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scruss

Dan Larson, 1935–2016

an elderly man with close-cropped hair wearing a light blue cardigan smiles as he holds up an electronic collage piece. It's of a stylized 1990s Ford dashboard, with a glowing green digital clock showing "3:10" and a flashing red "AIR BAG" warning.
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an elderly man with close-cropped hair wearing a light blue cardigan smiles as he holds up an electronic collage piece. It's of a stylized 1990s Ford dashboard, with a glowing green digital clock showing "3:10" and a flashing red "AIR BAG" warning.
I just found out that my friend and mentor, J.D. (Dan) Larson, passed away. He was found unresponsive by a neighbour. He was 91 years old.

Dan had a long career in high-energy physics. After a PhD at Caltech, he developed particle accelerator technology at Oak Ridge and Argonne. In the 1990s he stepped away from research to care for his elderly parents in Independence, MO. He had been in poor health for the last couple of years, and died in the home he'd been born in. Dan was my mother-in-law's companion.

This picture was taken in December 2014, and Dan is holding up a collage my partner made for him to thank him for taking her to the airport in the middle of the night (hence the "3:10" clock). Dan drove a very well-used 1990 Ford station wagon, which had many sensors broken or failing. The airbag light was constantly flashing, as did the indicator in the collage. A tremendously precise man, it didn't bother Dan that his gas gauge was broken: he knew exactly how many miles he got on a full tank.

I'll miss him.
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jessamyn pro 7 hours ago
I am very sorry Stewart, may his memory be a blessing.
scruss pro 7 hours ago
@jessamyn Thank you!

(I was just thinking of you yesterday: I spent most of the day in a barn in rural Ontario that had an absurd collection of huge old computers in it, including some very impressive Data General big iron.)
m3moellering 7 hours ago
My condolences. To live in hearts that love is not to die.
MackReed pro 2 hours ago
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Argie pro 46 minutes ago
I feel I would have liked to have met and spent some time with Dan. So sorry he is gone.
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m3moellering

She seems nice…

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https://canada-info.ca/en...
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dreyfusslugado 6 hours ago
Biblically-accurate Oyster-babe
MackReed

whip of the week

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Doctor Jimmy and Mister Jim,
When I’m pilled I don’t notice him,
He only comes out when I drink my ginnn …

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysi...
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gwint

They finally did it

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"New York is a big, mean, wonderful, impatient city that has waited 53 years to celebrate the team it cares about most. Despite the reflexive swagger of its fanbase — “Knicks in four!” became a rallying cry across the boroughs this year; then “Knicks in five!” when they lost a game — it was still nearly impossible to process, in the hours after its N.B.A. championship, that any of this had happened.

When New York comes together — really comes together — it is often in response to something tragic: 9/11, Sandy, Covid. Part of the magic of this run was the notion that uncomplicated joy was also an option. At least every 53 years or so." - Matt Flegenheimer

Photo credit: AP
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poorusher

Signal (Art) box

Photographic print left in a secret but public art box.
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Photographic print left in a secret but public art box.
Finally left some prints and a couple of copies of a book in a funny little anonymous art box we have in the town, which my friend made.

Previously
https://mltshp.com/p/1RAM7
https://mltshp.com/p/1RJTH
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joost 16 hours ago
That hidden art box is such a glorious idea.
Hidden in plain sight.
joffaboy

Final form

Edited Kennedy Centre wall
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
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Edited Kennedy Centre wall
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
https://www.threads.com/@chixulu...
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mare pro 18 hours ago
That’s a weird barcode. My barcode scanner had problems recognizing it, but eventually settled on 86 47
pastranaut

6.6.2026

A cloud formation with pink edges that looks more like smoke from a giant fire
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A cloud formation with pink edges that looks more like smoke from a giant fire
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BooBounder Yesterday
Wow. I take some good ones, but ... wow. Location? Date?
BooBounder Yesterday
Oops. Location will be just fine.
pastranaut pro 14 hours ago
@boobounder west Las Vegas probably about 8pm
pastranaut pro 14 hours ago
@BooBounder ^
BooBounder 12 hours ago
@pastranaut Thx. Great ones in southwestern Utah last night too.
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LocalStain

She seems nice.

