#arizona’s The thing exhibit

[theold-ultraviolence]

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#thoughts from procrastination land #Danny Elfman has been adding these events on his fb page for October in LA #of shows at the hollywood bowl #and I have to wonder #are they gonna be the yearly Nightmare Before Christmas concert he always puts out #or #IS HE GONNA DO THE COACHELLA SET? #BECAUSE IF IT´S THE LATTER #I HAVE TO GO #I H A V E TO #I NEED TO KNOW DANNY #please tell me now so that I can tramit my expired ass tourist visa #that I haven't renewed since the pandemic #I hadn't been to the U.S. in so long that I didn't see the point BUT NOW #I HAVE TO #I'm literally gonna have a group exhibition in Arizona on november and I was like #ohhh I NEED to get my visa thingy so that I can go #and then I was like mehh that's an expense I don't want to waste money on rn #leave it to danny elfman to change my mind about that #fuck u guys that thing is expensive AF #which is WHY I need to know DANNY #otherwise I won't bother until something important comes up

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Here's an unusual property for work & play- basically you're buying a giant 40 foot diameter sphere in the desert of Yucca, Arizona. The dome is currently a ''UFO museum'' open to the public. BUT- A new project with storage, rv park, and an MX Professional Park for all ages will be developed right next to this ONE OF A KIND FACILITY! $1.375M. Terms are cash (?) or the owner will carry the loan. (So, in other words, it doesn't qualify for a bank loan.)

The property has a C-store and a fully operational restaurant called ''Rocket Burger.''

They don't specify if the things in the museum come with it.

I don't know, there doesn't seem to be much in here. A few displays, t-shirts for sale, souvenirs, and a couple arcade games.

A new exhibit under construction.

The Rocket Burger facility is nice. It has a full professional kitchen.

I don't know, it looks like a failing business. Maybe if and when they build the other facilities it will pick up, but right now it looks pretty dead.

The property measures 2.19 acres. There is some kind of large business and housing development nearby.

But, the rest is vastly desolate.

#desert property #desert business for sale #unique property #unusual property #other stuff

[reddpenn]

Oh, right, I never posted these!  Here are the rocks I acquired at my last rock show!

This big sparkly girl with the bottle green, glassy appearance is vivianite, a rock which is just as fragile as it looks!  Vivianite has some really cool properties.  It begins as a colorless mineral, but as soon as it’s exposed to light, it undergoes a chemical reaction that turns it this blue-green color.  As long as it’s exposed to light, this chemical reaction will continue, and the crystals will turn darker and darker until they’re completely black.  Another cool thing about vivianite is that it exhibits pleochroism, meaning the crystals look more green or more blue depending on the angle you view them at.

This funky-shaped sparkly girl is a scepter quartz!  Scepter quartz occurs when a younger crystal begins growing on the tip of an older one, resulting in a big crystal perched atop a skinny one, like the jewel atop a scepter!  This scepter is a smoky amethyst with some really cool stuff going on inside.  My favorite detail is those red spots, which are caused by needle-like crystals of hematite growing inside the quartz!

This is the third meteorite to join my collection!  This piece fell to Earth about four to five thousand years ago in northern Argentina.  Its melted appearance is because the heat of entering Earth’s atmosphere actually caused it to melt!  Campo del Cielo meteorites are iron-nickel meteorites, made from a metal alloy called meteoric iron.  (Ok, so, not to go off on a tangent but meteoric iron is really cool stuff, historically.  See, iron doesn’t occur on planet Earth in its native, metallic form.  It’s always bound up in ores and has to be processed.  But native iron does occur in the vacuum of space, and sometimes that iron falls to Earth as meteors, so the only iron that Bronze Age people had access to before the advent of iron smelting was from meteors.  They made some really cool stuff with it.  Did you know that Tutankhamen was buried with a dagger made from meteoric iron?)

This fossil boy is a slab of turritella agate!  It comes from a fossil deposit in Wyoming called the Green River Formation.  Those white shapes are the fossilized shells of turritella sea snails encased in chert.  These shells were once buried at the bottom of an ancient ocean!  Because of the cool patterns their cross sections make, turritella slabs like this one are used by lapidary artists to cut cabochons for jewelry.

