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Brady Dale

@bradydale / bradydale.tumblr.com

Committed to beatboxing.
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I was drunk out of my mind on the subway last night and I couldn’t stop studying this woman reading across from me.

So I whipped out my notebook and a TomBow marker and sketched her

Now I think I should go draw strangers on the train on the sauce more often.

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One real human in each suit.

Now Hilma af Klint is in the Graves suit.

She was an occultist and seance practitioner. That’s where she got the ideas for her paintings.

What’s cool about her work is a lot of paintings were in series… sorta like comics.

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Big weekend in drawing cards!

I got six done!

I also made a bunch of decisions about the set.

First, the first and last card of each suit will be Alpha and Omega rather than 1 and 11. That's more mystical, right?

Second, the sixth card of each suit will be a real person. Thus, John Muir, America's Arch Druid, will sub in for "Wilderness" in the Trees suit.

I'm also booting Grigori Rasputin. That guy occupies enough of the world's mind space, and what does he really symbolize but selfishness and opportunism?

Instead, I'm giving the six spot in Graves to someone really more interesting: Hilma Af Klimt. She looked well past her death using mystical rituals and it sort of seems like she got it done?

Finally, Lady Philosophy will instead become Boethius, himself, her creator. Since she's really only a concept in his work anyway.

I like this idea of 6 being the middle card. There's 5 cards on either side. It's balanced.

  • I really like this "Flower Children" card. What about you?
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Two more cards in my esoteric oracle project finished tonight.

America's most famous tulpa gang.

And... a Shaman. This card was always in my plan for this set, but reading this thread about the Witch Trials from painter and cartoonist Owen Cyclops convinced me to give it an emphasis on plant life.

I have a whole suit about nature of course, but I do think the connection between plants and dreams is worth making explicit.

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I had no idea

I'm gonna miss you, @thedailycourtney

We didn't know each other well back in high school, but I've been more in touch with you over the last 20 years than anyone else in your circle, tho I sort of knew all of them once upon a time.

It was just this blog. That was it. But we gave each other likes over the years and now it feels like someone I still kinda knew has gone.

Goodbye. It seemed like you did all the living you could. ❤️

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