Artist, Teacher, and History Buff
Houston, TX
Joined March 2009
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Supply and demand video dropped this day. youtu.be/wt60iuaul2Y?si=M7Wo…
You could be arrested for owning the wrong tools ⚒️
Medieval guilds controlled every skilled trade. No permission meant no work — and they could take everything you owned.
#historyfacts #didyouknow #medievalhistory #history #digitaldrawing
A Roman Emperor made inflation punishable by death ⚔️
In 301 AD Diocletian set maximum prices on 1,400 goods and executed anyone who charged more. The economy ignored him anyway.
#historyfacts #didyouknow #history #ancientrome #digitaldrawing
The government paid farmers to destroy food 🌽
During the Great Depression ten million acres of crops were plowed under while soup kitchens turned people away. It was federal policy.
#historyfacts #didyouknow #history #greatdepression #digitaldrawing
Salmon isn’t pink 🐟
Farmed salmon is naturally grey. The pink is a dye — and there is a color swatch card to pick the exact shade.
#didyouknow #foodfacts #salmon #foodhistory #digitaldrawing
Before chocolate was a candy bar, it was cash 🍫💰
The Aztecs ran an entire economy on cacao beans — and people were already counterfeiting it before Europe even knew it existed.
#historyfacts #didyouknow #chocolate #ancienthistory #chocolatehistory
Tulip Mania - The Flower That Broke Holland... and why it keeps happening! youtu.be/BnwUD3GlZzU?si=yDr3… via @YouTube
What is a Speculative Bubble? youtu.be/1TaLZ3Uo8Q4?si=36SZ… via @YouTube
I just dropped my first video in years. Comebacks start somewhere.
I'm working on a new Columbian Exchange video, but in the meantime I just publised this Continents activity: historyillustrated.gumroad.c…
Another toaster! No more. I promise.
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Can you believe I found another toaster face!?!?! I was weird.... am weird.
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Another toaster face looking to make some toast with his face....
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Berlin Wall fell on this day in 1989. Watercolored Photoshop fun.
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This crazy toaster was created in the mid 2000s I think.... I think. maybe.
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Sometime in 2004 I sketched this up... I honestly can't remember making it.
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New video posted to YouTube.... Never Eat Soggy Worms... Slimy Waffles... Something like that.
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Here's the workflow of the map that was used in the "cartographer" video for YouTube yesterday.
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