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Bad drawing

sadly never been artistically talented with a pen (much to my disappointment) but doing small quick drawings is helping me battle against this desire for my creative outlets to be perfect or visually appealing. Not getting discouraged or hyperfixating on the look of it, rather focusing on how good it feels to put pen to paper It’s very freeing and I will continue to draw inanimate objects poorly without shame

@moldoll

Aug 13, 2024

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Doodling

Drawing things and people around you even if you don’t have the skills to make it look realistic…just let your heart guide your hand and you’ll have something some parts funny/cute/beautiful/strange to remember the moment with

@zestygirl

Feb 7, 2024

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Art

Who would like to share little doodles?! Idc if you think your bad at drawing I’m no Picass.

@HenryOBeezle

Feb 3, 2025

Top Recs from @jessica-pratt

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Photo Prints

Collections of digital photos are more ephemeral than we think. I make it a point to periodically order prints of my favorite photos from each year. The material stuff doesn’t last forever either, but unless you’re a fastidious digital archivist, the physical may stick around longer. As someone who’s witnessed the slow death of a couple of social media websites and personal computers, those photos of friends, family or a building you liked the look of in 2015 often land in the internet graveyard. There’s an inherent value to the tangible and the touchable. The fact that I still have photos of my mom as a teenager astounds me.

@jessica-pratt

18h ago

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ASMR Environment Videos

It seems to me that when people hear “ASMR” they picture someone pouring sand into a bucket or chewing mashed potatoes or something. Those have their place but the real shit for me are these fantasy-leaning, themed environment ASMR vids with titles like “Victorian Era Ambience - Soft Rain Sounds, Horses, Crows, Bell Sounds” or “Old Library Sounds”. They’re accompanied by slightly animated CGI images kinda like a video game menu screen. I think I first developed a taste for this kinda stuff watching my older brother play Resident Evil 2 as a kid. The sound design and visuals were so transportative. I was thrilled. A lot of my pastimes, in one way or another, are about transporting myself mentally to another time and place. These are a great assist. 

@jessica-pratt

18h ago

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Frank Zappa’s Lumpy Gravy

Everyone should get a chance to listen to this record in their lifetime. Zappa’s body of work sometimes gets overshadowed by raunchier, wackier material like “Titties & Beer”, but within his massive discography lie works of true genius and beauty. In the mid 1960’s Zappa was signed to MGM records, but a Capitol Records producer who’d learned Zappa could write orchestral music approached him with the suggestion he do an orchestral album for Capitol, since Zappa’s MGM contract didn’t bar him from conducting. Released in 1968 after being tied up in label litigation for 13 months, the result is a staggering blend of orchestral music, experimental sound collage, music concrete and avant-garde rock. Artfully interspersed among the music are pieces of bizarre dialogue. Zappa noticed that if you spoke near the strings of a grand piano they’d resonate in a pleasing way, so he recorded hours of “piano people” dialogue and made careful selections. A perfect work of art, in my opinion. 

@jessica-pratt

18h ago