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@jacobyaudio

Well lets see if this is a big enough program.

Doing things in NYC means go big or go home. For this to have an impact it will need to have a secure funding source and it should take about a year or two to spin up.

I will be watching.

@Flo_Rian @lemgandi

Some of the books are full of radicals.

@RuchiraSDatta

**modem connection sounds**

**spinning beach ball over face**

@indigoparadox

I thought that "gaslighting" had to be saying things that makes another person feel upset because they don't think they can trust their own senses anymore. Doing it to make them feel helpless and a little crazy.

eg. "No you only have 8 fingers. Everyone knows this. Don't know know a finger from a thumb? Did you even go to school?"

@michael_w_busch

remarkable branding on that one

"Did you enjoy his opening party?"
"Oh. It was unforgettable."

@dalias @ben

What has become of the Radio Play!!

Strictly speaking "shade" should also cast the speaker in a better light, so that they are putting the other person in their shade.

It's a special and impressive kind of insult.

"I couldn't wear it ...but that lipstick is a big improvement for her, really anything is."

@LappenjammerDieZweite

No one wants to walk past or smell the works of those who can do without a facility either. Regardless.

I wish people would stop using "throwing shade" to mean just "disparage"

It's just a neat metaphorical kind of disparagement.

To throw shade you need to effortlessly, and blamelessly say something the re-casts a person's actions in a negative light. You cast shade over them, a change in lighting changes everything.

NOT SHADE: He's ugly and gross.

SHADE: It must be so hard for him: worrying all the time that we might find out that all of his money came from crypto.

Zohran is expanding the number of public toilets in NYC and improving how the existing ones are cleaned and maintained.

If this is a big enough initiative it will have a huge impact on quality of life for new yorkers. I don't know if it is big enough. Nonetheless *this* is the way to address the things that make people feel like the city is a dump. It's also just... civilized. IDK. How do you call it a city and you have no bathrooms?

Anyway welcome to communism.

@ben

But that brings us back to it being a sampling error.

There is some interaction between these common place and comforting falsies:

* More history keeps happening the closer you get to the present.

* The Decline of ...."

These are based in similar statistical issues. It's all sampling errors.

1. When comparing works of the past with what is made today nearly always there has been an increase in both volume and diversity. Today we have MORE music, more books, more art, most of it isn't very good.

2. We tend to compare what survived from the past, the most enduring and best work with the average work of today. (Architecture and furniture do this often.)

3. Related to #2 what is popular now, may not be what ends up defining the era when we look back.

4. Leave them kids alone.

"The Fall of Modern Literature"

I encountered this phrase in the context of someone complaining about fan fiction. But, you can find this sort of notion about many of the arts: it could be "the decline of hip hop" or maybe "the decline of TV series" or just "the terrible state of the modern teen"

Or if you find those absurd what about "the decline in manufacturing quality" ?

Ah. Maybe that one has a point?

These pro-nostalgia arguments may vary in validity but they face common hurdles.

@Asbestos

I haven't paid much attention to him if I'm honest. I just find the way people talk about Jackson Pollock to be frequently irritating. Either it's someone who just doesn't even want to try to see non-representational art, or they have so much to say it feels a little absurd and I start to sympathize with the "my kid could do that" crowd.

Personally I like that he made big paintings. They are really large! It's overwhelming the canvass swallows you.

It's nice.

Next question.

There was an art history professor at my college who annoyed me with how he'd go on and on about the "masculinity and power of Jackson Pollock" and I was like "I don't get it. How are paint splatters ... masculine?"

"Well if you only saw a video of him painting you'd get it."

"Ok."

Anyway I still don't get it. Or maybe I do if the professor had confused confidence and skill with "masculinity."

(This was 25 years ago. I can hold a intellectual grudge. Ima send him this video.)

Watch this tiny little whisp of a person who moves with total confidence.

There is a point where she draws a line and steps over it with her back foot ... without looking back.

I also enjoy how she pushes the onlookers back with the pigment powder.

She's making this like she's got sixteen more of them to do today.

@alexwild

This angle always makes ants look like spiders. I hope as I do other illustrations at other angles I will get a better hand on their geometry.

I think her face has the right personality, so that's a good start.

When I have a good mix of images I will think about making a video about some of the most interesting passages in the book.

I also want to create a map of the expedition of Wawa-quee, her scientists and armies from South America to the NYC public library.

@tortuguita @alexwild

I started the first book three times and just couldn't get into it... (it's so grim and political in that first chapter, and I don't know the history well enough to get a sense of the 'authorial subtext') but with this in mind I might make it trough.