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My first mural update
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Two photographs, the top one features the outside wall of a building, with a half finished mural, with a painting of flowers and insects. The bottom picture shows two people working on the mural with brushes in hand.
I've been hard at work in the last two weeks together with my colleague Ivonne (in the background). But we've been slowed down a little bit. Last week there was a heatwave of more than 30°C and this weekend it's been raining a lot. But we've got some extra time. So I'm not too worried. We're not nearly finished, although some people might think it is done :-)
By the way, the design is basically a watercolour I did a couple of years ago, with some minor alterations: https://mltshp.com/p/1N5L6
The official opening is on Saturday afternoon June the 13th. If you're in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam, drop by!
#art #painting
By the way, the design is basically a watercolour I did a couple of years ago, with some minor alterations: https://mltshp.com/p/1N5L6
The official opening is on Saturday afternoon June the 13th. If you're in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam, drop by!
#art #painting
@nikkuneko Thank you! Yes, the line work is kind of the same as in my small drawings. I was quite confident I could enlarge this because my lines are kind of an extension of my anatomy (or at least that's what it feels like to me). But it was a nice surprise to see it worked out as well as I hoped it would!
Yesssssssss
My Favorite Liminal Space
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A blue lit room with a shower at the end, a bench, a shelf and a door to a closet like space.
Since Backrooms is out there, I thought I'd share this. I go into sensory deprivation for ninety minutes every other week or so.
Over the years, I've done it about 150 times. Last week I did my last annual double float, which is 3.5 hours (right after COVID it was five hours). It's my last annual, because I intend to do it every other month going forward.
This is room 4 in Float On in Southeast Portland Oregon. It helped me keep my job much longer than I would have otherwise. It's guided my greater decisions . It's allowed me to revisit memories I didn't know I had
The door to the right is like a closet with the floor covered with water with so much salt in it that I can float with my face above the water. It's warm enough that I quickly forget what is water and what is my skin and the warm air around it. It's dark and silent.
Just walking into the room, just getting the reminder email, removes everything from my head and the tension in my shoulders melts.
When I get in and turn off the light, visions start almost immediately. Today it was a massive eye with a dark green iris. Sometimes, once I see something, words come to me. They nearly never relate to the image. The last hundred or so floats, I've tried to remember at least three of these. When the float is done, I walk to my local and get a pint and a shot and write them down. I have no idea why I record them. Rereading them is very, very boring. I think it's just how I return.
Over the years, I've done it about 150 times. Last week I did my last annual double float, which is 3.5 hours (right after COVID it was five hours). It's my last annual, because I intend to do it every other month going forward.
This is room 4 in Float On in Southeast Portland Oregon. It helped me keep my job much longer than I would have otherwise. It's guided my greater decisions . It's allowed me to revisit memories I didn't know I had
The door to the right is like a closet with the floor covered with water with so much salt in it that I can float with my face above the water. It's warm enough that I quickly forget what is water and what is my skin and the warm air around it. It's dark and silent.
Just walking into the room, just getting the reminder email, removes everything from my head and the tension in my shoulders melts.
When I get in and turn off the light, visions start almost immediately. Today it was a massive eye with a dark green iris. Sometimes, once I see something, words come to me. They nearly never relate to the image. The last hundred or so floats, I've tried to remember at least three of these. When the float is done, I walk to my local and get a pint and a shot and write them down. I have no idea why I record them. Rereading them is very, very boring. I think it's just how I return.
the backrooms of your psyche
I’ve often wondered what a sensory deprivation tank would be like for me. I have aphantasia, so I normally can’t see mental images, but it’s possible that time in a tank could jump start imagery. As for the journals: I read a book about writing where the author talked about journaling every day, but not to be read later. They were just to keep the words and ideas flowing. Maybe your journals aren’t something similar.
@dogwelder I hear a lot that floating is like last meditation, and I get that. If you can get mental images during disciplined meditation, then floating will probably bring it on.
I have had periods in my life where hallucinations come to me out of the blue during normal times, so floating is like turning on the TV.
Regardless, it's worth a try. If you come to Portland, the float is on me.
And I totally get that unread diary idea. It is more ritual than record for me.
I have had periods in my life where hallucinations come to me out of the blue during normal times, so floating is like turning on the TV.
