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28 • he/she • Welsh-American 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 🐱ΘΔ • plural (OSDD) ⭐️ Art, writing, OCs ⭐️ Tech, manga, music, cars 🎮: Cassette Beasts, Tomo Life: LTD, TwinShot DX --- co-owner: @pathfindermoto.bsky.social 🏎️

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2009@sparklecats2009.bsky.social · 1h ago

Known as "spirits" or "guardians" of the air, slyphs (or sylphids) are air spirits that have power over wind and clouds. This one is particularly dangerous...! Sign up before September 31st to get this sticker😺✨

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drachenmagier@drachenmagier.bsky.social · 10h ago

I see so many posts about defining art. Yet it is so simple: You make something by yourself that is not completely needed for survival? Art. Heart-shaped jam on the bread instead of just spreading it? Art. Toddler drawing on the wall in crayon? Art. Singing in the shower? Art. Phone doodle? Art.

The Kimono Gallery@roger1952.bsky.social · yesterday

The technical virtuosity of this 1970s kimono combines multiple sophisticated processes in seamless integration. The yuzen-painting technique provides the foundational color work, while bokashi shading creates subtle tonal transitions that give depth and dimensionality to the swirling forms.

This rinzu silk furisode represents a spectacular achievement in contemporary Japanese textile artistry, embodying the period's bold experimentation with color and technique while maintaining deep connections to traditional craftsmanship. The "fire and ice" theme creates a dramatic visual dialectic between warm oranges, golds, and corals against cool turquoises and blues, generating an almost psychedelic intensity that reflects the vibrant aesthetic sensibilities of the era. The composition suggests cosmic or geological forces in motion - perhaps volcanic eruptions meeting oceanic depths, or aurora borealis dancing across mountain peaks - creating a sense of elemental drama that transforms the garment into a wearable landscape painting. The technical virtuosity displayed here combines multiple sophisticated processes in seamless integration. The yuzen-painting technique provides the foundational color work, while bokashi shading creates subtle tonal transitions that give depth and dimensionality to the swirling forms. Gold outlining adds structural definition and luxury, while embroidered details and freehand pigment highlights provide textural variety and focal points of intensity. This layering of techniques creates a rich, almost sculptural surface that changes as light moves across it. The scattered bird motifs, visible in exquisite detail in the close-up, serve as delicate counterpoints to the explosive background energy. These creatures, rendered with meticulous attention to feather structure and naturalistic coloring, represent traditional symbols of freedom, transcendence, and spiritual elevation. Their presence transforms the abstract elemental drama into a more complete ecosystem, suggesting themes of resilience and grace amid powerful natural forces.
Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️@sharkabytes.bsky.social · yesterday

"Feel the wind in your hair..." Okay, there's a big anniversary today: the 40th since the release of Sega's sublime arcade racer OUTRUN! Sometime between today and the 25th in 1986, arcade goers were being taken on a Sega multi-route race for the first time. Share the OutRun love, peeps <3

From Sega Retro, a scan of an arcade flier with OutRun screenshot blown up and a photo of the arcade cable below it.