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spirecounttormentor · 1 month

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Horde SPIRE Informs !!!

Greetings To All Appreciators Of The Dark Arts That Ritualize The Deep Diabolical Sense Under The Dark Infernal Plane !

Revered To The Extreme Of Contemplated Hymns Composed For The Eternal Obscure Black Metal For Practices Designed For The Mysterious Dominions Of Darkness Works Of Evil For Profane Beings Philosophizing In Dark Rites Under The Occult Unveil ...

About this !

I Come To Talk To You About This Concept.

The Horde Of Black Metal SPIRE

Created In 2008, Entered Into Activity In 2013

Thus Starting His Work With Extreme Music.

With This, The Materials Were Prepared In Order To Conclude In Accordance With Its Development.

So, To Make The Materials Official, Personal Artwork Was Created To Complete The Work [ Making Them Official ]. So, As The Creator Of This Horde And The Work Carried Out By It, I Designed The First Logo For The Horde With The Title - SPIRE -

Just As It Was Just Thought Of - SPIRE - In A Simple Way, With Its Meaning Seen In This Way As

{ Climate Modification } For The Atmospheric Sense Felt Through Climate, This Phenomenon Was Described Through

Of Sense Itself Under The Plane When The Mysterious Ligation Occurs !

- When The Atmospheric Climate Arrives, It Mixes With The Essential Under The Sense - ❄️

With That I Made This Drawing This Way.

Used In Horda's First Work, A Rehearsal DEMO Entitled (SPIRE - Necros) Recorded In 2014 Was The First Display Of This Horde's Logo In An Official Way.

So I Recorded Another DEMO With The Title Of (SPIRE - Necros || Unholy Black Metal) In 2015 With The Same Design So The Title Was Already Ready But It was Still A Simple Design!

So I Needed To Prepare Other Material For The Continuation Of The Horde. As Is Normal, I Needed To Change The Form Of The Title Because It Was Very Simple As It Was Just A Hand Drawn Drawing With A Pen !

About This Art I Say That At The Moment I Drew It It Came Out The Same Way It Was Designed !

So I Transferred The Same To My Shirt And Painted It With Ink Manually And Then I Took A Picture Of It And Prepared The Artwork For The Title In The Same Way I Transferred It To Horde's First Album Which Was Recorded In The Year 2017 ( SPIRE - Black Eyes Of The Necromancer) All This Done Manually By Me !

So The Horde Continuous With The Same Logo [ For A Better Resolution I Tell You That The Difference Is That This Simple Drawing Was Made And Painted By Hand And Is Not An Art With A Digital Form ] So For Its Presentation, Making The Work Of The Horde Official As It Is Represented By Your Creator As Well As Brand In Your Materials. During The Years That The Horde Progressed, More Materials Were Recorded And Were Them Presented In The Same Way With The Same Design [ So In A Personal Way ] I Do Not Commit To The Desires Of People Who Are Really Out Of Context, Not Understanding The Subject And Overlapping It.

So That It Is Personal Or For An Improved Presentation I Say That It Is And The Way In Which I Presented Them To You, Maybe It Will Improve The Progress That Develops And That Maybe I Will Redesign It In An Improved Way But The Design Will Remain The Same For These Already Recorded Materials .

So For Your Improvement I Tell You That It Will Be Something Later To Redraw It On The Cover Of The Works Of The Horde SPIRE { But The form will Remain The Same }

So Become Aware Of Your Best Resolution !

( I'm Sorry !!! )

Logo Used During The Years 2014 Until 2024

So When Going Thought These Materials I Decided To Prepare Another Drawing As It Was Already In My Thoughts For The Horde In Its Future Progress I Made Another Different Drawing For The Horde But Title Remains The Same - SPIRE - But The Format Of The Drawing Is Different This Time For A New Material Designed For Horde !

Firsthand I Present It To Those Of You Who Got To Know The SPIRE Horde During These Past Years !!!

The New Horde Logo Designed By Me The Creator Of The Horde.

For His Next Works Necromanticizing The Dark Scene Under The Dark Legacy!

The Impure Dark Art of Evil !!!

SPIRE

Necromantic Black Metal

Brazil - PE

2024

#appleradio #cogumelo records #century media records #universalmusic1 #applemusic #youtube #homer radio

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texasobserver · 4 months

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“The Long Road to a Juneteenth Museum” by James Rusell, from the January/February 2024 issue of Texas Observer Magazine:

(Museum renderings courtesy BIG)

When Fort Worth activist Opal Lee was invited in 2021 to stand alongside President Joe Biden as he signed the bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday, “I could’ve done a holy dance,” the 97-year-old told the Texas Observer recently. “But the kids said they didn’t want me twerking.”

Dancing—and twerking—aside, Lee is clearly used to ambitious projects. She’s often referred to as the grandmother of Juneteenth, mostly because of her 1,400-mile walk, Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., September 2016 to January 2017, seeking recognition for the day that has come to represent freedom for American Blacks. Although the Emancipation Proclamation took effect in 1863, slaves couldn’t be freed where the countryside was still under Confederate control. That ended in Texas on June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston and brought the news.

The latest project of Lee and her allies, to create a museum in Fort Worth honoring Juneteenth, is turning out to be equally ambitious. What began as a modest collection in a small house in the neighborhood where Lee grew up has become a key part of an effort to revitalize Fort Worth’s Historic Southside neighborhood. The most recent and much grander incarnation of the museum is due to open in 2025.

Along the way, the honors paid to Lee—a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, a painting of Lee for the National Portrait Gallery, and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Opal’s Walk for Freedom (2022)—have helped bring attention to that neighborhood, just as they did to the Juneteenth campaign. But tragedy and poverty have held hands there for a long time, and revitalization efforts sometimes find tough sledding.

Lee’s roots run deep into the soil of the Southside and into personal memories of another June 19. On that day in 1939, a mob of racists—about 500 people, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram—raided the house there that Lee, her parents, and two brothers, had recently moved into. The family promptly moved out.

A portrait of Opal Lee from the National Portrait Gallery (Courtesy of Talley Dunn Gallery)

The raid was traumatic. Lee told the Star-Telegram in 2003 that afterward her family was “homeless and then living in houses so ramshackle they were impossible to keep clean.” The experience led her to become first an advocate for affordable housing and later an activist regarding homelessness, hunger, and Juneteenth.

Eighty years after the raid, another violent incident a few blocks away would inspire a new generation of Southside activists.

Lee, a retired elementary school teacher and counselor in the Fort Worth school district, also spearheaded the rebuilding of the Metroplex Food Bank (now the Community Food Bank), founded the urban Opal’s Farm, and served on numerous local boards, including the Tarrant Black Historical and Genealogical Society.

Through all that time, she worked to draw attention to Juneteenth. “She was always teaching about Juneteenth” in middle school, said Sedrick Huckaby, the Fort Worth artist who painted Lee for the National Portrait Gallery. “She was always teaching about our heritage and about taking pride in who you are.” Allies like the late Rev. Dr. Ron Myers, a Mississippi doctor and minister, lobbied legislatures across the country and in 1997 helped pass a congressional joint resolution recognizing the holiday. Lee worked on building local support.

