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I had a client recently ask me to make a steampunk mechanical bee for her and gave me a photo of a tattoo for reference. This is the result. The wings were a problem as I wanted them light. I ended up cutting down two brass pendant bases and filling them with UV resin. They then had to be sanded back to the brass and finally polished. I was aiming on transparent but the frosting works. Her body is an old brass electrical terminal cut to fit. Her wire legs are threaded through the body for security. The crimps are for effect and to stop the feet scratching if worn as a pendant.

She also contains an assortment of gears, pinions, screws, bolts, rivets, an electrical probe is her "stinger" and her wire antenna do rotate. I hope the client likes her but if not I'll try again. I've already had interest so she will sell either way.

Sad on so many levels

"you're just racist"

rise and shine….or at least get up and make the coffee

Happy birthday, Pablo Neruda (b. July 12, 1904)

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” - Pablo Neruda

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne (b. 4 July 1804)

so my local town facebook page posted this

wanna see the said graffiti?

this is the same predominantly white school that had basketball players throw tortillas at a predominantly latino school x

the school is on in navy base island with a large rich republican community that says that the tortilla incident is not indicative of the school as a whole and as a queer POC who attended this high school i can say the events of the basketball game were not at all surprising and many of the other members of the queer and POC community have stated the same due to shit that we’ve seen like this in 2020.

x

coronado may seem a friendly tourist destination but they sweep the shit that they do under the rug and talk a big talk about changes but nothing seems to happen. 

every decision

Broadside for sale of enslaved woman and children from estate of Joseph McCoy, November 28, 1849, Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Size: Backing H x W: 13 ¾ x 9 3/8 in. (34.9 x 23.8 cm) Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)

https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.51.18

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

— Anne Frank (b. 12 June 1929)

so. the brazillian police killed a pregnant black woman. she was 24.

DON’T LET YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT BE A ONE TIME THING! PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING! DON’T WITHOLD YOUR SUPPORT

just an fyi

israel has targeted communications and internet networks in gaza which effectively cuts of palestinians from the rest of the world

a significant drop in content across social media coming out of gaza in these last few days doesn’t mean the violence has stopped or that it’s over, it just means more voices are being silenced. it’s an active campaign by the israeli government to turn the world’s attention away. don’t let it fool you.