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WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me
i feel like people aren't getting how dire ai is. we are running out of drinkable water. our brains aren't engaging as much with what we see and hear. people near data centers don't get clean water and experience electricity blackouts. it's being used to make pornography of underaged people and women. it often just lies. it affirms everything. it lies. it has made people kill themselves. it lies for gods sake. and people act as if im dramatic for being staunchly against it. 'now i KNOOW you hate ai and whatever, but look at this cute video' this isn't me being a new age puritan about internet videos, this is about the fucking earth and our future living on this planet. people are suffering now, people will suffer more, and my friends and parents will roll their eyes and think im annoying for despising ai so explicitly. we need to wake up because we cannot live like this
Please donât ever let yourself live in a permanent state of anger to the extent that you forget how to have other emotions. Or forget how to allow other people to have emotions that are not anger. When you begin to feel angry when other people express joy, you are wounded in some way and need to focus on your own healing. That is no way to live. You deserve better. And frankly, the people around you deserve better from you, too.
you can only do this career for the rest of your life
https://wheelofnames.com/dng-wgq
How are things going?
Great! A job I actually enjoy!
okay. I can put up with this
bad but not terrible
terrible
I don't work/results
(this wheel is set in a magical world where all jobs pay enough to support yourself so this is purely about the work you do and not the money)
You have been isekai'd into the Pokemon world. Spin the wheel to decide what region you end up in
https://wheelofnames.com/xps-hdt
How do you feel about your region?
Wouldn't have it any other way
Not my favorite, but a nice area
Could be worse, I guess?
Eh...
I'm moving immediately
I have no idea where I am
[See results button]
girls help I've been isekai'd into the past. damn, even in the past I can't get the robust, free healthcare
did you know that you can increase the quality of your quesadilla by adding seasoning
did you know that you can decrease the quality of your quesadilla by making a tumblr post while it's cooking and burning it
People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of ~problematic artists~ and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.
She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.
Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really donât care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like sheâs the same as the rest of any giant list of ~problematic creators of the week~ waters down how dangerous she is.
i have to reblog this again because i go insane when people act like the problem with her is "its cringe for adults to like kids media" or like "the books sucked anyways" like those are completely irrelevant and try to shift the blame and focus from the active harm. even the fact the books also have bioessentialism and antisemitism is a whole different conversation
reblog if youâve had an online friendship thatâs lasted more than 2 years
untitled
2006
Zhou Wendou
What I love about people who claim that âFountainâ isnât art is that theyâre never the kind of people who are actually into art so theyâll just start whining about a urinal and you can come back with, like, 30 pieces that have been made as a reaction to âFountain,â everything from Brian Eno recontextualizing it by pissing in it to Zhou Wendou conceptually unmaking it and remaking it as something that is more unquestionably art and these âBUT MODERN ART DOESNâT MEAN ANYTHINGâ jerk are just over there feeling wanky donât have any idea about any of it. Theyâre trying to yell about a hundred-year-old statement, the opening thesis of a discussion about art, and they havenât bothered to look at the last hundred years of art nerds arguing and debating and doing fucking art about it.
âFountainâ is genuinely one of my favorite pieces of art because of how much more art it has provoked and how compelling the conversations about its status as art can be (if Duchampâs goal was to make people question what art is does that mean that all the reactions and remixes and arguments about the original piece are actually an extension of Duchampâs work? Is this a communal art project weâve all been participating in for a hundred years and can you be a part of it too? I would say extremely fuck yes.)
@spycrabsunited said:
Yâall really gonna just be vague about modern art and how âfantasticâ it is or are any of you going to explain how pissing into the glued together pieces of restroom equipment is art?Â
Brian Eno didnât piss into Zhou Wendouâs 2006 Untitled piece (which is the glued-together broken urinal); he emptied a vial of urine into a replica of Duchampâs 1917 piece âFountain,â which was a mass-produced urinal laid on its side and signed âR. Mutt.â
Duchamp had a series of what he called âreadymadesâ - mass-produced objects that he presented as art - and âFountainâ is the most famous of these readymade sculptures.
Plenty of people will look at a urinal in an art show and go âthis isnât art!â but in the early Dada movement nobody had thought to question whether a mass-manufactured urinal might be art. Itâs a man-made object. What separates industrial craft from individual art? Is it the presentation? The context? The original intended purpose? Again, in 1917 this was a question that not a lot of people had asked before so in very general terms Duchamp put a pissoir on a pedestal and said âThis is Art; Prove me Wrong.â
And then 102 years of arguing about art happened.
In 1993 Brian Eno (ambient musician and all-around weird guy) went to an exhibit that included âFountainâ and poured some urine into it. Several other people had done the same thing over the years, which is why Eno couldnât piss directly in it and had to carry around a jar of his own waste in order to make a point.
