Tam Ward

40 years ago today, on December 6th, 1979, the basically unfinished Star Trek: The Motion Picture, in which Spock gets his heart, premiered in Washington D.C. I'm in the pro camp on this one, eschewing that silly odd/even thing with the Trek films.

Not okay, not for any reason. Together we need to stop this💙

Reddit post from Inside-Specialist-55 in r/povertyfinance: "I have always went here when things were bad. This year our family could not afford anything nice for christmas dinner so we turned to a local church food bank. I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year. We have only been to this one 4 times since 2017 but this year the line wraps around the building a second time to the left behind those rows of cars. Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold and shivering. If this is a sign that America isnt doing well IDK what is. I am in a small town in Kentucky with a population of less than 4,800 people. Literally 10% or more of the county residents are here. This is insane."

Image of long line at food bank

"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."

Great choice for the night...ease up on a long day.💙

Excellent work and love the baby💕

A gauche painting of a baby king vulture gazing at the viewer with puppy dog eyes, his beak nestled in his baby fluff.

Gauche sketch of @foxfeather.bsky.social’s baby king vulture, Yolo.

Rick the Piano Teacher Teaches the Blues It's very easy to improvise to your heart's desire if you know this simple 6-note system. It's actually addictive.

The only real job I’ve ever had other than what I’m doing now was teaching piano, which I absolutely loved.

Here’s a three-minute piano lesson that I recorded back during the pandemic. In good times or bad, these simple notes can bring you lots of creative joy at the keyboard.

The Incredible, Unlikely Story of How Cats Became Our Pets Two new studies dig into the long, curving path that cats took toward domestication

Did someone say it was Caturday, and also Science Saturday. Here’s a two-in-one.
Unlike the domestication of dogs (20-40k years ago), cats might have hung around humans but it took them much longer to get domesticated (2k).

“The cat is a complex species; they are independent,” says Claudio Ottoni

Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this great set of mini-notes on HEAD ANGLES from BELOW by the talented @miyuliart! Noticing the little differences in the features from this angle will help give your faces FORM and CLEAR DIRECTION #characterdesign #manga #Anime

Did you know it's Bandcamp Friday, that glorious day when Bandcamp waives its revenue share and gives the artists all the money? IT IS! If you've got some spare $$, go support the artists!

BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee They’re questioning how 31,000 additional votes appeared with 99.4% votes counted - and that's not all.

www.narativ.org/p/breaking-e...

This is what we need. Awesome❤️

Sam Bates, known as SMUG, Australian-born, realistic street #artist. This one is in Glasgow.

In the comments, I've included different views of this piece, as well as some other pieces of this hyper-realistic street artist.

#StreetArt #WallMural #murals #UrbanArt #art

Omg y'all, someone picked up all four books in Triple Strike from Lark and Owl Booksellers in Georgetown, TX 🥺. I was just despairing how my books don't do well in bookstores and maybe I should give up on consignment, but now I have the emotional fortitude for another round of marketing trenches 😅.

In his own mind, the wolf will live forever...
'Savage Survivor'

He's acrylic on a cradled wood panel. (Cradled means ready to hang, no frame needed.)

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Feds Warn iPhone And Android Users—Change Apple, Google And Microsoft Passwords Change your account settings now—attacks against smartphones are getting worse.

Feds Warn iPhone And Android Users—Change Apple, Google And Microsoft Passwords

Open antique book showing the engraved frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley on the left page. The right page reads: “MEMOIR AND POEMS OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY, A NATIVE AFRICAN AND A SLAVE. ALSO, POEMS BY A SLAVE. THIRD EDITION. BOSTON, PUBLISHED BY ISAAC KNAPP, No. 25 Cornhill. 1838.” Beneath the main title is a short abolitionist verse beginning “Some view the sable race with scornful eye…”

Oval portrait engraving of Phillis Wheatley, a young Black woman, seated at a writing desk in profile. She wears a simple 18th-century dress with white neckerchief and cap, thoughtfully touching her chin with one hand while holding a quill pen over paper with the other. An inkwell and small book rest on the table. Surrounding the oval is the caption: “PHILLIS WHEATLEY, NEGRO SERVANT TO MR. JOHN WHEATLEY, OF BOSTON.”

Phillis Wheatley, first published African-American female poet, died #OTD in 1784.

Born in W. Africa, sold into slavery at 7 & one of the best-known poets in 18th-century America. Her achievements were a catalyst for the fledgling antislavery movement.

poetryfoundation.org/poets/philli... #poetry

Beautiful and bright love it💕

I can’t decide if I’m done. #crochet 🧶

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Micron pen sketch of WALL-E from Disney/Pixar movie.

And now for something completely different!! 🤣

Not my normal subject matter, but just wanted to do a sketch of the totally adorable WALL-E.

Loved the movie. Love him. 💙 Micron pens on Strathmore drawing paper.

#WallE #robot #sciart #scifi #Disney #Pixar #sketch #pen #ArtYear #bskyart

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Happy birthday Tamu! This tiny tank is 2 today

Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this great animation on DRAWING CLOTHING FOLDS and CREASES by the talented @simodasketch! Seeing the motion IN MOTION helps so much in understanding what happens to the fabric! #animation #anime #manga #gamedev #illustration

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Official NASA portrait of Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut. She smiles confidently in an orange NASA space suit, holding her helmet, with the US and Canadian flags behind her (left and right, respectively). A mission patch on her suit reads “STS-42 Discovery – International Microgravity Laboratory.”

Dr. Roberta Bondar in the field (at the edge of Lake Elementaita, Kenya, watching for lesser flamingoes.) as a wildlife and nature photographer. Seated inside an open safari vehicle, she peers intently through a large telephoto camera pointed toward a sunlit African savanna landscape with water and distant trees under a clear blue sky. She wears a light hoodie and glasses on a cord.

Dr. Roberta Bondar--astronaut, neurologist, and photographer--was born #OTD in 1945.

She became #Canada's first female astronaut in 1992. The world's first neurologist in space, she is globally recognized for her contributions to space medicine. #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy 🚀

robertabondar.com/

L.A. Kicks Coal As It Fires Up The World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Power Plant The city starts getting electricity next month from hydrogen made at a Utah plant – and stored beneath it in a vast salt cavern – to help get to 100% carbon-free power.

The city starts getting electricity next month from hydrogen made at a Utah plant – and stored beneath it in a vast salt cavern – to help get to 100% carbon-free power.

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