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Art, music & literary gems. ✨ Made with love & alt-text 💗 I'm a visual artist, musician (🎸 + 🎛️) & researcher. Profile art is my own. #modernart #writing #music #jazz #photography #creativity #blacksky #artsky

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Nov 25

“Frida Kahlo with Magenta Rebozo” (1939) by Nickolas Muray 🌺

Muray & Kahlo were longtime lovers & friends. After Frida received this photo, she wrote to him:

“You will always be inside the magenta rebozo (on the left side).”

#art #artsky #photogrgaphy #portrait #frida #fridakahlo #love #beauty

Color print of a photo showing Frida Kahlo standing against a soft off white wall corner with her arms holding each other, looking at the camera while wearing a loose white top and red covering around her neck and shoulders, a and textured purple dress.

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Kenji C Liu • Fine art prints & originals • Commissions open @kenjiliu-art.bsky.social · 28d

I'm running out of storage space! Looking to donate some older, large-ish paintings to your home, office, or organization's wall. Will deliver if within LA. DM for details!

@artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jul 17

The details: futurism.com/companies-fi...

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jul 17

lol. lmao

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes
Oopsie.
JUL 6, 6:00 AM EDT

by

NOOR AL-SIBAI

(Image of a clown with yellow background)

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jul 17

Their animations are amazing! Very good writing in their videos too.

Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hex codes here:

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coolors.co/palette/011b...

Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jul 16

Gorgeous palette in this viral YouTube video thumbnail. Very summer-autumn.

#artsky #color #palette #art #design #thumbnail

A stylized cartoon image of a young woman in a red hoodie blowing smoke while looking wide-eyed and dazed. The word “WEED” is written in bold white letters at the top of the frame. The background features glowing stars, green smoke clouds, and a dark-blue sky. Several white-circled sampling points are overlaid on the image to indicate extracted colors. Below, a color palette bar displays swatches ranging from deep navy and maroon to bright pink, orange, yellow, mint green, emerald, and dark blue.

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hex codes:

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jul 16

Sampled these colors from a viral YouTube thumbnail. Brown and blue are such an underrated pairing.

Hex codes below 👇

#artsky #color #palette #art #design #thumbnail

A stylized, high-contrast image shows a young man holding a microphone, lit with cool blue and soft pink lighting. His face is partially lit, with one eye looking forward and the other obscured. Behind him, a large, semi-transparent close-up of his own face fills the background in vivid blue tones, creating a layered, introspective visual effect. Several white circles mark points of color sampling. Below the image is a color palette bar displaying a gradient of sampled colors, ranging from black and maroon to light pink, lavender, deep blues, and bright cyan.

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jun 17

Photo by Yusuke Maekawa.

#photography #photographysky #japan
#zzzn #sleep #apparel #osaka

Photo of a woman's head and shoulders, closing her eyes and resting, clad in a futuristic powder blue puffy jacket with circuits, small lights and wires attached.

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jun 15

Oh that’s wonderful — I didn’t realize he was on here!

Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jun 15

Amazing work by Lebanese illustrator Tracy Chahwan in the New York Times this week. This accompanies a review of the new crime thriller by SA Cosby, King of Ashes.

The review is here: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/b...

#illustration #art #artsky #litsky #booksky #thriller

Woodblock style illustration in deep maroon with blood-orange, cream-orange and yellow-orange lines and highlights, showing a man walking toward a distant house with smoke billowing from its chimney, his shadow stretching in front of him, and two other shadows stretching across the ground next to his own, one pointing a smoking gun. Illustration by Tracy Chahwan for the New York Times

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jun 13

“Today’s class — CMS.303/803/21M.365 (DJ History, Technique, and Technology) — takes students to the 1970s, which means disco, funk, rhythm and blues, and the breaks that form the foundation of early hip-hop are in the mix.”

news.mit.edu/2025/mixing-...
#musicsky #dj

Mixing beats, history, and technology

MIT research scientist, game designer, DJ, and alumnus Philip Tan teaches the course CMS.303/803/21M.365 (DJ History, Technique, and Technology) at MIT.

news.mit.edu

Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jun 12

“I grew to love him as a person, and for me, he was the biggest influence on my songwriting ever; he was a musical genius and revolutionary. He changed the goalposts when it came to writing songs and shaped music forever. A true giant.”

— Elton John

apnews.com/article/bria...

#musicsky #music

Paul McCartney, Mike Love, Carnie Wilson, Elton John react to the death of Brian Wilson

Paul McCartney, Mike Love, Carnie Wilson, Elton John and more celebrities are sharing their sorrow on the death of Brian Wilson.

apnews.com

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jun 10

We lost a true musical legend. RIP Sly Stone 🙏🏽
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CMBI...
#musicsky #music #bayarea

Remembering Vallejo's Sly Stone, leader of Sly and the Family Stone

YouTube video by NBC Bay Area

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jun 9

Frog and Toad origami paper set

Photo of a Frog and Toad origami set, with Japanese text and images of frog and toad

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jun 4

Didn’t***

Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Jun 4

Don’t know I needed this but now I can never go back

A massive stack of oversized memo notes, next to a hand on a desk

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · May 13

I took this picture with one hand while holding a tricycle and rushing to the car and it turned out perfect somehow.

#nature #photography #flowers #summer

Close up photo of a small sunflower-shaped flower with soft yellow petals and a radiating orange center, with shade and sunlight falling on it.

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · May 8

I’m trying not to overlook the small pockets of beauty and peace that are planted around me. Like this one today.

Overhead photo of a cylindrical container full of short colored pencils, which bloom outward from the center.

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · May 3

Life continues 🍃

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · Apr 29

[Iwao Takamoto was BOTD 100 years ago. He studied art in the Manzanar Internment Camp and later went to work for Disney and Hanna-Barbera. He directed CHARLOTTE'S WEB (1973) and designed (among many others) Astro, Muttley, and Scooby-Doo.]

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · Apr 2

Done. Let me know what you think?

TIDAL WETLANDS, Acrylic, 16x16” ©️2025 Jim Musil #art #painting

JimMusil.com/originals/p/tidal-wetlands

This is a fun simple composition with the winding river providing the visual path to a richly colored sky. The contrast between those rich saturated colors of the sky and the deep dark greens of the marsh create a lot of drama and impact.

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Feb 16

This is beautiful.

Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Feb 16

Thank you — I started using alt text a few years ago on Twitter and it’s just an easy habit now. Hope more people do it too. Always a good time to start 👍🏽

Ed Buziak / Artist @artbuzz.bsky.social · Feb 16

Hello, I looked through your stream and have added you to a new Starter Pack “Artists using alt.text” which hopefully will reach 50 for release in a couple of weeks. I'm trying to encourage alt.text use and after listing 100+ photographers on my other thread I'm doing the same for artists.

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · Feb 13

“You are the sky. Everything else — it’s just the weather.”

Pema Chödrön

Black and white photo of Pema Chödrön from the shoulder up, in recent years / older age, looking to the camera and slightly smiling, wearing her traditional Buddhist nun’s robe / attire.

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