Speaking of cool agates, here’s a neat little fire agate!  This piece came from the southwestern United States.  That metallic, rainbow iridescence (or “fire”) is caused by alternating layers of goethite and limonite, which form as botryoidal bubbles encased in translucent chalcedony.  Fire agate is one of the coolest forms of agate, because it’s so incredibly rare!  The only place in the world where it’s found is an area from central Mexico up through California and Arizona, where it was formed during ancient volcanic activity.

Here’s another cool agate!  This is Aztec purple lace agate, which comes from Mexico.  I don’t think they’re mining it out anymore (actually, it hasn’t been mined for a long time), so this is pretty scarce stuff!  It doesn’t photograph well, so trust me when I say that this piece is much purpler in person.  Other than that, I don’t know much about it!

Also very purple and also from Mexico is this Coyamito agate!  Note the super cool hexagon shape.  Coyamito agate is known for its pseudomorph formations: it replaces other minerals and grows in their shape.  That’s rare in agate, but super common in the Coyamito agate deposit!  In this case, the agate was growing in the hollow left behind by a hexagonal crystal.

Here’s something I’ve been wanting to add to my collection for a long time!  This dignified boy is royal imperial jasper, possibly my absolute favorite kind of jasper. (And unlike most of the rocks the crystal healing crowd likes to slap the word “jasper” on, he’s actually a real jasper!)  We’re seeing in cross-section what’s known as an “egg” formation, the result of a jasper nodule which started small and then grew outward in uneven layers.  Changes in the environment during the formation of each layer resulted in all these different colors!  This piece is also from Mexico.

And finally (drumroll please), it’s time for opals!  As is tradition, I came home from the show with three brand new Ethiopian opals.  Here they are!

Opal number one!  Beautiful!  Subtle and refined!  10/10!

Opal number two!  Stunning!  A style all her own!  Her birthmarks really add warmth and color to the overall presentation.

Opal number three, the Big Girl.  Gorgeous!  Full of fireworks!  What a wonderful sparkly girl!

#red pen has cool rocks #rock collecting #look at my cool rocks

[supersonicart]

Logan Maxwell Hagege’s “Desert Shapes.”

Currently on view at Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles, California is artist Logan Maxwell Hagege’s exquisite solo exhibition, “Desert Shapes.”

"Some of my newest works I have been holding onto for about two years," states Hagege.  He does this to see how they resonate with him after he's been able to live with them over time. "All the artists I've loved have had an evolution in their work.  So I love that freedom of being able to do things differently, and just exploring more.  It's that freedom that can give an artist their artistic soul."

Most known for painting the Vermilion Cliffs region of Northern Arizona, where he has a home and studio, Hagege took a different approach for DESERT SHAPES.  He let his memories take the lead.  Though his outdoor studies and photos were referenced, the majority of the landscapes are painted from memory.  And imagination was used whenever possible.  By using this method to paint the desert, Hagege is able to fully capture the desert as it feels to him - unique.  Hagege sees the world and more specifically, the desert, different than us all.  These are the paintings that really bring us into his world.

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#art #painting #logan maxwell hagege #maxwell alexander gallery #los angeles

[desertpups]

'Only the first step': Pride Tape's impact felt in and outside of hockey

This article was written as part of the Professional Hockey Writers Association and To Hockey, With Love Mentorship Program. See the bottom of the article for more on the program.

A week before puck drop on the NHL's highly anticipated 2023-24 season - featuring the debut of Connor Bedard against Sidney Crosby - the NHL shared a memo with teams: Players were barred from using Pride Tape on their sticks, on top of the ban already in place on specialty jerseys.

"That was the No. 1 story," said Kris Wells, the co-founder of Pride Tape, which promotes equality and inclusion in sports.

Pride Tape has been involved with the NHL ever since former Oilers defenseman Andrew Ference brought it to the fore after participating in Edmonton's Pride parade years ago. However, after 11 years of solid support between the NHL, Pride Tape, and Ference, things went awry in 2022-23 when multiple players chose not to partake in warmups wearing special jerseys on designated Pride nights.

With the ban in place, fans were left wondering: How would players respond?

To a man, they mostly didn't, accepting the ban. Except Travis Dermott.

Eleven days into the new season, the Arizona Coyotes D-man used a few pieces of Pride Tape near the knob of his stick, sending the league into crisis mode. Three days later, the NHL reversed its Pride Tape ban.

