When I was working on Before I Grow Up,my original intention was for it to be an environmental piece but the composition didn’t work out so I redrew it in this version.
Months ago I was walking down the street after it had just rained and saw the reflection of the city in the puddles. The way it glimmered looked like fresh paint and made me wonder what it would be like to repaint the reflection of a city. What would I change? What would the future generations wish we had changed?
In other news, I’ll be at Fanime this May 22-25 in the San Jose Convention Center. As usual, I’ll be in the Artist Alley (table 623) with prints :) I hope to see you there!
Love this! lets promote the message guys :)
Beautiful!!! I agree. We needa take care of our planet guys. Its unfair for our children to leave them and ourselves with a world that is polluted.
I’ve cut my menstrual cup’s ring! And it feels much better now ;) I’ve had an continuous feel of it poking me and it was irritating my vagina, now I can’t feel it at all ;)
I wanted to wait with cutting the stim utill I get comfortable with inserting and pulling out my cup. I adapted to this quickly ;)
I’m also considering buying a bit smaller cup, but for now this one is okay.
Today I made a tortilla dough for the first time in my life! Until now I have been buying ready flours in supermarkets. By making it at home I avoided unwanted packaging and ingredients :)
I upcycled a wooden crate using paints that I don’t use anymore and old bubble wrap (I couldn’t find another foil). I put some potting soil inside it and planted some seeds… now I’m looking forward to planting lots of herbs inside my house! Okay, I’m joking, for now it is just a basil ;)
My motivation? I got really irritated with buying basil spice in paper bags every month… you know the small bags you can find in (I guees) every shop. I’ve also seen same looking basil being sold in plastic bottles (similar to ketchup bottles), what’s wrong with people? Anyway, I’m a person who uses a lot of basil while cooking and I’ve finally decided I want to grow it myself. But I have a large garden so why did I plant it in a crate? I wanted to check how it is to plant food inside ;)
By the way, I mentioned a bubble wrap. If you obtain it somehow, don’t throw it out! Always try to reuse bubble wrap, I always collect it and if I have to I use it to pack another package ;) Here are some ideas what you can do with bubble wrap:
Use it to cover wooden crate similar to mine and make your own potting crate ;)
You can use it for window isolation (it is useful especially in winter)
Simply use it to secure what you need
Make a frottage! Cover the wrap with paint and make a stamp
Or use it in a collage! (maybe it won’t save the planet but it’s fun…)
Make some beads! I’m absolutely amazed by the idea!
Of course pre-owned from someone who didn’t want to keep it. My pyjama is completely worn out and I became to hate sleeping wearing it. And the second onesie is used by me as party costume, I rarely sleep in it.
I doubt if I’ll become a minimalist someday. Or a true zero waster. But I swear I’m trying to live more sustainably and I’m doing best I can do.
At this point in my life I’m in continuous confusion and I must face many stressful events in the next few months. More and more often I feel anxious and alone with problems. Sometimes I even feel suicidal.
As i mentioned last time I’m getting rid of 1000 things in 2020 in order to more minimalist lifestyle. I decided to make my own rules (but remember I don’t want it to be very difficult!) ;)
I count things that I throw away, donate, sell and give away.
I don’t throw out if I can donate, sell or give away.
Also if I can renovate or upcycle something I do it and decide what to do next.
If I persuade somebody living with me under the same roof to get rid of something that we don’t use - I count it.
I count things as pair of boots as one item, but for example jewellery which can be worn separately as two items.
I count packagings of cosmetics that I can use up (for example body lotions, I still have a few in packagings).
I also count new things that I obtain and will compare it in the end of the year.
I’ll do a sum up and share with you my progress every month ;)
To be honest I’m not even sure if I’ll find 1000 things to get rid of :D Let’s see what will happen ;)
A video made by the graduating class of 2013 at the United World College in Norway- one of the 12 schools in the system of international boarding schools that I attended. I went to the school in New Mexico, but the same feeling of cultural unity, openness, and exploration is shared between them all and this video reminds me of how wonderful those two years were :)
The most known effect of Climate Change is the gradient of temperature and the fact that the ice of the poles melts but what are sideeffects of this gradient?
The rising of temperature effects the activities of animals, their obsolescence and their reproduction. Their ability of rivalry and their trophicrelation. Furthermore animals will leave their old habitat and search for a new one because they aren’t adapted to their old one and an adaption is needed to survive.
Of course, the ice will melt too and their habitat gets smaller and smaller wich is also a cause to leave it. Besides the number of rainfall will change and the sea level will rise. And the absence of ice will lead to erosion of the coasts.
But what will happen to the animals? Let’s have a closer look at an example.
This is krill, the most important organism in the polare seas. It’s nutriment to most nearly every creature in the antarctica, dircetly or indirectly.
Krill eats phytoplankton which lives under massive ice. If the ice melts there will be a a big leck in the offer of nutriment for the krill wich will lead to a high number of deaths of the krill. Furthermore the rising absorption of carbon dioxide will make the oceans acid. The shell of krill is made of calcium wich is the reason why the acid sea can destroy the shells easier and baby krill die more often because their shells can’t be build.
The missing of krill has an huge effect of every creature on the antarctica. Orcas eat seals. Seals eats cods. Cods eat herrings. Herrings eat krill. And there isn’t enough krill out there. So ther won’t be enough herrings. Consequently there won’t be enough cods. Consequently there won’t be enough seals. Consequently there won’t be enough Orcas. Huge networks of nutriment will collapse and the ecosystem will be destroyed.
Climate Change has an huge impact of the life of millions out there. It isn’t just bad for humans but it will be the decline of millions of millions of organism.
What should humans do?
make laws about fishing in polare seas
use environmentally friendly methodes of fishing which don’t destroy the habitats
don’t use routes which lead through habitats directly
avoid harvaries (yes, nobody does it intentional)
avoid tourism in arctic zones because people will detroy habitats, disturb animals, destroy organism and bring in different creatures to the habitats wich will have an negative impacts on it
create ‘nationalpark’ zones to protect the nature
stop Climate change
What shoul you do?
eat less fish (which was caught near the antarctica)
reduce the waste of plastics
try different methodes to stop Climate Change like saving energy or stop pollution
spreadthe message by sharing this post, telling your friends or posting about the climate crisis too
Ecosystems around the globe need us to save them because we are the ones who will kill them slowly.
I keep reading things like this and i keep hearing things like “we have to save the planet” and “humans are destroying our planet” but guess what? Nobody wants to do it.
Nobody wants to use less palm oil, plastics and so on. Nobody wants to do something different than liking posts on Instagram and keep telling how good all the anti climate change protests are.
And it fucks me up because we need to do something. And everyone is we.
I’ve got friends who tell me how bad the use if palm oil is and that we need to stop to cut down the rainforest and those friends are eating Nutella at the same time.
I’ve got friends who tell me how great Friday For Future is and how important this idea is but guess what, those friends are wearing the lastest clothes and do absolutly nothing but talk about how evil humans are.
I do not want to say i am a better person but i keep trying and i want to make a change.
And so can you. Everybody is able to help our planet. Everybody can save it!!! Stop talking and start doing it.
(Same time ago i posted about how you can help our planet.)
Stop being someone who says “the humans are destroying the earth” and start recognizing that we are destroying the earth - but we can change it. There is still hope.
