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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

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.

Reminder: We reply with images or gifs in this small, suburban coommuunniittyy.

Reminder: we reply with images (mostly) in this here community.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are hosting two events in Colorado on Friday. The first stop for "Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders" will be at Bank of Colorado Arena at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. Doors open at noon, and the speaking program is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez will then hold another event at Civic Center Park, located at 101 14th Ave. in Denver. People will be allowed in at 4 p.m. and speaking is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.

Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas

Guess where and when 5 pictures were taken.

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/