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if you have a space like this, you eventually stop going upstairs and just sleep on the couches. soon you go upstairs so rarely that weird spiritual energy pools up there. very difficult to dissipate. starts to feel like a forbidden zone. ominous. its not yours. few discuss this.
the truth is that if you're not world class in the very competitive stuff by the time you're an adult you're never going to be, and you should stop trying to compare against that tier and do something useful instead
the bad guy in hallmark movies is a boyfriend who is like “uh no babe i cant drop everything + leave work this weekend im about to close a deal for ten million dollars that will set us up for life” and the good guy is a guy who is just standing there when she gets to her hometown
once art like this leaves a canvas or wall, its restrained by the material conditions of that place
only tile can do this, unlike wood which swells and expands. but tile is cold. imagine walking on it. so only places that were generally warm put effort into developing this craft
heres the secret (?) the internet gets wrong. there are a ton of people doing hardcore, classical, realistic oil paintings. all over the world. they make great paintings that look right out of the 15, 16, 17, 1800s. rooms full of them. the reality is just that no one cares.
“Why aren’t people making the kind of old-world classical sculptures and oil painting I like anymore?” I dunno dude why aren’t you providing an artist with a full time salary and residence on your property so they can focus on nothing but making one painting for three years.
constantly slightly stressed over the fact that the word dog - of all things - is of unknown origin and its ultimate source is “one of the great mysteries of english etymology”
crazy that the celts had a whole folklore warning you that if you meet beautiful young otherworldly dressed women in the forest who invite you to parties don’t go with them and don’t eat anything they give you otherwise you’ll lose track of time and only emerge decades later.
of course this will be bad, but i feel the need to comment specifically on why, pre-emptively.
although it reads like the 'to be fair, you have to have a very high IQ' rick and morty post, its easy to misunderstand king of the hill.
its not a sitcom, or a comedy.
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Pamela Adlon says “a new generation of young writers” are working on the ‘KING OF THE HILL’ revival.
She adds that they are adapting “sweet spots of the classic” into the new era.
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@Variety
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if 15 - 25 year old men cannot meet cute cashier girls and fantasize about starting a life with them civilization is over. not joking. that is the last stopper on an unfathomable amount of male despair that you do not want to uncork
who the hell fantasizes about starting a life with a cashier girl, is this some insane idea or ideology i don't understand. literally nobody i know does that. this is something that is not even talked about in the communities i am in. you are probably just a simp.
american art history moment: architecture
in 1997 FOX created a real version of the simpsons home to give away as part of a contest
i think these pictures will speak for themselves:
the main issue with video games is that a guy who, if he lived in 1820s germany, would have done something like document every type of beetle in his local province instead ends up making a 26 part youtube series about how to get all the rings in every sonic game
sometimes it feels like there are like 100 people on earth that know the material reality of why the salem witch trials happened
so many myths. was not based on the testimony of children. many people confessed themselves to being witches. i have their letters in books upstairs
The Salem Witch Trials were run by Harvard educated judges and convictions based on the testimony of children. The
#ClimateScam
cult uses exactly the same model.
imagine: a man. he is in a room somewhere. he has many items around him - normal objects. at this time, each item is tethered to a physical experience: how he obtained it, where he went, who he was with, and so on
his entire life is like this - a physical metal network, enmeshed
How did people get airplane tickets before the internet? Did you call the airline and they mailed you the tickets physically? In fact how did you buy tickets to anything that had to be bought well in advance?
It is embarrassing how much this stupid fucking meme has affected my own thinking and my own mental health.
So, SO many times I’ve been the left person, and someone is explaining to me why I can’t do or think something without reading every book they’ve read, received the
if you say that germans are weird, 99% of people will agree with you. it’s obvious.
but what explains this?
their whole folklore is dark and creepy, and they seem to have many offputting interests (not to mention the whole hitler thing).
what is wrong with the german mind?
[kafka, just reanimated]: i heard someone use the term kafka-esque today
[friend]: yeah
[kafka]: i hope they were talking about something cool
[friend]: yeah probably
[kafka]: whats a DMV
young boys have a natural draw to images of martial power. makes a lot of people in education uncomfortable
when i worked with kids this exchange was common:
me: tell me about your drawing
boy: this is tank man hes made of tanks and his arm is a tank and his gun shoots tanks
lmao, comment about picture drawn by a boy 700 years ago of him being a knight: 'why are there corpses? was he processing trauma?'
