Well yeah, wasn’t gonna mention it but the first painting kind of glorifies a fascist soldier, unless there’s something I can’t see. Is there satire? A reclamation of power in some way? Does Lucas the writer think stormtroopers should be cool?
To be honest, I think the tradition of culture jamming is fantastic, I used to subscribe to adbusters, and I think if you pull corporate IP for your art, it should go hard.
Kind of somewhat? It’s much more obviously satire. I haven’t thought of that product or brand in years but… now I am. Net loss in the struggle I feel.
Nice art skills! Too bad it’s advertising for corporate intellectual property.
So your bitter sarcasm suggests that a person can’t be simultaneously hopeful and actively struggling, that you must always be immersed in your own local suffering and ignore the success of others as false hopes, that we must universalize our own experiences, and that an emotionally complex life is not possible?
Impermeable layer, usually skookum pond liner style, on top. Drainage. Ventilation and heating. Lime wash. Light helps if it can be managed in the design.
Not so much insulation, as thermal mass. It takes a lot of energy to change the temperature of that much earth.
They are excellent resilience, low-tech dwellings for places with temperature extremes, like prairies or high altitude.
The engineering needs to be sound.
However, they are dark inside and usually low-ceilinged, and can be damp if not well managed.
Reed Canary grass makes great cob. Hemp is another likely fibre.
‘Woman on the Edge of Time’ by Marge Piercy is the most solarpunk novel I’ve read so far. Fiction, that is. And it’s early '70s!
No I don’t mean what the artist intended, just what the art is doing.
Stormtroopers look cool. Stormtroopers are fascist, to G. Lucas and in the story. It’s a skilled painting of a cool looking fascist. You asked!