For Wells, what was most important about the entire fiasco was the conversation it sparked.

"We often say that wrapping your stick in Pride Tape is only the first step, right?" Wells explained. "The more important step is hopefully the conversation that it engenders."

Impact on community organizations

The events indeed sparked positive conversations at community organizations like the Steel City Inclusive Softball Association (SCISA) and Queer Hockey Hamilton in Hamilton, Ontario.

SCISA is an organization that creates fun and active environments through slow-pitch softball. For adults 18 and older, the organization prides itself on welcoming all gender identities, sexual orientations, and body types.

SCISA commissioner Jeff Lindstrom decided to focus on softball because it's a sport that can accommodate any skill set.

"One thing I found to be unique about the game of softball is that it's uniquely accommodating for people of all skill sets and experience," Lindstrom said.

And even though SCISA isn't directly involved with Pride Tape, Lindstrom emphasizes the importance of Pride Tape to him and his organization.

"Any of the visual supports of solidarity that make it onto TV screens - onto the big field in front of spectators - really have a lot of power," Lindstrom said. "That's where most eyes are when it comes to mainstream media, when it comes to mainstream sporting events, when it comes to ticketed events."

SCISA started in the summer of 2021 and has seen growth ever since its inaugural season.

Jenelle Lewis, co-founder of Queer Hockey Hamilton, echoes Lindstrom's point about visibility.

"It's very important to show the support for that community when they haven't been so welcomed within the hockey community," Lewis said.

Queer Hockey Hamilton is an organization that's creating an open and welcoming space, as Lewis puts it, "for people to come without fear of the changeroom, without fear of slurs being used on the ice."

Queer Hockey Hamilton is in its first season of play and hosted its first exhibition game in the fall of 2023.

Many members of Queer Hockey Hamilton use Pride Tape. In fact, so do a lot of SCISA members.

"There's lots of other rainbow accessories that people will use," Lindstrom said. "Just being comfortable having that on your equipment and being visible matters."

The future of Pride Tape

After a whirlwind 2023, many have wondered what Pride Tape's future is.

Will it continue with the status quo and provide NHL teams with Pride Tape? Will it expand to other sports?

"If there are athletes out there or teams or leagues that want to get involved, we're more than happy to partner with them," Wells said.

For an organization that's made so many strides since its debut eight years ago, it's in no rush to expand to other sports. In fact, Wells points out a common misconception: Pride Tape isn't about profit.

"Pride Tape is actually not a business at all," Wells pointed out. "Some people believe we were this massive company, but we're just a small grassroots collective, right? Nobody gets paid."

Queer Hockey Hamilton's Lewis can't wait for what comes next. "I would like to see it used during a game," she said.

Like Toronto Metropolitan University's women's hockey team did during its Pride game.

"That's great!" Lewis said cheerfully upon learning the TMU news. "That visibility there is even more important, in my opinion."

For Pride Tape, the impact has been enormous - globally with the NHL and in communities like Hamilton, thanks to Queer Hockey Hamilton and SCISA. The effect has been felt in and outside of sport.

"Pride Tape is now on people's garden tools. It's on their walkers and their canes," Wells marveled. "It's on their water bottles. It's used in physiotherapy clinics. It's on golf clubs and racquetball and dodgeball, and you name it. It's really expanded because, again, it is such a simple yet powerful way to signal you're an ally, right? That you believe in LGBTQ inclusion and human rights."

This article was written by Michael Pagani, who's part of the Professional Hockey Writers Association and To Hockey, With Love Mentorship Program. The program pairs aspiring writers with established members of the association across North America to create opportunities for marginalized people who aren't traditionally published on larger platforms covering hockey. To Hockey, With Love is a weekly newsletter covering a range of topics in hockey, from the scandals of the week to critical analysis of the sport.

#nhl #pride tape #travis dermott #arizona coyotes #coyotes

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A defamation lawsuit is revealing scornful behind-the-scenes opinions by Fox News figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message declaring, “I hate him passionately.”

Carlson’s private text comments were revealed in court papers at virtually the same time the former president was hailing the Fox News host on social media. Trump said he was doing a “great job” in presenting excerpts of U.S. Capitol security video of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — though Carlson used the video to produce a false narrative of the attack.

