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frankly I think a lot more people would be open to postmodern art if we all stopped pretending you had to be very smart to understand it and start acknowledging that the starting point for deriving meaning from it is frequently ‘this is stupid bullshit’
To clarify- it’s not just ‘this is stupid’ and then you’re done, finding the meaning in something that seems meaningless can usually be found by starting with that base feeling, ‘This sucks.’ Okay- why does it suck, specifically?
‘This is just a vaccuum cleaner, it doesn’t belong in a museum’. Okay, follow that thread- why is that weird? Is it the elevation of normal commercial products to be put on a pedestal? Does that sentiment remind you of anything? How does that make you feel?
“This is just splatters, anyone could do this.” Anyone could, couldn’t they? Anyone can create things, anyone can make these movements and gestures. Dancing does the same thing, doesn’t it? How do the splatters imply the artist’s movements? What does it say about them?
“This person made a mobile out of twine, flower pots, and pictures of cats. How is this art?” What mediums do you define as ‘art’? Paint? Marble sculpture? Photos? Why are you so sure that this is what art is? Doesn’t this remind you of the kind of crafts a child would make, or maybe a first-time DIYer? Is that intentional? Does the construction or material evoke any other emotions?
This isn’t an end-all be-all, of course- among many other things, there’s postmodern art that’s just for a show of mastery, there’s art that’s commenting on a very certain time in history or about something within the art community you may not be privy to, and there’s art that’s simply about creating and the creative process. It’s hard to approach a full narrative with just a single sentiment. This can’t cover every single topic, obviously.
That being said, it’s just as important to note that in many cases, there’s no wrong answers in art or interpretation. If your takeaway is completely different from the artist, as long as you don’t try to insist that the artist has no real say over their work’s meaning, that’s totally fine. A large part of non-representational art is reliant on emotions, and emotions are informed by your experience as a human being. Your interpretation is just as right as anyone else’s. And you don’t even have to LIKE everything- I hate Jeff Koons and his stupid balloon dogs! Cremaster makes me incredibly uncomfortable and even if that’s the point it’s still uncomfortable enough that it makes me not like it! You can just not like certain art, it’s not all-or-nothing it’s good or it’s not.
TL;DR- if you have a hard time ‘getting’ art, try listening to your base reaction to what you’re looking at, and then ask yourself why it makes you feel that way, and why it’s constructed the way it is.
Doing some deep reading into Cherokee history for the project that I'm working on and I am continually amazed how fucking funny old Cherokee leaders were
Every year a bobcat mama gives birth to a litter of kittens on my roof. I set up a camera this time around.
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Youth fascination with technology
what the fuck is this genre of gif called. i had a collection of these kinds of images and i lost them all these are only ones i can find.
idk but here’s my collection
Beatrix Potter’s illustrated letter “Peter’s Dream of a Comfortable Bed” 1899.
Standing statuette (bronze with gold inlay) of the ancient Egyptian cat-goddess Bastet, holding an usekh-collar topped by a feline head and sun-disk. Artist unknown; ca. 400-250 BCE (Late Period or early Ptolemaic). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
Billionaires are so worried about us tracking their private jets, as if this isn't just a minor way to shame them for how much fuel they're burning. They act like The Haters are out here with a bunch of surface-to-air missiles ready to shoot their Gulfstream G650, callsign N628TS, currently parked at Hamad International Airport, in Doha, Qatar, out of the sky.
Which is ridiculous. Do you know how hard it is to get or build surface to air missiles? They're not exactly sold on Amazon, and even a basic heat-seeker guidance system is difficult to build because the thermal cameras used are very restricted in their civilian versions.
Not to mention the fact that it's the kind of attack that only works once, before every billionaire is scared off using their private jets. So you've got to be sure it'll work. Meaning you need to do a lot of testing. Rockets are expensive and difficult to reuse, so that costs a ton of money. Who can afford to launch a bunch of prototype surface to air missiles against drone planes? Not me, that's for sure. And unless you're planning to fight a full in war with these things, anyone with enough money to develop one is probably gonna get more bang for their buck by just hiring some assassins. I don't know how much it costs to have one rich guy shot, but I bet it's way less than what developing a DIY heat-seeker would cost.
But yeah. The real "danger" to ElMu and his like is that people will mock them online because it's publicly known that after talking about "staying at the Twitter HQ until the organization is fixed", he flew off to London and then Qatar. Maybe he'll be back for Monday? Either way, that's a lot of jet fuel.
this can be applied to many academic topics but personally i always follow this set of rules when looking for any kind of therapist video on youtube
Reading about the history of Mormonism; had no idea Joseph Smith was so into the occult, but now that I know it makes perfect sense. No idea how I didn't see it before. Anyway; are peeping stones just a Mormon folklore thing, or do they have a basis somewhere else?
Urim and Thumim are straight up in the Hebrew Bible.
anon I think you would greatly enjoy Mark Twain's review of the book of Mormon
The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament. The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James’s translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel—half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. The latter is awkward and constrained; the former natural, but grotesque by the contrast. Whenever he found his speech growing too modern—which was about every sentence or two—he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as “exceeding sore,” “and it came to pass,” etc., and made things satisfactory again. “And it came to pass” was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet.
Roughing It, chapter 16 (Mark Twain
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Apparently there's now a Christian version of the Ouija Board? That apparently let's you "communicate with God" while also getting immediate answers back? Is this just the Urim and Thummim of the Ancient Israelite High Priests? But like, with the most milquetoast Midwestern Protestant aesthetic imaginable?
You know, I'm not Christian, but this feels heretical. Im pretty sure they're not allowed to do this.
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They learned this from leftist activists when we weaponized this fact against facists but lack the insight to understand why we did it.
WE GOT FUSION
THE ONLY FUEL WE NEED NOW IS HYDROGEN, THE MOST PLENTIFUL ELEMENT IN THE ENTIRE GODDAMN UNIVERSE
WE'RE PROGRESSING AS A SPECIES, WE GOT FROM FIRE TO COAL TO HARNESSING THE VERY POWER THAT BURNS THE STARS
IM SO PROUD OF US
it's not. . . great at it yet
but it's an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING start
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WOOOOOOOO 1.10!!
at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.