and another thing

that summer feeling

Kohno Michisei, seen here at twenty-two, presents himself in a pose modeled on Western Renaissance master Albrecht Durer's (1471-1528) self-portrait produced in 1500. Between 1914 and 1924 a remarkable quantity of high-quality portraiture was produced by Japanese artists who blended Western and East Asian painting traditions. While some of these painters had first-hand knowledge of Western painting, most, like Michisei, culled their images from books and magazines. The young artist was raised in an environment filled with powerful iconic images. His father was a portrait photographer, an artist in both Japanese and Western modes, and an active member of the Russian Orthodox Church. These influences are readily apparent in this self-portrait. Michisei's perceptive understanding of classic Western images was based on constant perusal of his father's extensive library; a portrait's potential for psychological and spiritual impact was impressed on him through exposure to religious icons used in the Orthodox liturgy. (source)

It also proved that there was a market for films with gay characters, which had the knock-on effect of gay filmmakers being able to find distributors of their gay-themed films. Which meant that more people than ever (queer and non-queer) got to see representation on-screen.

If you're curious about any of this I highly recommend Matt Baume's video which I almost always watch whenever I rewatch the Birdcage. Or more recently there was a Kill James Bond podcast episode of the movie which I found to have very interesting insight into the movie making/queerness overlap which happened.

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Tardigrade corn maze at Treinen Farm in Wisconsin.

Vorace by Pauline Mauvière & Charles Ouvrard

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First computer animated cat ever - “Koshechka” (”A kitty”), 1968

Behold, the Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide that forgot to close its <h3> tags.

#thinking about roy being the youngest ever state alchemist prior to edward thinking about their relationship and gripping something hard#me when the cycle of harm clicks over. me when i have internalized that my usage as a tool of the state was Fine and inflict it anew#mustang is haunted by his actions in ishval and the orders he was given there#but what he does about it is decide that he wants the same state that gave those orders to condemn him and mete out punishment#the state is to mustang a natural force it existed before him it will exist after him he cant imagine a world where he's there and it's not#amestris itself is mustang's wire mother. if you follow me#guy who has been hollowed out internally by his treatment by the state#who has every opportunity to intervene in another child being made grist for the mill#and does not do that at all. kind of does the opposite of intervening even#edit: sorry believing that the way to set things right is to turn the force of the state against him and those like him is so crazy it's so#my plan for atonement: weaponizing the might of empire as a teenager might take a blade to their arm#i have to make myself the target of the state's hatred. to repent. i have to.#but as the masterpiece of military conditioning i am a beloved child of the state and its hatred will never naturally come my way#i can never blame amestris for what it made me and my comrades do. i think amestris should blame us for what we did for it#i think mother should kill me#what is wrong with you!!!!!!!!