Regardless, it's worth a try. If you come to Portland, the float is on me.
And I totally get that unread diary idea. It is more ritual than record for me.
Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026
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a young girl in a headscarf is apprehended by two older women in full black coverings. The back of the young girl's shirt reads "Punk is not Ded"
Hate to hear this.
just saw nate powell memorializing her on instagram and was shocked to hear. RIP to a real one.
Sooooo sad.
Gum power, Heathcote VIC
Thursday Morning Movie: East Coast iPhone Action
Chang An Avenue, Beijing, China, 1978 - Inge Morath / Magnum Photos
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black and white photograph: rows and rows of bicyclists pedal past the photographer, backlit by the morning sun. to their right is a deeply-shadowed tree, and to the right, pedestrians in shade.
via magnum photos' instagram post for world bicycle day:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
more info:
https://store.magnumphotos.com/products...
https://theatticbyviu.substack.com/p...
https://www.instagram.com/p...
more info:
https://store.magnumphotos.com/products...
https://theatticbyviu.substack.com/p...
beautiful photo.
also, the air looks ... chewy.
also, the air looks ... chewy.
Time for a New Helmet
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Black bicycle helmet with dents and scrapes.
Went mountain biking on my lunch break yesterday, as I often do, here in town. Trails aren't too crazy - lots of roots, some steep climbs, some loose surfaces - but overall pretty mild. I was just there Monday for my weekly group ride, and ride the place often enough I know it well. Good ride overall, with a PR on the first/biggest climb, and at a quick enough pace to add some extra distance.
Then as I was wrapping up, my head found a low-hanging branch that wasn't there two days earlier. It wasn't enough to cause a crash, but I definitely felt the impact, and put a couple of sizable dents and scrapes on my helmet. I still had a headache two hours later, and thanks to having a neuropsychologist wife who knows all the bad things that could potentially be, we made a trip to urgent care to confirm it was a mild concussion and nothing more serious. Symptoms were nothing worse than a headache, and I'm fine this morning.
The helmet did its job. The kind of amazing thing is I've been riding seriously enough to know I need to wear a helmet since the early 90's, and this is the first one I've destroyed. Usually they get replaced because of age, or when they get gross, and this one was quickly approaching both of those points. I'll be happy to continue with this mandatory replacement interval in the future.
Then as I was wrapping up, my head found a low-hanging branch that wasn't there two days earlier. It wasn't enough to cause a crash, but I definitely felt the impact, and put a couple of sizable dents and scrapes on my helmet. I still had a headache two hours later, and thanks to having a neuropsychologist wife who knows all the bad things that could potentially be, we made a trip to urgent care to confirm it was a mild concussion and nothing more serious. Symptoms were nothing worse than a headache, and I'm fine this morning.
The helmet did its job. The kind of amazing thing is I've been riding seriously enough to know I need to wear a helmet since the early 90's, and this is the first one I've destroyed. Usually they get replaced because of age, or when they get gross, and this one was quickly approaching both of those points. I'll be happy to continue with this mandatory replacement interval in the future.
Oof! I’m glad you were wearing that helmet!
Yay for safety! Glad you're OK.
This is why i always wear my helmet on trails, it's the dumb things you can't always plan for that get you. Glad you're going to be ok.
“Arabesque” Daniel Adel Oil, on Linen
Desert Drugs
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A neon sign reading "Desert Walgreens Agency Drugs" glows red and green at night beside a quiet, empty street.
Restored neon sign in Kingman AZ
FFU
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Two detectives from The Wire in a shadowy room with the caption “Yo dickhead, where you been at?”
We’ve been rewatching The Wire
rated TV-MA for extreme dollhouse action
(i really need to go back and watch the rest of it someday when i have HBO again)
Huh, interesting. I've also felt the pull to rewatch The Wire lately.
Someone - either Alan Sepinwall or at the AV Club - once wrote a review I've never forgotten, which was that "Deadwood", "Sopranos" and "The Wire" best represented America because they showed America at its different stages (slightly out of order in terms of when the shows aired): Deadwood its uber capitalistic, corrupt birth while also mired in a sense of community and wrong vs right; Sopranos in the middle of its lifespan, flailing about in the result of what won the aftermath of its birth; and Wire as its inevitable decline and death, showcasing how very much the sins of capitalism, lack of moral care, and thus the immoral choices in its birth led to its bitter end. At the time I thought it a rather over the top characterization - hey, I had come up through the 90s, when everything did seem like it could only get better, even though I was naive about the rot and Reaganism underneath - but now I understand that commentary in a way I didn't then.
