Submitted 1 week ago by Baku@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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I love your painting! 😍 I kinda prefer her nude like that, as a kind of subversion of the original.
This is excellent melba!!
Thanks. I got in with like 15 minutes to spare
What a beautiful picture! I like that it’s unfinished, it leaves more to be suggested than explicitly stated. You’re really talented!
Wow, that’s amazing, and done in such a short time! Thanks for sharing!
Really nice.! Thanks for posting this its lovely ☺️
Doing this tech support for old people really goes to show how hard phones and apps actually are to use.
Features are hidden behind things like long taps. Tapping on someone’s profile photo brings up stories instead of their profile. A person’s Facebook profile looms different to their messenger profile.
And maybe it’s because I’ve never owned an iphone but I don’t find them initiative at all. There are times I can’t figure out how to exit out of something or how to bring a screen back up compared to all the android phones I’ve had
I hate iPhones and apple products. My first apple product was a second hand iPhone and I found it so hard. Next phone was android and I’ve never looked back. Android feels more like a PC interface, and I find it waaaaay more intuitive than iOS. Maybe in dumb, but iOS is so hard for me to use.
Besides, I really like the customisation of Android, it’s feels more mine.
I hate apple tv with a passion. If people are foolish they install all their other apps, ie, tv stations, onto apple and then they have to go thru extra layers of button pushing on apple to just watch a netflix or abc show or movie. Also, the apple remote is the worst, it requires great manual dexterity and precision to select anything .
I’m very good with tech, I read instructions carefully, I look up the faqs as well. I just hate useless tech for the sake of tech. I keep it simple.
I fell like IOS is almost too simplied, like they’ve taken too many options away from you. And there is too little contrast between elements to interact with.
It looks nice because it’s almost like looking at a blank white screen, but you see what a problem it is when someone unfamiliar with technology goes to use it
The other thing is signing up / logging in for various things and the many many hoops you have to jump through sometimes. They get frustrated and quickly. I always point out to the p’s that there’s no point getting frustrated at inanimate things, take a breath, someone else has likely had the same problem, and we’ll work it out.
They can fuck off with logging in for everything.
Like people creating icloud accounts they forget the password for and Microsoft’s constant badgering about its services.
There needs to be an EU style law exported to the rest of the world that you need to be able to setup and operate a device without any type of account or registration and without the nag factor to do so
The problem is most buyers of phones and tvs don’t realise they aren’t buying a phone or tv, they are buying a device with many many functions .
The stereos of the 80s that had a hundred functions still had simple on off switches , basic functions were simple, and few people uses the hundred functions. The buttons were just a selling point.
Now you need to go through hoops to use a phone or tv for the simplest function and if people are anything like my husband they love to add gadgets and extra layers of functions, making it even harder. It’s nearly impossible to ignore the hundred buttons.
They just want to call someone up, to answer a call or watch their favourite tv show. And that’s how I would teach it. Just the most basic uses they want, then when they are familiar with that then maybe add some more functions.
No painters in my family but my great aunt did this tapestry which now hangs on my study wall:
Image I can’t remember which building it is.
I’ve been there and I can’t remember which city. Antwerp perhaps
Nah it’s Melbourne.
My great-grandmother, Rita Sullivan, painted this in 1998. It’s a shack on Brighton Beach (as she wrote on the back of it).
I got this when she passed away and we were deciding where her belongings should go. I also got one of her camphor wood chests, which is where I store my linen and towels now.
Posting in response to the proposed art thread that CEO and UMG were discussing below :)
Ooh nice!
That’s a lovely painting!
There is a fleet of hot air balloons with ads on them flying over my house. Can’t even enjoy the morning sky without being sold stuff
I’d be less annoyed if they put any effort into the designs.
The Red Balloon one has their logo. It’s on a GIANT RED BALLOON YOU DON’T NEED THE LOGO
They wouldn’t even be that effective as advertisements. They’re super high up and you can’t control where they go. The most charitable explanation is they take the money to cover some of the time and running costs
The one I like is a patchwork of different materials, with very obvious seams on it. The logo is ‘Craig’s Balloon Repairs’.
not really artistic but something interesting I’ve had for a long time, a hand painted framed tile
it very much uses the same symbology as soviet posters and every single idea in this pic is a lie . I look at it every now and then and think about it. I wonder if the soviets believed it.
pretty sure 1985 was during the Soviet Afghan War
Do you know what the Cryllic says on her dress? I tried to translate but it’s coming up as nonsense - so I don’t think I’m reading the typeface properly lol
So my dad’s got Parkinson’s and I thought I’d set up Assistive Access on his iPhone as he’s currently struggling to use the basic functions on his phone, eg. Messaging, email, phone etc… Man. It sucks absolute balls. Crashing randomly, scroll stuttering like it’s 2010…worst implementation of accessibility I’ve seen. If he had an Android I could just set up a custom launcher to do all this with no issue… daaaaaaaaaaaaaah
I found that many OS releases (not just iOS, but Windows as well, and Android to some extent) have been more buggy in the recent years.
