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ENLIGHTENMENT (2006)
Oil on Panel - 36” x 24”

In the Portals paintings, enlightenment is found only when one gets beyond the architecture of established formal belief systems. 1/2

#personalvisions #imaginativerealism #portals

As seen through pointed arches of an old abbey in ruins, a woman stands high on a crumbling wall, resting her hand on the rough stonework as she stares off-panel lit by the light of dawn. Frothy white, tide washes in surrounding the base of pillars. An ornate metal staff is stuck in the sand. The top ends in blue glass in a sun-shaped setting.

Michael Whelan

@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art · 3 days ago

ENLIGHTENMENT (2006)
Oil on Panel - 36” x 24”

In the Portals paintings, enlightenment is found only when one gets beyond the architecture of established formal belief systems. 1/2

#personalvisions #imaginativerealism #portals

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ira

@ira@beige.party · 3 weeks ago

#portals — a thread

black & white image of beach with figure in black robe, round hoop and pole with black object atop it — source unknown

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ira

@ira@beige.party · 3 weeks ago

#portals — a thread

Family Circus circle cartoon panel with Billy on swing. Text: “Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”

ira

@ira@beige.party · 3 weeks ago

#portals — a thread

Family Circus comic panel where Mom’s face has tentacles embracing/sucking son Billy’s face as they embrace/interface. Caption: "OH GOD! I CAN SEE FOREVER!"

ira

@ira@beige.party replied · 3 weeks ago

#portals — a thread

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ira

@ira@beige.party · 3 weeks ago

#portals — a thread

ira

@ira@beige.party · 3 weeks ago

#portals — a thread

ira

@ira@beige.party · 3 weeks ago

#portals — a thread

ira

@ira@beige.party · 3 weeks ago

#portals — a thread

Emmanuele Bassi

@ebassi@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

Emmanuele Bassi

@ebassi@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

Time for plumbing a whole new accessibility setting from desktop to toolkit: 3 hours

Time for knowing what to plumb: 20 years

Time for bikeshedding on the type of the setting: Positive infinity

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/115429613083886645

Got nerdsniped around lunchtime yesterday, and ended up implementing a shared "reduced motion" setting for GNOME and the rest of the xdg stack:

- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/9077
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/114
- https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/discussions/1839
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/merge_requests/236
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3253

#a11y #accessibility #gnome #gtk #xdg #portals

GitHub

Add a "reduced motion" preference to the settings portal · flatpak xdg-desktop-portal · Discussion #1839

Under GNOME we're currently abusing the boolean "enable animations" toggle, but this poorly maps to the actual accessibility issue of reduced motion. Ideally, we want to map to the same kind of set...

ira

@ira@beige.party · 8 months ago

#portals — a thread

portal of an opening in a thick stone wall, narrowing to a small rectangular slot, within which reflective black shows another portal

ira

@ira@beige.party · 8 months ago

#portals — a thread

portal of hole in bare branch reaching out above a calm river, borders above by another tree branch, this one full of leaves

ira

@ira@beige.party · 8 months ago

#portals — a thread