Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.
I've seen this photo and similar ones online for years, and with pretty much every nation where rug weaving is still practiced claiming it was an example of their handiwork, so I did a bit of sleuthing and it turns out the photo is from Thailand!
Quoting from the "Share knowledge of electrical systems - control cabinets - MDB cabinets - PLC control systems" Facebook page (Google translated, sorry):
"In daily life, for the picture of wires in the house that must be wired to various points and use wire clips to lock the wires in place, which does not require many steps. It is probably an image that we are used to seeing. But for the electrician's work as shown in the picture, it is a unique and intricate wire installation. This is... the science and art of wiring inside the building that creates intricate and beautiful patterns. I didn't think that wire clipping could play with patterns like this. It is another story that creates surprise for those who see it. When the electrician with great skills wires using wire ties to various devices by securing the wires to the walls or ceilings of the building with wire ties at every distance, it is like a former artist. Some people make woven patterns, OTOP mat weaving patterns, yantra patterns, Phra Thep Phanom patterns, various lotus patterns, etc. It depends on your imagination. It is considered a creative idea. It also creates good value for the work. Therefore, I would like to commend the technician's effort and patience. Then you can see the work as seen in the picture.
The science and art of wiring of the previous generation of technicians is wiring with VAF type wires that require the method of nailing wires to attach to the wall, cement or wood to make it look beautiful.
Which is different from the new generation of wiring that often uses the method of wiring in pipes embedded in the wall, in pipes on the exposed wall or wiring in various types of electrical wire storage trays using THW type wires and wires for various types of pipes, NYY wires, VCT wires, etc., which also gives another type of beauty that is very popular today. The wiring of the pipes must take into account the neatness and beauty, but must not neglect the details, specifications of the correct pipe and wire sizes at all times.
As for the old wiring method "clipping" which is still popular with technicians and some electricity users
The method of wiring by using clips to attach to the wall has various methods of wiring, emphasizing simple wiring, wiring that emphasizes neat wiring, making it beautiful, and there is also wiring that emphasizes wiring in a beautiful pattern using wire clips to tie it beautifully in the desired pattern. It is considered a wiring that truly relies on science and art. This type of work is often the work of A technician with long experience Because they have to plan the wire pattern, place the clips, and run the wires to get the beautiful pattern as desired. Otherwise, the work will not come out beautifully. For the patterns that are often used to assemble on the electrical wires
They are usually auspicious words, surnames, symbols, various Thai patterns. When the wire clips are placed in the right place, the pattern that appears will be beautiful, showing status, showing the relationship, such as the pattern written as a surname.
These works are works that show the art and experience of the technician as well. To make beautiful wire clips on the electrical wires, the technician must first lay out the outline to make that pattern, then gradually tie the wires one by one until it is complete as desired."
And I also found the OG pics!
Humans are capable of creating the most beautiful things from the most utilitarian means, and the fact that everyday art this isn't common practice everywhere makes me want to invent a time machine just so I could go back and kill the first person who came up with minimalism.
Bro, don't just mention a source and drop those image while CONTINUING to not provide links. 😭
Anyway, here's some links that are as close to original sources as I can readily find:
And related, from this Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/163M5xYbdf/
HEROIC POSTER OF THE DAY!
Many thanks for finding the source on this, as you can see I grabbed it from a Facebook post where it had no attribution of any kind (OP didn't know either)
Sometimes I see some variety of North American Little Guy (opossum, raccoon, etc. ) and I’m like “okay”
BUT THEN I start thinking about how excited somebody from not-North-America would be to see this Guy. Like, would an Australian be excited to see the only marsupial not from their country? Are there raccoons in zoos on the other side of the world that are regarded as unique and exotic creatures? Idk but it’s made me more excited to see Guys in my area.
it's me, i'm the person described in the tumbl
I went to a zoo in England this past summer, and there were crowds around the skunks, raccoons, and coyotes.
So, as an Australian, going to the zoo in China with a USAmerican and a Jamacian was an experience.
The first thing you should know about this experiences is I'm a fairly bush-raised child. Not entirely, but the vast majority of my school holidays were spent camping or on a property or otherwise out in the bush. (Not the Outback, although sometimes, but definitely the Bush. The great south-west forests, to be specific.)
I have seen more than my fair share of actually wild Australian wildlife. I am severely immune to snakes, spiders, frogs, kangaroos and wild foxes, rabbits and pigs (those shouldn't be in Australia, but they are. Also, if you ever see evidence of pigs in the bush, you leave immediately.)
So here we encounter jarring moment of dissonance the first.
We were walking past the kangaroo paddock and I'll admit I didn't even give it a second glance - it was a case of "Oh, kangaroos, how normal," And moving on. Didn't even register that they would be something to get excited about. It was literally like seeing a bird or the neighbour's cat.
Anyway, after awhile I noticed that I was no longer with my fellows because they were amazed by the kangaroos. They were staring, they were laughing, they were paying money to feed the fucking kangaroos like they were some sort of weird, special, exotic animal.
