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artwells

My Favorite Liminal Space

A blue lit room with a shower at the end, a bench, a shelf and a door to a closet like 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.
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3rdparty pro 3 hours ago
the backrooms of your psyche
dogwelder pro an hour ago
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.
artwells pro an hour ago
@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.
drurystephanie an hour ago
This sounds a lot like a guided ketamine course I took - visions, and they highly encouraged journaling afterwards. I want to try this next.
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waa

My first mural update

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.
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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
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nikkuneko pro 12 hours ago
whoaaaaaaaa nice work!

it's amazing to see how your linework translates so beautifully to such a large scale!
waa pro 12 hours ago
@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!
ufez pro 12 hours ago
Yesssssssss
niicholas 11 hours ago
Can't like this enough - so awesome!
jfaster pro 11 hours ago
Amazing :)
BennyTheIcepick pro 11 hours ago
I wasn’t sure how easily your style would translate to such a large scale but it looks fantastic! Oh this is wonderful. Please keep the updates coming!
wmo pro 10 hours ago
YAY!
jasperzelf pro 10 hours ago
Oh it's gorgeous!!
m3moellering 10 hours ago
Woohooooo!!!
dad 10 hours ago
LoveitLoveitLoveitLoveit
fins 10 hours ago
Dang this is fantastic! Thanks so much for the update!
wjcstp pro 10 hours ago
This looks amazing, i love that style as a mural
snarkout pro 9 hours ago
Holy shit, that bee.
katiefox pro 9 hours ago
Honestly, this is so exciting to see! Thanks for the update.
spingo pro 9 hours ago
gorgeous!
urlnotfound pro 8 hours ago
This is incredible.
B6FA798A3449 pro 8 hours ago
whooooo!
0y3ahSansAcut3 7 hours ago
This is wonderful.
billturner pro 6 hours ago
Amazing!
waa pro 6 hours ago
Thanks to everybody who commented! I can't tag you all!
roonie pro 6 hours ago
Spectacular!!! Just brilliant.
Congratulations and it's not even finished!
Thank you for posting.
MackReed pro 4 hours ago
Enjoying this already!
ckoerner 3 hours ago
So cool!
bubbalumpkis pro 3 hours ago
Very cool!
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dogwelder

Thursday Morning Movie: East Coast iPhone Action

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davidl pro 5 hours ago
Happy Birthday!
cb pro 5 hours ago
🎉
nikkuneko pro 4 hours ago
HEPPY BERFDAY!
MackReed pro 4 hours ago
Have Brooklyn give yerself a big birthday smooch from me!
Sailormom pro 3 hours ago
Happy Birthday!
0y3ahSansAcut3 3 hours ago
Happy NY Birthday!
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joffaboy

Gum power, Heathcote VIC

A large gum tree
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A large gum tree
Nikon D5100 edited in Lightroom
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gwint pro 7 hours ago
Wow
scruss

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

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"
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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"
too young, and just a year after her husband passed

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B6FA798A3449 pro 14 hours ago
Hate to hear this.
nikkuneko pro 14 hours ago
just saw nate powell memorializing her on instagram and was shocked to hear. RIP to a real one.
waa pro 12 hours ago
Sooooo sad.
nikkuneko

Chang An Avenue, Beijing, China, 1978 - Inge Morath / Magnum Photos

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.
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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...
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MackReed pro 4 hours ago
beautiful photo.



also, the air looks ... chewy.
dad

Desert Drugs

A neon sign reading "Desert Walgreens Agency Drugs" glows red and green at night beside a quiet, empty street.
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A neon sign reading "Desert Walgreens Agency Drugs" glows red and green at night beside a quiet, empty street.
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dad 10 hours ago
Restored neon sign in Kingman AZ
cwhartman

Time for a New Helmet

Black bicycle helmet with dents and scrapes.
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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.
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m3moellering 15 hours ago
Oof! I’m glad you were wearing that helmet!
bezt pro 14 hours ago
Yay for safety! Glad you're OK.
wjcstp pro 14 hours ago
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.
cwhartman pro 14 hours ago
@m3moellering @bezt Thanks!

@wjcstp Exactly. Most of my stupid crashes the last few years have been places I knew really well, and probably wasn't being as careful as I needed to be.
ardgedee pro 14 hours ago
Yup yup. The bike accidents that mess you up the most usually end up being the dorky ones like falling over because you couldn't unclip fast enough, or hitting your head on a low branch.