In 2014, on the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, she asked friends and family to donate to a celebration of that, in lieu of buying presents on her birthday. A story in Fort Worth Weekly called her “part grandma, part General Patton” in leading the effort. Two years later, she was putting on her walking shoes for her own personal march on Washington. “If a lady in tennis shoes walked to Washington, D.C, maybe people would pay attention,” she said in her deep, raspy voice, recalling her motivations for the trek. It took another four years after her walk, but the national holiday happened.

Juneteenth has been celebrated by Black Americans for more than 100 years, including in Fort Worth. Texas was the first to designate it a state holiday, in 1980. Since 2020, 26 states, propelled by the murders of Black citizens George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police, have followed Texas’ lead, according to the Pew Research Center.

In Fort Worth, Lee and volunteer Don Williams had been working for years to gather artifacts related to local Black history and Juneteenth, including paintings by local Black artist Manet Harrison Fowler, scrapbooks chronicling local Juneteenth celebrations, and memorabilia from the locally filmed movie Miss Juneteenth. Lee inherited a house from her late husband Dale, a retired school district principal, and turned it into the first version of the Juneteenth museum. It housed the growing collection and hosted multiple Juneteenth events and, at one point, computer classes.

While the collection grew, the building, run by volunteers, was deteriorating. Like most public places, it closed in 2020 as COVID-19 spread. After the pandemic, it did not reopen, and the collection was moved out. Then early on the morning of January 11, 2023, it caught on fire. The remains were demolished to make way for the new museum.

Around 2019, Lee, granddaughter Dione Sims, and former Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce executive Jarred Howard had started talking about the possibility of a new Juneteenth Museum. They began buying land around the site of the old house. Howard long had a vision to help his old stomping grounds and wanted to both commemorate the holiday and spur economic development. Well acquainted with developers and architects from his Chamber days, he solicited requests for proposals for a building that could meet those goals. First, local architect Paul Dennehy designed a five-story building with a gallery, event space, and residences. In early 2020 it was pitched to neighborhood association leaders. Too tall, they said, and out of step with the neighborhood. In 2021, local architects Bennett Partners produced a plan for a playful mixed-use campus, estimated to cost about $30 million to build.

In 2022, a new plan, bigger in scope than Lee could have imagined two decades ago, was unveiled. The current proposal is for a 5-acre complex housing a National Juneteenth Museum, with a theater, restaurant, art galleries, and a “business incubator” space to spur Southside entrepreneurship, designed by the internationally renowned architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). The price tag is an estimated $70 million. So far, the nonprofit National Juneteenth Museum, formed in 2020, has raised about $30 million of that, mostly from major donors and foundations, Lee said.

Douglass Alligood, a partner at BIG and the chief architect of the currently planned museum, got an earful during his field work on the project, including from Lee’s friends and supporters. In multiple visits, he met with Lee as well as neighborhood leaders. The conclusion: The museum had to represent the community and not be divorced from it.

“We were inspired by the neighborhood typology—the homes that feature historic gabled silhouettes and protruding porches, also known in context as a ‘shotgun’ house,” he said. “Neighborhood groups and community members found that, together, the BIG and KAI Enterprises [the local architecture firm] design teams demonstrate a deep understanding of the Juneteenth story and commitment to work with the local community to celebrate the holiday’s history and local culture of the Historic Southside.”

Eleven rectangular glass-clad building segments, with peaks and valleys of varying heights, will create a star-shaped courtyard in the middle. “The ‘new star,’ the nova star represents a new chapter for the African-Americans looking ahead towards a more just future,” Alligood said.

Fine, locals said, but what people there really need is a grocery store.

It was a cold morning in early October, and Patrice Jones needed help unloading herbs. She was in the courtyard of Connex, a new three-story business and retail complex about two blocks from the planned site of the museum. Jones and a group of volunteers, mostly in their 20s and 30s, from Southside Community Gardens, are planting their 79th and 80th backyard vegetable gardens in the neighborhood, she said proudly. It’s pick-up day for those who’ve already established gardens.

The initiative is part of the larger By Any Means 104 effort, named for the 76104 zip code, and co-founded by Jones in 2020. The group’s focus on local issues includes addressing the lack of fresh food in the area instead of waiting for a grocery store. Jones, a feisty advocate and former claims adjuster, has run it full time since 2021. If the city can’t get them a grocery store, she said, they’ll teach residents to grow their own food.

The Juneteenth Museum is important, Jones said, between handing out herbs and greeting volunteers. But in her circles, she said, people also ask, “Can we get a health clinic? Can we get a pharmacy?” And of course, “Can we get a grocery store?”

According to a 2018 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center report, the 76104 zip code has the lowest life expectancy rate in Texas and a high maternal mortality rate. It’s also a victim of what Jones calls “food apartheid,” a term she prefers to “food desert,” an indicator of an area with little access to fresh foods. Desert implies it’s natural; apartheid, she said, is an intentional act. She blames city government and its white-dominated culture.

But hunger is not a sufficient reason for a grocery chain to decide where to open a store, even if it could be part of a historical complex.

Grocery store owners “use different metrics,” including population density, said Stacy Marshall, president of Southeast Fort Worth, Inc., an economic development group. “We can’t yet make a compelling case.” The area needs more housing, he said. “Build density—rooftops—and grocery stores come.”

Marshall is a force in bringing new development to the southeast part of the city, a large historically and ethnically diverse area that includes the Historic Southside.

Since he took the job a decade ago, “development has gone gangbusters,” he said. But development has also brought gentrification: “It’s so expensive to purchase dirt here and get a single-family home,” he said. One Dallas real estate firm put together a $70 million deal for a mixed-use development in the area, but it has stalled.

The Juneteenth museum site is within the Evans-Rosedale urban village, a city designation focused on bringing investment to the area. It’s seeing an uptick in interest from developers, but nowhere near what’s been promised by local officials.

“There have been attempts in the past. There’s the Evans Avenue Plaza, but most people don’t know about it,” said Bob Ray Sanders, communications director for the Fort Worth Black Chamber of Commerce. The plaza, also part of the Evans-Rosedale village, is meant to be a community gathering space and includes a new library. About a mile away is the Hazel Harvey Peace Center for Neighborhoods, which houses numerous city offices.

Many of the neighborhood’s nagging problems date to the mid-20th century, when integration meant, ironically, the loss of many black-owned businesses, while highway construction—as it did in many American cities—cut off Fort Worth’s Black community from downtown and wealthier neighborhoods. “By doing that, people on the Westside [turned] a blind eye to people on the Eastside,” Sanders said.

Housing construction seems to be picking up, mostly on an infill basis. But while developers are buying homes, Marshall said, they are mostly sitting on them and waiting until they can get higher prices.

Longtime assistant city manager Fernando Costa said development work in historic urban districts presents more challenges than creating new neighborhoods from pastureland. Beyond the physical complications of older infrastructure, historic preservation concerns and, often, environmental problems left over from earlier development, Costa said, such projects “require getting existing neighborhood involvement.”