Starting planting stuff out in the nu-bed.
So far marigolds, geraniums, poppies (flanders red), petunias, dietes, some sort of daisy. so good to not have to weed it (until next week probably heh). Personally I’d prefer more random placement (not in distinct rows), but I got my way with doing a bunch of different stuff instead of mass planting so we’ll take it.
I’m pleased to announce that TheStench™️ seems to have disappeared, or at least subsided enough as to just be non noticeable
My bathroom now just smells like shampoo with an undertone Glen 20 and body wash. Hallelujah!
It might be worth getting some of those moisture absorbing things you leave around the house just to make sure.
Or a cheaper alternative might be some baking powder and apparently coffee beans are good for absorbing smells too
They already put those in the roof. I don’t think it’s really worthwhile putting them anywhere else because only the bathroom and toilet have any kind of cut out in the roof for the extractor/exhaust fans, so the smell is largely prevented from escaping anywhere else
Moody. I like it.
Mine is worse, LOL (since I didn’t participate in yesterday cutlery drawers):
Not an artist I’m related to, but I saw a photo in a meeting and the photographer sent me a copy. They took this while trekking in Nepal. It’s been post-processed a few times over the years by the photographer. The other is a Matisse print: Empotés jusqu’aux constellations.
They’re currently mounted a little further indoors now.
That’s beautiful!
That is sick! Love it.
When I saw it I was just like “this is gorgeous”. The framing cost more than double the cost of the poster lol
The majority of guitar content online is advertising.
Consumerism has left a wound in music making.
Here’s my issue:
I’m tired of being marketed to. At every Junction. No, I don’t give 5 fucks that some new distortion pedal makes you sound like this person or that.
It’s the infection of capitalism in art. There’s nothing wrong with gathering the tools you need. But there’s a point at which you are no longer a creator, but a consumer of gear.
I’ve fallen to it in the past. Massive pedalboard. Every fancy new pedal. And for me, in the end, it was a hindrance more than anything.
I’m so utterly tired of being constantly being sold something. Where “content creators” are ad men in a new skin for a new era.
Fuck. That.
Fuck that.
Replying to your edit and pfft, 4am is baby numbers. You’ve got a “oh shit the birds have stopped singing and and people are out jogging” night in you. I believe in you.
The mind is ready but the body is unwilling.
Youse were all good sports with “show me your drawers” yesterday. It goes to show the utensil drawer can be organised but that other one with the kitchen gadgets is a lot harder due to the different shaped shit in there.
Morning everyone.
I feel like a wrung out face washer
Why am I awake at 6am on a weekend. I would like to sleep more.
Had a lovely day at the beach in Torquay today with some friends. Got some sun and pummelling waves, great dinner afterwards and watched the sunset before driving home. Content but I’m exhausted.
This is gonna sound odd but I don’t care. Whenever I start a new book I like to match it to the seasons. For example, if the book is set in a hot climate then I’ll read it in summer. Cold climate book then I’ll read it in winter.
Just been freaked out with some loud noises on or in the roof.
Hope it only on top. I’ve had enough of possums invading the roof in the past.
Just had a shower and headed outside and I’m dripping. It’s hottttt and humidddd yuck
And i ended up dreaming about music software. Back to bed lol
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Ol’ girl painted this years ago. One of my faves.
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useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I really like that one
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Oh, she’s GOOD
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Oh that’s just beautiful. I love the contrast of blue and orange, and the figures and their shadows. It’s spectacular! 😍
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
It evokes so many questions.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Wow, that’s really good! I absolutely love it - your family has so many talents!
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Agree with everyone else that is excellent. I get strong feelings from it
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 1 week ago
That’s fantastic! Your mum has a lot of talent
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I love this
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I really love this, too.
Do you have any others in a similar style?
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Sorry for the late reply. This is the only one she did like this. Was trying to get her to do more like it because a triptych sort of story thing would’ve been great.