Glad you had protection, got care quickly and know what to do.
nikkuneko pro 13 hours ago
woof! glad you're alright and glad you're wearing a helmet!
MackReed pro 12 hours ago
OW!
shitleopard 11 hours ago
WHAT TOWN CAN YOU RIDE TRAILS ON YOUR LUNCH BREAK?
cwhartman pro 11 hours ago
@shitleopard Granville, Ohio - one of many perks of living here and working from home. Not my favorite trails, but riding on dirt is always better than pavement. We also have a paved rail-trail when it's too muddy for off-road, and plenty of country roads.
cwhartman pro 11 hours ago
@ardgedee Always. My last few mishaps were caused by unexpectedly-deep gravel on the way back from the trail, clipping the support post of the guardrail the trial was paralleling, and running out of momentum on a narrow climb that had deep ditches on each side.
samh pro 11 hours ago
I have a coworker who has been in a world of mediocre shit for WEEKS thanks to a concussion. I am seriously hopeful you move on past this easily because he's super frustrated with his lack of progress : (
ardgedee pro 11 hours ago
@samh Concussions suck the most because treatment often amounts to "I'll give you a candy if you don't think about elephants at all for the next three years."

@shitleopard For a while in the 90s I was working in a professional building hard by a field that had been slated for a suburban development that never happened, so the local riders had done some clandestine trailbuilding, making sure that no part of the trail got within 50 feet of the road where the weeds got thin enough that you could see people.

It was pretty awesome lunchtime ride, particularly if the morning involved having to deal with a super-special client.
cwhartman pro 10 hours ago
@samh @ardgedee I got lucky, effectively it just feels like I have a sinus headache that comes and goes, which is fairly standard for me anyway. And no restrictions, I can ride again right away - though the doctor did advise not hitting the tree again.

Glad I didn't cheap out on a helmet, nor will I this time. My old one was one of the top-rated by Virginia Tech when I got it (still very highly rated). It was more of a glance than direct hit, I suspect the MIPs setup probably helped quite a bit.
roonie pro 6 hours ago
I was told, very early on, that plastic will deteriorate over time and the protection that your helmet provides will naturally go south.
It is compulsory to wear a helmet when riding here and I buy a new one every 4 or 5 years or if I have a stack.
cwhartman pro 3 hours ago
@roonie It's debated and I really haven't seen anything conclusive, but I've heard the same thing. Whether or not that is accurate, I think there is a fair point to be made that the little bumps and knocks a well-used helmet takes over time will eventually compromise it.

This helmet was built 3/22, so it would have been due before too long anyway. I also ride a lot and sweat heavily during our humid summers, so it was starting to get kind of gross.
mare pro an hour ago
I need to buy a new helmet. Especially because I’m on blood thinners and a brain bleed won’t stop by itself.

I had two bike falls last year, both stupid. Hit a parked car, the only parked car in that whole street so it just didn’t register and I was talking with by friend until I saw it, and I was too close. The second one was when the bungee cord of my front basket came loose and the hook got stuck in my wheel until my front wheel blocked completely and I went over the handle bars. In both cases my body hit the tarmac, but my head didn’t. But there was some extreme quick de-acceleration involved so I probably had some light concussions. And the most amazing bruises.

New helmet time.
mare pro 53 minutes ago
Update: helmet bought! Thanks for the nudge.
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knutmo

Black licorice popsicles

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nikkuneko pro 10 hours ago
paging art wells to the mezzanine
m3moellering 10 hours ago
@nikkuneko 😂😂😂😂😂
ardgedee pro 10 hours ago
Salmiak? Or is that too much to hope for?
niicholas 10 hours ago
E for Excellent
BennyTheIcepick pro 9 hours ago
WANT
(If for no other reason than I want my tongue to be black)
artwells pro 8 hours ago
Daaaaaaasmn
williwaw pro 8 hours ago
ALSO WANT

@ardgedee If you'd like to give something similar a try, every year for the last few years friends abroad have been sending me a box for Xmas (like this https://mltshp.com/p/1O5YW) but I never manage to get through it all in time before it starts to dry out*. So I've taken to giving the leftovers a quick pulse in the blender to make 'em chunky and then make very heavily loaded vanilla ice cream/gelato/frozen yogurt with the chunks, and it's DELICIOUS.

