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Jonathan Reynolds MP, Labour’s Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister, commenting on the announcement that the Government’s Green Deal Home Improvement solid wall insulation fund has closed just one day after it opened, said:
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Mattis Dovier is a Parisian animator and illustrator who has previously been featured in Cross Connect. He is one of the most popular creators of gif art in the past 10 years. His signature 8-bit dithered black and white style has been used in music videos and his short film ‘Inside’ was selected as a Vimeo staff pick. This is a selection of gifs previously not seen on Cross Connect.
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David Koblesky is a curator here at Cross Connect who also creates his own gif art. He has a day job as a designer at a Fortune 500 company in Chicago but off hours is passionate about the art of animated gifs and enjoys posting various artist’s work here on Cross Connect. He also writes about animated gifs in depth in his blog The Art of Animated Gifs
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Born in Moscow in 1990 into a family of artists, Sasha Sokolova was accepted into the Sergey Andriyaki School of Watercolour and Fine Arts in Moscow aged nine and won scholarships from the V. Spivakov fund and Young Talents Fund. She has also done courses in miniature enamel painting.
In 2005, she graduated with honors and in 2015 completed a Masters of Fine Arts at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. After graduation, she was selected as one of the artists to create the first fully painted feature film “Loving Vincent” and the only one from Russia. Sasha lives and works between Moscow and Barcelona. Her website.
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So, I read the Iliad, and there is an entire chapter where the greek heroes rally together to protect Patroclus' body from being dragged away-
Idk if it was just my translation but it was HEARTBREAKING. The second that any one of the Greeks finds out Patroclus is dead they just... immediately burst into tears??? Antilochos just stands there stunned when Menelaus tells him to get Achilles bc he is so immediately crushed, and everyone comes from their battles to stand over his body fighting off the Trojans weeping for the loss of their kindest and most gentle friend.
Imagine how loved he was??? How famously kind and friendly to every Greek in the camp for everyone to be devastated like that, for Ajax and Menelaus to be fighting tooth and nail while weeping because they can't stand the thought of their friend not receiving a proper burial.
And it's so striking when I read that and they don't just say they want his body for a proper burial, they want his body to give him back to Achilles. They know he will be the most heartbroken and he needs to see Patroclus one last time, even though they're angry at him for abandoning the battle, even if they think he's selfish, they know that Patroclus and Achilles should never be separated.
okay not going to lie op …. literally teared up reading this
