Figurative sculptures from a Spanish celebration, 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallas
and even more info:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/valencia-las-fallas-festival
Whoa. It's real
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2007/08/20/2003375086
Thai police have a new helper. Hello Kitty, who is one of the cutest cats ever, will help punish naughty Thai police officers. If an officer breaks certain rules, he or she will have to wear a Hello Kitty armband.
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🟦⬛⬛🟦⬛
🟦🟦⬛⬛⬛
🟧🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
That's just terrible luck eh?
Static page route
Ooooh! I started down the PHP path and that's already working but now I like this idea of using JS and canvas more so I am going to go research that next. I have an nginx server running so this could work. (I wonder if this is how https://squoosh.app/ works since they claim it's all client-side too?)
Great suggestion, I didn't know was possible so thanks very much! 👍
I loved that app for like a year and yes, it was perfect. I don't know what changed but about 6 months ago, when I upload images to it, they were black rectangles and so it wouldn't shrink my images. No idea what caused that, I searched around and could not find a resolution so I moved on.
But also, it's owned by GOOG and that's a downside for me.
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh
However, Squoosh utilizes Google Analytics to collect the following:
Basic visitor data. <-- what does this mean?
The before and after image size value.
If Squoosh PWA, the type of Squoosh installation.
If Squoosh PWA, the installation time and date.
I should see if I can download the code, strip out their surveillance and then use it locally from there. Thanks for the tip!
Yah, thanks. In a pinch, I've been using GIMP but as you say, there's a lot to it and a lot of steps to this simple process.
I'm going to see if a AI tool can help hack together a simple web page. If I do, I'll share the code I end up with somewhere.
I've searched around and can't find this but it seems like someone must have created this already. I am hoping to find a self-hosted image resizer app. I frequently need to take photos from my phone (etc...) and make them small enough to post online.
For instance, my lemmy instance (lemm.ee) only allows images in posts if they are smaller than 500KB but my phone's photos are always larger than that.
In a perfect world, I could just browse to a local server app, upload an image, select a size to resize it to, hit Go and then download the smaller image. It doesn't have to allow any other editing and it shouldn't store images long-term. I want to self-host so I don't have to upload my images to random web sites I know nothing about.
I would be happy with a FOSS desktop app I can install in linux too, but then I couldn't access it from my phone. The Android apps I found for this either look scammy or include tons of ads.
Anyone know of such a thing? Thanks!
EDIT - UPDATE:
Thank you for the great suggestions. I've installed Image Toolbox on my Android phone and that looks great. It both has a ton of tools but also makes this resizing task very straightforward. Not sure how I never found that before.
But for my desktop, I started writing a PHP app to run in my existing nginx web server. It runs the suggested ffmpeg command under the hood, and since I am the only user on this server, this works very well for me.
That's working now so I am going to tweak a few things and then use it for a while. (Before anyone asks, I started based on the Python recs here, but couldn't get it working (PIP couldn't add Flask because PIP couldn't find PIP???) and so switched to PHP since my local server was already using that from another home-made app. This (PHP) was not as hard as I was afraid it would be, with help from Duck Duck Go's AI chat bot.
I used my php app to shrink this file!
Thank y'all - this is resolved now.
And in 2026?
(Hope not)
Miyazaki: He IS a pagan god.
I call dibs in being the Gilligan.
Wait what's this? Europeans are supposed to always say derogatory things about Americans. ;)
Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Herman Henstenburgh (1667, in Hoorn – 1726, in Hoorn), was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Henstenburgh
and
Gotta love a well-documented meme. Thanks OP!
Norwegian, 1863 - 1944
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream, has become one of the iconic images of world art. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family. Travel brought new influences and outlets. In Paris, he learned much from Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, especially their use of colour. In Berlin, he met the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, whom he painted, as he embarked on his major canon The Frieze of Life, depicting a series of deeply-felt themes such as love, anxiety, jealousy and betrayal, steeped in atmosphere.
More art:
https://artvee.com/artist/edvard-munch/
Japanese, 1786 – 1865
Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国 Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.
At the end of the Edo period (1603–1867), Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were the three best representatives of the Japanese color woodcut in Edo (capital city of Japan, now Tokyo). However, among European and American collectors of Japanese prints, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century, all three of these artists were actually regarded as rather inferior to the greats of classical ukiyo-e, and therefore as having contributed considerably to the downfall of their art. For this reason, some referred to their works as "decadent".
More art:
https://artvee.com/artist/utagawa-kunisada-toyokuni-iii/
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in the 1874 ("exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon.
Monet, Monet, Moooooneeeetttt
https://artvee.com/artist/claude-monet/
Imagine you lived in the 1800s, before radio or TV. How were you entertained? You had theater, and parades, and books. And, once or twice a year, (depending on where you live) a circus would come through your town.
I am endlessly fascinated by the history of the circus, in the US and around the world and just had to share this collection of poster art I came across.
If you were a kid in a small, rural town, how could you not be excited to see these posters go up in your town?
Circuses had all sorts of terrible practices and it's good we've moved on from them mostly now, but looking back, I find this all really interesting.
Wow, super cool! Thanks for sharing this.