Women's work

Google's doodle today is for International Women's Day.

It shows a series of women's arms doing various things: writing, science, being an artist, winning the Nobel prize*, voting, singing, typing, making a political speech, climbing a mountain, conducting an orchestra, getting a degree, making a film, being a judge, astronaut, pilot, animator, footballer, photographer, architect, etc...

I'm glad that women have so many opportunities today.

But I was disappointed that, in all the pictures, there was not a single domestic thing represented. No cooking. No cleaning. No childcare.

Are women not worth celebrating when they're doing stereotypically 'feminine' things? The things that no-one will particularly notice, or applaud them for?

"Honour her for all that her hands have done,
    and let her works bring her praise at the city gate."

Proverbs 31v31 (emphasis mine)

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*At least, some medal like that

Unusual sky

 

It was better in real life

Etymological Coincidence 🤔

I naturally assumed that the words emoticon :-) and emoji ☺️ came from the same roots.

BUT according to the Oxford English Dictionary, emoticon is a "blend of emotion and icon"

Emoji, on the other hand, is Japanese, "from e ‘picture’ + moji ‘letter, character’"

Some coincidence! :-o 😯

Space

I thought I needed to do some art just for the sake of it - not for anything at all.
Came across a photo of a painting I did in school, so I thought I'd see if I could do it better now.😁

I've changed as little as possible, but I have made it a flat plain, because that's how it was meant to be. My teacher got me to add the hills to show distance, but now that I'm grown up I can do it how I want! ('Can' as in allowed to, but also as in am able to.)

It's not easy to do a picture with dark sky during daytime - presumably meaning there is very little atmosphere. I'm really not sure how that would affect the lighting, particularly the aerial perspective.

Done in Clip Studio. I think my settings may have been a bit wrong, because the paint never dried, which was interesting to work with...

Not going to get a job as a concept artist any time soon, but it was fun!

 

Many books*

These were all piled up beside my bed. Maybe I should put them back on their shelves

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*Also a few DVDs

An easy way to write profound (?) music

 This is a fun toy.

With a bit of trial you could actually get something reasonable sounding - but even a quick play sounds not bad.

'Help'

If you want to help someone, it's a good idea to check if what you are planning to do will actually be helpful to them.

Otherwise, you may put them in the awkward position of having things made more difficult and stressful, but having to be grateful for it.