So Enoâs point was âyouâre glorifying this one particular bit of ceramic and itâs against the spirit of the original piece, this needs to be a pisspot againâ and other people have peed in it to make the point that it has a broad context - it is both high art and a low urinal.
These are people who were publicly performing an action in order to make a statement about art - these were people doing performance art.
SO.
Back to 2006.
The Zhou Wendou piece takes a readymade urinal, breaks it down to ceramic, and then remakes it into a vase. Itâs being very playful - conceptually remaking Duchampâs piece into a piece of intentional art again instead of found art is clever and funny, especially when the intentional art it makes mimics something else that could easily be mass produced - it reminds me of Ai Weiweiâs 1995 work âBreaking a Han Dynasty Urn,â which also references Duchamp (it was part of Weiweiâs series about repurposing âcultural readymadesâ) and thatâs likely intentional; Iâd be surprised if Wendou wasnât commenting on this:
âItâs powerful only because someone thinks itâs powerful and invests value in the object.â - Ai Weiwei
So that loops back around to the original piece in 1917.
Is putting a signature on a urinal art?
Is pissing in a piece of conceptual art performance art?
Is breaking an old piece of art art?
Is breaking a urinal and shaping it into a vase art?
And the reason I think all of these questions are so cool is because they boil down to this:
Is making people question the definition of art in itself art?
And I say yes.
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Which video game character do you most identify with (and why, if you like)?
Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.
Probably Gustav from Spiritfarer. Disabled, creative but still likes the finer things in life.
if you put the new harry potter show on my dash in any way it's gonna be an automatic unfollow from me, guys. like. it's 2026. come the fuck on
What. what is going on at this thrift store???
(they kept popping up in different sections of the store)
they couldn't find someone to have their back :(
"In the 1960s, after his seminal work on barn owls, Roger Payne switched his attention to whales. In 1971, he published two historic papers. (...) The second showed that fin whalesâthe second-largest animals after blue whalesâmake extremely low-pitched calls that can be heard across entire oceans. It nearly destroyed Payneâs career.
That controversial paper was born of the Cold War. To listen for Soviet submarines, the U.S. Navy installed chains of underwater listening posts in the Pacific and Atlantic. This network, known as the Sound Surveillance System, or SOSUS, picked up a deluge of oceanic noises. Some were clearly biological. Others were more mysterious. One especially enigmatic sound was monotonous, repetitive, and low, with a frequency of 20 Hzâan octave below the lowest key on a standard piano. This hum was so loud that people doubted it could be coming from an animal. Did it have a military origin? Was it produced by underwater tectonic activity? Did it come from waves crashing on some distant shoreline? The actual source only became clear when Navy scientists started following the sounds to their sources, and often found a fin whale at the end.
Human hearing typically bottoms out at around 20 Hz. Below those frequencies, sounds are known as infrasound, and theyâre mostly inaudible to us unless theyâre very loud. Infrasounds can travel over incredibly long distances, especially in water. Knowing that fin whales also produce infrasound, Payne calculated, to his shock, that their calls could conceivably travel for 13,000 miles. No ocean is that wide. Together with oceanographer Douglas Webb, Payne published his calculations, speculating that the largest whales âmay be in tenuous acoustic contact throughout a relatively enormous volume of ocean.â The response was brutal. Leading whale researchers told him that his paper was pure fantasy. Colleagues hinted that critics had been questioning his mental health behind his back. âWhen you get to distances like that, people just refuse to believe that itâs true,â Payne tells me.
Payneâs work made a more positive impression on Chris Clark. A young acoustician and former choirboy, Clark was recruited by Roger and Katy Payne to be a sound technician on a 1972 trip to Argentina to study right whales. It was a thrilling and formative time. Camped on a beach beneath the Southern Cross, with penguins bumbling past and albatrosses wheeling overhead, Clark began listening to whales. He placed hydrophones in the water to eavesdrop on their songs and found ways of assigning specific recordings to individual whales. He went on to compile libraries of whale calls, recorded all over the world, from Argentina to the Arctic. And all the while, Payneâs idea of giant whales talking over oceans stuck with him.
In the 1990s, with the Cold War over and the threat of Soviet subs diminished, the Navy offered Clark and others a chance to observe real-time recordings from their SOSUS hydrophones. Amid the spectrogramsâvisual representations of the sounds that SOSUS picked upâClark saw the unmistakable signal of a singing blue whale. On his first day, Clark saw that more blue whale vocalizations had been recorded from a single SOSUS sensor than had been described before in the entire scientific literature. The ocean was awash with their calls, and those calls were coming in from enormous distances. Clark calculated that one individual was 1,500 miles from the sensor that recorded it. He could listen to whales singing in Ireland with a microphone situated off Bermuda. âI just thought: Roger was right,â he says. âIt is physically possible to detect a blue whale singing across an ocean basin.â (...)