Anyway, lately I've been thinking about that a lot. As great as The Sopranos was, I really do think The Wire and Deadwood capture America in a way very few pieces of media have . . . and of the two, perhaps in that desperate way we use media to undestand our world - only in this case I find my attempt clawing and mewling to fully comprehend what's happening - The Wire is to what I've returned.
Someone - either Alan Sepinwall or at the AV Club - once wrote a review I've never forgotten, which was that "Deadwood", "Sopranos" and "The Wire" best represented America because they showed America at its different stages (slightly out of order in terms of when the shows aired): Deadwood its uber capitalistic, corrupt birth while also mired in a sense of community and wrong vs right; Sopranos in the middle of its lifespan, flailing about in the result of what won the aftermath of its birth; and Wire as its inevitable decline and death, showcasing how very much the sins of capitalism, lack of moral care, and thus the immoral choices in its birth led to its bitter end. At the time I thought it a rather over the top characterization - hey, I had come up through the 90s, when everything did seem like it could only get better, even though I was naive about the rot and Reaganism underneath - but now I understand that commentary in a way I didn't then.
Anyway, lately I've been thinking about that a lot. As great as The Sopranos was, I really do think The Wire and Deadwood capture America in a way very few pieces of media have . . . and of the two, perhaps in that desperate way we use media to undestand our world - only in this case I find my attempt clawing and mewling to fully comprehend what's happening - The Wire is to what I've returned.
So much Younger than today
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Screenshot of a baseball game between the Mets and the Mariners, showing Mets first basement Eric Young #29 standing in front of first base, occupied by Cole Young #2, with Mariners first base coach Eric Young, Jr. #53 behind them.
Obviously.
Sort of how ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is the only one in the band that doesn't have a beard.
I mean the real question is how a toddler is good enough at baseball to make it to first.
hams
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Illustration art of a portly gentleman with a dog having a gander at a very well stocked deli case in a market. Cured meats and cheeses hang from the ceiling.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Bill Charmatz, from the Esquire Cookbook (1955).
https://fishinkblog.com/2014...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
https://fishinkblog.com/2014...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
@bezt thank you for the source
@bezt thank you!
Black licorice popsicles
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paging art wells to the mezzanine
@nikkuneko 😂😂😂😂😂
Salmiak? Or is that too much to hope for?
Wednesday
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Retro comic frame of stampeding dinosaurs saying “GRUMMMFFF!” I don’t know the province.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Why they threw the rock. Everyone was afraid to land here.
The onomatopoeia reminds me…
My department has invented a cryptid called The Grumpsch and over time more and more lore develops around it. A group of them is a Violation of Grumpsch, and they subsist largely on Grumpscht, though if they are particularly upset at someone they will hide behind a sherb (due to someone misspelling shrub on a document) and attack. The only way to fend them off is to stand arms akimbo.
We may need to find more interesting work.
My department has invented a cryptid called The Grumpsch and over time more and more lore develops around it. A group of them is a Violation of Grumpsch, and they subsist largely on Grumpscht, though if they are particularly upset at someone they will hide behind a sherb (due to someone misspelling shrub on a document) and attack. The only way to fend them off is to stand arms akimbo.
We may need to find more interesting work.
Bill Evans, New York, 1961 by Steve Schapiro
having an average thursday ™️
Shumway Devouring His Kitten
12,060 pieces
I tried to post this earlier
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A picture of my Soul Red 2021 Mazda MX-5 Miata RF with the top retracted. It is parked on a parking lot facing to the left in front of a lake. There is a sun setting behind the car with the sun and horizon visible through the window and open top.
Below that another photo of a document that reads "PNC Auto Loan Statement Final payment congratulations! This is your final loan pay...
Below that another photo of a document that reads "PNC Auto Loan Statement Final payment congratulations! This is your final loan pay...
