Kamisaka Sekka From 1000 Butterflies, “Chō senshu”, 1903
restored prints
Been playing a ton of Elden Ring.
Moon (Jun. 24, 2021)
A Long Goodbye - Peter Ern
Swedish, b.1965-
oil on canvas,, 80 x 120 cm
Tin-enamelled earthenware tile with a design of a hare amongst foliage (Mexico, circa 1700).
Image and text information courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.
sanrio nails
“Parrots eating earth.” By Brian Ralphs, CC BY 2.0
Help yourselves to more, please. Take a plate or two when you go. Finish all of it.
Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness
A new bill before Brazil’s Congress proposes cutting out the state of Mato Grosso from the country’s legally defined Amazon region to allow greater deforestation there for agribusiness.
Under the bill, known as PL 337, requirements to maintain Amazonian vegetation in the state at 80% of a rural property’s area, and 35% for Cerrado vegetation, would be slashed to just 20% for both.
The approval of the bill would allow for an increase in deforestation of at least 10 million hectares (25 million acres) — an area the size of South Korea — and exempt farmers from having to restore degraded areas on their properties.
Environmental law specialists warn that the departure of Mato Grosso from under the administrative umbrella of the Legal Amazon would set off a domino effect encouraging the eight other states in the region to push for similar bills.
“Well a cockroach can survi—” yes but for how long, and to what end? “Can” is not a good metric for “must.” And also? People aren’t fucking insects.
when the only way out is through
BRAZIL. Aerial view of Rio and the Guanabara Bay. 1966. (by Bruno Barbey)