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thelonius 18 hours ago
"We drank PBR from the garden hose"
travis pro 6 hours ago
@thelonius ++
O_C

Undergrowth (1887) by Vincent van Gogh

painting of forest undergrowth, reduced to green dots with some explosions of yellow at the top of the painting. the trunks of two trees are also visible.
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painting of forest undergrowth, reduced to green dots with some explosions of yellow at the top of the painting. the trunks of two trees are also visible.
source: https://classicalcanvas.tumblr.com/post...
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joost 16 hours ago
I recently saw this painting in Amsterdam, another one rather similar in Utrecht and another also glorious one in Otterlo (NL).

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

If you like van Gogh and cycling and are thinking of going to Europe I can really recommend the Kröller-Müller museum in Otterlo!
It's in the middle of a national park. Lots of van Gogh, but also pointillism etc. And the only way to get to the museum is by free share bicycle.
0y3ahSansAcut3 8 hours ago
@joost Ohhh lovely. I have wanted to go to the Kröller-Müller. Maybe someday I"ll make it back to the EU. Then to Estonia for a performance of Pärt's work.
Argie

Word

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cottenwess 2 days ago
more of this energy. every where.
me3dia pro 2 days ago
Nutfield close indeed
MackReed pro 2 days ago
i would pay good money to see Wayne from Letterkenny unload on that knob - first verbally, then physically.
WikiAdam 2 days ago
mass murderer
mare pro 18 hours ago
Cunt is too flattering.
misslivie 12 hours ago
something something lacking depth and warmth
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scruss

perfectly normal bookshelf

Between a copy of "Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible" and "Microsoft Office 2000 Step by Step" is a slim brown book with a silver title on the spine: "Men & Pork Chops"
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Between a copy of "Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible" and "Microsoft Office 2000 Step by Step" is a slim brown book with a silver title on the spine: "Men & Pork Chops"
this is a real book, btw.

Men and Pork Chops: A History of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board
BISHOP, Wilfred L.
Phelps Publishing Company (London, ON) 1977
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david_adams 12 hours ago
A book that will continue to remain relevant, unlike its shelf neighbors.
roonie pro 9 hours ago
I was hoping for an Introduction to Sideburns, but no.
0y3ahSansAcut3 8 hours ago
Introduction To Snide Burns
ardgedee pro 8 hours ago
Book on the left: seen some shit.
Book on the right: Still sealed in plastic 20 years since it was last useful.
scruss pro 8 hours ago
@ardgedee see also: the acres of Apple Lisa software and documentation in the same racks
poorusher 2 hours ago
"You never insult a sausage man"
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deaduncledave

Eva covets your straw

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artwells

Additional gnome habitat

Three pictures of doors in a stump
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Three pictures of doors in a stump
Made another door in the stump

Previously: https://mltshp.com/p/1RG5L
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poorusher Yesterday
One day I'll make the pilgrimage here.
0y3ahSansAcut3 Yesterday
Completely hinged. Looking well made, and truly quaint.
artwells pro Yesterday
@poorusher admission is free
ardgedee

you really don't need this but in case you do...

Screenshot of some font samples, including the classic Mac system font Chicago, here called "Chicago15", used for all menus, window bar titles, system messages, and so on for Mac systems 1-7.5. There is "Chicago30", which is a 2x upscale from Chicago15. Below them are "Monaco11" and "Monaco15", the sans-serif monospace font which has been a default system font from the very first Mac through today, over 40 years later, albeit looking very different due to how much the technology has changed.
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Screenshot of some font samples, including the classic Mac system font Chicago, here called "Chicago15", used for all menus, window bar titles, system messages, and so on for Mac systems 1-7.5. There is "Chicago30", which is a 2x upscale from Chicago15. Below them are "Monaco11" and "Monaco15", the sans-serif monospace font which has been a default system font from the very first Mac through today, over 40 years later, albeit looking very different due to how much the technology has changed.
...a kind soul has made the effort of compiling various dumps people have made of old Macintosh system fonts (and other user-inaccessible fonts, such as "eWorld Tight 18"!), including bitmap and early OpenType fonts, and released them as uniform FontFactory and Truetype files.

