Sar Swan

This is roughly 25% joke because people take Christmas way too seriously, but I'm the weirdo for just keeping it out forever?! (yes I know that does in fact make me pretty weird)

Hanging out with my dog next to my lit Christmas Tree in August. If you really care about Christmas so much leave it up forever, you cowards!!

My survival method in the digital age is to disassociate my identity regularly. I use different usernames, email addresses, names, date of birth. Corporations lie about everything and are constantly pwned, they should not be keepers of any actual facts.

@banditelli.org Over time I've become way more interested in birds through seeing your work! Have you ever had someone do a painting (digital or physical) from one of your photos?

Flying around my yard is an interesting mustard yellow bird with charcoal grey feathers, roughly Twinkie sized. What a rude comparison to make!

I'd like to walk in to a gym and borrow a few gym sisters and bros and pose them so I can get the anatomy right on my artwork. I want to understand how muscles work, and there's an untapped resource RIGHT THERE. Do you suppose they'd let me draw as long as I was working out at the same time?

I'm a professional artist now, my stuff is going up in a show and everything. I just gotta figure out plexiglass on my thrifted frames, after $300 each quote for a basic frame with white mat at a legit framer. Maybe someday but not today! 💸

Question for artists and photographers, what kind of an agreement do I need to be able to use a photo as a painting reference? Can I just ask and get written permission? #photography #art #painting

I rename myself, more or less, about every 11 years. I think it's a healthy habit to remind myself that I'm still growing, becoming a truer version of myself. I try to ensure the new version is actually an improvement on the old version, though.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Am I the only one who is massively uninterested in the goings-on of the neighborhood? I'm not going to pay money to buy a camera to notify me of all the stuff that I don't care about at all. Nobody is going to break into my house, I have a 120 lb black dog that looks like a nightmare.

Me and my friends, patting one-another on the back as we've all confirmed we all did vote in this runoff election with a single question. Each and every time going forward.

I've won an illustrious art award: my beloved pub staff put my art on the wall in the "not for sale" category.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

If a human did this, they would be arrested and go to prison! A woman went to prison for it, despite being legally a child when she encouraged her boyfriend to go through with his suicide threats. I hope OpenAI gets wrecked. www.law.georgetown.edu/american-cri...

@mayorkeller.bsky.social Saw an officer assist a stranded motorist yesterday afternoon at Montgomery and Louisiana. They helped the motorist safely get out of traffic. Wanted to thank them for their service to the community, that intersection is vital to the NE Heights.

I want to live in a world that isn't deteriorating with decisions that are already harming us. I want the fashion industry to not be about wearing sexy plastic, when I really just want a person who can make garments that are flattering to my personal body. I want durable clothes I can keep forever.

My cleaning ladies just rolled up in a highlighter yellowgreen Mercedes Benz. I love that for them.

Painted this today, "With Tyger." 8x8 watercolor.

An art professor told me "That's a nice abstraction" and I'm going to be riding this high for weeks.

I'm not sure if I'm having a midlife crisis or my country is having an end-of-life crisis. Both?

Fresh take, I like it. Makes sense - there are folks that will not eat anything that has a face. Meanwhile, animals DGAF if what they eat had a name or not.

I don't want to waste time thinking about the past, or even having to think about the present. I just want support and silence from the government, so I can just go about my life searching for the future. Stop making me pay attention to terrible people who don't even consider me to be a real person.

My response just now to a home security installer salesman: "Thanks, but we work from home and have *these two* around." I point down to the 105 lb German Shepherd at my left hip silently staring, and the 125 pound menacing black dog at my right side. Him: "I won't waste your time, then. Goodnight!"

Had a power outage a while back and I was shocked at the sound of silence. For a while, everything was quiet - no air conditioners, buzzing monitors, all televisions were silent. And even still not silence, living against the bones of the city. People have forgotten the quiet while I long for it.

Gotta remember that life is worth living as long as we love fearlessly. Dogs are great teachers of this. Dancer taught me the joy of life, and Tyger taught me that peace comes from demonstrating love.

So I'm deep in the throes of artist madness, and it's finally getting productive. But this economy right now, what's an unpatroned artist to do? Rich people aren't keeping pet artists anymore, are they? I need an eccentric funder to keep me in paints and pot.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

If someone lost a blue diamond ring in new York city, I turned it in to security where you lost it. It was really pretty, hope it finds it's person.

Best response to these people : www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...

The scene: out with my beau, I see a cool-ass country western lady accessorizing with burgundy, including her tights and knee-high suede boots. We instantly check eachother out but she makes the first move: "I love your outfit." "Me too," I gush. "You look amazing." Game recognizes game. 😍

My trivia team name this week or next shall be "Ambiguous Emoji." Fun to say, gets the face moving.

Is emoji already a plural? I have never thought about this, since it's an adopted word. I'd love to find out a single emoji is actually an emojum like a datum, @susiedent.com