i am experimenting with releasing things as theyre ready from the printshop, so: i have the next batch of the rosary prints ready (20 of them). some of you have seen these before but its a continual feature of the studio. new sunrise color scheme. thread:
long story short (some people are new, ive been doing this for a minute so, little recap), i originally made this print because i wanted to start using the rosary and wanted to compile all the information someone would need to use it onto one page in an aesthetic way.
i have the commercially made prints and shirts, + then i have the more "fine art" style prints i make here at the studio with this crazy high end printer i got. so i frame + print them myself. theyve been received very well. unexpected insta-testimonial:
its something i really enjoy doing, i have to get the high quality frames and then when i do a run of prints i try to have a color scheme that both matches it + has some symbolic dimension. this one is dawn, sunrise, light dispelling darkness, seemed appropriate. i like it a lot
as for the content, it has everything youd need to know to use the rosary, and then each one is signed and numbered on the actual print itself, and then its also numbered on the back. each one comes with a rosary and two randomly selected stickers from the general arsenal here.
i have 20 of them here, im holding a few for people on a waiting list, then if they sell out quickly ill probably do another twenty. i like how this one turned out a lot, in the past people have picked them up for themselves or used them as gifts. thats the tale, at the moment.
gonna tack this on here also (like i said im experimenting with releasing things as they happen so, if u saw this already, sorry), i sold the first 40 of these vibe packs, gonna print more of these this weekend as well, hmu to get on that waiting list:
because of weights + how the post office works, it doesnt really matter with shipping prices if ur in the US and order one and then the other, i think its like 2-3 dollars difference. if u want both and are in another country tho you can hmu and i can see about holding one for u
thank you for participating in theological aesthetica broadcasting studio situation. ngl if im ever not tweeting im working on this stuff. in terms of other broadcasting projects i have like.. 20 pages of comics simmering together all at once so, should drop those soon as well 📺
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in the 1977 film ‘wizards’, one of the oddest movies ive seen, the earth is split between two opposing forces: one side uses technology, and one side has forbidden technology and instead uses magic. i thought this was an interesting lens to view the present AI discussion through.
the term “magic” gained its present english meaning at a time when our society was entirely religious. so, obviously, socially dominant religion with its hierarchy, history, and institutions used the term magic to denote what was outside it: witches, the occult, and such things.
however, we no longer live in that world. today, if we remove the baggage from the word magic, we have to be slightly honest and admit that talking to superhuman beings, items with supraphysical holy influence, casting out demons - this is all “magical”, as opposed to scientific.
jordan peterson’s ’clean up your room’ became a huge joke but no one ever mentioned that his second step was to try to make the room beautiful, because that involves committing to something, putting yourself out there, and engaging with beauty on your own terms as an individual.
to make an aesthetic statement in the form of creating something, like decorating a room, is to engage with the fear the above person describes. because you have nowhere to hide. someone is going to come to your room and say, “you picked that painting?”, and, you did. thats it.
really as much as im not a devotee of the guy the whole set up was pretty good. because once you make something beautiful, its like cleaning one thing in a dirty room. everything else that isn’t beautiful suddenly stands out as extremely not beautiful, then you have to fix that.
a long time ago i was reading this on the subway. old guy taps me. i take my headphones off. he says, "whats that book?". i say "its... a history of magic". he says, "does he say magic comes from God?". i said "uh... yeah, actually". he says "good." then just stood there quietly
this happened at the utica avenue subway station in crown heights which i frequented for some time. a few other interesting things happened there. once another guy started talking to me. he was black, and told me he had been privately studying with a rabbi for like a decade
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apparently he was privately studying history and judaism with a rabbi, alone, and the rabbi had selected him for this process. i asked a lot of questions and the guy did not seem insane, and seemed to know some things that validated his story, but, i could not make sense of it.
the movie ‘jesus camp’ is the movie i’ve watched the most in my life. in a way, that makes it my favorite movie. at this point, i’ve probably seen it hundreds of times. there are times working at my desk where i’d put it on every day. admittedly, bizarre behavior. so, why?
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if youre unfamiliar, the film documents a bunch of kids who are taken to an evangelical / charismatic summer camp. it’s meant to portray them as somewhat extreme: a small window into this dark undercurrent of american religious life, where kids are … brainwashed, basically.
i think this movie has followed me around for most of my life because ive seen it from every perspective. initially, i was teenager atheist who had the perspective of the film: that this was all basically evil
later i turned my back on that perspective entirely, and saw it again
one of my favorite stories about america is from a guy who moved to west virginia to be a pastor. someone organized a garbage truck route to come through an extremely rural neighborhood, at a time when this cost some money. a nominal fee was passed over to the residents.
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it was a trivial amount of money, but the residents there were so incensed that someone would do this without asking them and then stick them with the bill that they stopped doing anything at all with their trash, and just threw it outside until the plan was called off.
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later, this pastor, who was there for this, wanted to pave the road leading up to their also extremely rural church. wanting to avoid any conflict, he called a meeting and laid out his plan: a truck will come, and dump gravel along the now dirt road, at minimal cost.