Really beautiful photo!

Some years ago, I saw a neat photo collage centered around power lines by some artist

Was it something like this?

Alex Hyner

I posted his work to collage sometime ago

I went in blind…

Us too, we had no idea, just that it seemed highly recommended

Each episode had us going WTF and trying to work out the ‘puzzle’ of it all…don’t even get me started on the utterly bizarre waffle party

Looking forward to this!

Me and the bf really enjoyed the WTF puzzling of the first season and the beautiful aesthetic, I just hope they continue the quality and don’t shit the bed…

Totally agree…

I’ve been using mint for the last 4 years, and while I have had to use the command line for some obscure installs, it also works as an OS without needing to use it (i jumped in at the deep end and installed it in a pc I got from my brother and used it as my everyday OS)

I don’t understand why Mint isn’t the first suggestion for Linux ‘virgins’ switching over from Windows etc, it has everything you need pre installed plus the download manager for anything else

Linux has a flavour for everyone, and after a while when you’re confidence and skills grow there is the fun of using the command line and a bit of tinkering…or not, if you are happy with the ‘basics’

I don’t normally comment on news posts, but in this instance, FUCK CANCER

Fuck cancer for stealing my brother from me, and for taking half my bf’s lung

I seriously hopes this works for everyone out there living with this disease, and for their families, friends, the people who love them…

…and also for everyone who has died too soon and missed their chance for survival. Their donation of tissue samples and furthering the cancer research that ultimately wouldn’t help them, but will help the poor bastards that are diagnosed today and in the future…It is bitter sweet

Fuck cancer

a certain ‘labor of love’ needs to be involved

You are not wrong! I think I must be mental sometimes, but it can be good fun discovering new things and then sharing them…

I really like her work, I posted last week some of her cityscapes of Manchester, which is interesting to see the ordinary and mundane of somewhere you know immortalized in art. I’ve got some others of hers which I’ll probably share next week

Also thanks for the tip regarding the code to expand images, it would be nice if the developers added a nice easy button to click to do it for me, but it’s something I can remember to do, like all the other minor things that help when making a post (it’s a learning process)

Cheers! 😀

edit, I’ve just tried it out on one of my posts on mander, it works really well!

I’m glad there are artists capturing the normal sights of places instead of focusing on the most impressive and amazing parts of the world, you know?

I agree, it’s always nice to see your local places immortalized in art, I think it helps that she’s from Bolton, although I haven’t seen any paintings of that downtrodden place yet…

All that’s missing from the paintings is a couple of spice-heads, and the guy who’s always playing the ‘Harry Potter Theme’ on a recorder near Selfridges

Love back at you, from up the road 🐝 ❤️

She’s won a few awards for her work which doesn’t surprise me!

I’ll be posting some of her other work at some point which is just as good, if not better…even though I do love the fact that she makes Blackpool look pretty fucking amazing 🤣

That looks really good, it never occurred to me that an etching like that would work as phone wallpaper…also you’ve got several to rotate if you need a change 👍

It’s definitely the etchings that are the most impressive 😀

Thanks for the feedback, I’m trying something a bit different instead of just posting nice pictures…but it also helps that I actually went to the exhibition 😀

I’ve seen lots of contemporary dance performances which have blown me away, one was called ‘The Silk Road’ and showed how dance, as well as material goods was passed on via the silk road.

It had traditional Indian dance and Spanish dance (the one where the men do the foot stomping, I’ve not been up for long and my brain is still in sleep mode). It was amazing. The dancing was beautiful and demonstrated how culture and ideas are transmitted, in this instance- the similarities of dance movements

Also saw a free performance of some students of Chethams School of Music (Manchester) perform the harp. I think there was 4, maybe 5 female students, and it was beautiful. I’ve never heard the harp performed just on its own and they used percussive rhythms made by drumming and tapping the instrument…

I have the flyers from both above performances, so I’ll edit my comment later on after I’ve found them

Also adding Estas Tonne…my boyfriend is a big fan and we traveled down to London for a week which included one of his gigs…it was held in a church and was just him and his guitars (and 2 incense sticks)

That is beautiful…and hopefully delicious too!

According to this they announced the closures sometime around April 2022, so it’s they old stock they’re offloading

I really want this thing to exist!

I find that I’m both drawn the the building as well as the exhibits when I’m there, all the pillars are trees with texture and foliage (and monkeys too), the large room with the minerals has sea creatures carved onto the stonework. The carved wood, the floor even the outside with the metal drain pipes and tiled roof…it’s a Temple to Nature, really beautiful place!

Cheers!

They’ve also put it in a pump bottle rather than the usual glass droppers which will please a few people, no doubt

I generally use tret, but it’s always good to know that if my supply dries up there’s alternatives…

Any idea why NIOD don’t have a retinol product like The Ordinary? I know you can mix and match it’s just struck me as something missing from their lineup especially considering as NIOD is a step up in potency (and price)

Wow! It must be quite something living in a place where these can be sharing your living space…(also double wow for living in Hawaii! What an amazing place!)

It doesn’t surprise me that these things can grow bigger, I did add the caveat, largest so far…there’s always a bigger beastie out there

That is fucking GLORIOUS!!

I would love to see the aurora in real life, but no luck so far…