I got this on the mail today. My final payment was made by auto-withdrawal yesterday. It is actually mine. 🎉
On another note, Google stuff is getting worse by the day. Google photos on my Pixel decided to be weirder than usual about cropping a photo to not include my home address or the car price on it and saving it. I used Firefox and tried to upload the crowd photo and the phone gave some error about the picture not being available. I thought it failed. I was wrong. It successfully uploaded the uncropped photo with my address and car price, and I didn't figure it out until an hour or two later. I deleted it but now I'm afraid the AI now knows where I live.
On another note, Google stuff is getting worse by the day. Google photos on my Pixel decided to be weirder than usual about cropping a photo to not include my home address or the car price on it and saving it. I used Firefox and tried to upload the crowd photo and the phone gave some error about the picture not being available. I thought it failed. I was wrong. It successfully uploaded the uncropped photo with my address and car price, and I didn't figure it out until an hour or two later. I deleted it but now I'm afraid the AI now knows where I live.
Congrats!
THE BθRG KNEW WHERE YOU LIVE A LONG TIME AGO
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The Cheney Sentinel, Kansas, May 29, 1913
I would love to see this apparently regular newspaper factoid feature revived.
I would love to see this apparently regular newspaper factoid feature revived.
Coulda sworn there was a Tumblr or Blogger account dedicated to the topic, because there was a period in the late '00s when these were frequently circulating.
@ardgedee https://www.tumblr.com/yesterda...
@karmakaze ❤️
linkedin bio
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gravestone reading "POET PHILOSPOHER & FAILURE"
I've been needing to save my game for hours
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A hotel room toilet in the middle of the room and in full view from the hotel door and the bed. It is trapped in a glass cylinder that looks like it might also be a shower.
Source: https://bsky.app/profile...
make your deposit, send it to the teller
I remember this! The opening from Portal 2!
SCHLOOP
Meanwhile in The New York Times editorial room
Dessert Drugs
One dollar
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A long-exposure color photograph, showing a man (in shirt, tie, black hat, and gray pants) sitting in the middle of three shiny upholstered chairs on top of a set of stands where his feet are propped, while a ghostly blurred figure works on his shoes.
source: https://harpers.org/archive...
"With this early daguerreotype in mind, I traveled across New York City and asked people of different professions how long it takes them to earn one dollar. I then used their responses to calculate the exposure time for their respective portraits."
A dollar's worth of time from the lives of a sex worker, a pastor, a city council member, a butcher, a union organizer, a dry cleaner, and more, at the link. #photography
"With this early daguerreotype in mind, I traveled across New York City and asked people of different professions how long it takes them to earn one dollar. I then used their responses to calculate the exposure time for their respective portraits."
A dollar's worth of time from the lives of a sex worker, a pastor, a city council member, a butcher, a union organizer, a dry cleaner, and more, at the link. #photography
that's a cool set of photos!
Neat idea, well done
Fantastic. What a beautiful project.
Added to /nyc
Added to /nyc
from lucifer import ProgressBar
May Picture
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A soft patchwork of muted spring colors, rectangular, 12 X 14 inner squares. The edges are soft, the painting seems more the comfort of spring, rather than jubilation. Also, it is a torso.
This is a portrait show, so now I see the torso.
#painting #PaulKlee May Picture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
#painting #PaulKlee May Picture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
this painting was my work machine desktop for many years!
I'm really trying to see a torso, but I can't. Maybe this is related to my inability to see Magic Eye pictures? Is there part of a head or face at all, or is it just shoulders down? I really want my brain to be able to click on this.
@Xedrik the Met link doesn't mention a torso at all https://www.metmuseum.org/art...
company profile photo
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The nature of Salesperson of the Month was irrepressible.
Son Wukong, tech visionary and Senior VP in charge of Team Leadership in Corporate Excellence.
Chief Development Officer, Monkey Magic Inc.
Will Santino
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I most definitely have already posted this to my personal SHK but I couldn't find it so I'm reposting it directly here since it's one of my favs
<sensible chuckle>
Scorsese
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Krusty the Clown off colour image of him saying "I heartily endorse this event or product"
"Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese signed on last year as an adviser to Black Forest Labs, the German AI startup behind FLUX image models"
A filmmaker drinking the kool-aid from the climate-destroying plagiarism machine is... certainly a choice
FWIW Scorsese seems to use their tools to do his storyboarding, which he's always done himself, so at least he's not displacing anyone's job.
it's amazing to see how your linework translates so beautifully to such a large scale!