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Coloring Tips & Tricks #1 – Preparation and Setup (Photoshop)

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Useful links:

Color wheel Plugins:

PaintersWheel

Magic Picker

Great Brush collections:

Brushes by Gawki

Brushes by Feohria

Jaime Jones’ and Maciej Kuciara’s brushes from this list

Native people will share: our food, our music, our dancing, our art.

Taboo #noDAPL protest music (Native Hip Hop):

Supaman (Prayer loop song, Rap)

Music!

Snotty Nosed Rez Kids (”I Remember My Name” Native hip-hop)

Frank Waln (”Wokiksuye” Rap)

JB the First Lady (”The Most Unprotected Girl” R&B)

Clothes! There’s also a lot of Native designers doing amazing work blending old and new styles. These are two of my favorites

OXDX Clothing - Diné

John Isaiah Pepion - Blackfeet

Food! There’s a been a major resurgence of interest in indigenous foods lead by Native chefs, many of whom are on youtube!

The Alaska Native Health Consortium runs a great channel

Sean Sherman - maybe one of the most famous Native chefs. There’s a great little video on him here and his website is here!

Dance! This one is a little trickier because no, you, non-Native person absolutely should not dance at the powwows unless it’s an open dance AND you’ve been invited to do so. (And if you have, please don’t do the white hippie dance. Please.) However, you can and absolutely should come out and support the circuit & the dancers. Some of my favorite dancers/competitions:

O.B. (Ohh Bizz) who mostly does grass dancing. (Yeah, I know he hasn’t updated in forever. the #NoDAPL protests derailed a lot of people’s lives.) He’s a lot of fun to watch and a complete sweetheart.

Rocky Boy 2018

FNUC Powwow 2019 (also, yes, the announcer is pretty much typical for a powwow. You want a person who can roast literally everyone in a 10 mile radius? A powwow announcer can do that.)

aries: “while you sleep, i’ll be scared, so by the time you wake, i’ll be brave”

taurus: “you’re home, you’re home, you’re home to me, so leave me, leave me, leave me a map”

gemini: “my god, i’m so lonely, so i open the window to hear sounds of people” 

cancer: “i don’t need the city and i don’t need proof, all i need, darling, is a life in your shape, i picture it soft and i ache”

leo: “i don’t need the world to see that i’ve been the best i can be, but i don’t think i could stand to be where you don’t see me”

virgo: “today i will wear my white button-down, i can at least be neat, walk out and be seen as clean, and i’ll go to work, and i’ll go to sleep, and i’ll love the littler things”

libra: ”if i gave up on being pretty, i wouldn’t know how to be alive, i should move to a brand new city and teach myself how to die”

scorpio: “you’d say you love me and look in my eyes, but i know through mine, you were looking in yours”

sagittarius: “i wanna see the whole world, i don’t know how i’m gonna pay rent, i wanna see the whole world”

capricorn: “one morning this sadness will fossilize and i will forget how to cry, i’ll keep going to work and you won’t see a change, save perhaps a slight gray in my eye”

aquarius: “change, change, change is gonna come, but when, when, when?”

Chapter titles

“Vestibular sense provides information about where the body is in relation to its surroundings. This is the sense that helps you understand balance, and it connects with all the other senses.

When the vestibular system does not develop properly all other senses will struggle to function properly. Without a strong vestibular sense, kids will have no choice but to fidget, get frustrated, experience more falls and aggression, get too close to people when talking, and struggle with focusing and listening. Because they literally cannot help it.”

“Here are a few ways to support your child’s vestibular sense:

Spinning in circles.

Using a Merry-Go-Round.

Rolling down a hill.

Spinning on a swing.

Going upside down.

Climbing trees.

Rocking.

Jumping rope.

Summersaults or cartwheels.

Using monkey bars.

Skating.

Going backwards.

Swimming.

Dancing.

Wheel-barrel walks.”

Yeeting kids, spinning them, flipping them upside down, tossing them in the air, and otherwise disrupting their balance temporarily, is Important For Their Development, specifically for their vestibular sense.

“I’ll find you in the morning sun

And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon

But I’ll be seeing you”

This isn’t the first song NASA sent Opportunity. They had a playlist:

https://www.space.com/41434-mars-rover-opportunity-wakeup-music-playlist.html?fbclid=IwAR3uL6q4tOmLQTIEhiwYegGc99nv4N01HQKItpCLQiQYIptBOevNN6uIyT8

It’s on Spotify, it’s called “Opportunity, wake up!“

This is what’s great about NASA and it’s what’s great about people. These are world-class engineers. When they sent a rover to another planet they could have easily looked at it as just another scientific tool. But people don’t do that. We can and will get emotionally attached to the most inanimate of objects. We can and will anthropomorphize anything. And frankly Opportunity’s camera mast looks like a little face with eyes and everything, so why not?

So they started calling it her.

They nicknamed her Oppy.

They told her to take a selfie not long ago.

After 15 years of Oppy flipping the double bird to her original 90 day life expectancy, when a planet-spanning dust storm finally knocked her out and she stopped responding to the engineer’s wake-up messages, they started playing music for her.

And after 8 months and almost 1000 unanswered wake-up messages, when it was finally clear that Oppy was never going to wake up, the last thing these world-class NASA engineers did for their little rover on another planet