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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
    12·
    26 days ago

    No painters in my family but my great aunt did this tapestry which now hangs on my study wall:

    Picture

    I can’t remember which building it is.

  • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
    11·
    26 days ago

    Painted by my maternal grandmother (passed away ~25 years ago). View from their beachside Queenslander, looking past their old frangipani across Deception Bay to Bribie Island, QLD.

  • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    27 days ago

    There is a fleet of hot air balloons with ads on them flying over my house. Can’t even enjoy the morning sky without being sold stuff

    • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      27 days ago

      I’d be less annoyed if they put any effort into the designs.

      The Red Balloon one has their logo. It’s on a GIANT RED BALLOON YOU DON’T NEED THE LOGO

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        6·
        26 days ago

        They wouldn’t even be that effective as advertisements. They’re super high up and you can’t control where they go. The most charitable explanation is they take the money to cover some of the time and running costs

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
    10·
    26 days ago

    My favourite painting in the house. It was a gift and I can’t really read the artist signature so I know nothing about it and that’s fine by me.

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
    10·
    26 days ago

    I’ll post one more, this is the work of Emma Sheldrake, I’m not sure where she is based but I think we discovered her art at Manyung gallery many years ago.

  • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
    10·
    26 days ago

    So my dad’s got Parkinson’s and I thought I’d set up Assistive Access on his iPhone as he’s currently struggling to use the basic functions on his phone, eg. Messaging, email, phone etc… Man. It sucks absolute balls. Crashing randomly, scroll stuttering like it’s 2010…worst implementation of accessibility I’ve seen. If he had an Android I could just set up a custom launcher to do all this with no issue… daaaaaaaaaaaaaah

    • Cendana@aussie.zone
      3·
      26 days ago

      I found that many OS releases (not just iOS, but Windows as well, and Android to some extent) have been more buggy in the recent years.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    26 days ago

    My great-grandmother, Reta Sullivan, painted this in 1998. It’s a shack on Brighton Beach (as she wrote on the back of it).

    I got this when she passed away and we were deciding where her belongings should go. I also got one of her camphor wood chests, which is where I store my linen and towels now.

    Brighton

    Posting in response to the proposed art thread that CEO and UMG were discussing below :)

    Edit: spelled her name wrong, fuck me

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    9·
    26 days ago

    Youse were all good sports with “show me your drawers” yesterday. It goes to show the cutlery drawer can be organised but that other one with the kitchen gadgets is a lot harder due to the different shaped shit in there.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
        4·
        26 days ago

        I vote for the dreaded “pot cupboard” next. Some fancy people have pot racks. Us savages just make do with every small pot and pan stacked on top of every larger pot and pan

        • Eagle@aussie.zone
          2·
          26 days ago

          Stack your small pots in the bigger pots. Small pot lid upside down, big lid on top.

        • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          26 days ago

          Our Pot Drawers are like the worse game of Tetris anyone has ever played. At least our Pots and Frypans are all round(ish) and can stack. Our baking dishes and casseroles are all different shaped oblongs and round rectangles. Our “Tupperware” cupboard is impossible to keep organised due to the hodge-podge collection of different designs of Tupperware, Sistema, Decōr and random brands of plastic containers that have collected over the years.

        • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          4·
          26 days ago

          I don’t really ever put my clothes away. I dress simple and don’t have anything fancy, so it just gets washed, put in a basket, then left on top of my dresser or sometimes in the corner of my bedroom. Then I just grab and go

          • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
            4·
            26 days ago

            I do put everything away but I just end up wearing the same things nearly everyday anyway. Just grab what ever’s on top. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      4·
      26 days ago

      That’s why I like this Joseph Joseph garlic crusher I bought. It’s a kitchen gadget, but it’s just a curved but of stainless steel. It doesn’t take up much space and it can’t break compared to other kitchen stuff you can buy

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      2·
      26 days ago

      I missed all the show me your drawers, show me your art stuff yesterday. Damn it, I had some good interesting art too.

      Edit: oh, you’re still deciding. Just ignore me, I’m catching up on this thread sorted from “oldest” just ignore me lol.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    27 days ago

    The majority of guitar content online is advertising.

    Consumerism has left a wound in music making.

    Edit: It’s my last weekend before going back to work and I refuse to go to bed till 4am.

    • indisin@aussie.zone
      5·
      27 days ago

      Those rabbit holes are also how you end up on waiting lists for things to be available in AU and/or scouring for ways to get them to you.

      So I don’t disagree with you.

      Pre edits: the colour of that Gibson was stunning though yah?

      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
        8·
        27 days ago

        Here’s my issue:

        I’m tired of being marketed to. At every Junction. No, I don’t give 5 fucks that some new distortion pedal makes you sound like this person or that.

        It’s the infection of capitalism in art. There’s nothing wrong with gathering the tools you need. But there’s a point at which you are no longer a creator, but a consumer of gear.

        I’ve fallen to it in the past. Massive pedalboard. Every fancy new pedal. And for me, in the end, it was a hindrance more than anything.

        I’m so utterly tired of being constantly being sold something. Where “content creators” are ad men in a new skin for a new era.

        The faux excitement. The bullshit spiel about how this piece of whatever is going to make me x, y or z. Its all a scam.

        There is a section of musicians that are basically gear collectors. It’s poison to the creative spirit. And I know how wanky that sounds.

        Like I said. It’s a wound. And like any wound, it spreads an infection. The idea that without this thing or that, you can’t make the music you want to.

        That you NEED this thing otherwise you’re missing out.

        Fuck. That.

        /Rant.

        • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          27 days ago

          Sounds like cosmetic and weight loss products advertising for women. Over the years I have taken serious comfort by recalling Socrates’ comment when walking through the Athenian marketplace - ‘It’s wonderful how many things there are in the world that I neither need nor want’. A wise man.

        • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
          2·
          26 days ago

          Funny you say that, because I have a friend who’s fallen victim to advertising for beauty products. We walked into a makeup store, and suddenly she knows everything about every product, and all the claims that people have made about them. Scary shit.

        • indisin@aussie.zone
          2·
          27 days ago

          Same page mate, and to reply to all that properly would be an over a beer chat at a random local gig where none of that applies as people are being genuine and not like what you’ve described.

    • indisin@aussie.zone
      2·
      27 days ago

      Replying to your edit and pfft, 4am is baby numbers. You’ve got a “oh shit the birds have stopped singing and and people are out jogging” night in you. I believe in you.

    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      26 days ago

      Same with DIY. “You can repair this using just a screwdriver, file and hammer: here is how I did it with an industrial workshop of tools, sponsored by…”

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    9·
    26 days ago

    My MIL started painting this the day she retired

    This doesn’t look like much but it’s sentimental. My FIL was also quite the artist and he was working on this when he died and never got to finish it. It was of a man with an umbrella and a small boy on a very windy day

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    9·
    26 days ago

    not really artistic but something interesting I’ve had for a long time, a hand painted framed tile

    it very much uses the same symbology as soviet posters and every single idea in this pic is a lie . I look at it every now and then and think about it. I wonder if the soviets believed it.

    pretty sure 1985 was during the Soviet Afghan War

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    8·
    26 days ago

    Starting planting stuff out in the nu-bed.

    So far marigolds, geraniums, poppies (flanders red), petunias, dietes, some sort of daisy. so good to not have to weed it (until next week probably heh). Personally I’d prefer more random placement (not in distinct rows), but I got my way with doing a bunch of different stuff instead of mass planting so we’ll take it.