"Oh for fuck's sake, guys, they're just kangaroos!"
And then I realised I was with non-Australians and felt properly shamed.
We spent some (far too long of a) time with the kangaroos and moved on.
Anyway, as we were leaving we were walking through the American animals section and I've stopped dead in my tracks and squealed with excitement and raced over to an enclosure to coo and generally be a weird, animal-obsessed little moron. I'd never seen this animal in real life before but it was adorable and lovely and the cutest thing ever. And my Americas friends were looking at me like I'd grown another head because the animal that I was enamoured with and had never seen in person before, the animal that I was most excited about out of any that was there (including the baby tiger that I actually got to hold, guys)
The animal was a raccoon.
Your trash creature is someone else’s treasured encounter
When my father visited a Zoo in Germany, he was amazed to find people eagerly watching what appeared to be a large patch of dirt with holes in it. It took him a minute to realize that the exhibit was for prairie dogs and everyone was waiting to hopefully see one pop it's head out. Dad, who went to school in Eastern Oregon and regularly harassed the local prairie dog population there, had long known how to call them. So to amuse himself, he gave the high whistle he used to use at school and, sure enough, about 15 little heads popped up to see what was happening. What was happening was the local German patrons all losing their god damn minds
1. you have to get weirder and also realize the people in your class suck and if they don't like you that means your cool
2. let urself be as weird as possible because it's better to be happy than force urself to fit in
3. distract urself with fun things Constantly (but talk about the tough times too)
4. find a cool thing you wanna do tomorrow or later in the week, have something to look forward to! Maybe even a couple things!
5. Start a craft! It’s nice seeing that you’ve Made Something With Your Hands
6. try to recognize that even tho some coping mechanisms might not be the healthiest they might be what's saving you, and they are still important. The time for unlearning them is when you are stable not when they are still serving you
7. Failing classes is fine, it won’t end your future if you fail a little
8. Anything worth doing is worth half assing! an essay you write in a half delirious state that's absolute dogshit is still going to get you a better mark than nothing
9. write fanfiction for English creative writing assignments
10. If people don’t communicate why they’re upset with you that’s not your fault
I made them do an activity and they got real mad about it
Horror story plot that's like "your wealthy relative has died and left you this amazing mansion in the middle of nowhere, but only if you spend a single night within its halls!" and they do and experience ghost shit. This is the start of the story. Because it turns out that ghosts aren't real and what they have experienced is a falling-apart building full of mold and mildly poisonous gases that they aren't allowed to knock down for heritage reasons, and the main character runs away from their personal problems by vowing to fix the place up.
What follows is a haunted house/descent into madness story except all the horror is about home renovation. The stress of the money sink that is fixing up the old mansion, the trouble trying to get contractors out to the middle of nowhere, etc., 'drives the protagonist to madness'. They experience unholy sights which no human mind can comprehend (shitty wiring installed by the previous person who tried to flip the mansion). Sometimes supernatural things seem to be happening but it's always like. Badly installed plumbing, or sabotage from their teen kid who's pissed off at being dragged out into the middle of nowhere.
There are several chapters dedicated solely to budget balancing and home refinancing.
see. the interesting thing to me is that the Bible tends to depict disability in four different ways:
and none of these things are any less common when you think about disability in popular culture in the year of our lord 2024!! by the way!!
anyway. I'm a Christian and I definitely don't think Christianity is inherently ableist. but I do think there is a lot of ableism in the church. and that definitely makes a fuckton of sense when you look at our source text. but I think this is an interesting example of Cultural Christianity. even those who don't believe in sin DO believe that disability is the result of sin. or at least, they act like they believe that to be the case
this post is a mess but 👍 this is vaguely what I've been working on today
and this isn't even getting into "sins of the father" ideologies! on account of. well. misogyny. the modern world is much more likely to appeal to "sins of the mother". think about how many disabilities are blamed on immoral actions made by mothers either in pregnancy or early in the child's life. I could spend all day just talking about that in the context of autism. let alone physical disabilities. it is. There. if you have eyes to see it
you ask most people if they think disability is a holy punishment, and they'll probably say no (putting aside Hillsong and other evangelicals for now). but it becomes really fucking evident that they do, deep down, believe that once they start to talk about disability for more than two seconds
we still see disability as a punishment. it's everywhere. moral model of disability. sure is a trip
YOU KNOW WHO THIS MF LOOK LIKE LOWKEY???
LOOK!!
losing my mind at this amazing story from r/dndmemes some people’s dnd adventures are just. So Fucking Cool
THE FUCKING REVEAL AT THE END LIKE THIS GUY IS LEGIT LIKE
THATS MY WIFE AND I LOVE HER
HAPPY WIDE WITCH WEDNESDAY
So called free thinkers when its wide witch wednesday
The purpose of life is to get really into stories that drive you so crazy you sometimes feel the need to throw up from how much you love them
