Gorgeous!

WHO IS SHE?

I like this a lot

🤖

Brilliant/Beautiful!

A Chintan so good it could be the main character in a Tom Robbins novel.

A chintan so cool it hums Tom Waits songs in the fridge and tells you that you look hot when you open the door.

I would watch this cooking show

A chintan which convincingly lies to you about how good the sex was.

a chintan that sits by you and holds your hand in the E.R.

A chintan that both drives you to the airport and picks you up again, and has a snack waiting for you in the car.

every time that song comes on it's a race between me and my son to be the first to say "remember this song was playing when they went to Nowhere?" (he was obsessed with the Guardians of the Galaxy movie when he was younger)

Remember back in the late 70s & early 80s when scientists were worried about the home in the ozone layer so the world banned CFCs? Here we are again, only nobody believes science.

*"City of Gold and Lead" intensifies*

MackReed ++++++

@MackReed what a reference

@artwells @B6FA798A3449 I coulda gone HG Wells, I spose.

... there are Canadians

@scruss 😢

guarding the Anthropic Principle

This is giving, "Lamps in video games use real electricity" vibes.

Nam June Paik wept.

@MackReed was convinced it was Nam.

So how does an installation from 1968 use a colour Sanyo VCC-3912 CCD camera from the 1980s?

@scruss i couldn't find any other info perusing the web, but the link to the whitney is legit, so either a) the installation is dated incorrectly or b) the installation changed what gear it used a few times before it was acquired by the museum (according to the page, in 1993)

@nikkuneko so, like the axe of legend, is it the same installation?

@scruss Speaking in all seriousness, you can't believe the extent to which museum curators worry over and debate this issue.

In some cases (maybe this one) it can be a relatively minor problem: Anastasi was a conceptual artist, the art was in the concept, and you can think of the installation as an execution of it. The art that's owned and preserved -- seriously -- is the artist's idea, usually in the form of the paper the concept was written and diagrammed on. Any additional material goods might be whatever was used in the initial display of the art. They might be treated as material references (for helping source the working items to be used in the exhibit) that don't necessarily have to be reused. In this case, the art is the working exhibit, so what's important is to have an operating video camera and display powered by a wall outlet rather than the original artifacts which might not work or might not even be in the museum's possession.

(sidebar: If you buy the sheet music for John Cage's 4'33", you get a page of paper with instructions written in English about how to perform the piece. There is no musical notation.)

In other cases, preservation is a serious (and really expensive) problem. The other extreme in video art might be Nam June Paik's "Dadaikseon", a 30 foot tall tower of over 1000 TVs which Paik deliberately chose to represent the breadth of South Korea's technological progress, from 60s b/w TVs to modern (ca. 1988) top of the line big-screen color. When I saw it in the mid-2010s it was not doing well, to say the least: The phosphors on most of the screens were blowing out, some TVs were effectively dead (and incidentally the heat the tower gave off was incredible). The restoration project (which started shortly after I saw it) took over 2 years, engineers combing through online sales and junk dealers to find old TV parts, and required making replicas of some of the TVs with LCD displays and heavy glass to make them look like the originals. The Wikipedia entry doesn't get into how they restored the original video when the tapes had been looping ten hours a day for almost thirty years, but I'd bet that was a challenge too...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

In this case the museum was fortunate that the original installation had been made with Samsung's patronage and afaict the restoration had their backing as well. If this was owned by a US museum it would probably have been dismantled years ago, warehoused and never seen again.

Dress for the job you want

It's amazing. Like muertos crossed with dazzle camo crossed with a circuit board.

The Matrix of the Damned

That's why U-Boat officers live such short lives: they never tell how close death is for them until it's too late.

My grandfather used to grow a gardenful of tomatoes every year. He'd give them away or make sauce and give that away. I always looked forward to July.

[Denethor-slurping intensifies]

@jpoulos ❤️ I love that. We always choose half of our varietals to be cherry-sized, so I spend a lot of the summer picking handfuls of ripe ones off the vine and eating them warm and fresh. Especially with a happy as our basil plants stay, it’s good our tomatoes can keep up! Here’s to summery tomatoes and memories of Junes past!

@dreyfusslugado *pippen leans in, whisper-singing*
“Thaaats super grosssss dude! Juuust eat them like a nooooormal personnnnn”

Goddammit

GET ON MY B.L.!!

@spingo God did, indeed, damn this tomato.

@dapete ON TOAST!

Tomato envy, no, tomato admiration!

@0y3ahSansAcut3 🎉🍅🎉

Well...bye

Let them eat... wait, what's left after people can't afford cheese?

