First thing, milk paint is essentially a myth… I have never seen anything called ‘milk paint’ advertised in period publications (of the nineteenth century), it doesn’t show up on probate inventories or other historical records and is apparently entirely a made up 20th century idea.
— Stephen A. Shepherd, “Shellac, Linseed Oil, & Paint” (Full Chisel Press, 2011)

The milk paint used for in-door work dries in about an hour, and the oil which is employed in preparing it entirely loses its smell in the state to which it is reduced by its union with the lime. One coating will be sufficient for places that are already covered with any colour….
— Henry Carey Baird, “The painter, gilder, and varnisher’s manual …” (M. Taylor – London, 1836)

In a video that’s swiftly gone viral, Wicks asks his wife, Rosie, to save him some of the breast milk she’s expressing on their way to a Taylor Swift gig. The next clip sees Wicks gladly knocking back a cup of the stuff and beaming with glee. His review? “Like natural vanilla milk. The energy and nutrients in that is unbelievable!” he tells the camera. “I wouldn’t have it on me porridge or cereal, but it’s nice for a little shot now and again.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/mother-selling-breast-milk-men-online-body-builders-fetishes-rafaela-lamprou-cyprus-a8237161.html

She said: “I have no idea what they do with it but they tell me they consume it.”

In her book Troll Nation, Amanda Marcotte argues that owning the libs is so central to the political right that any effort to show care and concern for the well-being of others, or even for oneself, is viewed as suspiciously liberal. She gives the example of rolling coal, the practice of illegally modifying a diesel pickup truck to produce clouds of black smoke.^[22][23] Exhaust from rolling coal is sometimes directed at drivers of fuel-efficient cars and cyclists, in order to offend their presumed liberal environmentalist values. Marcotte argues that rolling coal has no value outside of trolling liberals. It costs the coal-roller money, increases fuel consumption, can void the warranty of their vehicle, and may violate air-pollution laws. Hence, Marcotte argues, rolling coal is an expensive and counterproductive way to misconstrue environmentalism as an identity marker instead of a policy matter

To produce all of our sheep milk cheese, we rely on East Friesian sheep. Native to northern Germany, they are the most productive dairy sheep in the world. The East Friesian produces roughly around 300-600 litres of milk per season and are a valuable asset to our farm.

To help us produce a hardier milking sheep we have also introduced the Lleyn breed. Native to the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales,they are more robust and have great maternal instincts.

I have often wondered what Smithson might have made of McCracken’s monolithic oddities circa 1966, or the uncannily leaning planks that soon followed, had these inspired him to write as he did on Judd’s work in the essay “The Crystal Land.”¹⁰ Noting the discrepancy between Judd’s insistently rational accounts and his eccentrically fabricated specific objects, Smithson allows that “the first time I saw Don Judd’s ‘pink plexiglas box,’ it suggested a giant crystal from another planet.” McCracken shares much of Smithson’s otherworldly sight, his metaphysical yearning. Yet he diverges from Smithson’s recourse to transcendence, from the notion that worldly physical and historical experience might be surpassed by a crystalline entropy. McCracken’s metaphysics does not end in eschatology but in empathy.

My misrecognition was symptomatic of a tendency among artists who, through the use of a relatively humble toolkit and their own brains and muscles, identify with the wanderer, the vagrant, the scrap collector. There is a false homology between the wandering, working artist and the wandering, working worker. It’s an identification that can only ever (affectively) flow one way, and smoothes over sharp economic differences. 

 

I am an artist in my free time, and I work so that I may have free time. The money I make from working does not support an extravagant practice, so I look for ways to work with low-cost, at-hand materials, at scales which can be stored in my apartment. These are political economic decisions I make which are determined by the jobs I hold, and the amount of space and money I have. Walking, looking, and even gambling are activities charged with pathos, but our imaginaries of these activities are one-sided when we abstract away all the particular economic determinants which compel them, however enjoyable they may be.

matt browning gandt show

Real barn country 

some cottagecore from the summer 

dad 198?

incredibly proud and delighted to announce third prize placing in Tregaron show painting craft category