*only because I'm a greedy gus who opens all the packages to try them all out at once instead of eating one kind at a time like a logical person
B6FA798A3449 pro 8 hours ago
yes very want
ardgedee pro 7 hours ago
@williwaw BRILLIANT!

fwiw I've had three or maybe four of the licorices in that photo. The weirdest get was probably the Rheila, which I found at a flea market booth of a vendor selling Amazon discards*. $1 for a bundle of three packs... I keep one on my desk and treat them like breath mints.

*(Not the same thing as returns. Stuff that's near expiration or discontinued (like food, or novelty "Happy New Year 2024" bobblehead dolls, etc.) or goods sold by Amazon vendors who closed their accounts or got shut down or whatever. So, like, I'm not buying used food.)
williwaw pro 6 hours ago
@ardgedee Yeah, I make it a lot!! It works well on its own, especially after a hot day, but I've found the ice cream version pairs well with gingersnap crumbles or any kind of citrus zest on top, and my husband particularly likes it paired with almonds or mint. We both like it with some lingonberry jam or cranberries (with just a touch of orange zest) if the season is right.

Also I have to admit I've splashed some orange liqueors and once even some brandy in the bowl with the ice cream, which admittedly only makes sense if you think of - and like - cocktails like a corpse reviver or sazerac.
3rdparty pro 4 hours ago
The Grateful Dead of Frozen Desserts
jordanbrock pro 4 hours ago
dropsmaak
mare pro 44 minutes ago
Dropsmaaklaag
Dropsmaakstukjes
Dropsmaakkern

Playing scrabble in Dutch is lovely. I also miss eating licorice, but too many expensive milled-ceramic crowns have been lifted by the suction power of liquorice. Resulting in needing to use a sieve.
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tom

“Arabesque” Daniel Adel Oil, on Linen

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source: https://www.tumblr.com/miamaima...
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jpoulos pro Yesterday
Damn, that's beautiful.
y95 Yesterday
Frothy
pollo

Bill Evans, New York, 1961 by Steve Schapiro

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roonie pro 6 hours ago
When the sheet music has blown on the floor.
wjcstp

FFU

Two detectives from The Wire in a shadowy room with the caption “Yo dickhead, where you been at?”
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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
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nikkuneko pro Yesterday
rated TV-MA for extreme dollhouse action
nikkuneko pro Yesterday
(i really need to go back and watch the rest of it someday when i have HBO again)
williwaw pro Yesterday
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.
patd 17 hours ago
A great rewatch.
ckoerner 16 hours ago
@williwaw That's an interesting thought so I had to go look it up! Thanks for sharing. I think it was this podcast: https://web.archive.org/web...
cwhartman pro 15 hours ago
I'm definitely overdue for a rewatch as well.

I first watched The Wire right around the time Season 5 was wrapping up, after hearing a lot of "greatest show ever made" discussion in multiple places. I had heard it was bit of a slow burn, and my impression as I worked my way through season 1 was that the show was just a well-done, very interesting police drama - very good, but not quite living up to the hype.

*possible spoilers* Then a thing happened at the end of E10. That's when I realized just how much I had gotten to know (and care about, and empathize with) the characters. Not just the one the thing happened to, but the others who portrayed panic and fear in a way I don't think I've ever seen on a television show or movie. Never have I been happier to be watching something on demand where I could move to the next episode - that must have been absolutely brutal for anyone who had to wait a week.
O_C pro 15 hours ago
A little slow, a little late

A life, Jimmy? You know what that is? It's the stuff that happens when you're waiting for moments that never come
mingusdew 15 hours ago
He was born Po-lice.
wjcstp pro 14 hours ago
@williwaw Really interesting, and jibes with how i feel about the Wire, the many subplots all have that similar theme of displaying the consequences from a history of choices. I haven't seen Deadwood, might have to remedy that after we finish this rewatch
homerj 13 hours ago
Just finished “the Boroughs” on Netflix with Clark Peters and I immediately thought it’s time to rewatch The Wire.
MackReed pro 12 hours ago
Omar coming!
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O_C

hams

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.
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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.
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bezt pro 14 hours ago
Bill Charmatz, from the Esquire Cookbook (1955).

https://fishinkblog.com/2014...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
O_C pro 14 hours ago
@bezt thank you for the source
nikkuneko pro 13 hours ago
@bezt thank you!
snarkout

So much Younger than today

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.
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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.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...