There are hundreds of fonts and variations here. In the days before live onscreen vector graphics each size had to be drawn separately, so they look different in ways you can't replicate just by up/downscaling one font.

https://github.com/JohnDDun...

Chicago15 is my madeline.
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idogcow Yesterday
Always was a sucker for Cairo (AKA easy access to the DogCow)
poorusher Yesterday
Yes! I have ChiTown light but it's aliased and smoothed unless you use it at pt11 or what have you.
0y3ahSansAcut3 16 hours ago
I collected so many fonts back in the day, it was like unlimited funding for the candy store.
scruss pro 15 hours ago
Somehow/somewhere I got the very earliest Chicago outline font and overused it to an extreme extent
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wjcstp

Details, details

Business sign for Heaven's Touch auto detailing, where the vinyl wrap the sign is made of is too large for the board it's mounted to, so parts of some of the words are not visible.
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Business sign for Heaven's Touch auto detailing, where the vinyl wrap the sign is made of is too large for the board it's mounted to, so parts of some of the words are not visible.
This detailing place near me changed brands a while back, but i just noticed how un-detail-oriented their sign design is (aside from being plain ugly).
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dreyfusslugado 13 hours ago
The blue "T" blends into the dark background enough that my first thought was the name was Heaven's Ouch.
ufez pro 12 hours ago
@dreyfusslugado Same, but then it dawned on me that it would actually work pretty well if they wanted to expand to the hail damage repair market.
dreyfusslugado 12 hours ago
@ufez ++
MackReed

sound check

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It's done. I installed everything this morning, and within about 10 minutes, neighbors started coming by to play.

This is just me (my wife shot the vertical video) plinking around.

I'll post a bunch of process photos and notes on the blog and add a link to that here eventually, but as of today, I'm really pleased with the sound quality from the resonators.

It's lovely having soft tones float up through the living room window as random people stop by to make random music.

It's the whole reason why I built the thing in the first place.
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ArtVandelay 2 days ago
Love this so much! The open access, the DIY street art nature of it, and the dreamy notes drifting up for you to enjoy. Great idea and top work 😊♥️💯
mikenmar 2 days ago
Perhaps a xylophone virtuoso will pay a visit one day, and you'll suddenly hear some masterful melodies floating into your living room.
bencmeissner pro Yesterday
Love it! I love my wind chime that has similar sound qualities.
samh pro Yesterday
This brings me such joy!
mare pro 18 hours ago
This triggers Steve Reich for me, and it’s a good trigger.

(Playing Six Marimbas right now.
Yay for streaming in the Apple Classical app. I doubt this was on the mp3 pile…)
MackReed pro 17 hours ago
Thanks for the kind words, all. Pretty sure this is a Good Thing, but we former Big City dwellers occasionally fret about Something Bad Happening to it.

That said, it survived multiple burns off-playa abuse (a homeless guy once was so entranced he tried to play it with his head) and 10 years on the street in LA, so …

@mikenmar we’ve had all sorts of amazing pros bang on it - can’t wait!

