I drool in my sleep

My life isn't that exciting.

[idroolinmysleep]

I appreciate that there are people in this world who devote their lives to counting the number of leg hairs on spiders.

[gregdotorg]

the Cy Twombly Style Community is not prepared for the upheaval that's going to be unleashed upon it by Stella Honey, Maia Twombly's book of her grandmother Tatiana Franchetti Twombly's photos.

Cy Twombly Sweater Set [greg.org]

[idroolinmysleep]

Haha, have you seen this?

Constantin Brancusi Was the OG Menswear God

Constantin's Brancusi MoMA show won't just feature the artist's famous sculptures — it also offers a look at his impeccable style.

[idroolinmysleep]

Treasury Department confirms it has taken limited steps toward a $250 bill featuring Donald Trump

A U.S. Treasury Department spokesperson confirms the agency is taking steps toward creating a $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump.

You know what, I wouldn’t object to putting his mug on a $666 bill.

[idroolinmysleep]

Plano gives OK to AT&T's 280-foot 'mini Reunion Tower' plan

This looks atrocious -- it's the Death Star on stilts. Put Golden Boy back out there, you cowards.

[jwayzee-blog]

Maryland, Interstate 495. One of my favorite Maryland vandals.

[idroolinmysleep]

I'm not sure if you're being literal or making a joke and I'm just being clueless, but the building in the background is the LDS Washington D.C. Temple. Wikipedia has more on the "Surrender Dorothy" graffiti, and you can see a similar perspective on Google Street View.

Update: The Washington Post has a story on the various graffiti this bridge had sported over the years. It dates this photo to December 1986, taken by UPI photographer L. Mark.

[idroolinmysleep]

NYC Gallery Sold an AI-Generated Ansel Adams Photo Without Permission

A NYC gallery displayed for sale an AI-generated version of an Ansel Adams' photo without consulting the photographer's trust.

If memory serves, James Danziger launched an online gallery about 25-30 years ago to sell reproductions of photographs (probably Giclée prints, but I can't remember for sure), and the marketing pitch was something along the lines of "the quality of the originals at a fraction of the price." That business is now long defunct, but the star of the collection is Ansel Adams's The Tetons and the Snake River. Anyway, all of this is to say: as far as messing with Ansel Adams's legacy goes, this ain't Danziger's first rodeo.

[ilovecharts]

[idroolinmysleep]

ilovecharts:

[idroolinmysleep]

Happy 100, Miles (because "Happy 160.93, Kilometers" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue).

[hydeordie]

“In 1951 the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors made it illegal to exhibit modern art in the city of L.A. on the grounds that modernism was a front for communist infiltration” - I love learning things from Art Books

[idroolinmysleep]

The irony is that the same time when American politicians at home were busy denouncing modern art as a front for communism, the CIA was promoting avant-garde American artists abroad to demonstrate the superiority of American cultural life over that of the Soviet Union.

Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op? - JSTOR Daily

The number of MoMA-CIA crossovers is highly suspicious, to say the least.

[questionableadvice]

~ Female Beauty: or, The Art of Human Decoration by Ernest Feydeau, 1874

[idroolinmysleep]

Of course it’s a man telling women how they should look.

[idroolinmysleep]

A Guessing Game: Who Bought the $181 Million Pollock at the $1.1 Billion Christie’s Auction?

A weeklong spree of sales kicked off with the most expensive Jackson Pollock drip painting ever auctioned. The art world is scrambling to fi

Another potential buyer, who has purchased work at Christie’s evening sales in the past, is Jeff Bezos. And yet, sources indicated that Bezos was not bidding on the Pollock. … There was also much speculation about the identity of the client bidding through [art gallerist Iwan] Wirth, who may not have won the painting but did a remarkable job going toe-to-toe with [Christie’s executive Alex] Rotter. Some speculated it could be Laurene Powell Jobs, who has bid through Wirth in the past and is known to have an adviser-advisee relationship with the gallerist.

Tech gazillionaires get lots of press coverage, but one thing you (well, I) never hear about is their art collections. Maybe I’m just not plugged in to the right circles. Who’s a collector? How big are their collections? What do they collect? I want to know more.