"Ironically, Young Jr is the oldest Young in this photo."
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ardgedee pro Yesterday
Obviously.
dreyfusslugado Yesterday
Sort of how ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is the only one in the band that doesn't have a beard.
ardgedee pro Yesterday
I mean the real question is how a toddler is good enough at baseball to make it to first.
roonie pro 5 hours ago
@ardgedee Who?
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frothywalrus

Dessert Drugs

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nikkuneko

having an average thursday ™️

a four panel comic, depicting a stylized purple ghost with antlers carrying a puffy orange cloud labeled "feeling". in the second frame, it walks up to a machine labeled "feelings processor", which is rusty and covered with cobwebs. in the third frame, the ghost carries the cloud over some kind of enclosed closet or door, bulging with other clouds, tentacles, and branches. in the last frame, the ghost is saying "i'll deal with it later" and shoves it into the crowded space.
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a four panel comic, depicting a stylized purple ghost with antlers carrying a puffy orange cloud labeled "feeling". in the second frame, it walks up to a machine labeled "feelings processor", which is rusty and covered with cobwebs. in the third frame, the ghost carries the cloud over some kind of enclosed closet or door, bulging with other clouds, tentacles, and branches. in the last frame, the ghost is saying "i'll deal with it later" and shoves it into the crowded space.
via larkness on instagram (first panel in portuguese, second in english):
https://www.instagram.com/p...

(addendum: sequel gag: https://www.instagram.com/p... )

artist's site:
https://corvomateus.com/
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gwint

12,060 pieces

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Sagrada Família LEGO Kit https://www.lego.com/en-nl...
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gschmd

Wednesday

Retro comic frame of stampeding dinosaurs saying “GRUMMMFFF!” I don’t know the province.
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Retro comic frame of stampeding dinosaurs saying “GRUMMMFFF!” I don’t know the province.
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0y3ahSansAcut3 Yesterday
Why they threw the rock. Everyone was afraid to land here.
BennyTheIcepick pro 24 minutes ago
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.
dogwelder

Shumway Devouring His Kitten

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As seen in the Brooklyn gay bar where we got tacos tonight.
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urlnotfound

I tried to post this earlier

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...
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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...
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.
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dreyfusslugado Yesterday
Congrats!
shitleopard Yesterday
THE BθRG KNEW WHERE YOU LIVE A LONG TIME AGO
MackReed

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The Cheney Sentinel, Kansas, May 29, 1913

I would love to see this apparently regular newspaper factoid feature revived.
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ardgedee pro 2 days ago
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.
karmakaze pro 2 days ago
@ardgedee https://www.tumblr.com/yesterda...
ardgedee pro 2 days ago
@karmakaze ❤️
cristin pro 2 days ago
most of your arm would be frozen solid, anyway
neuracnu pro Yesterday
Sensory pain (type III sensory fibers sending signals to nociceptors of neospinothalamic tract) travel at 3 - 30 m/s ( ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ). I'm guessing the increased speed is from the wider fiber diameter, which I presume are pretty large for a person's hands and fingers, so let's presume the higher velocity.

1 AU == 149597870700 m

You'd feel the pain a little over 158 years later.
MackReed pro Yesterday
@cristin @neuracnu

I KNEW someone here would be nerdy enough to bring facts to the matter. Thank you for your service!
Robotron_smith Yesterday
Thank you for doing the math!!
hertz pro Yesterday
@neuracnu thankyou, now I can make my decision accurately informed
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snarkout

The King

A page of black-and-white comics pencils by Jack Kirby, showing four panels from a Fantastic Four comic. In the first, Johnny soars across New York City's skyline. In the second, a crowd on the ground looks at energy blasting out of the Baxter Building. In the third, Sue deals with a complex piece of Kirbyesque machinery, the Thing in the foreground. In the last, Johnny and Sue are looking at something and grimacing.
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A page of black-and-white comics pencils by Jack Kirby, showing four panels from a Fantastic Four comic. In the first, Johnny soars across New York City's skyline. In the second, a crowd on the ground looks at energy blasting out of the Baxter Building. In the third, Sue deals with a complex piece of Kirbyesque machinery, the Thing in the foreground. In the last, Johnny and Sue are looking at something and grimacing.
From Derf, the author/artist of "My Friend Dahmer":

"Jack Kirby pencils.

"Note everything here: the characters, the story, the pacing, the narrative, is all Jack. And there's his famous margin notes that directs what the dialogue should be.

"All Stan did was fill in the balloons.

"For that he took the 'writer's' pay, and, of course, all the credit."

#kirbythursday
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MackReed pro 12 hours ago
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing a show of Kirby original pencils at LACMA years ago. Utter master.
snarkout pro 9 hours ago
Real continuity between Sue's face and this from a decade and a half later: https://mltshp.com/p/1RLM5
BennyTheIcepick pro 22 minutes ago
I went to the same high school as Derf (and thus also Dahmer). My mom even worked with his dad for a short while.