@mare Ooo, I’ll go look that up - thanx!
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MackReed

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via https://mastodon.world/@MsMissy...
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bencmeissner pro 3 days ago
I chortled!
billturner pro 3 days ago
Amazing
cristin pro 2 days ago
at least babies are getting enrichment things.

the fascists are just getting money, drugs, and booze.
MackReed

seattle

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spotted in the U district. these are all over the front of the building. I love them.
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bug138 17 hours ago
There used to be a little coffee shop in that building called “The Ugly Mug”
y95 17 hours ago
What a nightmare, being stuck there forever with something in your teeth
joost 17 hours ago
That's glorious. A hint of european medieval gargoyles all the way in Seattle!
0y3ahSansAcut3 17 hours ago
Aaaarghhh matey!
dreyfusslugado 16 hours ago
@joost (puts on pedant cap) Actually, it's a grotesque. Technically it can only be called a gargoyle if it acts as a drain spout. The word "gargoyle" comes from the Old French gargouille, meaning "throat" or "gullet".
Grotesque, on the other hand, has a much more involved etymology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
MackReed pro 15 hours ago
@bug138 that is effin’ adorable
1f2frfbf pro 15 hours ago
@dreyfusslugado *puts on robe and pendant cap* To go even further down the rabbit hole, since this one appears to be male, and supporting weight it could also be considered an "atlantid" or "telemon," the male version of a "caryatid."

Yes, my three years at architecture school made me very good at trivia and very insufferable.
mcmjolnir pro 15 hours ago
The endodontists guild
mcmjolnir pro 15 hours ago
Gotta post walrus from the Arctic Building next
mcmjolnir pro 15 hours ago
Arctic Building was built with Yukon Gold Rush con man money
joost 14 hours ago
@1f2frfbf @dreyfusslugado I'll leave you to it then. :-)
MackReed pro 11 hours ago
@mcmjolnir Yessss, I’m a big fan of the walruses. The bar inside is pretty schwanky, too.
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O_C

WHIP-O-MATIC

Frame grab from an informercial for the Whip-o-Matic, a Ron Popeil non-electric mixer designed to whip cream, beat eggs, and mix batter. The Whip-o-Matic is shown with several dishes made using the product, including a meringue pie, a souffle, a salad (presumably the dressing was mixed in the device), and a desert, probably a berry crumble, with a whipped topping.
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Frame grab from an informercial for the Whip-o-Matic, a Ron Popeil non-electric mixer designed to whip cream, beat eggs, and mix batter. The Whip-o-Matic is shown with several dishes made using the product, including a meringue pie, a souffle, a salad (presumably the dressing was mixed in the device), and a desert, probably a berry crumble, with a whipped topping.
source: https://oldshowbiz.tumblr.com/post...
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bezt pro 18 hours ago
When a problem comes along, there’s got to be a better way!
dreyfusslugado 16 hours ago
Is it really automatic if you have to turn a crank?
idogcow 13 hours ago
@bezt Unless the cranking gets to hard
O_C

“Stranger in Town”, Creepy #26, April 1969,, written by Bill Parente, art by Reed Crandall

"RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
THE WHOLE GARDEN'S ALIVE!
IT'LL KILL US ALL!!
AAAAAWK! AAARGH!!"

Illustration art shows a group of scientists in apparent mortal peril from a gigantic, tendrilled living plant that takes up almost the entire comic panel.
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"RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
THE WHOLE GARDEN'S ALIVE!
IT'LL KILL US ALL!!
AAAAAWK! AAARGH!!"

Illustration art shows a group of scientists in apparent mortal peril from a gigantic, tendrilled living plant that takes up almost the entire comic panel.
source: https://danskjavlarna.tumblr.com/post...
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roonie pro Yesterday
Yes, yes, I'll mow today, I promise.
MackReed pro Yesterday
The line work / shading is luscious.
joffaboy

Oblivion Neutron Bomb

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Gif of Olivia Newton John peeping through hands
Aka Olivia Newton John
https://www.tumblr.com/jesusism...
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deaduncledave

Art Car

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Built on an airplane tug frame according to the steward caring for the vehicle. Has a lower and upper deck for lounging, projecting music system, several hundred watts of LEDs, and powered by two propane alternators and an ungodly amount of lithium ion batteries. Did not get a chance to see it lit up since it was blazingly bright out today.