The documents are coming to light at a time of increased tension between Trump and Fox, the dominant media force appealing to conservatives, as he campaigns to regain the presidency.

Voting machine manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, claiming the network broadcast false claims that the company was responsible for fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The case is to go to trial this spring, and a trove of documents related to Fox’s actions after the election are being publicly released in advance.

A common theme emerging from the internal documents and depositions is that Fox executives and hosts doubted the election claims being peddled by Trump and his allies, but aired and emphasized them anyway. Fox was growing concerned about a decline in viewership as Trump supporters turned away from the network after it — correctly — called Joe Biden the presidential winner in Arizona on election night.

The exchanges include Carlson’s text conversation on Jan. 4, 2021, with an unknown person, in which the prime-time host expressed anger toward Trump.

Carlson said that “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights” and that “I truly can’t wait.”

Carlson said he had no doubt there was fraud in the 2020 election, but that Trump and his lawyers had so discredited their case — and media figures like himself — “that it’s infuriating. Absolutely enrages me.”

Federal and state officials, courts, exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump’s attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election, although Trump continues to falsely state that the presidency was stolen from him.

Addressing Trump’s four years as President, Carlson said, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

In another text exchange more than a month earlier, Carlson denigrated Trump’s business abilities: Trump’s talent, he said, is to “destroy things. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”

Publicly, Fox viewers heard very different views, such as a 2017 exchange with colleague Greg Gutfeld in which Carlson agreed that Trump was “the greatest President that ever will be.” On his show in 2019, Carlson said Trump had fought as hard as he could to make sure everyone in America was treated equally under the law.

“You can say what you really believe in public,” Carlson said then. “You’re an American citizen. That is your right.” Trump could lose in 2020, he added, “but he’ll be a genuinely great President.”

Fox, in response to the court exhibits quoting Carlson that were released late Tuesday, said that “Dominion has been caught red handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear Fox News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press. We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.”

Carlson has continued rolling out security video from the Capitol attack, footage handed to him by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. For that, Trump said on his social media platform, “congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest ‘scoops’ as a reporter in U.S. history.”

The selective release of the footage to sway the historical account has drawn criticism, including from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called on Fox to stop spreading election lies, which he said was eroding trust in American democracy.

Fox’s founder, Rupert Murdoch, has a complex relationship with Trump: “I was not close to him,” Murdoch said in a deposition in the libel lawsuit.

Indeed, though Murdoch acknowledged talking to Trump occasionally, he said he also sought inside information from Sean Hannity, one of his network’s primetime hosts, because Hannity was the closest person at Fox to Trump.

Following Trump’s loss in November 2020, Murdoch despaired of the President’s behavior.

“The real danger is what he might do as President,” Murdoch wrote in an email to a friend that month. “Apparently not sleeping and bouncing off walls! Don’t know about Melania, but kids no help.”

But Murdoch told his network’s officials that he also didn’t want to “antagonize” Trump: “He had a very large following, and they were probably mostly viewers of Fox, so it would have been stupid,” Murdoch said in a deposition in the Dominion case.

In separate questioning in the case, Murdoch acknowledged that he believed the 2020 presidential election “was not stolen.”

On social media recently, Trump was critical of Fox when other court papers released in the Dominion case made clear that a number of the network’s executives and personalities privately believed the election fraud claims were bunk.

Trump and his team also have accused Fox of giving his latest campaign for the presidency little attention and favoring a potential challenger for the GOP nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Fox and Trump have long had a complicated relationship. While he frequently has used the network to reach its audience, he also has been furious at a perceived lack of loyalty, most prominently after the 2020 election.

In a fiery speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee last week, Trump ally Steve Bannon complained that Fox had disrespected the former President.

“You’ve deemed Trump’s not going to be President,” Bannon said. “Well, we deem you’re not going to have a network.”

On Saturday afternoon, Fox News aired Trump’s speech to CPAC in its entirety.