His book on Kent State was quite good. What work is this from?
artwells

Meanwhile in The New York Times editorial room

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MackReed pro 2 days ago
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cristin pro 2 days ago
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artwells

from lucifer import ProgressBar

woman holding a sign reading "python = serpent = satan"
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woman holding a sign reading "python = serpent = satan"
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ffg pro Yesterday
The devil’s virtual environment
roonie pro Yesterday
That's the sort of blinkered philistineal pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage...
Tony Jacklin golf clubs.
artwells

linkedin bio

gravestone reading "POET PHILOSPOHER & FAILURE"
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gravestone reading "POET PHILOSPOHER & FAILURE"
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nikkuneko pro 3 days ago
my new new business cards just came in

also, for context:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places...
0y3ahSansAcut3 3 days ago
I need this on the back of a hoodie.
rogrtheshrubber pro 3 days ago
C'est moi.
jpk 2 days ago
@0y3ahSansAcut3 I totally thought this was a back-of-the-neck tattoo
0y3ahSansAcut3 2 days ago
@jpk I saw it that way too!
BennyTheIcepick pro 12 hours ago
“Comforter, philosopher and lifelong shit!”
—Les Mis, “Master of the House”
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0y3ahSansAcut3

May Picture

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.
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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...
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nikkuneko pro Yesterday
this painting was my work machine desktop for many years!
Xedrik Yesterday
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.
joost Yesterday
@Xedrik the Met link doesn't mention a torso at all https://www.metmuseum.org/art...
0y3ahSansAcut3 Yesterday
This image is in a portrait show. The lightesy parts of the image are the top of the breast, there is shadow underneath. A very subtle portrait.
bezt pro Yesterday
Folks see what they see, but from the linked Guardian article:

“…The Face of Modern Life also offers works that are not so much reproductions of a person’s form as they are impressions based on the texture of experience and emotional temperature. Among these are Paul Klee’s May Picture and Vasily Kandinsky’s Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II). Said to be inspired by a garden, May Picture offers an array of dreamy squares in soft colors, while Garden of Love offers vestiges of a central sun and several human figures that have been pushed toward illegibility.

“The Klee and the Kandinsky are paintings what we could easily call abstract compositions, not portraits in a traditional way but direct aesthetic experiences,” said D’Alessandro.”
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neuracnu

company profile photo

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bezt pro Yesterday
The nature of Salesperson of the Month was irrepressible.
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Son Wukong, tech visionary and Senior VP in charge of Team Leadership in Corporate Excellence.
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Chief Development Officer, Monkey Magic Inc.
hertz pro 22 hours ago
He was leveraging the cloud long before anyone else
waldopepper pro 16 hours ago
@hertz A+++
bezt pro 15 hours ago
@waldopepper @hertz Journey to the us-west-2
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frothywalrus

Daughter - Nicole Blackman

"Daughter," Nicole Blackman

One day I’ll give birth to a tiny baby girl
and when she’s born she’ll scream and I’ll make sure
she never stops.

I will kiss her before I lay her down
and will tell her a story so she knows
how it is and how it must be for her to survive.

I’ll tell her about the power of water
the seduction of paper
the promise of gasoline
and the hope of blood.

I’ll teach her to shave her eyebrows and
mark her skin.

I’ll teach her that her body is
her greatest work of art.

I’ll tell her to light things on fire
and keep them burning.

I’ll teach her that the fire will not consume her,
that she must take it and use it.

I’ll tell her to be tri-sexual, to try anything
to sleep with, fight with, pray with anyone,
just as long as she feels something.

I’ll help her do her best work when it rains.
I’ll tell her to reinvent herself every 28 days.
I’ll teach her to develop all her selves,
the courageous ones,
the smart ones,
the dreaming ones
the fast ones.

I’ll teach her that she has an army inside her
that can save her life.

I’ll tell her to say Fuck like other people say The
and when people are shocked
to ask them why they so fear a small quartet
of letters.

I’ll make sure she always carries a pen
so she can take down the evidence.
If she has no paper, I’ll teach her to
write everything down on her tongue
write it on her thighs.

I’ll help her to see that she will not find God
or salvation in a dark brick building
built by dead men.

I’ll explain to her that it’s better to regret the things
she has done than the things she hasn’t.

I’ll teach her to write her manifestos
on cocktail napkins.
I’ll say she should make men lick her enterprise.

