This is super important to understand how this happened because there is so much power in the people. Please remember that many generations before us have fought for their rights and we need to decide what it too much for us to take. Once we find that spot, we need to figure out where we want to be, and don’t stop fighting until we’ve made it.
Please y'all, remember that you are powerful.
Also, workers rights related: Black Lung healthcare is gone for coal miners while Trump wants to bring back a country run on coal. So that’s goddamn great.
“I paint within a realist tradition as I enjoy the disjunction of resisting or thwarting literal expectations: my paintings always give back something other than that which would be offered by the object in person or its photographic likeness. What realism allows me to do is feign reality, and I mentioned above: to imply truths, and to lie. There is within representation the illusion of reality; it draws on the system of beliefs which defines what we experience as reality. I am making paintings that while presenting the real (i.e.: “truth”) still consistently draw attention to their form: within each painting there is a reminder of it’s contrivance (painting as vehicle of contrivance, painting as device, as translation) and in so doing I create friction between the image and the means by which the image is substantiated.” Jen Mazza
Reminder that puffins are extremely social and like to fit in with their friends, so they will adopt mannerisms and interests of the group. So there is a good chance this little guy is trying to be friends with the photographer by showing his interest in the camera.
TIL photographers are a lot like puffins, cuz we also make friends by showing interest in your camera XD
Reminds me of the time researchers were trying to get puffins to land in a specific area so the put decoys up to draw them in but the decoys only had 1 leg and