#us politics #news #ap news #the associated press #2023 #dominion voting systems #dominion lawsuit #defamation lawsuit #fox news #rupert murdoch #tucker carlson #tucker carlson tonight #cucker tarlson #donald trump #republicans #trump administration #conservatives #gop #capitol riot #capitol riot investigation #2020 election #the big lie #trump's big lie #Conservative Political Action Committee #cpac 2023 #Steve Bannon

[newsworld-nw]

Wild chimps have been shown to undergo menopause for the first time

Menopause is uncommon within the animal kingdom. In mammals, menopause happens one 12 months after an individual's final pure ovulation cycle and is characterised by modifications in hormone ranges and infertility. It has been documented in only some species, together with people, orcas, and short-finned pilot whales. However new proof exhibits that some wild chimpanzees additionally expertise menopause. Scientists spent a number of years finding out the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda. They collected demographic and hormonal proof that strongly means that many older girls within the inhabitants undergo menopause—and proceed to dwell wholesome lives for a number of years afterward. Though researchers have seen indicators of menopause in some captive nonhuman primates, that is the primary time it has been documented in wild primates. "I believe that is an extremely thrilling examine," mentioned Susan Alberts, a primatologist at Duke College, which was printed Thursday. science. "They did such a pleasant job with their evaluation." The Ngogo chimpanzee inhabitants is exclusive for a lot of causes. The primates, which dwell inside Uganda's Kibale Nationwide Park, are extra remoted from human cities than many of the world's chimps. They're properly researched and even starred in their very own Netflix collection. And in comparison with different chimpanzee populations, Ngogo chimps dwell longer. Leonora, a post-breeding feminine of the Ngogo group of chimpanzees in Kibale Nationwide Park, Uganda. Credit: Kevin Langergraber/Arizona State College When Sholi Gunter began working with apes within the early 2000s, she observed this. "We had lots of previous girls," she says, "and it was uncommon." Gunter, a biologist at McLennan Group Faculty and a co-author of the brand new examine, suspected that these older feminine chimpanzees may undergo menopause. So he and his colleagues started amassing urine samples from primates and inspecting them for hormonal modifications, similar to will increase in luteinizing hormone and reduces in estradiol, that point out menopause in people. They discovered these modifications in a number of older girls. The researchers had been then capable of mix this dataset with demographic knowledge collected from the inhabitants over a number of years. Importantly, the info exhibit that "not solely does chimpanzee menopause happen however (additionally) when It occurs," mentioned Melissa Emery Thompson, an evolutionary anthropologist on the College of New Mexico and co-author of the examine. The outcomes present that, like people, Ngogo chimpanzees start menopause after age 50. On common, sexually mature females spend about one-fifth of their lives in a post-reproductive state—about half that of human hunter-gatherers. Why these chimps undergo menopause is a little more difficult to elucidate. In any case, it's an evolutionary thriller why an organism would exceed its reproductive capability. A standard rationalization for menopause in people, often known as the "grandmother speculation", posits that it's evolutionarily advantageous for older girls to assist construct up the following technology. However "it is probably not potential for chimpanzees as a result of they do not dwell with their daughters," mentioned Peter Ellison, an evolutionary anthropologist at Harvard College who was not concerned within the examine. Grownup feminine chimps have a tendency to maneuver to a unique household when it is time to have their infants, they usually have a tendency to lift them communally, that means primates don't have any genetic incentive to have their very own grandchildren. As a substitute the analysis means that menopause might solely be a characteristic of the mammalian reproductive system if such animals are long-lived. "It could be one thing that was shared by the final frequent ancestor of people and chimpanzees," Gunter mentioned. And maybe due to their isolation from human-induced stress, Ngogo chimps dwell longer. For some specialists, this was a stunning discovery. "If you happen to had advised me about these outcomes earlier than I learn the paper, I'd have been skeptical," Alberts mentioned. Not all chimpanzees appear to undergo menopause—however that could possibly be the results of elements aside from biology. In most chimpanzee populations exterior of the Ngogo group, grownup females sometimes dwell to age 30 as a consequence of predation, illness, or stress. Alberts says the brand new paper's findings are so robust that he cannot argue with them. The following step, he provides, will probably be related long-term research of further wild chimpanzee populations to find out whether or not Ngogo chimpanzees are distinctive in surviving previous their reproductive years. Ellison wish to see related research of different social mammal species, similar to elephants and woolly spider monkeys. The findings might assist us develop a greater understanding of how menopause advanced, in addition to why—and why—it stays so uncommon. #Wild #chimps #proven #bear #menopause #time Read the full article

[jojoseames]

I'm really excited about this one! I've done this new painting for &Gallery's 2022 Anime Art Exhibition, a celebration of all things anime and manga! I'm in the "Chibi Market" portion of the show, which is for different kinds of merch as well as smaller art pieces, like this 11 x 15 painting. In addition to the original painting, this is going to be available as an &Gallery-exclusive art print, in a signed-and-numbered limited edition of 20!