There’s also the issue of crime. According to the Fort Worth Police Department, nearly 560 crimes were reported in the 76104 zip code between mid-May and late November 2023. Assault, larceny, drug and alcohol violations, and vehicle break-ins made up more than three-quarters of the reports. That’s compared to 165 in the same time period in the mostly-white, wealthy 76109 zip code in West Fort Worth.

In the early morning of October 12, 2019, white police officer Aaron Dean, responding to a welfare check at the house, killed 28-year Black woman Atatiana Jefferson, who was playing video games with her nephew. Dean was later found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Jefferson’s murder lit a fire under a younger generation of activists who aren’t waiting for change, such as Jones, who also worked to get police accountability in response to the murder, and Angela Mack, whose doctoral thesis is about Jefferson and the neighborhood.

“I’m a good, ol’ fashioned Funkytown Black nerd,” said Mack, an instructor in the comparative race and ethnic studies department at Texas Christian University, where she received her doctorate in English rhetoric.

After Jefferson’s murder, Mack changed her thesis topic to address that tragedy. She saw that, between her mother and the national media, two different stories were being told.

“When we’re thinking about the Southside, we think about Fairmount and the Medical District in terms of revitalization. But when you cross the highway, you’re in an area with crime and poverty,” she said, drinking a latte at Black Coffee, one of the few coffee shops in the area. “When people [look] at the community, people are looking at what’s not here. It’s a deficit model of communication instead of seeing the good that’s here.

“I’m not anti-development,” she said, but economic development shouldn’t be the museum’s purpose.

“When you’re building something, it should not be [a question of] how many people we employ, but how does it help define the Southside? The development will come. I’m concerned about who controls the narrative,” she said. “The main focus should be how does this speak about our history and heritage.”

Jones also worries that history will be lost. She’s afraid that rising property values will push out poor people.

Sims has heard those concerns before. Property taxes go up with any new development, she said. And everyone’s going to complain, even if they want change.

When the museum opens in 2025, Lee just wants to make sure she’s there to see it.

“I’m looking forward to it,” she said. She’d be 99. “I hope I’m still here.”

#black history #Black History Month #Texas #texas history #fort worth #north texas #juneteenth #museum #museums

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shatterthefragments · 5 months

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✨ End of Year Questions ✨

Tagged by @ongreenergrasses 💖

I also didn’t think I created much this year, and. To be completely honest, I didn’t really make much new art, and what I did I didn’t really post here. Most of what I’ve done this year is really continue writing snippets of lyrics/verses/poetry in my notes. Hoping to make more time for a lot of things this year!

What is the favourite thing you created?

A sailboat reduction print (lino style but on a literal disposable plate)

Which work are you most proud of?

Honestly, either that same sailboat print or some of the poetry/lyric snippets I’ve written this year. Or the leather medicine pouch (also created for my class final project)

Is there anything you’re proud that you achieved this year?

I’m proud that I created anything at all outside of class requirements (I took one art centred course at the beginning of the year, which my sailboat print was created in)

Did you explore anything new this year?

Not so much for creating, but I did get stickers made of some of my previous work to sell at fairs and whatnot.

Wait no the leather medicine pouch - I haven’t done much leatherwork yet though I really want to create super long lasting functional pieces and textiles is very new to me and is a way of connecting to my grandmothers’ past. And I also joined a sewing/quilting club at school (which doesn’t seem to be running this year but I have no time anyway this semester so that’s fine) (I have not finished the sewing supply bag project we started)

Which work gave you the most difficulty?

Anything finished haha. I am still striving to fully finish and edit and refine some of my lyrics into songs (eventually to try to record and produce with whatever free and/or cheap software I can find).

Also some of the more unusual custom cake requests at work were difficult to do but they worked out.

And textiles can be. Frustrating.

What was your biggest creative challenge this year?

Finding time to create. I definitely took this as a year to go and do things that I. Had to go to. And while I probably could’ve brought a mini sketchbook with me, I didn’t usually.

Which work brought you the most joy?

A birthday card I did for a friend. It’s a pen sketch of their favourite beach (at least the view I got when I took a quick visit and picture of it)

Which of your works do you think people should check out?

…from 2023 nothing is posted unless you’re on my personal instagram or something. (Unless I did post my year of the water rabbit watercolour paintings? In which case - those.)

Otherwise my Creating Awl Together story/series (once I make time to create more for it 😅)

Do you have creative plans for the new year? Is there anything exciting that you’re working on?

Oh always 🥺💖✨

I accidentally made a new years resolution to record one of the songs I’ve written,, but also I want it to be. Better than the literal middle school vent lyrics I’ve written.. so we are. Trying to write some new stuff and upgrade to… mid twenties vent lyrics… (and some like!?! Joyful lyrics too?!?!) (I’m actually excited and terrified and don’t really play any instruments right now and what I played on flute isn’t really necessarily the vibe for what’s in my head?? But it could have a place so I’ll probably play again and if need be I could probably rent a tenor sax for a day or so.) so. Next up is learning (or throwing together) a bit of music production (I am currently gathering royalty free free samples from anywhere I find them more or less)

I really want to draw a lot more this year!!

And paint more again!!

And of some of these drawings I want to transfer them to be lino cut or dry point and do them as prints!!!

I have several quilts I want to make!! I’m going to start really small though to. Learn how to sew them haha 😅 But I hope my first quilt is a lovely sea turtle themed quilt for one of my best friends’ cat. Or a lap quilt for mum. I. Realistically I don’t think I’ll get to this before the end of the year.

I want to paint more ceramic pieces at the paint your own ceramics place (I have. Several pieces that I just need to finish painting)

More cards that I drew on~ I have a bit more energy than last year despite everything it seems right now so I am hoping I can continue to draw on cards for my friends 💖

This shall be the year I finish my dogs out doodle (barefoot ship life!!!)

Lastly, any words of wisdom or advice to share?

To myself: just try. Just try. Just do. It can be whatever. Just create something. Just create anything. Joy, catharsis, one single line. Anything you can.

Given how late I filled this out I’m not tagging anyone 😬

#tag games #tag game #✨ creations ✨#long post #you know what? yeah! I am excited for this year!

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girlcatullus · 5 months

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my main 2024 resolution is: do it for the weird shit. by weird shit i mean exploring the world on my own entrenched in a magical, not at all oppressing loneliness... weird shit! abandoned places! fields! modern ruins! i want this to be my drive. what i mean by this: - not smoking anymore: this is definitely for the weird shit. being completely sober is the most weird fucked up thing i've ever been on during my adult years. beats smoking weed. beats alcohol by a long shot. now i need to get my amount of cigarettes smoked back to zero (which won't be that hard, since i picked it up again a month and a half ago and i smoke less than a third of what i used to smoke). i am going to be that kind of weird person. unsettlingly abstaining... plus i feel heaps better when i don't smoke + more productive + more in tune with my emotions - getting my driver's licence: so i can DRIVE to the weird shit. that's it. also being able to drive my friends if they come to my graduation - getting a creative, hands-on hobby: for the weird shit obviously. creating weird shit. like collage making painting drawing doing it more often - make some money: to fund my weird shit-driven interests. duh. also to see new places and come across some weird shit. - making my ex finally my ex: stop texting him and thinking about him because it takes time and emotional energy away from weird shit. this is a ramble and not even a comprehensive list of what i want to achieve in 2024. i mean there's also graduate and get into my uni's phd program... which i could argue... if i get some money i can invest it in... you guessed it... weird shit pursuit. either way man. woman. creature. it's going to be a year of abstaining. positively i mean. positive abstinence. i know this sounds crazy but what can you do. :]

#rant #2024

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velvetenergyofficial · 1 year

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Digital Art Lovers.

