San Francisco art scene: Smoking lots of weed to make art for people who smoke weed so they can Instagram it.

There are no wide shots of the city around the stadium. No helicopter/drone flyovers of the skyline. That's because Santa Clara is a wasteland around there. Majority of local businesses were pushed out long ago. Zero culture. Simply nothing to film.

Ha! Ha! Bay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baie_de...

We need more Blue Dogs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Do...

tekton – artist or crafstman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekt%C5...

American flag made from lead, Jasper Johns

What rich people think they are getting when they buy art www.juliehillman.com/projects

What color is affluence? www.farrow-ball.com/paint/all-pa...

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Tolstoy

anti-coercion instrument – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Co...

I've been back in the U.S. for a full month now. Feels like a year. So many things I took for granted about we behave as people. Hard to ignore.

"By all means be yourself. Just don't overdo it."

I'm tired of sharing big ideas with small people.

The Minnesota Star Tribune is a well respected paper. Have you noticed that nobody is quoting or referencing their coverage right now? They are in the thick of it and have all the local sources. But they've gated everything and are now irrelevant. They did it to themselves.

another art school falls www.kqed.org/arts/1398535...

CBS gets pitched 500 shows a year. Only 4 get made. Most of those get cancelled after one season.

Joseph Campbell didn't like how pop culture turned "follow your bliss" into some empty self-help mantra. He later clarified it with "I should have said follow your blisters instead", implying the hard work that come with a genuine spiritual journey.

Living well is indeed the best revenge.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Everybody is in charge in San Francisco. City of self appointed main characters that are weirdly mediocre. If you don't have anything to say, say it loud.

Back in California: everybody asks "How are you?" as a greeting. Nobody listens to the answer. Most just respond with "How are you?" in return and also ignore the answer.

Study of five grotesque heads, 1494 #leonardodavinci #highrenaissance

a conspicuous lack of philosophic furniture

When the news talks about bull markets and bear markets, those terms come from a really nasty sport in 19th century California www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bul...

Thoughts on 4 years of living in Berlin as an artist lucidbeaming.com/blog/mmxxv-e...

No more Marvel. No more Avatar. Let new culture germinate and thrive.

After 4 years, I left Berlin and returned to California. I wrote about it. lucidbeaming.com/blog/mmxxv-e...

Back in the USA after four years. So, everybody just wears sweatpants and hoodies now. Middle aged rich people to midwestern teens. One nation, under a hoodie.

arrived SFO

European news sites on social media (8 countries, 56 selected media) - X dominates as microblogging platform, but a crisis is looming: some major news European outlets have archived their X accounts over the last year, for reasons of disinformation... [1/6]

Group shows of three to four artists are best. Not two or ten.

All artist statements are wishful thinking.

Wishful thinking is powerful; it blinds us to what is actually there.

Kaprow exists in photos and documents. Not many actual things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_K...

strident - loud or forceful

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge." – Rumi