NO, YOU SCHOOLMARM, THOSE ARE THE CORPSES OF HIS ENEMIES
theres a joke online that "KOTH is a slice of life anime". this intuits something true about the show. the inspiration for king of the hill was 'do the right thing' by spike lee, specifically the way in which that film depicts daily life in a specific neighborhood and place:
time to revisit the topic of ANGLISH.
anglish is an umbrella term for a style of english that tries to remove as much foreign influence as possible. prefixes, suffixes, nouns, all of it. it sounds unintuitive, but you pick it up very easily. here's some of my favorite examples:
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I feel like modern English had this problem because it’s an amalgamation of borrowed words and you just don’t know how they came to be; knowing Latin solves some of it.
Bird names in most languages are neat for this, because they’re either onomatopoeic or refer to color/shape.
many years ago as an exercise i got the largest notebook i could find and tried to record everything i remembered about my life until i left high school, all the way through, start to finish, in a few sittings
one huge issue i encountered here was impossible event sequences
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i simply must take the bait.
one of my favorite art experiences was: i used to work near a museum, so id go there often. at the end of a long hallway was a large landscape painting. maybe twelve feet by six feet.
this part of the museum was mostly traditional art so it didnt
guy down the street just told me his house was built in the 1700s, and when he moved in there was a “huge case” of “like 200 religion books from the 1800s” the previous owner just left behind. he “has no idea what they are”.
he said i can come look at them this afternoon.
in the mid 1800s the shakers (no sex having american fringe christians) started having so many visions they called it the ‘era of manifestations’
some people started drawing them, which was wild and extravagant by their normally humble standards
theyre called the gift drawings:
you see the 'declining percentage of teenagers getting their driver's licenses' statistics trotted out every now and then, over the last ten years, as a routine story.
the real reason for this is almost never laid out. taking your driving test involves:
1. taking someone else's
before you knew what “vaping” was, youd see these e-cigarettes. youre at a party, its dark, youd see a blue light kick on, grow brighter, then dissipate. sometimes one, sometimes many.
this was cool. everyone thought this was cool. feels futuristic. they could have stopped here.
there are small pockets of people still playing decades old online games. no social media posts. no footprints. but they’re there. a few dozen to a hundred people. their own civilization, culture, customs. like north sentinel island. leave them alone. dont even think about them.
religion in america footnote: this guy runs a youtube channel called 52 churches in 52 weeks where he goes to different churches. oldest video is 3 years ago
was raised protestant. his goal was not necessarily to find a new church (maybe at first)
last pic is his latest video:
a government doing “official stuff” with no displays of officiality, wealth, or ceremony is a new phenomenon. normal looking account. normal camera. normal video. normal clothes. no official tone. no special signals at all. the total opposite of all human experience ever recorded
one of the main narratives about tech from our childhood to young adult years was the concept of “tech literacy”. turns out its completely not real in any way. every technology jump is so large that navigating it, for example - noticing this is AI - is a totally new skill set.
intellectual western fine artists in the 20th century really adopted the attitude of “its your fault if you dont get it” and “you get what you bring to it”
if im bringing my own “art” to the art museum and its my job to understand it, we have to ask: uh whats the artist job then
@pegobry_en
japanese art has basically always depicted smoke in a particular stylized way, this follows from older woodblock prints (which is my reference for it) into modern manga and anime (which i am less familiar with)
'i love science' people heading to the philosophy and religion department when they see human beings acting on the most basic universal biological instinct:
when my wife was pregnant, we were walking at night and out of the darkness this pitbull (with no collar) starts coming pointedly towards her. you could 100% tell my dog kicked into “are we going to throw down rn” mode instantly. easily my all time favorite animal bond moment.
borobudur, the largest buddhist temple in the world with thousands of carvings and hundreds of sculptures, was lost: gone - literally buried under centuries of dirt and jungle cover, until a british guy running java heard a rumor about it and dug it out around 200 years ago.
@DarrenJ66
I de-converted from Xianity to atheism despite many powerful experiences b/c I realized that my basis for apprehending the source, nature, and character of those experiences was based on falsehood. After that epiphany, I could see my experiences for the neurochemistry they were.
its filed as a comedy because it happens to be funny, but its not "a comedy" like the simpsons.
this misunderstanding about its nature extended even to the network that aired it. early in its launch FOX tied it into nascar cross promotions. i believe this is an image from one:
ICYMI over on tiktok AI is hitting hard on genx.
I've always said wrt AI, expect the unexpected, the future's gonna be weirder than anyone can imagine. Skynet is the last thing to be worried about.
