MAY 9, 2024 GRACE EBERT
āTerracotta.ā All images Ā© Sam Rodriguez
Sam Rodriguez sorts his works into three categories: nouns, verbs, and typography. Nouns comprises his portraits that zero in on a singular person and their expressions, while verbs takes a step back to portray figures in action. Typography is more abstract and centers on letterforms and graphics informed by Rodriguezās early forays into graffiti.
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These classifications help the San JosĆ©-based illustrator ābring order to the chaos of making art,ā freeing him to focus on the stories he wants to tell. Employing bold, chromatic palettes, Rodriguez superimposes symbols, signs, typography, cartoons, and patterns atop his subjects as a means of expression. The frenzied additions visualize the sittersā unseen preoccupations and interests, whether it be a childhood love for Dragon Ball or verdant, cabbage-like clusters sprouting from a figureās eyes.[…]
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More: Frenzied Symbols and Vibrant Vignettes Overlay Sam Rodriguez’s Figurative Illustrations ā Colossal
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Practically the moment the familiar vowel symbols for British English were published, they plummeted drastically out of fashion. This video explains how and why.
0:00 Introduction
1:04 MyHeritage
2:45 A. C. Gimson’s book
5:33 The 1960’s
10:30 Advanced RP
14:02 Beautiful working class?
16:18 Satirizing RP
17:35 Stigmatization of poshness
18:08 Relaxing the front vowels
20:00 What didn’t change
21:46 The fate of the term ‘RP’
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MAY 8, 2024 KATE MOTHES
āColtivazione del SĆ©ā (2021), Cassino, Italy. All images Ā© ONIRO
Greenery abounds in the large-scale murals of Italian artist ONIRO, who often focuses on themes of interconnectedness and balance, especially between humans and the natural world. In āColtivazione del SeĢ,ā or āself-cultivation,ā a human form emerges from the leaves and shadows of a burgeoning plant, while an opening of sky between branches reveals a facial silhouette in an untitled mural on an olive oil processing workshop.
āOrganismo ā Cuoreā (2022), Comune di Castagneto Carducci, Italy
In 2022, ONIRO completed an ambitious series that links three neighboring communities along the Via Aurelia, an ancient Roman artery in Italy constructed around 241 B.C.E. that remains a busy commercial thoroughfare today. āEach mural is a necessary part for the others, like organs that form an organism, and which as a whole has a greater value than the sum of the individual parts,ā the artist says.[…]
Detail of āColtivazione del SeĢā
oin word nerds Jess and Rob as they uncover English’s unpaired words, lost positives and orphaned negatives. Why can you be “nonchalant” but not “chalant”? If something perfect is “immaculate”, what does it mean to be “maculate”? And if you’re no longer “exasperated” are you therefore “asperated”? Find out in this edition of Words Unravelled.
šLISTEN: https://podfollow.com/words-unravelle…
or search for “Words Unravelled” wherever you get your podcasts.
==LINKS==
Rob’s YouTube channel:
/ robwords
Jess’ Useless Etymology blog: https://uselessetymology.com/
Rob on X: x.com/robwordsyt
Jess on TikTok: tiktok.com/@jesszafarris
Thanks to Martyn Williams for the music and continued support.
#etymology #wordfacts #English
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