shiftythrifting
16 hours ago

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I finally found them... The lead Garfield cups! Did not buy them because as tempting as it was, getting lead poisoning for the bit didn't seem like the best idea. Also found a very cute margarita glass and a whole bunch of TNG collectable plates. And finally the crown jewel, my fish box! Went in looking for a trinket box and he is everything I dreamed of im obsessed

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Miguel Covarrubias’s illustration for an article titled “Our changing tastes … in 1938,″ from the May 15, 1938, edition of American Vogue. The celebrities of the moment are, from left, Benny Goodman, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Robert Taylor, Lily Pons, Dali, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Walt Disney, Dorothy Thompson, and Shirley Temple.

Photo: Posterazzi

bogleech
2 weeks ago

See when I call cruel fucked up evil people subhuman animals like they always call other people, I know it’s literally not true and they are people just like me because I’m not a dumbass but am in fact using mean words to express how much I hate them, see, and if Matt Walsh were dangling by one hand over a pool of acid begging for help I’d say “ewww what’s this THING who left their garbage like this?!” and crush his fingers off with a cinderblock :)

It comes from a well meaning place but I just hate this suggestion that the mere insults in our vocabulary are going to trick us into forgetting what a person is.

I have called people sacks of shit for years and years but not once have I ever begun to mistakenly think they are inanimate bags of feces. It is a figure of speech to emphasize symbolically that their behavior is symbolically comparable to the unpleasantness of a bag of feces. Just like calling a nazi a “monster” is a way of saying that this human person’s character is as terrible as some kind of scary dracula man or a nefarious spookenstein perhaps. If I call the same nazi a rabid animal it’s shorthand for the fact that what they’ve chosen to do with their humanity is as desirable to the rest of humanity as a creature so diseased we will both be better off the sooner it can become a corpse. I hope this clears it up!!!

Kiriska: So @anniestoll recently had an informal Twitter poll that I thought was very insightful.

The “how much should I bring of an item” question is oft-asked by Alley newcomers and I always say “better to sell out than be stuck with stock forever.” If seasoned artists typically sell fewer than 25 of their tested and known best-selling print, you probably don’t need to print that many on your first run of anything.

Artist Alley Tips: The Photography Stand Primer

jojostory
3 weeks ago

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You’ve tried grids, you’ve tried PVC. Heck, there was a time when you were laying your wares flat on the table! But you’re older and wiser, and you’re looking to up your table display game. Look no further than photography stands, also called photography backdrops!

Photography stands, normally used as a way to drape fabric to create backdrops for photo shoots, are a great addition to your table display for a number of reasons: they can display stuff over your head, opening up tons of table surface space, and are easy to set up, tear down, and transport. Here’s a little mini-guide on how I use them in the artist alley!

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