That’s funny, because when my 14 year old daughter gets frustrated with her art skills not being up to par with her imagination, I point @euclase ‘s art out to her and tell her this person had the same problem, and got better with practice. I tell her to draw anyway, even if it doesn’t look good, because you can always throw it out if you *really* don’t like it, and then you get to try again, and maybe this time will be the time it looks good to her.
And you know what? That’s what she does. She compares her art to her art, and sees that she’s getting better and looks at other people’s art and sees how far they’ve come over the years and knows she’ll be able to improve that much too.
I have an enormously slow learning curve. I never went to school. I was never art educated. I figured everything out on my own. Art was never an assignment or a job for me, so I never had incentive. I did whatever I wanted. I work at a snail’s pace. I have a full-time job that isn’t art.
So yeah, thirty years? That’s pretty dang good for skills that came entirely by trial and error. I’m proud of that.
But I know (and have tutored) artists who’ve gone from zip to realism in six months. I know artists right now who can show you their art from a year ago, who now HAVE CAREERS, and you won’t believe it’s the same artist.
🔥 California is on fire. 🔥 Washington is on fire. 🔥 Oregon is on fire. 🔥 Montana is on fire. 🔥 Utah is on fire. 🔥 Colorado is on fire. 🔥 British Columbia is on fire. 🔥 Nova Scotia is on fire. 🔥 Greece is on fire. 🔥 Brazil is on fire. 🔥 Portugal is on fire. 🔥 Algeria is on fire. 🔥 Tunisia is on fire. 🔥 Greenland is on fire. 🔥 The Sakha Republic of Russia is on fire. 🔥 Siberia is on fire. ⛈️ Texas is hit by Cat 4 hurricane and is underwater, as Cat 5 Hurricane Irma continues to build in the Atlantic. ⛈️ India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, experience record monsoons. ⛈️ Sierra Leone and Niger experience massive floods, mudslides, and deaths in the thousands. 🌡️Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia are in the grip of a triple digit heat wave (dubbed Lucifer). 🌡️Southern California continues to swelter under triple digit heat. 🌡️ In usually chilly August, the city of San Francisco shatters all-time record at 106 degrees, while it reaches 115 degrees south of the city.
These look like some pretty serious signs to me…
Wtffffff
Climate change is not a creeping warming of the earth, it is not the slow advance of seas, it is not gentle or easy, and it isn’t going to turn any place pleasantly tropical.
It will be cataclysm after catastrophe, at an ever-increasing tempo, for as long as we live, no matter what we do.
But what we do now will determine whether things will ever settle down again into a more peaceable clime.
Literally all of this has been predicted by science. The tornadoes and hurricanes. The fires. The blizzards. The social unrest. ALL OF IT.
If anything, science was more conservative and optimistic than what we’ve seen so far. I’ve been reading about these things since I was a kid, and we’ve been pulling on the reins of a runaway horse while someone sitting next to us cracks the whip … for decades.
Because we panicked on seeing this, a clarification: Nova Scotia is not, as far as we can tell, on fire. (We did not check the rest of the list for accuracy.)
Hi this doesn’t appear to be completely accurate. Not all hotels take pets, here is more info from a government site, it also includes a list of hotels that accept pets. FEMA also has a list of how pet owners can prepare here (it will open to a PDF once you click Printer Friendly Pet Owners Fact Sheet – English Language).
PLEASE look up the links and DO NOT LEAVE YOUR ANIMALS CHAINED OUTSIDE AND HELPLESS FOR THE LOVE OF G-D
Reblogging again for the links.
(Earlier commentary. TL;DR: The PETS Act only really applies to public agencies including pets/service animals in evacuation plans.)
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