killer-pineapples:

kittendesu:

the-cell-block-tango:

astronomyproblems:

Idk if this counts as a peeve more of an art-astronomy pet peeve

but when people draw the cresent moon and where the dark, shaddowed part of the moon is they put in stars

like studdenly that part of the moon is invisible instead of just being in the shadow

like wtf

wait no peOPLE ACTUALLY DO THIS???

 really stupid question though but like, aren’t there stars in front of the moon??? like??? space isn’t two dimensional so someone putting a couple stars in front of the shadow wouldn’t necessarily be wrong?? because aren’t there stars all around in space and?????? im just going to be confused forever frick uvu; 

hun if there was a star infront of the moon we’d be fucking dead

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gabcollab:

The picture scanned a bit warped because I did this with watercolor, and the paper rippled.  Yay.  Also:  Ink (Sharpie pen) and acrylic paint (eyeball).

gabcollab:

http://namakostudios.tumblr.com

(Missed doing these for awhile!  I love gabcollab!)

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reblogging for you, piroFriend!  yay!

gabcollab:

Hi Gab Collab! 

Myself and a few of my fellow Illustration degree students here in the UK found your blog and loved it, and we borrowed a few blobs for an art lesson we went and taught to some 14/15 year olds in a high school in Portsmouth, UK. 

The pupils loved creating characters out of what they saw in the blobs and I thought you might like to see what they came up with, so here is a montage of all of their work. They said it was one of their favourite workshops so far, so my fellow Uni students and myself would just like to say thanks for coming up with such a great interactive project!

p.s Sorry they are photographs, we couldn’t scan the images as the pupils wanted to keep their blobs! Hope that’s ok!

ED NOTE: This is amazing and it completely made my week. I used to be a teacher (and my students included 14-15 year olds), and this project makes me miss that interaction with my students. I am just thrilled that you brought Gab Collab into a classroom and that students enjoyed it! Thanks so much, Lauren!  -Gabrielle

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is this not wonderful?  we love gabcollab!  you should go there right now to see what is going on with it!  and then you should try to participate!  it is nothing but good times and artistic challenges!  yay!

go check out gabcollab, and try a blob of your own!  it is an awesome project on tumblr!  yay!

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gabcollab:

done on photoshop

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well done!

go see this tumblr site!  there are blobs for you to draw on and play with!

fuckyeahneedlefelting:

Mean - Pride and Predjuice

www.mycozyclassics.com

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it is a truth universally acknowledged that a lady in possession of needlefelting equipment must needlefelt!

yay!

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wearethe99percent:

I’m not asking for a handout or for sympathy. But I am trying to make aware the outrageous interest rates on student loans.

gabcollab:

Thumbsucker

ifearmebrain.tumblr.com

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human persons, go to gabcollab and look!  it is such a cool project!  you can join in!  yay!

gabcollab:

“The Amorphous Clawed Beast” (Sharpie and Prismacolor pencil)

O cry me a river

cry me a stream

the amorphous clawed beast

doesn’t know what he means

but something is sad

something is weeping

both up on the land

and immersed here sleeping.

by NamakoStudios.tumblr.com

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here you are, piroFriend!

everyone should go check out the gabcollab on tumblr!  gabbyFriend makes an amazing blob every week, and posts it for other artists to draw or paint or whatever they like!  you can too!  go look!

gabcollab:

“Thumbelina Washes Her Hair”

(Prismacolor pencil on paper with The Blob of the Week)

My rule was only the pencils that happened to be in my top desk drawer could be used.  I was surprised at how many pencils have found their way into my top desk drawer.

namakostudios.tumblr.com

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reblogging both for our piroFriend, and also because everyone should go to the gabcollab tumblr and try out this cool art project!  yay!

wearethe99percent:

What #Occupy wants is to disconnect Wallstreet from Congress - and allow THE PEOPLE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, to have their voice heard and their decisions made APPROPRIATELY in congress without their opinions and beliefs being talked over BY the top 1%.

If 70% of the American People want to have Healthcare… Then they should be properly represented by Congress, properly debated, and properly be given healthcare because - as the American Constitution and BIll of Rights states - if a majority of the public vote for something, then that vote is passed.

But almost all of our decisions have been ill-represented and ignored by congress, who are representing the 1% of the population (CEOs), not OUR demands.

If you would rather your decisions be made by incredibly rich people who you think have your best interests in mind, feel free to go back to 1760 when good King George was in power over the united states.

Me? I’d rather kick out the Wall Street influence and live in a country my founding fathers envisioned. Leave it up to the public whether or not we have government handouts. Not a few CEOs.