Yukito Kishiro's "Battle Angel Alita" is really special to me. I've loved comics my entire life, but I didn't have much access to them growing up, besides newspaper funnies. When I was fourteen, I started trying to write and draw my own, and I discovered that making comics was what I wanted--no, needed--to do with my life. I started seeking out any kind of comic I could get my hands on, to study and learn from as many different works as I could. That's when I found the first volume of "Battle Angel Alita" at the city library, as part of their strange assortment of graphic novels. What an inspiration it was! Everything about it spoke to me--setting, characters, tone, technique. Its combination of hope and despair. Its contrast of extreme violence and gruesome body horror against warmth and kindness. I'm not sure how many times I checked that book out from the library before I was able to buy my own copy... Still to this day the entire series remains one of my biggest personal favorites and sources of inspiration.

Watercolor, 11 x 15 inches JoJo Seames, 2022

&Gallery is located at 419 N. 4th Ave in Tucson, Arizona. Anime Art Exhibition opening reception is Saturday, August 6th, from 6 - 9 pm!

#battle angel alita #gunnm #alita battle angel #battle angel #alita #gally #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #jojo seames #&gallery

[taiwantalk]

This is my exhibit 1 of asshole writer.

An asshole writer is a writer who writes to mock or distort an otherwise a perfectly logical proactive thing that anyone would be concerned about including whoever was writing but obviously trying to get a reaction from anyone who reads the article.

A classic example is when people wrote about Al gore and invention of internet when the truth was that Al gore definitely was the person who gave us the internet but never about inventing it.

[iamnotdame]

NAMM 2023 Taught Me:

Tonight I met people who flew to California from all over the world to attend the NAMM Show.

About 20 of us met up at a restaurant before attending an Augspurger after party.

I was sitting next to producers & engineers from Detroit, Baltimore, Virginia, DC, New York, Arizona, Denver, Miami, Sacramento… and even one girl who drove all the way to Canada… just to attend NAMM. All of them came, just for NAMM.

Meanwhile, I live 15 minutes from NAMM and I’ve never attended on the first day because for some reason I “thought it was cool” not go until the second day. Stupid.

Everyone at the restaurant said that they got to NAMM first thing in the morning and stayed until it was over.

A producer from Detroit said that NAMM was really the only place for him to network, meet other producers and talk to companies & vendors and possibly get free gear to use.

You realize that everyone is not privileged to live in the music industry, live close to or even know anybody connected to the music industry, so events like NAMM are their only chance to connect with anyone that can help propel their journey.

That really hit me. I’m thankful for the insight and lesson. Huge lesson.

Going forward, I will take full advantage or any and all networking opportunities as if I didn’t already have access to them, just out of respect for the game. I am not above networking. I am not above going through the same processes as someone who needs to.

Tomorrow, I will be at NAMM first thing in the morning and I will stay until it’s over.

I will intentionally network. Seek new opportunities. New partnerships. I will speak about Monster Sessions & M-League. I will invite people to check out my content and look to connect with people after the event.

I will follow new people on IG (something I hate doing).

I will create a platform that allows music creatives to travel to LA for more networking opportunities. I will connect more artists to their peers and opportunities. I will connect with partners & sponsors to be a hub for opportunity and community.

I will do my part.

Dope lesson for me today and NAMM was super dope, despite Waves Audio & Arturia not being there.

Best Exhibits That I Visited:

• Rupert Neve

• Sony

• McDSP

• Shure

• AVID

#namm 2023 #message of the day #damemonster #5 life lessons #inspiration

[supersonicart]

Reen Barrera’s “Children of Divorce.”

Currently on view at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona and presented by Thinkspace Projects is artist Reen Barrera’s solo exhibition, “Children of Divorce.”

Reens shares:

“There is an idiom that says “it’s written all over your face,” which gave me an idea that regardless of what we say, our true feelings can still be emancipated by our facial expressions. For me, it’s a silent way of communicating something without noise. It’s where I find the inspiration to literally remember those facial expressions and create artwork out of it. This mix of facial expressions with different symbols and patterns have led to the development of characters known as “ohlala” dolls.

