Located 348 results from search term 'inspiration'
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Commented in NASA Releases Stunning Hi-Res Photos of Jupiter’s Swirling Atmosphere
While working on several pieces at the moment, these beautiful photo's bring a lot of joy and inspiration here. I think the NASA photo-archive is one of the greatest resources for inspiration, awe and wonder. So much colors and beautiful atmospheric pieces of art, yes, some of those photos easily beat the best (abstract) paintings in the world, as far as artists ever really could create works that tell tales about light years, other worlds and physics that goes beyond our current knowledge, all in one image quite some times. Anyways, back to the easel. (Actually it's to bed, because it's way later than I expected, but please keep that idea of the easel, okay? :-P )
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Commented in Barbara Bush, Former First Lady, Dies At Age 92
She was truly an inspiration and such a wonderful lady. RIP enforcer!
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Commented in Vincent Van Gogh Visits the Gallery - Doctor Who - BBC
Likewise Maternitus. I've met some really nice, talented people here on Snapzu and you are one of them. Well, today I am inspired by food. I have the place to myself and I am cooking meatballs, not just any meatballs. The best! I have a party at my house once a year for my staff and their families...and the meatballs are a required request. They take a long time.
Ingredients:
2 lbs. of ground beef 1 lbs. of ground pork Garlic, onions, salt, pepper, fresh basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary. 2 whole eggs Stale bread (preferably a baguette) Olive oil I use Barillo basil premade tomato sauce, but use your favorite.
Now most people just roll some meat into balls and pop it the gravy (real Italians call it gravy, not sauce) Nope, that's not the way to do it. You want them moist, boiling them makes them hard.
Method:
Finley chop up the garlic, onion and basil. Beat the eggs Chop up the bread into sizes about the size of your fingernail.
Put the beef and pork into a big bowl and blend them. Now, here's the thing, don't use your hands to mix, use chopsticks and swirl. If you use your hands it gets the meat compacted, and you want it loose.
Put in the garlic, pepper, basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary. Pour in olive oil, as much as you damn well like. Well anyway a few good swigs. Throw in a half cup of the tomato sauce and again use your chopsticks and swirl to bled all of the ingredients. Put in those beat eggs and swirl again till even, then the bread, again, don't use your hands, use the chopsticks to mix evenly.
!!!!!!!!! This is important.Take a break with a glass of wine, or, umm, coffee for an hour and let the ingredients get acquainted with each other. These Italian things are emotional and noisy, so just ignore them. It's a cultural thing. Time lapse, maybe with Dr. Who.
Now it's ok to use your hands. Pick up the meat and roll your meatballs one at a time and put them on a plate. You can make them any size, but larger is better to keep them moist about 3 inches in diameter. I know your metric, so about 7.5 cm...I grew up avoirdupois...sorry.
Ok, here's the key, you are not going to cook them you are going to brown them. Use olive oil. Heat up the pan and fry them one side at a time, use a big spoon and a spatula to carefully roll them over. Don't crowd them (remember they just met), it will take a few rounds to get them all. Do not cook them through, just brown them.
Now you are going to bake them....WTF...bake meatballs, yep.
Put them on a large baking dish, Cover them in tin foil because they are going into a preheated oven at 190c for about an hour.
Take them out and finito.
There will be wonderful juices in the baking tray. Put that in the gravy you have been making all along...oh wait, we didn't talk about that, well, another time.
So that was a long story about my inspiration for today.
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Commented in No title by Martinus
Did you take pictures first and then draw? What was your inspiration...you have a penchant for this!
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Commented in Black Crowned Crane by Martinus, 2017
Pretty amazing results from a spray can man.
What was your inspiration for this one?
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Commented in The Real Meaning of Donald Trump’s “On Many Sides” Speech
There are Know-Nothings, there are Know-Nothings that Know-Nothing, and then there are Know-Nothings that don't even know enough to know nothing. Luckily for us, all of them, from the president and the attorney general right on to the speaker of the House, the chief justice and the driver of that car, are easy to recognize.