I’ll teach her to talk hard.
I’ll tell her that her skin is the
most beautiful dress she will ever wear.

I’ll tell her that people must earn the right
to use her nickname,
that forced intimacy is san ugly thing.

I’ll make her understand that she is worth more
with her clothes on.

I’ll tell her that when the words finally flow too fast
and she has no use for a pen
that she must quit her job
run out of the house in her bathrobe,
leaving the door open.
I’ll teach her to follow the words.

I’ll tell her to stand up
and head for the door
after she makes love.
When he asks her to
stay she’ll say
she’s got to
go.

I’ll tell her that when she first bleeds
when she is a woman,
to go up to the roof at midnight,
reach her hands up to the sky and scream.

I’ll teach her to be whole, to be holy,
to be so much that she doesn’t even
need me anymore.
I’ll tell her to go quickly and never come back.
I will make her stronger than me.

I’ll say to her never forget what they did to you
and never let them know you remember.

Never forget what they did to you
and never let them know you remember.
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"Daughter," Nicole Blackman

One day I’ll give birth to a tiny baby girl
and when she’s born she’ll scream and I’ll make sure
she never stops.

I will kiss her before I lay her down
and will tell her a story so she knows
how it is and how it must be for her to survive.

I’ll tell her about the power of water
the seduction of paper
the promise of gasoline
and the hope of blood.

I’ll teach her to shave her eyebrows and
mark her skin.

I’ll teach her that her body is
her greatest work of art.

I’ll tell her to light things on fire
and keep them burning.

I’ll teach her that the fire will not consume her,
that she must take it and use it.

I’ll tell her to be tri-sexual, to try anything
to sleep with, fight with, pray with anyone,
just as long as she feels something.

I’ll help her do her best work when it rains.
I’ll tell her to reinvent herself every 28 days.
I’ll teach her to develop all her selves,
the courageous ones,
the smart ones,
the dreaming ones
the fast ones.

I’ll teach her that she has an army inside her
that can save her life.

I’ll tell her to say Fuck like other people say The
and when people are shocked
to ask them why they so fear a small quartet
of letters.

I’ll make sure she always carries a pen
so she can take down the evidence.
If she has no paper, I’ll teach her to
write everything down on her tongue
write it on her thighs.

I’ll help her to see that she will not find God
or salvation in a dark brick building
built by dead men.

I’ll explain to her that it’s better to regret the things
she has done than the things she hasn’t.

I’ll teach her to write her manifestos
on cocktail napkins.
I’ll say she should make men lick her enterprise.

I’ll teach her to talk hard.
I’ll tell her that her skin is the
most beautiful dress she will ever wear.

I’ll tell her that people must earn the right
to use her nickname,
that forced intimacy is san ugly thing.

I’ll make her understand that she is worth more
with her clothes on.

I’ll tell her that when the words finally flow too fast
and she has no use for a pen
that she must quit her job
run out of the house in her bathrobe,
leaving the door open.
I’ll teach her to follow the words.

I’ll tell her to stand up
and head for the door
after she makes love.
When he asks her to
stay she’ll say
she’s got to
go.

I’ll tell her that when she first bleeds
when she is a woman,
to go up to the roof at midnight,
reach her hands up to the sky and scream.

I’ll teach her to be whole, to be holy,
to be so much that she doesn’t even
need me anymore.
I’ll tell her to go quickly and never come back.
I will make her stronger than me.

I’ll say to her never forget what they did to you
and never let them know you remember.

Never forget what they did to you
and never let them know you remember.
Nicole Blackman is such a Gen X princess.... https://www.youtube.com/watch... One of my favorite slices of the 90s
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0y3ahSansAcut3 12 hours ago
Like is not enough...♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
snarkout

One dollar

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.
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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
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nikkuneko pro 2 days ago
that's a cool set of photos!
wjcstp pro 2 days ago
Neat idea, well done
MackReed pro 2 days ago
Fantastic. What a beautiful project.

Added to /nyc
dad Yesterday
Wow I'm into doing long exposures so it's awesome having a concept to go with it.
jessamyn pro 11 hours ago
Love how it all wrapped up with the shoe shiner
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n0wak

Scorsese

Krusty the Clown off colour image of him saying "I heartily endorse this event or product"
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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"
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Xedrik Yesterday
A filmmaker drinking the kool-aid from the climate-destroying plagiarism machine is... certainly a choice
snarkout pro 9 hours ago
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.

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