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democracy and capitalism do not coexist well.  this is because democracy is a concept based in equality, equal value.  this is not to say democracy has been executed perfectly in the past, or even now, where so many human persons are disenfranchised for bullshit reasons, but nonetheless, american democracy is based in the idea that all human persons are equal and therefore are entitled to a voice in their government.

capitalism is a concept, just as democracy is.  they both are socio-political theories, one driven by economics and money, the other driven by human persons.  democracy does not need capitalism to thrive, and capitalism does not need democracy to thrive.  somehow, probably in the 1950s, these two ideas became entangled in your human heads somehow, in opposition to something else you confused, which is to say communism and totalitarianism.  like capitalism and democracy, communism and totalitarianism do not need each other to thrive or exist.  in fact, capitalism has much more in common with totalitarianism, and democracy has much more in common with communism.

the thing is, it is good to have a balance, so it would be nice to make certain ideas coexist!  democracy values persons, capitalism values money.  capitalism values money over humanity.  capitalism sees human persons as assets, consumers, collateral.  if you take a system like that, and temper it with true democracy, well, you might have something tolerable.

unfortunately, that is not what you american human persons have right now.

this tumblr blog is extraordinary, and we salute the human person pictured above, who demands DEMOCRACY.  far too many of you are rushing to defend capitalism, which, frankly, is indefensible.  look at what it has done to you, to us, to our planet.  look at what it is doing right the hell now as we speak!  not good!  swim away!  swim away!

Occupy Everywhere!

today we picked up on a very sad theme, in which some persons, of varying ages, express shame and sadness that they wish to be artists.

they are not actually ashamed, we think.  they are made to feel shame, because of the great lie, that what art does is not “practical” or “useful”.  yet we have observed human persons spend a lot more time in contact with art, every single day, than they ever spend in contact with, say, some amAZEballs financial machination designed to snick trillions of dollars via some sort of hedge/vine/shrub fund.  music alone is an expression of this.

we are endlessly amazed by human artistic expression, and how the arts make everyone, even non-artists, think better!  scientists, philosophers, engineers, designers, architects, all of those people who could come up with the Next Big Thing, perhaps a solution to your energy crisis, or for clean air and water, or for any number of things— without ART, those thoughts would never be had.

your human person Steve Jobs died, and everyone said what a great visionary!  he would have never been that without art.  and he knew it.  he honored it.  he saw the connection between himself, and John Lennon, and Pablo Picasso, and Jim Henson.  he knew this truth, that art and imagination creates all breakthroughs, in every sphere.

even in business.  because a true artist would see at once, the system you human persons call “capitalism” is unsustainable and needs to be fixed, and prettied up a bit too!

Occupy Everywhere!

(Source: wearethe99percent)

if you have not yet read this tumblr blog, you should check it out!  it is spectacular.

today a few human persons reminded american human persons that relative to the problems and poverty of the rest of the world, america is still lucky and still consumes way too much, and this is true.  it doesn’t fix the problem with america, but it is true, and something to consider, and a problem that also needs to be fixed.

may we Swimmies humbly suggest all human persons start with respecting the planet you (and we!) live upon, and doing something together to fix that?  that will help with the starvation, and loss of coastal regions, and high water rising, and famine, and warfare over resources that is already happening.  it will help you with long term food futures, and immigration, and even one of your biggest problems you don’t want to discuss, which is your overpopulation problem.  for the more secure human persons feel, the less children they feel the need to have!

we also noted a few “pull yourselves together” and “you did this to yourselves” statements today.  we consider the entire Occupy movement a pulling together, so you can check that off the list!  but as for the “you did this to yourselves”— hmmm.  we are curious about that.

did you human persons in accidents do those to yourselves?  or the ones with cancer, or born with spinal bifida or schizophrenia or depression?  did you do that?  see, we fish cannot do those things to ourselves, but maybe you mammals are different— we’re not sure.

also, did you do that thing with interest rates to yourselves, or deregulating your banks, or pillaging and mismanaging pension funds, or creating the “credit score”, or the housing bubble?  we think that isn’t accurate:  we think that was this “1%” who did that.  but the other question we have is this:  if anyone out there thinks they are going to get through life without ever once making a mistake or a bad decision, first, you are high and on crack.  second, do you think only the 99% should pay for those bad mistakes, and the 1% should be rewarded for them?

the denials are just a coping strategy.  that is what the blobfish says.  the words “personal responsibility” are also a coping strategy, used to pretend a kind of superiority, when in fact if something bad happens to you and you didn’t do it, you can only take responsiblity for how you react, and if you react by occupying wall street?  that’s a good first step!

yay!

(#occupyOceans!)

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