“Have an uncomfortable mind; be strange. Be disturbed: by what is happening on the planet, and to it; by the cruelty, and stupidity humanity is capable of; by the unbearable beauty of certain music, and the mysteries and failures of love, and the brief, confusing, exhilarating hour of your own life.”
There’s a good number of sailing tattoos – decoration and bragging rights! It’s a fairly antiquated tradition, but tall ship sailors tend to really like antiquated tradition. Here’s a quick guide to some of the more common ones! I’ve seen half the ones on here just between my first three crews alone. They’re not taken too seriously, but some are still points of pride.
Oh hey, that’s my art! This image gets shared around a fair bit without context, so if you’re curious about more seafaring traditions, check out Baggywrinkles, my series of comics about living on an 18th-century sailing vessel in the present day!
This poster was originally drawn for an exhibit at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, and has since toured to a number of tall ship-related locations. If you’d like to see the poster in its current home, stop by the San Diego Maritime Museum.
(You can also get prints of this image in my shop, if you’re into that sort of thing.)
At night, Lewis Miller takes to the streets with startling flower displays, installed guerrilla style on subway entrances and construction sites.
What am I doing outside at 5am again
They are talking to the author of a book, “It’s Better than It Looks”, about the state of current affairs, on the radio, and though I know it will play into my confirmation bias about how if one were to look at numbers and facts rather than emotions, things are better than ever, I should go and check it out.
“Libraries, archives, and museums all find themselves at the intersection of materiality and the mystical. Perhaps this is why we’re so quiet when we enter them.”
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