We humans have the same mold. We all have the same attributes. What differentiates us is the circumstances that we were born into. And one thing that I want to emphasize is the amount of detail each ohlala artwork has. Like humans, some have little while some have more.

In many of my works, I discreetly take on socio-economic classes. Some people are born rich, some are born middle class, some are born poor. But the common ground for everyone is, we all have to deal with it.

I cover all the Ohlala dolls heads with canvas cloth to give a freedom to paint their own symbols on their heads; as if they are designing their own fate. I guess that’s what we all have in common; the power to make things happen for ourselves.

Acrylic, oil, and aerosol paint are my choice of medium in painting. Many times, I let accidents like drips, smudges and splatter help me to decipher what to do next. I start with very loose abstract figures to overcome the fear of an empty canvas staring at me.

In this collection of work, I try to become as personal as possible, using ohlala as my main character to depict some of my experiences that led me to where I am right now as an artist.”

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#art #painting #sculpture #reen barrera #thinkspace projects

[kharonion]

3 and 4 for any of your CP 2077 OCs!

Since I like these question choices so much... I'm going Wild and answering for both! CP 2077 OC ASKS × OC MASTERLIST

3. what are their astrology signs? sun/moon/rising.

Sun: ARIES. Enthusiastic, passionate, stubborn. Sören certainly exhibits that known Aries fieriness, never one to settle in one place for very long or to not put himself to work with one task after another. He sees something he wants, and he isn't at all afraid to shoot for it.

Moon: CANCER. Empathetic, desires to help others, sensitive. Though he's a bad boy molded by the streets' debauchery, Sören wears his heart on his sleeve—pretty opposite of expectations. He will do anything for his found nomad family.

Rising: AQUARIUS. Quirky, friendly, open. Sören tends to be what you'd call a camp clown; he's the one to get others to laugh, cheering those up that are having a bad day. His antics are always in good faith and really showcase Sören's brand of uniqueness.

4. what tarot card from the major arcana would you associate with them?

WHEEL OF FORTUNE. › upright: decisive moments, fortune, fate. › reversed: bad luck, clinging to control, loss of control.

Sören's upbringings in the streets of the city are nothing short of a string of misfortunes, one after another, following him like the odor of the gutters. He was wild and unpredictable, much like the environment he'd been raised, with no control over any of it. Though as he integrates into the Aldecaldos family—and eventually blossoms a romance with Panam—the card flips itself. And Sören lets it do its work. He lets the changes happen, and it leads to a long overdue fresh start in the deserts of Arizona.

[ Vikt's answers are under the cut! ]

3. what are their astrology signs? sun/moon/rising.

Sun: SCORPIO. Blunt, fearless, stoic. Vikt is most certainly an intense man; he never fluffs things up, always getting straight to the point. It ensures that he's efficient and near flawless when it comes to his work... but doesn't lead to him being particularly personable.

Moon: AQUARIUS. Intelligent, seemingly detached, stubborn. Ingrained early on, Vikt maintains a callous facade much of the time, and he struggles with those that're deep and complex, but this leads to him being extremely objective and observant.

Rising: GEMINI. Inquisitive, analytical, witty. Definitely a big contributor to Vikt's somewhat off-putting societal mask, he can be rather clever in conversation—even if it might go over people's heads and/or hit the mark a little bit wrong.

4. what tarot card from the major arcana would you associate with them?

DEATH. › upright: beginnings, transition, metamorphosis. › reversed: fear of change, stagnation, decay.

Both the card and the man are often misunderstood, and it capitulates Vikt's relationship with change. Initially, he doesn't even seek it out at all, stuck in the negative patterns he's so accustomed to. Stuck in a limbo, only to have it rattled significantly by death and a parasitic engram. And so starts Vikt's journey to shift the card upright, though it isn't until the harrowing and near fatal events of Mikoshi that his transformation completes itself. Freeing him of the chains his past had given him, to start a new life as a new man.

#i'm sorry for infodumping but uh this was SO fun to answer! #oc: soren vogel #oc: vikt #.asks #thank you for asking!