This is the real
#aiart
#AIArtCommuity
if you ever get a chance to go into a moroccan style courtyard, everything is designed to make you feel colder. theres cool colors, tile, theres often a fountain with water you can hear. because youre hot, in that place. the cultural style spills backwards from that condition.
perfect clear explanation: its because a ton of people are giving babies and toddlers ipads and letting them watch youtube self-directed
do whatever you want with this information
i am obsessed with the concept of addiction.
i have a job where i can half watch things while im working, passively, in the background. there are documentaries about people throwing their life into something that ive watched hundreds of times. sometimes every day, for months.
i know this thread is self selected data for… something - but people used to be genuinely weirder and more interesting. extremely noticeable in 2000-2010 media, specifically amateur documentaries.
each person used to be more of their own isolated strange world.
answers to questions like “what do we actually literally do in heaven” is a legitimate issue.
western religion has historically focused way more on outrooting heresies than how to explain things to a normal person. there are good reasons for this, but it does create problems.
likewise, its not really a sitcom either.
if you watch the early seasons, lots of things happen that never reset or get resolved. for example, buckley dies (and returns as an angel) (swedenborg moment btw). after that, he's just dead. theres a lot of things like that.
the worst time i got roasted i was working in a supermarket deli. all my coworkers were women. one day a woman who was 60+ was making fun of me: "what are u always thinking about? i bet u think about weird stuff. whenever i look at you ur staring off" - then she impersonated me:
on the surface, this makes sense. this is like the simpsons, but about texas. so people that watch nascar will like it.
but, they really didnt. because thats not what it is. as stupid as it sounds, its actually just an artistic depiction of a place and time:
my friend has an organ disorder. paid a ton for a nutritionist. nutritionist says: all the data says eat low fat. no red meat. he does it. symptoms got unbearable. he fires them. starts eating “crazy twitter” style: ton of red meat. high fat. lots of dairy. symptoms stopped 100%.
part of why the show is interesting is because it could really only be made at that time. i was working with a guy once, and he asked me about shows i like, so i mentioned KOTH, and he said
i just don't get it. is it supposed to be funny?
thats the point. yes, but incidentally
the guy who coined the term “neuro-linguistic programming” said that fear of heights correlated with having little difficulty getting up the morning - because, you tell yourself to do something, and you just do it. in your mind, the distance between “thought” and “action” is tiny
a man told me that the first record of an eclipse being predicted beforehand was in greece, by a man named thales. the story is that he tired of a stalemate war between two sides, and used his apparently superhuman ability to predict the eclipse to broker peace between them.
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this is a preserved beef shoulder from over 3000 years ago.
the metropolitan museum of art found it near the entrance of a cliff tomb in thebes in the early 1900s. its wrapped in linen in a wood box.
its from ~1500 BC. this is a biblical era piece of beef:
this was so antithetical to the nature of a sitcom and network TV programming that the network asked them to stop doing stuff like this, because it got too confusing when they re-aired the episodes out of order.
so, it became a sitcom. but thats also not what it is, internally.
here, a twitter user notices that there is a particular landscape aesthetic they innately respond to, people in the comments also feel this and wonder why
this is a particular type of environment for humans. theyve done studies on how your brain responds to this exact landscape:
There's a particular fantasy-aesthetic which appeals to me deeply, and yet I am unaware of any particular term or codification of it.
It is the setting dominated by vast, lush landscapes, vibrantly coloured & open, nearly empty - full of wide, sweeping vistas
i used to have a job working around comedians and comedy writers. it wasnt my job, but i was there.
ive done a lot of public speaking - some of it humorous. i dont talk about it, but many very large companies have technically paid me to do this.
heres something interesting:
there really is a place... that's not british - but its kind of british. its british-ish. it has a british vibe. its britain-y.
and thats what they named it: brittany. they really called it that. insane historical development.
as someone into: religion, america, and aesthetics (who also owns a car) i have naturally, on more than one occasion - asked:
why is the christian music on the radio so bad?
specifically, why is it “like that”? when you hear it, you know the vibe.
a few thoughts on this topic:
The Trump Administration admits they’re planning on nationwide secret police who kidnap Americans off the street without identifying themselves or reading their rights and holding them indefinitely.
They’re telling you, explicitly, that they’re crafting an authoritarian state.
one time i got hired to give a talk about a niche religious art topic. so i read the one huge authoritative book on it, obsessively. the day came. only one guy showed up. i jokingly said, “i hope you havent read [that book] by [that guy]”, and he said: thats me. i wrote that book