Adamas Nemesis @adamasnemesis@social.adamasnemesis.com

Based on the kinds of jobs they have I'm pretty sure my educated professional friends average $100k a year or so. And their lifestyles are just basic, not luxe. Those I'm pretty sure are well short of $100k are *struggling*. And this is in a "cheap" city. Really sad TBH.

Image is "In the Ruins" by Charles Rochussen.

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #thoughts #costofliving #personalfinance #economy #lifestyle #life #self #jobs #careers

More feminine, more inviting, or more exotic? Any way I slice it, the purple version of my "The stars aflame" looks interesting.

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #painting #digitalpainting #spaceart #nebula #stars #starcluster

A charmingly intimate scene, a shapely darling caught in that liminal space between innocence and vanity: Vlaho Bukovac's "Woman at her Dressing Table".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #vanity #feminine

Eastman Johnson's "A Ride for Liberty" strikes us with a father, mother, and child who will be slaves no more, an emancipatory vision perfect for this Juneteenth *and* Father's Day today.

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #Juneteenth #FathersDay #HappyFathersDay

Ran some more numbers today; I could fly first-class to Europe every year and spend a month in a nice rental for the same amount of money that would buy me a crackerbox closer to town. When I get some extra spending money, I know which I'll choose... ✈️🙂

Image is James Tissot's "Goodbye on the Mersey".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #life #lifestyle #self #personalfinance #travel #goals #dreams #thoughts #housing #realestate

My new "Peering at a hot entry" shows a darling of space wistfully looking at a ship hurtling into the atmosphere. Perhaps she longs to join them on an ocean beach somewhere...

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #scifiart

If, like me, you inherited a house and $10,000 a month isn't spare change to you, is moving a rip-off compared to just traveling a lot?

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/06/18/the-heir-abides/

This post's featured image is "Romantic winter landscape with Gothic castle" by Albert Bredow.

#self #realestate #housing #life #lifestyle #personalfinance

William-Adolphe Bouguereau's "The Nymphaeum" gives us the lovely sight of not just one but twelve girls of summer airing out their fair shapely selves in a lazy warm day's breezes. Ah... 🥰

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #summer

This is my piece "The stars aflame", a cloud of red gas parting enough to let us peer into a golden star cluster. Imagine all the new worlds forming in there...

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #nebula #stars #starcluster

A tanned and weary sailor is blessed (or cursed...) by the fairest, most beautiful, and not-quite-human sweetheart emerging from the sea, in Frederic Leighton's "The Fisherman and the Siren".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #sea #ocean

And now for something both warm, spacey, and perhaps evocative of some sights in terrestrial skies: my new piece "Three horses' heads red nebula".

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #nebula

A darling looks across the sea, wistful for something, anything better over that far-distant horizon in John William Waterhouse's "Miranda".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #sea #ocean #beachgirl #beach #beachlife

Just realized that between gasoline and electricity I'm spending $700 a month now. 😳
Shows I can't ever really have anything; all I am to this cruel world is a living piggy bank, and with the bear market raging who knows how much longer I'll even be that much... 😔

Image is "Melancholy" by Albert von Keller.

#thoughts #self #markets #personalfinance #inflation #energy #energycrisis #budgeting #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

The secret about law is you're convicted (or acquitted) of who you are, not what you did. Only human minds and human action rule; there has never been "rule of law" anywhere, only people with power who choose to wield it for justice or for injustice.

Image is Edmund Blair Leighton's "Accolade".

#thoughts #law #politics #society #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

\Matt Dolan would have won the primary in a state like Virginia, but Ohio? The white-trash element is too strong. And Ohio is much more representative of the GOP electorate than Virginia. IMO he's wasting his time; that party doesn't want people like him.

#thoughts #politics #elections #news

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/16/matt-dolan-ohio-00040056

My new spacey sciency piece "Telescope in purple nebula".

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #nebula #scifiart #scifi #sciencefiction

A sight I long to see: a gorgeous seer of the coming divine vengeance drinks in the righteous destruction of a wicked world. George Romney's "Lady Hamilton as Cassandra".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #LadyHamilton

Concluding my housing kick (maybe...), I offer some thoughts on home design and built environment.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/06/15/building-a-better-house/

#homes #architecture #interiordesign #urbanplanning #society #worldbuilding #alternatehistory