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Commented in Kindergarten Decorations
Hahaha! Well, I can tell you this: the sheer joy on those faces while telling a silly story or painting five kazillion dots, just for them, makes painting good. That's how I bring it and do it. This time I had an assignment with it, a message about diversity. That's not easy while avoiding cliche's. It's my third work there, so I know the school and several of the kids. They emphasize a lot on creativity there, so there's a lot of inspiration to gather from. The bird is the only thing that came from a book, the figures in the middle are drawings from one class's coathangers (self protraits to identify the right hanger for everyone), the apple is for the name of the school (Oogappel which translates to "apple of my eye") and the part with the tree cut to pieces and rearranged is for the closeness to nature and that "diversity", as I see it, is a damn healthy solution to inbreeding. The colours are layered, so the obligatory rainbow is hidden in the absolut backgrounds and goes from blue to purple to red et cetera. Not the "right order" and that's how I like my world. And which creates a diversity of itself by that. Pretty deep talk for a few days painting. :-) But yes, with a piece of paper, a few spraycans and a good way of telling stories to those little ones made them understand the abstract of what it actually means. We're talking kids the age of four, five years old. That's neat. And that's where you discover it is not a regular school, they do not follow the same curriculum as the normal cityschools. Same things as language, math and the lot, but with a very creative twist. Yeah, even dance and physically doing things is seen as part of a total package, it comes with schooling. Not just mindnumbingly re-reading or repeating for the sake of budgets and seats for the schoolboard.
Sorry about the long story, it's late and I just got back from some friends. They cooked me a nice dinner. Which is no excuse what-so-ever to babble away, but I do not care. Those colours do a person good. :-) Aaah, the aerosols. Yeah. Hmmm. :-)
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Commented in Angela Merkel arrives in Saudi Arabia without hijab in rejection of strict dress code
"...she hoped to be an inspiration to oppressed women in Saudi Arabia." Yeah, right, like women over there have the gut to express themselves because, you know, they found inspiration in Merkel.
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Commented in Mexico President Cancels U.S. visit after Trump Wall Comments
A lot of Trump supporters in particular now believe this "alternative fact" when what they were really shown was a different Apartheid wall, which served as the inspiration.
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Commented in Order from Chaos
One would have to believe the artist spent some time behind a microscope as inspiration!
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Commented in Everything You Need to Trim, Pluck, Shave or Wax Before Hitting the Beach
https://featuredcreature.com/6-strange-breeds-of-hairless-cats/
Some inspiration
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Commented in Andy Grove, a Silicon Valley pillar, dies at 79
An inspiration on so many levels. RIP.
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Commented in The World’s Best Chocolate Is From Tuscany
"Each bar represents the efforts of three generations of women in Tessieri’s family: Her grandmother was the inspiration, and her mother designed the packaging"
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Commented in Vivid Urban Photography By Nick Frank And Jeanette Hägglund
I am a graffiti artist and am very much surprised by the minimalism in their style and subjects. For me it is a fresh breath of air, because most urban photographers I know take pictures of mostly decayed urban matter. Thank you for this cool post and for giving me some inspiration to look at minimalism in a graffiti setting.
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Commented in 10 Great Art Deco Cars
Those are fantastic, love the retro-futuristic style of art deco, makes for great inspiration and reference in movies and games!
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Commented in The Kim Davis Debacle Reveals a Frightening Truth About a Desperate, Radicalized Christian Right
Like any truly human endeavor, Christianity (as well as religion in general) have both helped and harmed humanity in countless ways. Religion has provided artists a marvelous canvas for inspiration. Who can forget the Sistine Chapel? David in marble? These are incredible works of art. Its the same religion which butchered countless people in Inquisitions spanning thousands of years.
Regardless of how the Kim Davis situation will eventually land, she, personally, has a problem with homosexuality. Wether she admits it or not, her actions speak louder than words. Instead of standing on her own two feet and accepting the backlash personally she has run to religion to deflect the backlash. I feel that if she was half the christian she believed herself to be she would have simply confirmed the legality of the SCOTUS ruling, and then do her job be following the laws of the land as her religion demands (detailed in Mark 12:17).
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Commented in Melted crayon artist Loretta Bradfield offers peek at colorful process
I can't even see the captions. Are you able to look at the different photos of her work? Maybe it's a problem at my end.
The wording in the link description "she spoke about her work, technique, inspiration and recent accolades." made me think it would be a full article.