Although blue and fin whale songs can traverse oceans, no one knows if the whales actually communicate at such ranges. Itâs possible that theyâre signaling to nearby individuals with very loud calls, which just happen to extend further afield. But Clark points out that they repeat the same notes, over and over again, and at very precise intervals. A singing whale will stop calling when it surfaces for air, and come back on the beat when it submerges. âThatâs not arbitrary,â he says. It reminds him of the redundant and repetitive signals that Martian rovers use to beam data back to Earth. If you wanted to design a signal that could be used to communicate across oceans, youâd come up with something similar to a blue whaleâs song.
Those songs might have other uses, too. Their notes can last for several seconds, with wavelengths as long as a football field. Clark once asked a Navy friend what he could do with such a call. âI could illuminate the ocean,â the friend replied. That is, he could map distant underwater landscapes, from submerged mountains to the seafloor itself, by processing the echoes returning from the far-reaching infrasounds. Geophysicists can certainly use fin whale songs to map the density of the ocean crust. But can the whales do so?
Clark sees evidence in their movements. Through SOSUS, he has seen blue whales emerging in polar waters between Iceland and Greenland and making a beelineâa whaleline?âfor tropical Bermuda, singing all the way. He has seen whales slaloming between underwater mountain ranges, zigging and zagging between landmarks hundreds of miles apart. âWhen you watch these animals move, itâs as if they have an acoustic map of the oceans,â he says. He also suspects that the animals can build up such maps over their long lives, accruing sound-based memories that lurk in their mindâs ear. After all, Clark recalls veteran sonar specialists telling him that different parts of the sea had their own distinctive sounds. âThey said: If you put a pair of headphones on me, I can tell you if Iâm near Labrador or off the Bay of Biscay,â says Clark. âI thought that if a human being could do this in 30 years, what could an animal do with 10 million years?â
The scale of a whaleâs hearing is hard to grapple with. Thereâs the spatial vastness, of course, but also an expanse of time. Underwater, sound waves take just under a minute to cover 50 miles. If a whale hears the song of another whale from a distance of 1,500 miles, itâs really listening back in time by about half an hour, like an astronomer gazing upon the ancient light of a distant star. If a whale is trying to sense a mountain 500 miles away, it has to somehow connect its own call with an echo that arrives 10 minutes later. That might seem preposterous, but consider that a blue whaleâs heart beats around 30 times a minute at the surface, and can slow to just 2 beats a minute on a dive. They surely operate on very different timescales than we do. If a zebra finch hears beauty in the milliseconds within a single note, perhaps a blue whale does the same over seconds and minutes. To imagine their lives, âyou have to stretch your thinking to completely different levels of dimension,â Clark tells me. He compares the experience to looking at the night sky through a toy telescope and then witnessing its full majesty through NASAâs spaceborne Hubble telescope. When he thinks about whales, the world feels bigger, stretching out in space and time.
Whales werenât always big. They evolved from small, hoofed, deer-like animals that took to the water around 50 million years ago. Those ancestral creatures probably had vanilla mammalian hearing. But as they adapted for an aquatic life, one group of themâthe filter-feeding mysticetes, which include blues, fins, and humpbacksâshifted their hearing to low infrasonic frequencies. At the same time, their bodies ballooned into some of the largest Earth has ever seen. These changes are probably connected. The mysticetes achieved their huge size by evolving a unique style of feeding, which allows them to subsist upon tiny crustaceans called krill. Accelerating into a krill swarm, a blue whale expands its mouth to engulf a volume of water as large as its own body, swallowing half a million calories in one gulp. But this strategy comes at a cost. Krill arenât evenly distributed across the oceans, so to sustain their large bodies, blue whales must migrate over long distances. The same giant proportions that force them to undergo these long journeys also equip them with the means to do soâthe ability to make and hear sounds that are lower, louder, and more far-reaching than those of other animals.
Back in 1971, Roger Payne speculated that foraging whales could use these sounds to stay in touch over long distances. If they simply called when fed and stayed silent when hungry, they could collectively comb an ocean basin for food and home in on bountiful areas that lucky individuals have found. A whale pod, Payne suggested, might be a massively dispersed network of acoustically connected individuals, which seem to be swimming alone but are actually together."
- Ed Yong, An Immense World : How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Inflation has made me not understand prices anymore in the sense that I no longer understand what an appropriate price for any food is. Is a $5 bag of chips a good deal? Because that sounds fucking insane to 2018 me. And yet, that is how much they cost.
The drama! The skill! The cinematography! It's ART! IT'S ALL ART!!
The drama! The skill!
The cinematography!
Itâs ART! ITâS ALL ART!!
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