Who else can agree that digital art is something really exciting? The use of an iPad for creating digital art has become increasingly popular in recent years, and for good reason. The iPad offers a range of powerful tools and applications that allow artists to create and manipulate their art in ways that were once only possible with traditional mediums. The ability to work on a high-resolution screen with a stylus that can replicate the sensation of drawing or painting on paper or canvas has opened up a whole new world of possibilities for digital artists.

One of the advantages of using an iPad for digital art is its portability. Artists can take their iPad with them wherever they go, allowing them to create art on the go, whether it be on a train, at a coffee shop, or in a park. Additionally, the iPad provides access to a variety of art applications that allow artists to experiment with different techniques, brushes, and styles.

Furthermore, the iPad has made digital art more accessible to a wider audience. With the cost of traditional art supplies often being a barrier for many aspiring artists, the relatively low cost of an iPad and its accompanying applications has made it easier for people to experiment with digital art without breaking the bank.

Overall, the use of an iPad for digital art has opened up new creative possibilities and has made it easier for artists to experiment with different techniques and styles. It's an exciting time to be a digital artist!

I'm more of a graphic designer than a digital artist at the moment, but I intend on getting better! I did love creating this though.

What are your thoughts????

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vanwartime · 1 year

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What is perhaps the most anticipated new book on Canadian art in recent memory, this new volume on E.J. Hughes’ wartime body of work is an astounding look at an exceptional collection. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book for the past few years, as Robert Amos has gradually released a series of finely crafted books on one of British Columbia’s, or I should say Canada’s most famous artists. The titles include E. J. Hughes Paints British Columbia, E. J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island, The E. J. Hughes Book of Boats, and now, E. J. Hughes: Canadian War Artist. Actually, the book was released in the fall of 2022, and I really should have posted a review before Christmas, but I have made it my New Years resolution to make amends.

In early 1939, just as the young artist was emerging from the Great Depression, along with Orville Fisher and Paul Goranson, Hughes helped to produce the remarkable 12 panel mural for the Golden Gate International Exhibition in San Francisco. This exhibition was an extravagant event (an entire island was created in San Francisco Bay for the occasion) which featured the high ideals of combining fine art, architecture, and global culture for the betterment of humanity, much like the Arts & Crafts movement had sought to do decades earlier. Alas, the outbreak of war shattered many of those ambitions, and the artist Hughes quickly changed course and enlisted in the Canadian Army on August 30, 1939.

His two colleagues Fisher and Goranson would ultimately follow him into military service, as would another young Vancouver artist, Jack Shadbolt. Frankly, each one of these artists deserves a wartime exposition of their artwork, but for now, we have this volume to initiate the study of this tumultuous time.

The book showcases 70 paintings, drawings, and sketches from the Canadian War Museum, all prizes of the collection but works that are rarely seen in one place. E. J. Hughes created these during the artist’s war service in Ottawa, England, Wales, and Alaska. To keep things closer to home, for the last image above, I’ve included a sketch of Lt. Col. F.W. Guernsey, Mining Engineer, a portrait made at Stanley Park Fort in 1940 (not included in this book, but found in recent online auction archives). For a more in-depth review of the book, I invite you to refer to this Remembrance Day feature by the author.

From the book’s description:

“In this, the third volume [actually, you could say fourth - The E. J. Hughes Book of Boats is a smaller edition, but still stands on its own] of an award-winning series on artist E.J. Hughes (1913–2007), Robert Amos turns his focus to Hughes’s service in the Second World War.”

Tim Cook, the Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum writes about the artist:

"As an artist in uniform during the Second World War, E. J. Hughes created a profound legacy of war art for future generations to empathize, imagine, and re-imagine the Canadian military experience. In this definitive history of Hughes's contributions, Robert Amos offers a penetrating study based on unique archival material and a deep analysis into hundreds of wartime works of art. The war shaped Hughes, leading to period of great creativity that propelled him forward to become one of Canada's most recognized west coast artists." — from the book The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking of Canada's Second World War.

E. J. Hughes: Canadian War Artist

Publisher: https://www.touchwoodeditions.com/book/e-j-hughes-canadian-war-artist/

#wwii #vancouver #stanley park #painting #sketch #drawing #ej hughes #edward john hughes #book

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ririretry · 1 year

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A Brand Freaking New Year

My mom told me and my brother that we have to come up with some New Year's resolutions by the end of the week. I haven't started thinking about it, which is totally fine.

"It's only Wednesday," she says with no idea with what she wants her resolutions to be.

I'm not one that believes in New Year's resolutions. I used to, but then sometime, somewhere, someone on the internet told me that they're unsustainable. MAKES TOTAL SENSE! I agree! We write down a bunch of fluff that we think we can tackle by the end of the year, and by the 3rd week, we give up. That and my favorite argument that I always used was the whole, "why do you need one day to define your whole year" thing. Like, someone can make goals at any day of the year, why does it have to be January 1st - "if you really wanted to reach your goal, you'd start right now." And yeah, I get all of the sentiment. I understand. We're all little weak-minded individuals that need instant change and gratitude and can't handle the necessary means that it takes to set goals, fulfill them, and continue trudging through a generally sucky world.

But, here I am! About to write down some resolutions. I really think that I can do it this year. Looking back, I did do a few things on my vIsiOn BoaRd considering I looked at that thing once. It was very pretty.

ANyway. On with it

1. Reestablish healthy levels of dopamine

My only issue is my phone consumption and automatically, my social media consumption. THROUGH the roof. Embarrassingly too high. Makes me sick, frustrated, and unruly. I hate going on my phone, but I literally cannot help it. It really do be an addiction, so I'm gonna do whatever it takes to actually not be obsessed with my phone. Starting rn!! Timers to Snapchat and Youtube were set. I deleted Instagram off my phone because that's honestly an easier one to delete. Twitter and Instagram are still on my laptop, and I'm gonna keep that because I'm easily less likely to go on my laptop to scroll on the media. I also don't watch Youtube on my laptop that much?

2. Become my own best friend

Haha! I hate myself! Nothing new, but I’ve been slowly becoming my own friend again. Not yelling at myself all the time - allowing myself to make mistakes - not expecting perfection - not invalidating my own feelings - trying to build my own confidence again - being sure of my words and self even if I’m unsure, being sure of my uncertainty..... A lot. Yanno maybe take myself out on dates and make time for me. I just want to trust myself again, and be my own friend. I deserve that level of respect and love to myself especially if I provide that for my friends.