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Commented in ‘Encyclopaedia of Ecstasy,’ incredible anarcho-goth-punk zine from 1983
Not sure if this qualifies as a 'snap', but I'm new here, so I crave your indulgence - this is material from the UK, and dates way back to 1979 ( emerging from what was 'Kill Your Puppy', finding inspiration in IT and OZ magazines, it combined the bizarre ethos of hippy, post-punk anarcho-chaos magick, and opened the way for Vague magazine ( and consequently the style of ID etc). There are a myriad of links contained within, including comments from creator Alistair Livingston and a link to his current blog. I was inspired to post this when someone mentioned the dearth of 'zines pre -1990...
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Commented in The Future Of American History
That is a really excellent question! I'm not sure I can say if it's a "valid" line of thinking or not because it stands on some really big concepts about which history does not offer clear judgements. My aim will be to give you my perspective, in hopes that you can keep thinking it over for yourself with some new ideas to consider. And, in the interests of clarity, I'll first note that globalism and globalization are different, though sometimes related, things. "Globalism" usually refers to an ideology that underpins imperial or expansionist policy, often by a group that sees controlling some or all of something in most or all of the world as its right or duty - so you're right on there. Globalization (very roughly speaking, the process of integration over time through economic, cultural, and political interactions), which I spend more time on as a concept than globalism in my courses, is much more complex but can absolutely be used as a tool or excuse for imperialist or globalist aims, despite being less centralized.
Here's my (somewhat subjective) take as an historian, which unfortunately is likely the sort of thing you mean by the "academic perspectives" you've come across: Systems are not created equal, least of all those of human origins, so comparing both human and non-human systems over time is impossible. One thing we do know about about human systems is they are rarely, if ever, illuminated by comparison with a particular ecosystem, or quantum mechanics, or whatever. That's apples and oranges - really, more like apples and the color orange - but great fun for cocktail party conversation. So, when we try to make it a fair comparison by looking at similar human governmental or economic systems at similar times/places in the past, history says that both highly centralized and decentralized-but-interdependent systems, which is how I'm interpreting your two hypotheticals, can work - and that both can fail. Neither is, historically speaking, significantly more stable or unstable, which doesn't help anybody, least of all an historian trying to be helpful. This is why most historians don't do much comparative work at the scale of large systems. Part of the problem is that comparing, say, the Ottoman Empire with the Mughal Empire, purely along the lines of their systems of government or economies, ignores the innumerable other aspects of culture, society, gender, religion, ethnicity, geography, chance, etc. that made them so different or alike in the first place. Add in the fact that for several centuries they shaped and influenced each other, drawing inspiration from their interconnected histories (globalization!), and things get murky quickly. And what about smaller-scale centralized systems within larger decentralized systems, or vice versa? What about informal/illegal modes of economic activity or territorial control that benefit the larger system despite flaunting its formal centralized/decentralized system? What I'm getting at is that human systems are messy, often dysfunctional, and almost always interconnected in mundane and surprising ways that make comparisons and pointing to a set of reasons for their success or failure damn near impossible to do in a categorical way. In general, the closest thing to an inherent reality that can be witnessed in past government or economic systems is this: both centralization and interdependence usually introduce certain broad categories of fairly predictable problems that can be ameliora...
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Commented in Jewel chest.
Thanks so much and glad you picked up on the details :) Still pondering a proper full scene idea but we will see if inspiration strikes.
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Commented in Aaron Draplin Takes On a Logo Design Challenge
This is the video I fire up when I need some design inspiration. I need that book!
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Commented in Slow Life
Indeed! Things found in the oceans are much more alien than anything portrayed in, say, mainstream sci-fi. They should use stuff like this for inspiration more often. (Tired of humanoid aliens on TV...)
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Commented in How to Say Everything in a Hundred-Word Language
I thought of the same thing as I read this article. Darmok is hands down my favorite episode of TNG! I routinely say, "Temba, his arms wide" to my husband when I'm handing him something. Even if Toki Pona wasn't the inspiration for the TNG episode, they certainly function on the same basic principles. Imagine a world in which language had no nuance - no one could get their feelings hurt because a stranger referred to them as "boy" instead of "man" (or vice versa). Although, I think it would complicate things a bit on the internet.
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Commented in How to Say Everything in a Hundred-Word Language
Was this the inspiration for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Darmok?
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Commented in Just wanted to share this site that I've found useful for my record collection.
No worries - I didn't want you to feel down about it or anything because a quick look through your activity shows you're pretty interested in music and vinyl. Check out this snapzine put together by /u/gladsdotter if you want some snap inspiration. I've been referring back to it to try and up my game with content too. :)