WET BEAST WEDNESDAY
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JVL
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
trying on a metaphor
One Nice Bug Per Day

shark vs the universe
Mike Driver
NASA
cherry valley forever
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
hello vonnie
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Sweet Seals For You, Always

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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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WET BEAST WEDNESDAY
one of my favorite wet beast for this wednesday
#mybal
By wearing this watch you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor
The Fence has published an exposé on Stuart Semple (of Anish Kapoor 'feud' notoriety) which they have been working on for six months.
investigation reveals Semple / his studio / his partner Emily Mann (who's described as acting as his 'enforcer' in his business) :
mishandled £400k grant of public money intended for a public gallery, allowing the money to flow freely between the public project, his own personal studio and personal projects such as Culture Hustle (his online business selling paint etc)
underpaid or failed to pay many of his assistants to the tune of several thousand pounds each.
former assistants have taken him to court and he simply hasn't bothered to show up and he's threatened to sue former assistants who asked for their back pay
repeatedly funds ambitious projects that never see release eg Abode, an 'Adobe-rivalling' suite of creative software (he claims he still intends to release this)
encouraged a cult-like atmosphere at his studio in Bournemouth
was frequently in debt and having to negotiate with bailiffs etc for his debts while at the same time crowdfunding various projects
ran fake social media accounts boosting Semple and his work
The portrait that emerges is one of decades-long scam artistry tbh and someone who's juvenile, manipulative, narcissistic.
The Fence btw is a decent fairly small-circulation quarterly magazine from the UK which specialises in satire, investigative journalism, culture, and fiction. You can read the piece in its entirety if you register (which is free).
a few links:
The Fence's newsletter from April discusses this article & how Semple has tried to muddy the SEO waters
Semple threatened to sue The Fence for publishing this story - many of you are American so here's the relevant UK law on defamation.
& the subreddit r/culturehustle is worth a look to get an idea of just how badly run his paint business is
Holy fuck.
I had a feeling something was up with him, but like, I assumed it was going to be something slightly sketchy, not...this.
I got some of his paints when he first announced the mirrored paint.
The first thig that put up a solid red flag was the shipping material. It's cool that he has custom boxes for his studio, it looked really neat. Then I opened it and saw things like "Not for bean boy" printed all over the inside of the box.
Between Mirror, hyper pigments, and black 2.0, none of them were as extremely out there as the videos on his site made them seem. The colors are vibrant, the black is dark, and the mirror is shiny. But the level the videos showed them at are not levels I can recreate.
So like, he exaggerated as an advertising scheme. Alright, shame on him.
But reading that... Yeah. I don't expect him to sell anymore stuff.
*stares into the camera*
this is making me want to cry
I bet it feels real good to be a sailing ship when they tighten the rigging
wrong. everyone get more perverted about marine vessels now and I'm not kidding
this post reaching Actual Ship Captains is beyond delightful holy moly
right clicking on a dog and learning its properties
as a disabled person, i know what it’s like to not be able to work. that’s why this disability pride month i’m partnering with every single printer,
if you've ever gone on a romantic "date" at olive garden just block me rn i literally can't deal with you proshippers -_-
happy pride, have a sketch
water sports should be for adults too.me and the blokes at university should be allowed to shoot eachother with water guns
post cancelled I've been told the term i used already exists in english and that it means something Very Much Different. english is a wicked language that i regret learning
something something piss on the blokes ass website
dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms
this video has been all that i think about for days now
The most gentle voice I’ve ever heard In a gamechat
I'm gonna get so much mileage out of this one
rev it up!
girls is bugs
it really is kafkaesque
This is the Supernatural "I love you" meme but specific to announcing that another UK PM has resigned.
There's a girl out there with a sad life. Her owner beats her. Her neighbor is an asshole. Her family is nuts. Every day for her is hard. But she always rises up again.
Her name... is penis.
You know how many people questioned me gendering the penis as a girl? You know how many self described trans allies called it a "male organ" to my face? You'd be surprised how prevalent transmisogyny is in even the most mundane of situations and posts.
Final Fantasy VIII. 1999.