3. Invest in my hobbies, skills, and interests

With my newly established dopamine, I will also make more times for things that matter in my life such as: painting, drawing, guitar, bass, podcasting, writing on here perhaps, etc.. This goes hand in hand with my first resolution, so hopefully this comes naturally. I am a little nervous because I have neglected these things before as I’ve gone on this journey multiple times. I am going to have to figure out how I’m going to allot time to these things. These things require effort, and being on my phone did not. I’m naturally a tired person, but maybe that was my phone. I dunno! We will SEE!

4. Create meaningful relationships

I haven’t been the type to maintain friendships. I’ve gotten better. I have three solid lifetime friendships, which is more than most people can say and I’m so endlessly grateful for them. I have 4-6 solid good friends, which is also awesome, and a bunch of acquaintances that easily could be great friends had I put a little more effort. I’m not looking for more friends because I am very content with the people that I have, but I do want to make every interaction I have with someone meaningful and positive. This requires a little more effort in reaching out, keeping and making plans, and establishing a solid friendship even if it doesn’t last forever. I say this mostly because I’ve closed myself off to people - mostly unintentional, and I want to understand others more.

5. Mind, body, soul

Journal/Read, exercise/eat healthy, pray

Seems self explanatory, I’m pretty decent at like 1.5 of them. Praying is gonna be tough, but I do want to appreciate it more. But that want must turn into action, so I will pray. Maybe just listen at first, which I have done, but seriously like. It’s another outlet. I love my religion and what it stands for, so I should make time.

6. Understand my career better

Side quest, but a very important side quest. I wanna know what I might get into. How to do it. What can I do to understand it, so I wanna take a lot of time to really dig in and invest in my future.

FINGERS CROSSED FOR NEW HORIZONS

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Myself and my WIPs

So, first of all, I'm completely new here, so please excuse any stupid mistakes I might make (and please tell me!).

I'm Nipuni. I write and paint a lot in my free time. So first, about my writing:

I have two active WIPs at the moment:

New WIP (has a working title but it's in a conlang so I'm still a little afraid to post it) is a sort of episodic fantasy adventure, maybe. There are a few longer arcs in there which advance the plot significantly (so do the episodic stuff but more slowly).

It follows the story of Lastak, a 15 year old who just moved into the biggest trading hub in the area in search of a job as a mage. She is taken in by a completely whacky group who don't mind the fact that she's a foreigner or incredibly suspicious looking (with her colourless skin and slit-pupiled eyes, and exhausted, hungry look). Hijinks ensue, meanwhile everyone's pasts and the main plot starts moving.

This is the main cast. From left to right:

Res: He's a genuinely kind, nice person, but he can't stop arguing with Fen for some reason.

Fen: Solves problems by setting them on fire.

Entei: the parrot. Knows pretty much everything. Sarcastic. Might have learned it from:

Wesa: mature, is the oldest in the group. Sort of looks out for everyone. Is also a really capable mage.

Lastak: MC.

In addition to that, there are a lot of other fun characters, such as Seinai (the leader of the group), a forty-something lady who looks like a librarian but is probably one of the strongest mages in the country, Lonli the lightning mage who will not admit she has feelings, Kopen the space-time mage who tries to be nice but reaches his limit often, Lukan who basically invented a way to be as annoying as possible, and many more.

I will start publishing this chapter by chapter somewhere soon.

My other active WIP is Ravens flight. This is a fantasy spy thriller, which follows Estri, Lar, and Dwerezt (15-16) as they get involved in an incident at school which subsequently drags them to a very complex situation, where the first thing they have to do ends up being preventing a war. So, pretty high stakes, I guess? This one is a little difficult to describe without spoilers.

Also there are a lot of fun characters. And fighter jets that don't quite work right.

I've done a lot of worldbuilding for this one, for over a decade now, but the first book is 140k words, so all thoughts of publishing this is sort of on hold for now.

So, those are my main WIPs. in addition to that, I have a few on pause such as the sequel to the phantom in the canopy (which is done but I don't feel like editing it), and a few other mystery-type stories.

You can read the phantom in the canopy:

I will run a free promotion on this soon.

I also draw a lot. I post those on Shutterstock:

And I also created a fiverr if you want floral patterns or something:

Other than these stuff, I'm a PhD student, working on robotics (I sort of teach it too, was working as a lecturer until a month ago).

That's it about me, I guess?

#writing #writerscommunity #drawing

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“I am YEG Arts” Series: Cindy Baker

Things I’ve Forgotten, performance at Southern Alberta Art Gallery 2018, photo by Jane Edmundson

Cindy Baker: a contemporary artist with an interdisciplinary research-intensive practice, working at the forefront of queer, gender, race, disability, fat and art discourses. From early on as a performance artist with what she describes as a “taboo body,” body politics and fat liberation have been integral to her artistic practice. Cindy’s next project not only pairs exceedingly well with some of her most-oft visited themes, it will also exercise her well-honed research chops. The Edmonton-based artist was recently recommended for the Coronation Recreation Centre public art project. Currently under construction, the Coronation Recreation Centre will serve as a community hub for central-north Edmonton that meets the leisure, health and wellness needs of residents of all ages. For the project, Cindy will create site-specific freestanding sculpture(s) for the facility’s large exterior entrance plaza.

This week for the blog, we talked with artist Cindy Baker about her initial plans for her new public art commission and got the scoop on her solo show currently on at dc3 Arts Projects.

Tell us about yourself and your connection to Edmonton.

I'm a queer, fat, disabled, contemporary, interdisciplinary and performance artist based here in Edmonton. I was born and raised in Leduc, and I moved to Edmonton in the 90s to go to school at the University of Alberta, where I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts. And I worked at the Fine Arts Building Gallery, the Works Art & Design Festival, Latitude 53 Gallery, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, and Metro Cinema. So, I was deeply involved in the arts community before I decided it was time to move away. I was away for several years but Edmonton's home to my family, my support system, all my networks of people, my communities, and I just couldn't stay away.

States of Resolution, performance at Edmonton private residence 2021, photo by Grace Lee

How did you get your start as an artist? Was it always plan A for you?

My parents were both teachers, so I always thought that I had to grow up to be a teacher too, but I always really wanted to be an artist. My mom's sister was an artist and I just idolized her and everything she did. And I was always drawing, painting, sewing, sculpting, crafting — doing crafts and art of all kinds. I never had a preferred medium, but I was just always making and working with my hands, so I always knew that no matter what I did for a living, I was always going to be an artist. I don't think I ever expected to make a living at art, but there is no way that I wasn't going to make art throughout my life.

Is there a narrative or discourse you find yourself returning to in your work?

I have a few major themes running through my work. To start with, the body, especially fat bodies and othered bodies are a major theme in my work. As a performance artist with a fat body and — what I call a taboo body — I knew it was always going to be read into the content of my work, so very early on in my career I made a point to become involved in body politics and fat liberation, to really inform the work and enrich the content. Productivity is another theme running through my work, questioning and resisting the moral imperatives of body, health and self-care that imply there are good bodies and bad bodies. That to strive towards being a good little productive cog in the wheel is a moral good. Therefore those who can't, or who fail to be this really strident definition of productive from our work lives to how we enact self-care, are inferior humans and less worthy of care or social support. So that's one of the major themes I think that has run through my work in the last decade.

