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one of the alabaster portraits comprising Marina Abramović's work "Five Stages of Maya Dance"

#Marina Abramović #marina abramovic #perspective #screaming #art

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Always got to be prepared, never know what the world is going to throw at you.

#hamsters

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So I came across this quote in an art book the other day and it felt positive and insightful. But then this morning I am wondering if it’s not just some feel-good bullshit that denies the need for activism. The quote is:

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman

#Also it’s kinda impossible to find what makes you come alive when you have severe major depressive disorder.

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You know the metaphor about being a big fish in a small pond? Well I was feeling pretty proud of my art earlier today and then I went online and saw art that was literally a showcase of the most amazing stuff from the entire world and I felt pretty small. But then I thought about it more and I think the most accurate way to represent me in this metaphor is as a flashy freaky nudibranch who’s honestly pretty cool and interesting but is only one majestic creature among many and also is so tiny and exists in an unimaginably large ocean world that is so huge that even just trying to learn more about it can actually be kind of intimidating and scary sometimes so it’s good to have sand to bury yourself under for a bit if you need to.

#nudibranch #big fish #metaphor

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#marx #shakespeare #ai #ai generated #is this real #context #reality #conversation

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Like this, but far, far more exhausted.

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#gif #tech #mini pong #maker

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#art #textile art #link

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#purple #paint #gif #resin art #resin #stimboard #art #not mine

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Synchronized dog evasion has proven to be a much more popular sport among cats than synchronized swimming. Your fact of the day.

#gif

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So I was telling this guy about these brochures I had seen at a local protein-shake cafe for IV hydration, and told him they said they do parties. He thought I was making this up!!! So I went back to the cafe and grabbed a brochure and scanned it. The top image is the brochure cover. The second image is the back of the brochure, which is where parties are mentioned. The 3rd image is the inside of the brochure. So here. I have proof. I don’t make stuff up. I believe in honesty for a better world. Yes, it’s very weird. But it’s true.

#iv hydration therapy #iv hydration #iv parties #hydration parties #honesty #proof #brochure

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#rodent #rodents #sci-fi #70's #70's sci-fi film vibe #dome #bubble

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Hamster tunnel alphabet!

#hamsters #hamster #typography

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(via Fastes de cour et cérémonies royales - exposition au château de Versailles)

#art #embroidery

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Top GIF: actual paint

Bottom 3 images: hyperrealistic colored pencil drawings of paint by Cj Hendry

#paint #aesthetic #hyperrealistic #hyperrealism #colored pencil #cj hendry

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So back in 2011 I invented a game called Graey. If you’re interested, you can read more about it, or even buy a copy, from https://unicoherent.art/Games/ (which is a page I coded to meet a deadline so it’s not mobile-compatible yet but hopefully will be very soon). I always thought it would be interesting to design another, so I decided to check “The Game Inventor’s Guidebook” out from my local interlibrary loan system. When I started flipping through the copy, well, I was simply flabbergasted. Confused and appalled (and maybe even a tiny bit scared?) at the same time. For you see, someone who had checked the book out previously had circled every single feminine pronoun in the entire book, in pen, often accompanied by one-word commentary such as “ACK!” and “HUH?” I told my mother of this inexplicable but seemingly deeply misogynistic finding of mine, and she told me that grammar books used to teach that in all cases where a person’s gender is unknown, the proper grammatical way to refer to them is with masculine pronouns. Always. I usually explain how the singular “they” is more common than most people realize by saying “You probably use it yourself without even realizing it. If, for instance a postal carrier left a package on your doorstep while you were away you wouldn’t know the gender of the postal worker and so it would be natural to have a conversation along the lines of “Hey, it looks like the postal carrier brought you something big today.” “Oof [said while picking it up] - And heavy too! I sure am glad I don’t have their job.” This is what *I* was taught to do. But previous generations of American schoolchildren were taught to always use he/his/him if there were any doubt about the gender of the person in question. It would be improper grammar to do otherwise. So now I have in my head this idea that the bizarre public-library-book-defacer is a very elderly retired schoolteacher (probably male, but not necessarily), who feels that the English language has been tragically impoverished by changing norms, rules, and standards of use, and their (or should I say “his” to be “correct”?) only means of venting their anger at - and helplessness to stop - change is to “correct” the books they come across the way they would have corrected a pupil’s term paper back in the days when the world made sense - by circling the errors. You can see there is emotion to these markings by the pressure with which pen was applied to paper, leaving indentations not just on the following page, but for several pages thereafter. 

#gender #singular they #misogyny #english language #grammar #library book #game design #graey #book defacement #bizarre

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#chronic fatigue #tired #energy #if only