Hello! As the bird app has become an absolute dumpster fire, I've decided to try out Mastodon. I'm hoping I'll like it, but I'm still trying to find my way around so I thought I'd try an #introduction. I'm an Artist and Illustrator in the Niagara Region (Ontario, Canada). I work in coloured pencil, watercolour, ink, and acrylic. I'm currently working on illustrations for my own tarot deck! As well as my love for #art and #tarot, I'm also a lifelong #geek, a #book worm, a #horror fan, a lover of #myth & #magic, a #quote collector, a #cat enthusiast, and a list maker. I would love to connect with other creatives and people with similar interests so please say hi if any or all of these apply to you!
Hello #PortfolioDay! I’m a #watercolor artist from Alberta, Canada. I like to paint landscapes, flowers, animals. Anything from the natural world. My BFA was in printmaking, but I mainly draw and paint now, when I’m not writing. Past projects have included a World of Warcraft webcomic for five years fromdraenor.ca and lots of fantasy character portraits. #art#MastoArt#painting
Hey Mastodon! I'm Nora, I run a jewelry shop, and I used to rely on Twitter to find customers. I could really use your help sharing this post so I can find them here. Thanks!
This is a long shot, but my spouse is looking for someone who can donate a 3D printer or a laser cutter to a group of artists and #makers who used to experience chronic homelessness. It is an actual #nonprofit so you can get the tax write off. Please boost in case someone in the #fediverse can help.
(Edit to add: in #Texas!)
(edit 2: It needs to be able to print ceramics.)
Plus side to #Mastodon is the uninhibited flow of information. Downside is the world sucks right now. #Fascism, #racism, and #bigotry aren't just problems limited to the US. It's a global epidemic. #ClimateChange is real. And #war has devastated the lives of many.
Pace yourself. Follow some fun accounts. Post pictures of #cats. (Okay. #Dogs, too.) Embrace #art. Talk about your favorite #VideoGames, #books, or #hobby.
Don't look away, but don't allow yourself to be overwhelmed, either.
Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker Hokusai died #OTD in 1849.
The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji are noteworthy not only for their beauty and technical prowess but also for the cultural significance of Mount Fuji in Japan. Hokusai's innovative use of the then-new Prussian blue pigment helped to popularize his prints during his lifetime and influenced not only Japanese art but also Western artists like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.
Over the last 5 decades, more than 90 of Stockholm's 100 metro stations have been decorated with mosaics or paintings by hundreds of artists. The metro system is sometimes called “the world’s longest art gallery.”
#introduction
I've been using Mastodon exclusively for about a week now since I've deleted elon from my life. I like this platform and the people here much more.
I'd like to round out my feed more to include more #art#nature#space and general geekiness.
I'm also looking to connect with people as friends, as I'm lgbtq and live in a rural are, which makes for few social opportunities 😂😊
More impermanent art on fallen leaves. Here, a sycamore. It’s a bit like writing a letter then burning it. There’s something very healing in drawing on a leaf, with certain intentions and feelings in mind, and then letting it go. Under the tree that it fell from, then into the river that keeps it alive. A very meaningful little ritual I can’t recommend enough. 💚
I just love how modern, timeless, fun, and stylish this Minoan vase is.
Minoan pottery is just gorgeous.
The whole design, artwork, proportions and shapes not only hold up, they still look avant garde, still looks highest quality.
Been seeing "post your most popular art of this year" going around, so here's mine of Xenia the Linux fox, which did so well on Mastodon it got an amount of numbers I didn't know was possible there
I'm tired of sitting through #science talks where all plots are properly credited but artist's impressions and photographs aren't.
As a researcher and astrophotographer who works with super talented artists, this attitude really bothers me.
You study galaxies at the dawn of time. You look for biomarkers in the atmospheres of distant planets. You can most definitely find who made that cool image you just pasted in your slides.
Today, we're beginning to federate a selection of publishers based in Germany and the U.K. We've also introduced @FlipboardDE, a new profile for the Mastodon community in Germany. In the first test, we are partnering with 21 publishers to federate their profiles and Magazines. Follow the profile to see all the stories they are posting on Flipboard, or topically curated Magazines to get coverage on specific areas of interest. Here's a blogpost that explains more.
Make 2024 the year that we stop ceding cultural ground to fascists.
The fash love attaching themselves to cultural and artistic movements and subcultures with the express intention of claiming everything and everyone within those subcultures as their own.
The corollary of this is that we have to support anti-fascists within subcultures that are subject to this.
No, not everyone interested in medieval history is a "deus vult" chanting neo-monarchist who has wet dreams about a new crusade against a Muslim infidel.
Nor is every Crusader Kings or Divinity player out using the Steam forums as a recruiting platform for the alt-right.
Not every neo-pagan is also a neo-Nazi, nor every satanist, heathen, or Asaturar - hell, the Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið, which should hold some sway in this, repeatedly speaks out against racism within heathenry, in the face of a long and organised project of entryism by the international far right.
Nor is every black metal fan or musician a racist, homophobe or bigot.
And not everyone with either a scholarly or practical interest in ancient Greek philosophy is a mammoth-hunting sexist, crying "men's rights" at the sight of a woman with a voice.
The same goes for enthusiasts of romantic landscape painting, classical sculpture, European architecture, fantasy fiction, goth, furry culture, and LARP.
Fascists specifically want to lay claim to a certain kind of cachet, coolness, cultural validity, rebellion, or edginess.
This list - which could be far longer - comes from my own experience fighting them out of spaces I enjoy being in or am adjacent to.
But more specifically, fascists want everything. Today it's someone's niche tabletop gaming hobby or music subculture, but the end game is that they wish to be the cultural arbiters of what is acceptable, what is decadent, and what art and culture mean.
Fascist works and movements exist within the fields I've named, but their broader project is to devour culture and shit the remnants back out as a bland narrative of white supremacism, stripped of context, diversity, history and deeper meaning.
Do not go along with this.
Do not go along with them.
Support anti-fascists within fields and subcultures subject to far-right entryism, appropriation or activity.
By agreeing to let fascists lay claim to that weird special interest group over there, by dismissing the people in that subculture who're actively fighting them off as apologists, cat's paws or useful idiots, we accept the fascist narrative that they - and only they - get to own and define culture.
Do not take their fucking word for it when they say something belongs to them.
They think the world belongs to them, and they're wrong about that, too.