Every day it becomes more obvious to me that the people in charge need reminded that being forcefully dragged from their homes and executed in the city squares for failing to maintain their humanity is an option that never goes away, no matter how much money and power they think they have.

@urlnotfound +++++++++++++

TIL she lived in Haytor Vale.

I'm not one for nominative determinism but

@urlnotfound Mobs have a famously poor record when it comes to accurately identifying culprits. See lynchings, any revolution.

@grantbarrett I'm sure the wealthy ask themselves "But what if we send -good- poor people to die in a foreign country to make us richer?" all the time. I don't give them any more consideration than they give us.

Why yes! This is like that page in Highlights For Children, csn you find the eagle, the slingshot, the funnel?

Reminds me of the Wham-O Magic Window toy I had as a kid:

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

I love this movie

“O is upside down Q” is a fun choice for dyslexics.

Using what looks like ⁿ for quotation marks is an odd choice. I do like that ampersand though, looks like a Ɛ (Latin Capital Letter Open E) which kinda makes sense for "et".

Flashback to the Palm Pilot alphabet (thank dog for that cheat sheet that was on the lid)

Withiut apostrophes?

@idogcow That is a deep cut, and yes, I can feel my fingers cramping trying to grip a tiny stylus

Every sign tells a story

@O_C ++

Also, don't flush while sitting on this.

for the love of a comma ...

okay, but can I at least drink what I generate? Need to know in the next 5 minutes

I've been seeing this increasingly at the local stores. First their standard Discontinued Product discount went from 50% or so to 30% or so, now it might only be 10% or even less than that.

One grocery's been discounting items near the end of their shelf life by 1%.

NOW GOOD DAY SIR

Good eye!

you'll get nothing and like it

"i'll have the manager's special, and the same for the gentleman"

Manager's Special: Go Fuck Yourself!

@dad 🌟

Anyone have a Heroin invite?

@homerj First one's free.

man, heroin was so much better before it got bought by viacom

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I think Bending Spoons owns heroin, now, which in retrospect seems kind of inevitable.

She can unsubscribe at any time!

Twitter arguably more dangerous than heroin

God forbid women do anything

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Thanks to some Jet Stream fuckery, STL was at the crossroads of both the Canadian Rockies and N. Ontario smoketrails for an extended period a few Summers ago. It was dreadful. My boogers turned black.

I looked at this minimalist, and beautiful composition, and thought Hamilton On, was the artist, then I read the post. Beautiful photograph.

I have a really great return trip vacation idea!

Tetsuo: The Iron Man, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989

Those photos are fantastic!

Una de limón y otra de fresa y otra de nuez por favor.

I’ve tried several times to use books like this, and I only recently accepted that they’re just too small for me. I need books like this that are taller so they have more space but still fit in my pocket

@dogwelder as someone that makes handmade notebooks, I'm genuinely interested in what size this would be

also paletas -> pelotas -> sneaky world cup tie-in.

@dogwelder What you need to do is hit up Jetpens and other shops selling fountain pens. All kinds'a different sizes.

For years I kept a Rhodia mini pad in my back pocket where most people would keep their wallet. Only fell out of the habit when I started carrying a smartphone, and I'm not sure that was a good idea.

@misslivie I’m not sure. Same width and page count, maybe 50% taller?

@ardgedee I will check out jetpens! Thanks!

@misslivie I’m not sure. Same width and page count, maybe 50% taller?

@ardgedee I will check out jetpens! Thanks!

Aw, hell, you should have said you were in town! (If you're still around I have cocktail recommendations.)

Sorry, just a day trip. Next time, for sure! It’s not that bad of a drive from Detroit.

I was with my daughter at "The Future" store in Minneapolis, fine purveyors of tarot and crystals. I'd been planning to buy a deck and was a little astonished at the prices. My daughter forbade me from trying to haggle the price down a bit, though mostly because when the cashier would refuse she knew I'd say, "I see you refuse to negotiate with tarotists."

daawwwww. Feed it!

@MackReed absolutely will not feed it! It wasn't begging, that position is the beginning of their (not so effective) threat display.

They're getting tonnes of mulberries from our garden right now, so no food required from me

Feed a man a fish, he eats for a day. Feed a raccoon a fish, you have a friend for a lifetime. In fact, he will be hanging around your grave begging for more food.

I love these creatures, they are so clever.

not today satan

One way to get a little piece of tail.

a daisy chain for satan

Thanks I just got fired from the demon decapitation factory

And boy are your arms tired?



No, that’s okay. I’ll see myself out.

bastille day decoration?