Claimant of the horizon

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Jazz and swing really be like

Music: the most jolly, bizzare, crazy, flabbergasting rhythms and melodies that intertwine into a musical masterpiece.

Words: I'm fucking lonely nobody loves me i want to die rain in new york italian mumbling

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Cheese dump

[hymneminium]

Art snobs complain that using a different kind of paint “forever destroyed” the painting

Wikipedia hosts it as a 2-kilobyte SVG

[earlgraytay]

okay, I don’t even fucking like modern art that much, but you’re just plain wrong here. you don’t know how much you don’t know.

trying to capture a painting through photography is kind of a fools’ errand. especially a huge painting like Who’s Afraid Of Red, Yellow, and Blue. The things that make a painting like this impressive just do not photograph well. Furthermore, the things that made this particular painting impressive are impossible to see without seeing it in real life. (which, tragically, is no longer possible. fuck art vandals.)

let me give you an example with a more accessible painting. Let’s look at Van Gogh’s Wheat Field With Crows, one of his final paintings. It’s widely considered to be a masterpiece.

Here’s Wikipedia’s png/svg image of it:

looks kinda flat, right? kinda meh? not particularly impressive? but look at this close-up image:

you see how the brushstrokes build on each other? how every stroke gives the painting more texture, almost like a wafer-thin sculpture?

now imagine the entire thing with a subtle glow, a shimmer that moves as you walk past the painting, capturing the light of a wheat field with scattering crows right before a storm. because of the way paint works, most paintings have a subtle shimmer to them. oil paintings have more of a shimmer, because they’re varnished. acrylics, like Who’s Afraid, have less, but it’s still there. and that shimmer is impossible to photograph without making the image itself illegible. it just looks like glare.

and this is true of every painting. any photo you see of a painting is the flattest, deadest possible version of that painting. you can’t see the way the artist pushed the paint to give it texture. you can’t see the shimmer. you can’t see the light reflected on the ground beneath. you can’t move around and get a look at the different angles, or feel dwarfed by the immensity of a canvas that’s two feet taller than you that just screams RED.

from what little I understand, the Who’s Afraid paintings are mostly an exercise in technique. the entire point was getting the paint to have as smooth of a texture as possible.

which, uh, have you worked with acrylics? i have. let me tell you, acrylic paint wants to look like chicken scratch. getting it to look smooth is real fuckin’ hard. painting over it? fucks with the texture. varnishing it? fucks with the texture bad, and makes it look oily and glowy in a way it wasn’t supposed to. it takes that subtle sheen and makes it look slick.

what happened to this painting is the equivalent of someone putting 80s blue eyeshadow and bright red lipstick on the Mona Lisa. you can’t get it off. you can’t reverse it. the painting is destroyed, whether you like it or not.

the level of proud ignorance and anti-intellectualism you are showing here is, uh. it’s on par with a made up guy saying “why are there so many different programming languages? can’t you just write everything in assembly? that seems like it’d be easier.” it’s honestly kinda sickening.

like I said- I don’t even like most modern art, it really doesn’t do it for me. but you don’t have to be an art snob to know why this is a bad thing, or to care about it.

[toiletluigi]

Everyone watch this “Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism” by Jacob Geller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5DqmTtCPiQ

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Crash

[filibusterfrog]

some arthurian boys

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Noice

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Oh, take me my beutiful, take me my dear and never, forever let me go

[syubangel]

TO UKRAINIAN FRIENDS

If you are looking for an emergency exit from Ukraine, Poland will open EIGHT safety points on the border with Ukraine (you will get warm food, medical help and from there you will be guided to safety) in two of our voivodeships: lubuskie and podkarpackie. It is confirmed by the Polish Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Paweł Szefernaker.

SOURCES:

https://www.rp.pl/konflikty-zbrojne/art35748991-szefernaker-na-granicy-z-ukraina-powstaja-punkty-recepcyjne-dla-uchodzcow

https://www.wprost.pl/polityka/10633681/polska-reaguje-na-agresje-rosji-na-ukraine-powstana-punkty-dla-uchodzcow.html

I've marked those voivodeships on the map!

Please share because it can save lives!!!!!!

[syubangel]

EDIT: THERE WILL BE NINE SAFETY POINTS IN THE FOLLOWING PLACES: Dorohusk, Dołhobyczów, Zosin, Hrebenne, Korczowa, Medyka, Budomierz, Krościenko and in Przemyśl organized on the train station.

SOURCE: https://www.gazetaprawna.pl/wiadomosci/kraj/artykuly/8365281,punkty-recepcyjne-granica-z-ukraina-uchodzcy.html

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Ah ye baby it's crying to the paper kites mind a night...

[laracroftpussyshedied-deactivat]

cunt better have my doubloons

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

5 catto dabloon

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Blorbo from the shows

Sploinkk

[heylueur]

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Horizon call from another side of heart, the more snowy and high one.

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Northerly gale gifted these to me

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Light and welcoming skies

[valtsv]

i'm so sick of this shit can someone please invite me to a masquerade ball in a mysterious castle in the middle of the woods already

[amithedrunkensailoriask]

Goals

[prettydumbloverboy]

Actually, people are good by nature and you're a fool if you think otherwise.

[prettydumbloverboy]

When you sneeze in public, strangers will say "bless you", even though they don't know you.

When you ask for directions on the street someone will show you the way, even though they have nothing to gain from it.

People squeeze their legs against the chair so you don't have to hop over them on your way to your seat in the theatre, and make funny faces to make babies laugh, and purposefully step on leaves to hear them scrunch, and hold the door open for someone leaving behind them, and ask what floor you're heading to when you enter the elevator, and send others photos of things that reminded them of them, and recommend each other songs, and ask if anyone else wants a coffee because they're getting one, and make videos teaching how to sew a button, and wish on shooting stars, and share fun facts, and listen to others rant about things they don't even understand, and let you cross the street first, and give a bit of their food to others, and laugh at jokes they don't find funny to make you feel good, and listen to kids talk for hours about nonsense, and let you know your keys fell from your pocket, and they may be strangers, but with every little gesture they're saying "I love you, I love you, I love you".

[phinarei]

God, I needed to read this today. Humanity is overwhelmingly full of hope and kindness and it's very easy to forget that these days.