So my dad's got Parkinson's and I thought I'd set up Assistive Access on his iPhone as he's currently struggling to use the basic functions on his phone, eg. Messaging, email, phone etc.... Man. It sucks absolute balls. Crashing randomly, scroll stuttering like it's 2010....worst implementation of accessibility I've seen. If he had an Android I could just set up a custom launcher to do all this with no issue.... daaaaaaaaaaaaaah
No artists in my family, but I grabbed this for my 35th birthday
Sorry for the bad photo.
not really artistic but something interesting I've had for a long time, a hand painted framed tile
it very much uses the same symbology as soviet posters and every single idea in this pic is a lie . I look at it every now and then and think about it. I wonder if the soviets believed it.
pretty sure 1985 was during the Soviet Afghan War
Did something I've been putting off for a little while and climbed up on a chair to stick cable clip things onto the wall. Since I can't climb under the house, my current solution for whisking ethernet into my room is to run it along the "cornice" as TIL it's called, then using a flat type ethernet cable, running it underneath my bedroom door, then the "architrave" as TIL it's called. I'm not good at cable management, so it's going to be a bit messy
weight/diet
I'm still hanging on. I had a couple of cravings yesterday. I didn't cave and stuck to a fairly large deficit. I worked out a rough short term plan last night as well
E: nahhh I need a siesta. I'm taking a nap
No painters in my family but my great aunt did this tapestry which now hangs on my study wall:
Picture
I can't remember which building it is.
I've been there and I can't remember which city. Antwerp perhaps
Nah it's Melbourne.
Something small I bought at the Vic markets about 20 years ago.
Dragon
I bought this when I was 17. Itโs done by a Native American artist who I canโt remember the name of but I want to say she was Navajo?
I kind of regret framing it, because the texture was so niceโฆ
Oh wow so cool, I e never seen a framed one before
Just had a shower and headed outside and I'm dripping with sweat straight away. It's hottttt and humidddd yuck
As requested. Set of anniversary cards
And
::: spoiler NSFW blood
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Hook suspension is crazy but I find it so so intriguing!
Oh man. Iโve done some good stuff in the past but itโs too personal or identifiable to post, and now Iโve hit a really bad art block due to really struggling with life. :(
talking about tech stuff.
So I have a stereo I like to connect to with bluetooth so I can play videos and stuff on my PC through it.
After about 3 hours the stereo starts to stutter. Since the issue was only after a few hours of use I reckoned it was the device cache so would restart to clear the cache and that works. But I thought it must be something i'm doing wrong, I have the settings wrong, etc.
Nope, after much reading of instructions it's the cache.
I might not be expert but I try to be competent. ๐
Ol' girl painted this years ago. One of my faves.
It evokes so many questions.
Wow, that's really good! I absolutely love it - your family has so many talents!
Oh, sheโs GOOD
Thatโs fantastic! Your mum has a lot of talent
Agree with everyone else that is excellent. I get strong feelings from it
I really like that one
Oh that's just beautiful. I love the contrast of blue and orange, and the figures and their shadows. It's spectacular! ๐
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A bag of ice to put in my backpack while I'm running errands pls
More dry toast plz. Iโm getting thereโฆ
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I'll get a banh mi, heavy on the patรฉ and chilli thanks.
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My great-grandmother, Reta Sullivan, painted this in 1998. It's a shack on Brighton Beach (as she wrote on the back of it).
I got this when she passed away and we were deciding where her belongings should go. I also got one of her camphor wood chests, which is where I store my linen and towels now.
Brighton
Posting in response to the proposed art thread that CEO and UMG were discussing below :)
Edit: spelled her name wrong, fuck me
Ooh nice!
Doing this tech support for old people really goes to show how hard phones and apps actually are to use.
Features are hidden behind things like long taps. Tapping on someone's profile photo brings up stories instead of their profile. A person's Facebook profile looms different to their messenger profile.
And maybe it's because I've never owned an iphone but I don't find them initiative at all. There are times I can't figure out how to exit out of something or how to bring a screen back up compared to all the android phones I've had
I hate iPhones and apple products. My first apple product was a second hand iPhone and I found it so hard. Next phone was android and I've never looked back. Android feels more like a PC interface, and I find it waaaaay more intuitive than iOS. Maybe in dumb, but iOS is so hard for me to use.
Besides, I really like the customisation of Android, it's feels more mine.
I hate apple tv with a passion. If people are foolish they install all their other apps, ie, tv stations, onto apple and then they have to go thru extra layers of button pushing on apple to just watch a netflix or abc show or movie. Also, the apple remote is the worst, it requires great manual dexterity and precision to select anything .
I'm very good with tech, I read instructions carefully, I look up the faqs as well. I just hate useless tech for the sake of tech. I keep it simple.
The problem is most buyers of phones and tvs don't realise they aren't buying a phone or tv, they are buying a device with many many functions .
The stereos of the 80s that had a hundred functions still had simple on off switches , basic functions were simple, and few people used the hundred functions. The buttons were just a selling point.
Now you need to go through hoops to use a phone or tv for the simplest function and if people are anything like my husband they love to add gadgets and extra layers of functions, making it even harder. It's nearly impossible to ignore the hundred buttons.
They just want to call someone up, to answer a call or watch their favourite tv show. And that's how I would teach it. Just the most basic uses they want, then when they are familiar with that then maybe add some more functions.
The other thing is signing up / logging in for various things and the many many hoops you have to jump through sometimes. They get frustrated and quickly. I always point out to the p's that there's no point getting frustrated at inanimate things, take a breath, someone else has likely had the same problem, and we'll work it out.
They can fuck off with logging in for everything.
Starting planting stuff out in the nu-bed.
So far marigolds, geraniums, poppies (flanders red), petunias, dietes, some sort of daisy. so good to not have to weed it (until next week probably heh). Personally I'd prefer more random placement (not in distinct rows), but I got my way with doing a bunch of different stuff instead of mass planting so we'll take it.
Ok guys. Show me your artwork or something interesting that's on your wall.
This is on my garage door
Refresh and see above lol!!
That is epic!!!
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