If you‘re good at art, you can make it yourself. If you aren’t, buy something from an artist at a local farmers market, craft fair, or art gallery. Here’s some small paintings i made for my friends for christmas.
buy your friends art or buy a strangers art. not the mass produced stuff but that weird little sketch or painting or whatever. support folks, sometimes you find out 20 years later that someone was in the whitney biennial and you have one of their drawings from when they were a teenager and that’s pretty cool. buy stuff for $25 or $2000 or whatever you can afford - give your money to artists when you can!
You get to not only support them and their work, but it’s the gift that keeps on giving as you get to surround yourself with the creative output of your favorite people.
Love the vibes of this channel. My favorite series of his is the “Unremarkable and Odd Places in ___”. He basically finds liminal space type places in popular video games and shows them off, and then muses about life for a while. As someone who barely plays video games, I still find the videos entertaining and oddly comforting. Overall it’s a very chill time.
My favorite tracks:
Jennifer’s Body
She walks on me
Plump
…I’m still mad that Jennifer’s Body (2009) directed by Karyn Kusama did not include the song Jennifer’s Body from Hole! why they chose to put Violet in the credits instead is beyond me
