I did it!!
But it's only a tricky one so it doesn't count.
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 9th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 17 minutes
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Wilfrid L
@wilfridl@wehavecookies.social
mastodon 4.7.3Artist who is currently getting backing into creating after my art took a back seat when I started my business several years ago.
I'm currently painting in oils, making contemporary art photos and I also have a selection of photos of interesting things I see while on my travels, mostly around the London.
My art prints can be found here ---> https://www.createdrops.com/wilfrid-l
You can buy some of my #LightUponPhotos here ---> https://www.createdrops.com/light-upon-photos
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Whatever comes of the #GreenParty's #ZionismIsRacism motion it demonstrates why member-led parties are so important.
Because it was a members' vote that passed the motion, it doesn't matter if the media hound #Polanski and get him removed because even with a new party leader, the motion will still stand. It's not a case of getting rid of #Corbyn to kill the movement. The movement is part of a grassroots process, not a top-down policy.
This is what #YourParty was meant to be before Corbyn's faction tried to turn it into Labour 2.0 and killed off what could have been something great.
So this motion is a big deal. Even if it doesn't cause any immediate material changes it tells members of the public that it is OK to oppose Zionism. And it's a motion that won't easily go away because it's the members who pushed for it, not individual politicians whose career can be destroyed.
Who on Fedi is also on #UpScrolled?
I'm enjoying UpScrolled. A real community there.
This interview with #MatthewCollings really resonated with me.
It surprised me that he is now an art world pariah, yet it doesn't surprise me. It's kind of shocking to hear someone confirm what you know is how things work.
I fairly recently started making art again after around ten years of running a business and I relate to Collings describing his liberation of rediscovered something he loves. He talks of being true to yourself and just making the art you want to make.
I've looked at art competitions to get my work seen, and I recoiled when I read the prize for one competition was to win a solo art show. Ten years ago if someone had offered me a solo show I would have jumped at the chance. Now, I find the idea repellent. I really could not care less about doing that, but that is liberating.
For me, I would be happy just selling work online - for people to see it, like it, and buy it. I really don't care about impressing art world insiders and having a grand solo show.
And really, all that matters is making the art you want to make. I enjoy looking at art and going to exhibitions, but the art world seems an almost impenetrable place where you have to build up a following, make friends, and be a sycophant. It doesn't seem necessary to do all that unless you want super stardom, unless you want to be remembered as one of the greats.
And maybe it's because I run my own business that I know now that you can make money by just providing a good service. You don't need to be impressive and know the right people. You can just do stuff and sell it to people. Art shouldn't be any different.
It would be nice to make a living selling art, but since I don't need to do that, I can make the art I want to make and who cares whether people are interested in it? In a way I've always been like that and I've always not cared if my work wasn't particularly commercial.
At the same time, I am trying to be a bit more commercial. I think again it's my business that has made me realise you can make things people want and you can sell them. So I'm not averse to being commercial, but I don't feel pressured to pursue sales either.
I suppose what I'm saying is that I'm doing whatever I feel like doing, commercial or not, and there is literally nothing to stop me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kDicTOUrPM
#Art #SellingArt #ArtistsOfMastodon #ContemporaryArt #AntiZionism
Another fault in a #CluesBySam puzzle.
We are told column A has more innocents than any other column - which is three - then we are told Zoe has an odd number of innocents above her which has to be a number less than three - so one.
That means Zoe is a criminal but because I selected it too early I get told I made a mistake.
I'm in the process of adding some more photos for sale. All profits will go to charities in support of #Gaza.
I'm still compiling it all and working stuff out but you can see my two photos sets at these pages:
https://store.lightupon.store/light-upon-photos
Beware of the concern trolls over this #GreenParty motion. There will be plenty of chin stroking sensible types who think opposing racism, imperialism and oppression isn't a wise strategy.
RE: https://wehavecookies.social/@wilfridl/117393446460184533
Here's some wisdom.
Put your clothes on inside out. That way you won't get food all down them when you eat dinner
#CluesBySam is as much about words and wording than it is about logic.
Some people get wiser as they grow older and some people don't.
So if you're like me you can be so very very wise.
This photo is about knowing your political limits or being aware of limits placed upon you. It is about the continued reminders from your circumstances, from people around you and from #SocialMedia that some battles are not your battles.
This might be unfair or you just might feel it's unfair. Either way the limits are there and the door remains closed.
Prints are available here: https://wilfridl.bigcartel.com/product/notyourbattle
#Art #ArtistsOfMastodon #ArtForSale #Photography #Dollshouse #Dollshouses
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@robhawkes Very special! Do you have any other photos of him working on R2-D2?
Also is that an original printed photo from the time or a reproduction? It looks like he posed for this photo and I wonder if all the production crew had similar photos for a memento.
British painter Iain Alexander says Trump likes to call him his favourite British artist and Iain Alexander is happy to freely admit that.
Alexander advertises himself as an “international royalty portrait artist” although it is not clear which royals have sat for a portrait by him.
I was looking for some shelf brackets that I bought and I was looking everywhere but I couldn't see them. I looked in the place I was likely to put them but they weren't there.
My wife said it was the pixies and they hide things and eventually I'll look in the same place and suddenly they will appear.
After a while I looked again. I looked in the obvious place I would have put them, a place I'd checked about twenty times. I found a box and opened it and there were the brackets.
Some smoke in #GoldersGreen or #Hendon this morning.
You get animals with multiple legs but you don't get animals with multiple heads unless it's a genetic mistake.
I want animals with lots of heads like in Clash of the Titans.
I would love to see the #BayeuxTapestry but I'm not sure we should be supporting the #BritishMuseum, especially with their shitty erasure of the word #Palestine.
I also imagine there to be long queues and that puts me off also. I went a few weeks ago and it took about 15 minutes to queue to get in, although people who had tickets were fast tracked inside.
I still imagine there will be long queues though.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bayeux-tapestry-tickets-pricing-1234786836/
My dad told me some people are having trouble selling Rolf Harris's house. That is, no one wants to buy it.
But the truth is, if they lowered the price enough, someone would buy it. It's a case of: if you can afford to buy that house, why would you buy the house of a famous sex offender when there are plenty of other houses you could buy?
It's actually a case of the estate agents not being willing to drop the price until it is sold. If the house went low enough, someone would buy it. It's just a case of seeing how low it would need to go.
Perhaps a charity could buy it and use it. Or perhaps it could be donated to a charity. But there's little profit in that.
I was just looking at some photos of me my wife took and my belly looks so big. It's like pointy. It like sticks out in a point.