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Sep 13, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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odd book patrol is active once again
found a whole box of books from the 70s that someone apparently really into faith healing or something must have collected (theres a bunch more) may or may not obtain
as usual the 70s / early 80s american christian book cover aesthetic is just unstoppable

(also as usual weird place / weird lighting)
its just so aesthetic. honestly love that this is real
yeah tbh i started hitting the 1800s - 1900s christian stuff pretty hard at the start of the year. hit a few pockets and kind of got stuck but im kind of working my way to the pentecostal stuff... eventually. will probably pick up all these to prep the library (each a dollar)
speaking of the above quest also just found this. had a lot going on but have been meaning to look into a strange detail i heard - that the met museum gave the plate / fragment involved here to the LDS church later on, which seems odd from a museum general practices standpoint
i havent checked that out yet tho. if anyone in that world looks into it lmk.

also this looks cool
i read some of them. tbh im only slightly in control of the directions my studies go along with the art im making, it kind of goes in small jumps from related topic to related topic, so at this point i just have / accumulate kind of a library. that makes it way easier.
so ill take a “step over” into a related topic and get down like a few books or a ton of info about it and then float around and hit something else. things id recommend... yeah let me think about it. im away from The Shelves (tm) rn.

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Apr 11
i was sitting in an office recently and looked down at a table of magazines. one had a decorated cake on the cover. i asked myself: is it real, or AI? all images will now be run through this hermeneutic. this is, literally, “dehumanizing”: to deprive of positive human qualities.
once again the AI image conversation should be steered away from “is it good or bad?”, “is it cool or lame?” (subjective, no way to prove these) towards: what does it mean? what does it do? but this angle is less explosively polarizing and more difficult to get attention with.
one time i worked at a traveling art exhibition. it was billed as art from egyptian tombs, but it was actually recreations of the art found in egyptian tombs. this was crazy unethical but i got the job via a long convoluted process accidentally, then quit.

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Apr 10
zygmunt bauman (modern social theorist) says that the constantly shifting and unclear nature of our time period also applies to interpersonal relationships: no one is quite sure what it means, specifically, to be a parent, a grandparent, a friend, a coworker, and so on.

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this sounds nonsensical at first - we can define all these terms easily: what a friend or grandparent is. but no one is clear on the obligations that these relationships entail, their day to day norms, what is expected, what assumptions are being made on either side: all unclear.
you see this a lot with present discussions about new parents looking to their parents to step into the role of grandparent. what does that look like, specifically? what is to be expected? this is a huge source of frustration and tension for many people, with no clear answer.
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the white house actually used to look like this (this is not a joke) Image
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photos instead of paintings (all this was later removed): Image
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this is one of my favorite image parings to show people. in person when you swipe back and forth you can sometimes see it rewire something in their brain about america. same room in the white house, before and after: Image
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Mar 29
it looks like the AI conversation is going to cement around “are artists are coping or not” but id like to submit a second option: that its worthy of skepticism that my broke friends are beholden to copyright laws that apparently don’t apply to tech people making a lot of money
the AI question really should be: are we doing wild west on copyright laws or not. if we are, okay - then that should apply to everyone. if we’re not - okay, then that should apply to everyone. everyone is basically arguing that now tech companies get to be the exception to them.
if my friends can get cease and desist letters for making fanart about a movie or franchise when money gets involved but a guy can also make a billion dollars feeding that movie and franchise into his image maker and selling access to it, i dont think its out of line to ask: what
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Mar 27
one key aspect of postmodernism is that art styles are self-consciously deployed as pastiche. this means theyre just used as surface, for what they represent: they become interchangeable. these almost meaningless academic concepts will increasingly characterize your everyday life
when an entire artistic milieu is used just for what it represents, not what it actually is (this already happened a long time ago), the blowback is that it becomes impossible to genuinely use and engage with those milieus. you can’t decide to not be self aware of this process.
this is, in my opinion, the actual origin of what is called “stuck culture”. to start a “nu-metal” band would be referencing what “nu-metal” is. you and the audience would both know that you’re aware of this. that awareness is the source of the “block” - everything is self aware.
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Mar 13
the 'people not having kids' trend: fascinating. people can do whatever. but as a larger trend, clearly something is up. likewise, when i ask the older generation why they all had kids, they don't know. they "just did"

so i looked up why non-human animals might not breed

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that's "just what you did". okay. as though compelled by something beyond them. not religious, running the spectrum of affluence, no clear answer. likewise, despite the internet obsession with this, there's no clear answer. internet? maybe. politics? maybe. nothing great, imo. Image
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