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I was tagged by @softlikesilkchiffon to give three random facts about myself. Thank you, Summer! 💕

I. In 2013 I was a finalist for the MLB Fan Cave, representing the Washington Nationals. The best way I can think to describe the Fan Cave would be like The Real World for baseball fans, except it was on social media instead of TV (here’s the Wikipedia article about it). To enter, you had to submit a video application, and mine was a spoof of A Christmas Carol where I was visited by the ghosts of D.C. baseball past, present, and future. MLB chose the semi-finalists from the video applicants, and then the finalists were decided via public vote. I'm pretty sure the only reason I made it to the finals was because my friend's cousin spent an actual entire day voting for me when he found out it was unlimited votes 😂. I didn't make it into the actual Fan Cave, but I got to go to Spring Training in Arizona with all the other finalists and basically party for a week while filming things with pro baseball players. Fast-forward to today and I haven't watched baseball since 2019 because Sling doesn't carry the channel that broadcasts the Nats games 🙃

II. I've mentioned this before and it's not exactly random given the content of my blog, but it's always one of my go-to icebreaker facts and, ngl, I like telling people this. In 2011, I trained for six months at a dinky little pro wrestling school in Western Maryland. My thought process at the time was basically, I still don’t have a job over a year after graduating college, so I might as well try to become a pro wrestler. (In hindsight that’s horrible logic, but I was also 22.) The school was over an hour’s drive away from where I lived, and I didn’t have my own car at the time, so I borrowed my dad’s twice a week until I started catching a ride with another one of the students who lived relatively close to me. At first, they gave me the name “Katie May” and paired me up with this big hoss dude as a babyface manager, but I turned on him pretty quick and started managing the dude I carpooled with―and I had nuclear fucking heat after I turned heel. There were girls who went to the exhibition shows at the school who shoot hated me because I was the only female trainee and I guess they were jealous of the attention I was getting from the wrestlers? Because apparently psycho fangirls exist even for no-name indie dudes. 

Anyway, I could write ten more paragraphs about those six months, but to make a long story short I quit after I realized the school was a joke and one of the trainers showed photos of mine that I had sent to him in confidence to the entire locker room. That being said, I don’t regret the experience at all and I have to say I was pretty good. Sometimes I think about how different my life might be right now if I hadn’t quit. But not too much because then the “what ifs” make me sad.

III. I have one tattoo and am hoping to get more soon. But the next one I get is actually going to be a cover-up/re-do of the one that I have 🙃. It’s the coordinates to my college, and it’s messy and blown-out because the guy who did it had only been tattooing for three months at the time. Unfortunately, I didn’t know that until long after I’d left the shop. I’m planning to get the coordinates covered up with either a moth or butterfly and then have the coordinates redone... but I am a little worried that my best friend will be lowkey upset if I do get it covered up, because she has the exact same tattoo. But it’s my body and in a place I can see it every day (the inside of my forearm) so yeah. It’s happening. 

Tagging: @comeasyoudar @knifepervert @m00sebaby @sldghmmr @hotyeehawman!

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Road Trip 2k24: Part 4 - The Ghost Town of Lincoln NM

Since I found myself with a day to kill on the trip I decided to visit one of the ghost towns near Roswell. The first thing I'll note is the drive there is beautiful!

It's pretty much a half a mile long open air museum. There's the actual museum and visitors center which is very well put together. About half of the floor space is a chronological exploration of the region that does not shy away from the darker aspects that history. The other half is dedicated to the reason anyone even knows the name of Lincoln, NM - Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War.

(I don't like taking pictures of exhibits in small museums so I only have the two.)

There's a gallery of art depicting the era in the building across the courtyard as well as an example of era construction.

The rest of the town was a mix of preserved buildings and private residences (who's owners must either love or fucking hate living in a ghost town.)

Overall it was a fun little side quest that was worth the 2 hour round trip and the $7 entry fee.

On the way back I stopped at this little roadside rest area with a plaque dedicated to the Atlas missiles that aren't there anymore.

Which is kind of the story of this entire region in a way. All through New Mexico and Arizona there's a whole lot of "something used to be there." Closed business, abandoned buildings preserved in the dry desert climate, metaphorical ghosts of the past. And unlike Lincoln most of them aren't going to get their own museums.

#Road Trip #Road Trip 2k24 #road travel #ghost town #old west #lincoln county #billy the kid