Seen at the Currents New Media exhibition in SFe.

https://currentsnewmedia.org/
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BennyTheIcepick pro 16 hours ago
Neat! Maybe I’ll take the RailRunner up to see it
deaduncledave 10 hours ago
@BennyTheIcepick A bit more "AI" art this year than I like, but still a great exhibition. There's also a number of off-site exhibitions worth visiting. Heliotown near Meow Wolf was a hidden gem!
jpoulos

Up all night

Marge Simpson in her bed clothes:

"Have you been up all night watching scaffolding?"
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Marge Simpson in her bed clothes:

"Have you been up all night watching scaffolding?"
https://bsky.app/profile...
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jpoulos pro 2 days ago
Good dry run for when we're staring all day at a live shot of Walter Reed.
dogwelder pro 2 days ago
Hey, he only needed 22 specialists for his last checkup.
MackReed pro 2 days ago
@jpoulos inshallah.
artwells pro 2 days ago
Maybe it will happen today
dad 2 days ago
Fuckers with the tarp now.
Ok, just this once - somebody AI that shit
m3moellering Yesterday
I want him to last until November. They will have some sort of recovery if he goes before with massive cries of “He held us hostage!” and the like.
mare pro 7 hours ago
They’ll need a bigger tarp for Walter Reed…
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m3moellering

I’m not a doctor but I….

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idogcow Yesterday
How do you like your Pier Review now, jerk-face?
m3moellering Yesterday
@idogcow Hehehehehe
roonie pro Yesterday
Steroids and AI
m3moellering 18 hours ago
@roonie 😳
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O_C

Steve Ditko Journey Into Mystery #87 1962

"The Man on the Endless Stairway!"

"The stairway had to end somewhere! But, perhaps it would be better for Carl Cragg if he never found out where!"

Illustration art shows a man climbing an endless staircase shrouded in gray clouds. He is carrying a gun.
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"The Man on the Endless Stairway!"

"The stairway had to end somewhere! But, perhaps it would be better for Carl Cragg if he never found out where!"

Illustration art shows a man climbing an endless staircase shrouded in gray clouds. He is carrying a gun.
source: https://rhade-zapan.tumblr.com/post...
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dreyfusslugado Yesterday
Partway up he meets a lady who insists she bought the stairway.
idogcow Yesterday
Fixin' to steal that boulder from that guy, must be so valuable!
artwells pro Yesterday
Oops? All Escher.
ba pro Yesterday
Wasn't there a scene like this in The Phantom Tollbooth?
roonie pro Yesterday
Yesterday upon the stair...
MackReed pro Yesterday
Thomas M. Disch wrote an exceptionally creepy existential short story based in this sort of premise.

The story text and several dramatic readings can be found here: https://www.google.com/search...
mare pro 18 hours ago
The stairway starts banking slightly in the distance, I bet it’s on a Möbius strip. We all know what will happen next.
scruss pro 15 hours ago
reminds me of a now lost (?) Boring3D series with an infinite ladder.

I like Boring3D
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LocalStain

😶

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#threeofakind
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poorusher

P

A crew worker removes the letter R or P from Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Centre. The worker is on a scaffold and has been photographed through tarpaulin.
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A crew worker removes the letter R or P from Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Centre. The worker is on a scaffold and has been photographed through tarpaulin.
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0y3ahSansAcut3 16 hours ago
Underrr the cover of whatever that is made of, even reality is going to take a knee, for the madman. Already the price is heady for the return of our country. Let us find the heaviest feet to drag, to prevent the other usurpations of our national identity.
dreyfusslugado 16 hours ago
I wonder what's going to happen to the letters. If Trump gets a hold of them, I'm guessing he'll sell them off at some ridiculously inflated price.
poorusher 15 hours ago
@dreyfusslugado check this, first photo in the post:

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p...
1f2frfbf

Thinking of California Sun...