[idroolinmysleep]

Texas GOP push for Indian voters runs into anti-immigrant agenda

A North Texas city has become the epicenter of a collision between the GOP’s efforts to win over Indian American voters and some conservativ

“We’ve got communities like Frisco that have been totally transformed, whether it’s Islamic immigration or immigration from anywhere else in Asia,” Rep. Brandon Gill, a Republican who represents parts of Frisco, told conservative YouTuber Benny Johnson. “If you go to some of these areas, you feel like you’re in a foreign country, and that’s a problem. America is for our people. We have a distinct heritage … and that’s something we as conservatives should seek to actually conserve.” … Conservative YouTubers have descended on Frisco, making documentaries purporting to show widespread H-1B visa fraud, content Texas’ elected leaders have amplified. Gill has gone further, criticizing Hindu events as “Third World religious ceremonies” and saying multiculturalism will “tear our country apart.” … Gill is married to the daughter of right-wing commentator and staunch Trump defender Dinesh D’Souza, who is Indian.

Let that last sentence sink in. How these people can live with such glaring contradictions is beyond me.

[sadclowncentral]

seething about the fact that i will never experience photosynthesis in my own useless cells. i bet it feels so good when the light of the sun both warms you and fuels you at the same time. a bone-deep satisfaction mixed with a heated sugar-rush and endless brightness. not that i would fucking know

[idroolinmysleep]

We make vitamin D from sunlight! It counts!

(But "bone-deep satisfaction" makes me wonder if OP is trolling us or not, because vitamin D is what helps our bodies absorb calcium.)

[vintascope]

[questionableadvice]

~ Listerine, c. late 1940's-mid 1950's

So earlier today I scrolled past this on my dashboard and liked it. Moved on with things. But people, this ad is so disturbing and weird I couldn't forget about it and decided to share the disturbing weirdness with all of you. I wasn't able to find out much about it other than it was in Woman's Home Companion at one point.

On the surface it's an illustration of a young woman carrying groceries and walking her German Shepherd. But wait! She's also being menaced by three young thugs who want to attack her. She is only able to walk calmly and smile because her dog is there to protect her from having things (rocks?) thrown at her and being sexually harassed at the very least. Who knows what thug-in-the-middle was thinking about before he saw the dog. This woman is able to safely exist in the world because she has her best friend with her.

WT-actual-F? Violence and sexual assault were the concepts Listerine wanted related to their product? Marketing-through-fear is a real thing, but this is such a blatant and ridiculous example that I am flabbergasted (as you can tell by my choice to rant about this to you).

"Well, we're marketing this to women (see mention of children) so let's make it about sexual assault" was something some ad agency thought was a good idea.

[idroolinmysleep]

Yeah, the ad is pretty much inscrutable to us in the 21st century, but my first reaction to it before reading the full text is this classic Gary Larson panel:

[idroolinmysleep]

The man who once bankrupted a casino is now bankrupting our country. Who would've thought?

[theonion]

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Jack In The Box

[idroolinmysleep]

Then he would've died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

[apod]

2026 April 27

Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails Image Credit & Copyright: Uli Fehr

Explanation: Can you find the comet? Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), a bright visitor passing through the inner Solar System. Now, the orbiting satellites themselves only appear as streaks because of the long camera exposure, over 10 minutes in this case. On the contrary, to the eye, satellites appear as points that drift slowly across the night sky and shine by reflecting sunlight – primarily just after sunset and before sunrise. The featured image was taken just before sunrise two weeks ago from Bavaria, Germany. Presently, Comet R3 PanSTARRS is hard to see for even another reason – because it is so (angularly) close to the Sun. As the comet rounds the Sun, it will be best seen in coming weeks from southern hemispheree skies, although then it will be heading out to interstellar space and fading. If you haven’t yet found the comet, don’t despair; please take a closer look just above the image center.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html

[idroolinmysleep]

This picture is just depressing.

[jkottke]

What Was the Very First Plant in the World? “Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago.”

[idroolinmysleep]

It might seem backwards, but without plants, there would be no soil:

Once plants arrived on land, things began to change. Mud clung to vegetation along riverbanks and stuck around rather than shuttling straight to the seafloor. … [The] expansion of land plants between about 458 million and 359 million years ago coincides with a more than tenfold increase in mud on land — and a significant shift in the ways that rivers flowed.

You know the expression "old as dirt"? Well, now you know exactly how old that is.