And there are a lot of beds in my art and not on purpose, that's just kind of how it goes, beds and relaxation and toys and leisure activities like hot tubs and tricycles and swimming pools. I just keep coming back to rest and that idea of resisting productivity in the name of privileging and honouring the body's needs and care for one another being just as important as self-care.

Dream Come True, installation at Remai Modern 2020

These are subjects that have become very topical in recent years, have you noticed a difference in the reception to your work?

I think my work used to be a bit ahead of the curve and now I think it's very sort of right in what's being talked about in the world right now, especially to do with self-care and these neoliberal impulses towards productivity. And the world falling apart has us all questioning what we should be doing with our lives and our time. I think, especially since the pandemic started, we've all been rethinking what it is that we want to do with our time and our lives.

Tell us about the Coronation Recreation Centre public art commission that you've recently been awarded. What drew you to the project?

I'm really excited about it. I think the fact that the work will be connected to a leisure centre, which is also paradoxically basically a triathlon training facility, meshes so well with the themes I come back to again and again in my work. There's nothing leisurely about athletic training. It's work, and it should be valued as work, even if it's not the productive kind of capitalist labour that we've been taught to value. And on the flip side, I want to talk about leisure in a way that disconnects it from any need to perform, to perform work especially. I want to honor those who train and who engage in leisure activities as well, and those who can't or don't or won't, for any number of really valid reasons connected to bodies and time and desire and priorities and ability. Whether that's a body ability, financial ability, or what have you.

Is this your first foray into public art? Tell us about how it overlaps or differs from your overall art practice.

It's not exactly my first foray into public art, considering that my performance practice is often interventive and happens in public spaces, and is meant to be encountered by and engaged with by a general public. But it's definitely my first permanent public sculpture project. I don't consider myself a sculptor in the traditional sense, but I do make a lot of objects. And in my object making practice, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to stop making big things that really have a presence. So, I do feel like this project is a natural extension of my practice and hopefully a new direction for my practice to grow into.

The Three Graces, performance with Mary-Anne McTrowe and Shanell Papp at MacEwan University 2021

Tell us about your interdisciplinary research-based approach. Will it be an important part of your creative process for this commission?

Yeah, I don't think any other project that I've done has put my research chops to the test as much as this one will. It'll be a really integral part of the creative process for this project. In research-creation practices in general, the research exists as much in the making as in engaging in traditional research methods. Which for me, and for this project specifically, means that all the making I've done in my practice to date exists as a body of research that's led me to this commission and will really inform and shape the work, and then in turn, the making of this work is its own research that will lead me to my next projects; be they new artworks, journal publications, conference presentations or incorporation into my university teachings. They're all one big whole in my work.

As you're working on this commission is it spurring on new ideas or potential new directions that you'll take from here in your practice?

As I develop the ideas for this project, I can see the threads coming out of other work that I've done. I don't think that that's unique, I think most artists have common threads that run through the work. But it's really interesting as I've grown and progressed in my career. It used to be that things felt very individual and from one project to the next, I didn't necessarily see those threads, but now I really see them throughout all the work.

What does community mean to you and where do you find it? What will your community engagement approach be for this public art project?

Community for me is family, whether that's blood family or chosen family, social networks and support systems. Community is my stomping grounds, workplaces, and favorite haunts. So, I find community where I find my people and that's for me, artists, fat community, queer community, thinkers and lovers of culture. For this project, more than talking to geographic community, I want to consult with people and organizations that are attached to communities that are traditionally underserved by public art projects and by recreation centres too; people with reduced access to financial resources, people who feel disconnected from that kind of facility, queer people and disabled people, people with mental health concerns. All those whose various demographics put them into the categories of those who don't fit those definitions of moral good, as defined by their abilities or their bodies or their productivity.

Tell us about your current solo exhibit at dc3 Art Projects.

The show is called Things I've Forgotten, and it's part of an ongoing work about my dreams. I spent about 10 years collecting a journal of my dreams. I would wake up every morning and write down my dream from the night before, and then never look back on it again. After 10 years I decided to start rereading my dreams and I was fascinated by the fact that they were so old and had long been forgotten because even though I wrote them down, I would forget about them shortly afterwards, like I think most of us do. I would read these dreams and they would be completely new to me and were completely foreign. So, I got to experience them for the first time, but then slowly the memory of the dream came back to me, and I could see all the images vividly and hear the sounds and smell the smells. It was as though the dreams had really happened and I was remembering them as a memory and at the same time I was kind of going through having heard stories about this trauma that happened when I was a kid but not remembering it, and I thought what if by reliving these dreams and pulling them to the surface what if I could bring this trauma to the surface as well? So, it sounds a bit like it was meant to be therapeutic, but I'm an artist and nothing is quite so literal, so I went about this project of working with my dreams to try and change myself as a person and see how I could be affected by this.

One of the works in the show is a collaboration by Scott Smallwood and me — he's a local audio artist — and together we recorded 20 different voice actors reciting my 10-year journal of dreams and created this really beautiful cloud of sound of all these overlapping voices, it's an 8-channel audio installation of all these overlapping voices. It's difficult to pick out any individual dream or any individual voice, but it does create this soundscape when you go in, that adds to the surrealness I think and beauty of it. It's very dreamlike.

What excites you most about the Edmonton arts scene right now?

I think Edmonton is exciting in general. I've only been back in a permanent way for a few years, but I think growth and change is what's most exciting to me. The arts scene here kind of feels like it's breathing and changing and growing and maybe that's exciting to me because I feel like I'm changing and growing too, which is exciting in its own way and makes me feel connected to Edmonton. I have to say that I love Edmonton cinema, theatre, festivals, music and dance, but my heart really belongs to visual and performance art. So, the galleries and the artists and the public art are what really grounds me to this city.

Want more YEG Arts Stories? We’ll be sharing them here and on social media using the hashtag #IamYegArts. Follow along! You can catch Cindy Baker’s exhibition Things I’ve forgotten at dc3 Art Projects. It’s on until May 13, and as part of the exhibit programming, there will be performances on April 27 at 7 pm and a closing reception on May 13 from 6 – 10 pm. Keep up with Cindy on Instagram, Facebook, or visit her website.

About Cindy Baker

Cindy Baker is a contemporary artist based in Western Canada whose work engages with queer, gender, race, disability, fat, and art discourses. Committed to ethical community engagement and critical social enquiry, Baker's interdisciplinary research-based practice draws upon 25 years working, volunteering, and organizing in the communities of which she is part. She moves fluidly between the arts, humanities, and social sciences, emphasizing the theoretical and conceptual over material concerns. Baker holds an MFA from the University of Lethbridge where she received a SSHRC grant for her research in performance in the absence of the artist's body; she has exhibited and performed across Canada and internationally. Helping found important community and advocacy organizations over the course of her career, Baker continues to maintain volunteer leadership roles across her communities.

