The parochial tends to exert its greatest attraction during times of particularly intense entropy.

“the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole”

🧵Spotted at a Secondhand Bookfair in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (5?) with a cloth bag FULL of books is stomp-marching through puddles in bright yellow gumboots*. Bellowing a uproarious, victorious song. She has all the books. She has all the puddles, And she is VERY happy. (1)

Thanks to the detective skills of former editor Jordan Ogg from the Island Review, I dug out one of the nicest little things I ever wrote ahead of returning to New York next week. web.archive.org/web/20191030...

“… pin-ups not only image and provoke desire but also, by penetrating and influencing the cultures of fashion and consumption, succeed in the feminist aim of changing the rigid, patriarchal terms by which desire has historically been framed.“

Consider Torrence Newton’s Lady in Black (c. 1936). “It’s impossible to jump into a portrait. It takes time to make up my mind about the best, most attractive pose, and as I sketch, my subject becomes natural, more unconscious, and I catch an impression I may have missed at first.”

The Model (1922) is technically Cubist but hints at something more. It was painted just as Magritte's life began to change: he married Georgette that year, and soon after, the poet Marcel Lecomte showed him a de Chirico reproduction that moved him to tears. #artbots #magritte

Meanwhile the guy from the Counting Crows was stumbling his Mr Jones thru Hollywood’s vaginal barrio so who’s to say

La gare / The station - 1922 #artbots #magritte

Curious how Eurythmics' Sing Sing ('81) now reminds me of Air's Sexy Boy ('98).

The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

“Dig it, execute, economic slave” (soundtrack for the weekend; as well as even earlier instance of chanting monks slapped about by contemporary beats: youtu.be/CDKkRSUrTd8 ).

“Freedom from fear giving release” (soundtrack for the midweek dance party; youtu.be/o1kzOLYpV5c ).

They finally brought a factory back to the U.S.

"Within an hour of Larry Klein leaving, all his contributions had been erased and Friese-Greene was heard to mutter, 'I guess his wife is the creative one...'" Scenes from the making of Spirit Of Eden: an edited extract from In Another World for Uncut, now online. www.uncut.co.uk/features/ins...

In summer's brutal fever, the witch may sit in tree-shade and speak to spirits. Her working is wise, her working is weather-led. She achieves more in cool communion than by any flailing around and summoning of heatstroke. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

i have a song on this upcoming vinyl compilation release from imaginary north - imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/lake-e...

It’s publication day for Library of Brothel in Canada (US/UK will be Jan 12, 2027 by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) This novel is REALLY going to need your support. If you “tip it off a cliff“ in literature not everyone will be willing to go with you. So come out for the proletariat and buy a copy.

It’s not to say there aren’t legitimate grievances by people against their governments around the world, but when you see the US push for intervention, which often involves installing a hand picked leader “democratically” and setting up an extractive economy, they’re not on the side of the people.

Was a time we would've seen shit like this and been like "so we super pissed off the gods, apparently, let's throw the chief into the volcano as an apology." We've really dropped the ball, haven't we.

Only *slightly* overshadowed by the papal encyclical...the proceedings for next week's ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) conference have just been published. Open access. Really intriguing work here! publicera.kb.se/ir

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

Consider Wood’s Spring Turning (1936). “I liked to stand on a crest of a hill and watch father or Dave Peters plowing in a field below. They guided the plow parallel to the sides of the rectangular field and progressed concentrically inward, cutting great square patterns with light stubble centers”

Can we please stop saying “in a bubble,” which is some real bullshit right wing framing, and be more accurate about this? SAFE. People want to spend their social media time somewhere SAFE. Somewhere they will not get rape and death threats, where they will not be doxxed and threatened.

« Beaucoup du bruit … » (soundtrack for the weekend; youtu.be/P0krgdooJU0 ).

I guess that's how most people pronounce "Canadian" anyway…

Consider Kertész’s Danseuse burlesque, Paris (1926). “She threw herself on the couch, and I took it at once … I saw that it was perfect”

I'd rather not, thank you very much.

’course it’s about parkin’. Parkin’ the bus in the liver pâté.

Cocaine has done infinitely more for the arts and education than AI ever will.

RIP Vila. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...

“Can the Cartier, toss the Tissot, Timex kid – time to go-go!” (Soundtrack for the midweek dance party.)

to show off cat hair better, presumably

Still wonder whether the obliviousness of Canada ’s a blessing in disguise.

“Do not be too hasty entering that room. I had Taco Bell for lunch!”

When is the favour extended to Janniken Pis?

Also if you like moody skies and carbon in motion then I have just the book for you.

a miami bass depeche mode tribute act called 'music for them asses'

Le-mons 🍋 #oilpainting #art

Looking down the 300-metre hollow interior of the CN Tower, Toronto. Photo by Evan Mitsui for CBC.

Sagen fuldstændigt uvedkommende, men præcist én af af disse var med på spritbådsturene i 1991, hvor der blev tanket op på lunken Ceres Royal, så vi alle kunne møde velhydrerede til gymnasiefesterne. Og nej, ikke Elmo. Forretningsrejsende dengang, forretningsrejsende nu, er vel konklusionen 🙂

"… the problem may actually not be our libidos. Perhaps it is, in fact, a society that does or does not allow for the free expression and exploration of our sexual desires,"

One of 12 portraits made for art-dealer Asher Wertheimer, painting all but the two Wertheimer kids that died in infancy. Hylda married India-born engineer, contractor, amateur footballer & actor Henry Wilson Young, who apprenticed installing electric lighting on torpedo boats of the Italian Navy.

Reclining Nude with Blue Eyes, 1936 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16903

Making the Band #art #oilpainting

There’s an argument to be made that neither did Crețu et al. (youtu.be/GBT-GCv__n0)