts perfectly: a man who left behind almost nothing of his own making, and yet somehow ended up at the centre of some of the twentieth century's most extraordinary company.
He never published a novel, painted a canvas or held a job for more than a few months. Instead, he became a muse to Capote, Christopher Isherwood and Gore Vidal, was kept in turn by a German baron, a Greek prince and a British lord, and briefly had a real Picasso hanging in his own apartment.
He died broke, addicted and largely forgotten, at 34.
Longer story here https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post...
Truman Capote once joked that if Denham Fouts had accepted Adolf Hitler's advances, the Second World War might never have happened. It's the kind of outrageous claim that sums up Fouts perfectly: a man who left behind almost nothing of his own making, and yet somehow ended up at the centre of some of the twentieth century's most extraordinary company.
He never published a novel, painted a canvas or held a job for more than a few months. Instead, he became a muse to Capote, Christopher Isherwood and Gore Vidal, was kept in turn by a German baron, a Greek prince and a British lord, and briefly had a real Picasso hanging in his own apartment.
He died broke, addicted and largely forgotten, at 34.
Longer story here https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post...
#DATHAIR
adulthood
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merrygoround with a sign reading "This ride only tops in an emergency. Crying is not an emergency."
These are the same signs you see just before being born, and, coincidentally, also before learning to read.
Pretty sure this is Happy Hallow in the Silly Con Valley
Credible
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
"I've done the best I could with my life."
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"This book is dedicated to Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally performa an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year old American on he way to India.
Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'
Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:
I've done the best I could with my life.
This book is for you."
Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'
Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:
I've done the best I could with my life.
This book is for you."
Dedication from Gloria Steinem's 2015 book My Life on the Road.
source: https://www.threads.com/@charlot...
source: https://www.threads.com/@charlot...
So the drive home today was fun…
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(Not my photo, but from the same storm). There were five areas in the Metro-Detroit area reporting funnel clouds and tornados this afternoon. My daughters go to a school that is a 40 minute drive. We got caught in the worst of the storm and had to take shelter in a gas station for 20 minutes until it passed.
Buddy of mine in Ann Arbor texted to say that the rain was falling sideways and it sounds like a chunk of Washtenaw Cty is in the dark right now.
Woof. Glad you all made it home safely.
We're all so fckd.
neighborhood watch
my response to the canned 1password email I got
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email responding to someone who called themselves Alex at 1password. email reads as follows:
Hi "Alex"
considering your canned response says nothing and mirrors exactly what you've said in other places, you can now regard me as an ex-customer.
fuck your racist software.
fuck your founder for trying to normalize giving money to racists/ people who want to ethnically cleanse Europe.
fuck your ceo for trying to separate giving money to omarchy from giving money to dhh. your donation is an endorsement of his conduct.
and fuck you, personally, for responding with this claptrap and refusing to give your last name.
Hi "Alex"
considering your canned response says nothing and mirrors exactly what you've said in other places, you can now regard me as an ex-customer.
fuck your racist software.
fuck your founder for trying to normalize giving money to racists/ people who want to ethnically cleanse Europe.
fuck your ceo for trying to separate giving money to omarchy from giving money to dhh. your donation is an endorsement of his conduct.
and fuck you, personally, for responding with this claptrap and refusing to give your last name.
I have no time for racist software
source: https://mastodon.social/@rocketd...
for those curious, I use a combo of apple passwords and ProtonPass that comes with my proton subscription
source: https://mastodon.social/@rocketd...
for those curious, I use a combo of apple passwords and ProtonPass that comes with my proton subscription
I’ve used 1Password for years, but moved off and cancelled it this week. I hate that our tech choices are dwindling to the lesser of multiple evils.
Bitwarden
For the CLI nerds: https://www.passwordstore.org/
29 Bute Gardens
Not The Protest You First Thought It Was
Linux networking tools
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a hand-drawn chart of linux tools such as ping, curl, wget, whois, etc, with very terse descriptions
source: https://wizardzines.com
RIP Gloria Steinem
The Missus
112 whistles
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Whistles hanging from orange cord
I just like the way they look at this stage.
Total coincidence but 112 is the emergency phone number in Europe…
👋🏼
…and let it begin without fleas
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Seen in our local dog park. What a lovely place dogs might help us create if only we would listen.
Pees on earth
@dad Hehehehehe
Flock CEO's house
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Photo from Google Maps showing a street address which large blocks of the image blurred out.
I think the neighbors could make some money with an OnlyFans live feed webcam subscription...
into friday like
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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ring woman coming out of the well
nsfw for strobe effect and the spooky
That's not Truth coming out of her well
Rachel: What's wrong, honey?
Aidan: You weren't supposed to help her.
Aidan: You weren't supposed to help her.
in the 2000s there was a Windows screensaver you could load that would simulate the computer glitching then showing snippets of the videotape, good times
Fare Forward...
Warning: Violet Content
how I work
I fucking guarantee it.
Things From An Elegant Past
Found in a field
today's walk
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An old mill building with a clock tower in the background. A river runs in front of it and a great blue heron is on a rock in the middle of this river.
Apparently that heron (lower left) is just always hanging out around there. I remember this building from when it was Digital Equipment Corporation HQ and I moved away before it became anything different. It's now some well-maintained office park.
Is that Maynard? I probably spent an afternoon or two after school there with my mom.
@ian_crowther It is! The Maynard Outdoor store and this building are really the only recognizeable parts of it. My sister works a few blocks from here.
Season of the Witch
Poor little Jolene
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Been a rough week. First she losses her nemesis, Dolly. Now she's on her 5th wash and still smells a little like skunk.
But she’s exotic!
She could have any man she wants.
My happiness depends on you, Jolene.