A large collage of Polaroid photographs of swimmers in a pool. The text at the bottom of the poster reads: In Color: Ten California Photographers. The Oakland Museum Oakland, Cal. May 21-July 17, 1983.

The show, like the moments captured, was apparently fleeting, but the serene blue of the waters lasts in the mind.
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A large collage of Polaroid photographs of swimmers in a pool. The text at the bottom of the poster reads: In Color: Ten California Photographers. The Oakland Museum Oakland, Cal. May 21-July 17, 1983.

The show, like the moments captured, was apparently fleeting, but the serene blue of the waters lasts in the mind.
This signed Hockney print of "Ian Swimming, Los Angeles, 1982" was recently donated to the art collection at my wife's employer. I always loved his Polaroid constructions and this one has a lovely, serene motion timelapse feel to it. Perfect for a summer's afternoon.
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MackReed

kit

Head of a fake-flesh-colored plastic mannequin with articulated jaw and weirdly shaped mouth and missing nose, beside which a man’s hand holds up a rubber nose and mouth of the same color.
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Head of a fake-flesh-colored plastic mannequin with articulated jaw and weirdly shaped mouth and missing nose, beside which a man’s hand holds up a rubber nose and mouth of the same color.
from time to time, our local salvage store offers up some really odd shit
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ardgedee pro 17 hours ago
CPR dummy?
poorusher 17 hours ago
Dwight Shrute vibes
joost 17 hours ago
@ardgedee ++
0y3ahSansAcut3 17 hours ago
Your friend for the carpool lane.
Xedrik 16 hours ago
DIY Johnny Cab
mcmjolnir pro 15 hours ago
Hot dog port revealed
spingo pro 5 hours ago
@Xedrik *
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MackReed

watch this space

An angular aluminum tube frame 8 feet long stands on 4 short tube legs set into a lawn in front of a pale green 1929 house against a blue sky.
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An angular aluminum tube frame 8 feet long stands on 4 short tube legs set into a lawn in front of a pale green 1929 house against a blue sky.
(previously: https://www.xylovan.com/xylovan/)

I’ve dreamed of installing the big xylophone in front of the house ever since we moved in five years ago.

My son and I finally picked up the all instruments from storage in LA and brought them home in January. I have another project in the works using keys from the other big keyboard - details to come as it comes together.

Over the past few weeks I polished up all the keys, built new resonators, and rebuilt the top end of the frame to fix the ugly gap that used to be there to allow it to mount cleanly on the van’s flanks. It’s a lot purtier now.

This morning I dug holes for the four legs with a posthole digger and then lowered the frame into place with the help of friends and neighbors.

I plumbed and leveled things with the frame parallel to the little slope in front of the house ( at a nice, playable 40-degree angle), set the legs in place with small stones to steady them, and poured in and then doused a bag of quickset concrete for each.

Tomorrow I mount the new resonators and reinstall 2-1/2 octaves worth of aluminum keys.

It’s happening. I’m stoked.
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ba pro 3 days ago
Was this a Burning Man thing? Or am I mixing up my narratives?
MackReed pro 3 days ago
@ba that it was. See link in the description.
samh pro 3 days ago
Wow!
otaman pro 3 days ago
Xylolawn?
thelonius 2 days ago
Xylo, xylo van
I want to drive
The Xylovan!
MackReed pro 2 days ago
@thelonius would that you could, but she is no more:
https://www.xylovan.com/2019...
mare pro 2 days ago
And NIMBYs complain about wind chimes…
MackReed pro 2 days ago
@mare Not in this neighborhood. I softened them up for a solid year by setting these little things up in the tree out front. Now we have people playing it multiple times a day. It’s a pretty gentle sound and young and old enjoy banging on them.

A guy stopped by during the xylophone installation this morning to gawp at the big frame and said “My kid’s gonna love this, we always stop and play on those (the gongs).”
mare pro Yesterday
@MackReed You live in a great neighbourhood.
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