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My 2023 Goals (because resolutions I feel have negative connotations and usually involve subtracting rather than adding):

1. Make more digital art. I kind of started doing this over the summer but drifted away. I miss drawing for fun, and I want to do more of that.

2. Write more. As a kid I used to be obsessed with writing stories, but once I got into drawing I just dropped it completely (you cant have more than one hobby apparently). I finally opened up my Google docs at the start of the summer, just to crank out a few ideas I had been having about wwdits. I then wrote about 120k words about the silly vampire family throughout the rest of the year. I really enjoyed having a space like that, and getting to share stories with all of you has really been an awesome experience. I want to write more, and hell maybe about some other fandoms too. We'll just have to see.

3. Apply to more magazines and museums. I don't share a whole lot on here about my "real life" (outside of a few venty personal posts) but outside of Tumblr I'm a fine artist and art educator. I have a personal practice but a lot of my work has kind of been pushed aside because of art block/working so much. I'm working on a series of self portraits now that will translate really well to print media, so my goal is to get those pieces finished and ready to apply. I've been published a handful of times and each of those times were super exciting. I'd like to keep that going.

4. Learn a new medium, but just for fun. I paint, 3d mediums are like my Everest. So I think it would be fun to take a class for something more hands on, like glass or ceramics or metals or fiber. Or maybe take a knitting class so I can brush up on my skills. Something to create things for ME, not my practice.

5. Quit my non-arts job. I'm not super holding myself to this one, there would need to be a significant shift in the art jobs I have now in order to support myself financially, BUT it's not totally outside the realm of possibility, so I'm allowing space for the thought.

6. Visit at least 2 new cities. My partner and I are still SUPER careful with Covid, masking and social distancing and limiting travel. But our current home (that we moved to in January of 2020, if you can see where this is going), was always supposed to be temporary. Well it's now 2023 and we still have no idea where we'd like to end up, so I'm hoping we can plan to check out some new potential hometowns. We also didn't get a honeymoon, so I'd really like to be able to spend some time together for that.

That's it for now, I'm sure they'll shift and change, but I think they're pretty attainable. I hope you all have a wonderful, calm, and peaceful start to your new year. Thanks for hanging out with me 💖✌️

#personal #happy new year #2023

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shatterthefragments · 2 months

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33, 28, 24? for the ask game

Thank you!!! ☺️💖

OK I am happy chatty rambly!!! So be prepared 😁

33. any hobbies?

BOY HOWDY DO I EVER!!!!!

Excuse me as I ramble on in excitement!!!!!

(Is my ‘joke’ of I’m a writer I’m an artist wait no actually im just a clown getting old?)

The TLDR is that I’m an artist, musician, writer, poet, gamer, and lover of things 🥰💖 but onwards to the ramble:

I draw! I paint! I paint ceramics! I sometimes like to take ceramics classes (still debating if I want to take the next level at my college) though I don’t consider myself a ceramicist. But I also have paint your own ceramics places as a hobby. (I started loving painting while painting ceramic pieces before I fell in love with painting with actual paint! I like soft pastels (despite them being a Mess)! I’m a printmaker! I like Lino and drypoint the best! (And those are the ones I’m most set up to do at home now!)

I’m a sometimes learning to be a beginner sewist! I’m a future quilter. I’m a sometimes cross stitcher. I’m a bookbinder! I’ve done exactly one (1) project in leather so far and I’d love to work with it more just for like. Both making things and using it in other crafts (bookbinding for example)

I’m a writer, I’m a poet! I’m a calligrapher!

I like to play music! So far I play the flute and am getting back to tenor sax and want to learn more!!!!! Especially something that’s uhh not a wind instrument… for the future I want to actually try composing more parts for and recording some of the music I’ve written 😁💖 (to at least some extent at least one (1) should happen this year because of an accidental New Year’s resolution I made in a friend’s discord group) I like to sing along to songs! I like to sing the things I write (even if it’s never how I’d *like* it to sound it’s still something I like to do and do often)

I like to go camping! I like to sail! I love being out on the water!

I like to walk around places and try bakeries all across whatever city I’m in.

I like to dance when the music compels me to (though I have to be Careful now:()

I like to cook and especially stir things! I like baking certain things!!

I like to play video games! I like to see my friends! I like to visit cat cafes! If there’s no traffic I love getting to drive around the backgrounds and sing along to my music. I used to do origami a LOT and I don’t often anymore but I can still remember how to fold a crane!!

Fandom is totally a hobby haha so uh. Indulging and creating for it ✨✌️🤷🏻

28. do you collect anything?

I can link HERE for an additional answer and also a link to the first answer that also has a couple pictures!!!!!. BUT I’m happy chatty rambly right now soooooo adding:

I collect that which holds memories. (Old notebooks and sketchbooks) That which can create new ones or allow me to create (my uh. Paint collection my beloved and Many painting/printmaking supplies. Crafting supplies, things that “should be thrown out or recycled” that I want to use in projects, tools etc (I have at least 5 clamps so far just dedicated to my own use 😌)). That which brings me joy (rocks, books, art, CDs, blankets, stuffies!). That which brings me peace (tails (I like to pet them), candles, other nice textured things to touch (including rocks)). That which contains my memories (loose pieces of paper with old lyrics and poetry, photographs). Useful things (tote bags, lanyards, empty jars, pens etc) and that which I like (art, projects, ideas, the Edification papers that remind me of what other people love about me, TATTOOS (will be starting by getting my first soon and am HOPING I can continue to collect amazing art on my own body!!!!!!!!) and just. Things That Make Me Happy 😁✨💖)

24. what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

Right now at this very moment I am most proud of myself for having hope 💖

Although I am happy chatty rambly I am unsure if I will elaborate. Ah fuck it. It’s been a rough week, month etc and I was getting caught up in all that and not able to see the hope I try so hard to keep with me but I’m coming out of it a bit and I can see hope again 🥰💖

An older answer here

#asks #ask game #ask games #shatters’ fragments #basically an about me tbh 😁#long post under the cut haha #hobbies #collections #proud of myself for

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Tick Tock Day

Work through your to-do list and finish any odd jobs so that you can leave your worries behind, and focus on the future.

Tick… Tock… Tick… Tock… This is the sound of the year, and indeed your life, slowly slipping away. Every moment not spent living life to the fullest is another moment that is gone forever, impossible to reclaim. Tick Tock Day reminds you that the year is almost at an end, and there are things still left to be doing, and in fact, only two days left to do them in. Don’t let the year end with regret! Get out there and beat the Tick Tock!

Learn about Tick Tock Day

Tick Tock Day has been created to remind us all about the importance of completing any tasks that we have not yet finished. As we get close to the end of the year, it gives us a good opportunity to wrap up any unfinished business that we may have. This can include both personal goals and business goals. For businesses, for example, you may need to make charitable donations and complete business purchases before the year-end so that you can include them within your tax return for the year. From a personal point of view, there may be a few things that you need to tick off your bucket list or your objectives could be small ones, such as finishing a book or clearing out your wardrobe.

Tick Tock Day enables you to start the following year with a clear head. It can ensure that you start the next chapter of your life in the best possible way, giving yourself the greatest shot of having a successful year ahead. After all, no one wants to carry their clutter and disorganization with them into another calendar year, right? There is something quite therapeutic about having a couple of ultra-productive days before January hits.

History of Tick Tock Day

Every year people look forward to New Year’s Eve to establish their New Year’s Resolutions, which of course rarely if ever come to pass. But what of the last precious moments of the year already passed? Tick Tock Day urges us to make the most of this time to complete those tasks that can be done in that time, and further to remind us just how much can be done in a short amount of time if you truly urge yourself forward. The day was created by Ruth and Thomas Roy at Wellcat.com.

Did you intend to repaint that living room? Perhaps you wanted to start learning a new skill, or clean out the garage. All of these things are possible in the last fading moments of the year, don’t let them go to waste! Maybe your unfinished work is of a more personal nature. Did you intend to reconcile an old friendship this year? Or close an old fissure between you and a family member? Maybe you finally wanted to take a moment to set something right and just never found the time. That time is Tick Tock Day!

How to celebrate Tick Tock Day

Wouldn’t it be nice to start the next year with a clear head and a clean heart? We all of us have regrets of things we wish we had done that remained unfinished or that we consider to be opportunities past. So long as you still draw breath there is still time to accomplish the things you wish to do with your life, don’t let the idea that it’s ‘too late’ get into your head. Tick Tock Day reminds you that there is always time for another last minute, so get out there and make sure that you don’t leave a year behind you full of regrets!

One of the most important things to do on Tick Tock Day is to stop worrying about the time that has passed. A lot of us spend so much time worrying about what we haven’t done, instead of focusing on what we can do. A good activity to do on this date is to grab yourself a diary or a notebook and make a list of the tasks that you want to get ticked off before the year comes to a close. This will give you a sense of focus and it will make it a lot easier for you to start doing instead of simply wasting time.

From changing the oil in your car to painting a spare room; there are lots of different sorts of tasks that may require your attention before we move into next year. A lot of people also use Tick Tock Day as an opportunity to rekindle any friendships that may have turned sour. Even if you’re not able to repair the damage, you can take comfort from the fact that you tried, and this can help to clear your mind for the year ahead.

Of course, we’re sure that there are some of you who saw the words “Tick Tock” and immediately thought of the mobile video platform TikTok. All you need to do is a quick scroll on social media and you’re bound to come across a few TikTok videos. Why not combine TikTok and Tick Tock Day, creating a video that pays tribute to this date and everything it stands for? We have seen some really creative TikTok videos as of late, so we’re sure you will be able to come up with something exciting, genuine, and spontaneous!

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Reflecting on the New Year: A Personal Journey through Time

As the clock ticks down to the final moments of the year, it's only natural to find ourselves in a state of reflection. The New Year is not just a time for countdowns and fireworks; it's a unique opportunity to delve into the depths of our experiences, both triumphs, and challenges, over the past twelve months. As we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, let's take a moment to embark on a personal journey through time, exploring the lessons learned, the growth achieved, and the memories created.

New Year's Eve Traditions from Around the World

Before delving into personal reflections, let's take a global tour of New Year's Eve traditions. From the sparkling lights of Times Square in New York to the vibrant fireworks over Sydney Harbor, each culture has its unique way of bidding adieu to the old year and ushering in the new. In Spain, it's customary to eat 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight, symbolizing good luck for each month of the coming year. Meanwhile, in Japan, the ringing of temple bells 108 times cleanses individuals of their worldly desires, preparing them for a fresh start.

These traditions serve as a reminder that, despite our cultural differences, the anticipation and hope associated with the New Year are universal. As we reflect on our personal journeys, we can draw inspiration from these diverse celebrations, recognizing the shared human experience that transcends borders.

Facts About The New Year

Before we dive into personal reflections, let's uncover some interesting facts about the New Year that add depth to our contemplation. Did you know that the concept of New Year celebrations dates back over 4,000 years to ancient Babylon? The tradition of making resolutions has roots in the ancient Roman custom of making promises to the god Janus, for whom the month of January is named.

Understanding the historical context of New Year's celebrations can lend a sense of significance to our reflections. It allows us to appreciate the evolution of these traditions and the enduring human desire for renewal and improvement. Armed with this knowledge, let's embark on a journey through the corridors of our own experiences, armed with the wisdom of the ages.

The Highs and Lows: Lessons Learned and Growth Achieved

In the theater of life, the past year was a play with acts of joy, sorrow, and everything in between. There were moments of triumph, where I felt invincible, and moments of despair, where I questioned my strength. Through it all, I learned that resilience is not the absence of struggle but the ability to navigate through it.

One of the most profound lessons was the importance of embracing change. Life is dynamic, and the only constant is the inevitability of change. As I reflect on the past year, I see how my willingness to adapt and embrace change led to unexpected opportunities and personal growth. It's a reminder that, in the face of uncertainty, flexibility is a valuable asset.

Additionally, the past year taught me the significance of gratitude. Amidst the challenges, there were countless moments of beauty and kindness. Expressing gratitude became a daily practice, a beacon of positivity that illuminated even the darkest days. Gratitude, I realized, is not just a response to favorable circumstances but a powerful force that shapes our perception of the world.

Looking Forward: A Canvas of Possibilities

As the clock strikes midnight and the calendar turns, the New Year unfolds before us like a blank canvas. It's a chance to paint a new picture, set new goals, and dream new dreams. While the past year shaped me, the future beckons with the promise of new opportunities and unexplored territories.

In the spirit of New Year's resolutions, I aspire to carry the lessons learned into the coming year. I commit to continued personal growth, embracing change with open arms, and fostering a mindset of gratitude. The canvas before me is vast, and I approach it with a sense of anticipation and excitement.

Share Your Story at History Chip

As we reflect on the past year, it's essential to acknowledge the power of storytelling in shaping our narrative. The act of sharing our experiences not only provides catharsis but also connects us to a broader human experience. One platform that embodies this idea is "History Chip," a metaphorical repository where personal stories become a part of the collective tapestry of human history.

Imagine each of us contributing a chip to this vast mosaic, representing our unique experiences, struggles, and triumphs. By sharing our stories, we not only gain insights into our own journey but also contribute to the collective wisdom of humanity. In a world where stories intersect and overlap, History Chip becomes a testament to the resilience and diversity of the human spirit.

Conclusion: A Journey Shared, A Future Unwritten

As we collectively stand on the threshold of the New Year, let us embark on our personal journeys with a sense of purpose and reflection. By acknowledging the lessons of the past, embracing change, and contributing our stories to the collective history chip, we become active participants in the evolving narrative of humanity.

May the New Year bring you moments of joy, lessons of resilience, and opportunities for growth. As we reflect on our personal journeys, let us remember that we are not alone in our experiences. Our stories, woven into the fabric of time, connect us to the vast tapestry of human existence, making each reflection a valuable contribution to the shared history of us all.

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