first collection of comics paperback (~250 pages full color) continues to sweep the nation(s) by storm, was called ‘THE future underground analog internet strange artifact of the early 2020s’ by perturbed dingo magazine
jay dyer (chivalric / noble friend of our general operation here) posted this interview i did with psyop cinema last night. really like how this one went + we got into some interesting stuff. if you want, you can watch the movie kumare that we discuss at the end before listening.
in case u missed the schedule we are doing the comics on monday + friday thing. been posting longer other stuff on patreon which will eventually be released. theyre like a month or two ahead basically. posted this image from the archives there this morning. hope ur day goes well
some guys in the 40s - 60s came up with the idea for a modified version of the english language called e prime. the main modification is removing all forms of the word “is”. [...]
so thats “are”, “were”, “be”... you can think of it as any form of that word that declares what reality is. “that movie [was] bad” (was is one), “you ARE a good skier”. the idea behind this was removing the ability to assert your perception as a fact, to make it true verbally.
when you say, “that painting IS good”, you are declaring your subjective perception as a fact. in e prime, you cant say that, you can only describe how the painting affects you. this painting makes me feel good. this painting makes me think of home, my wife, my dog.
at the heart of this new weird debate about if parents have a say in what their kids learn in school is this: most teachers went to high school, decided to become teachers, went to school for teaching, graduated, + started teaching. they have no conception of life outside school.
remember when you were in high school. imagine if since that time you had always been in a classroom. your whole life. your whole life has revolved around classrooms. since you were like, five years old. thats literally the only thing you've ever known your whole life. imagine.
SOME teachers are really cool and not like this. however for a significant percentage of this, this (literally only ever living in relationship to a classroom and school) has vastly warped their perception of life. this is just a fact that is obvious if you're around it and them.
recently one of the new internet analysis memes has been something called dead internet theory, the idea that large parts of the internet are astroturfed + essentially bots + fake, things like that. i think this has taken off not because its literally true, but for another reason
i used to work at a front desk somewhere, and id be sitting there with this guy all the time. we had nothing to talk about. i noticed he was on this site imgur all the time. we were literally just sitting there for hours so, i checked it out, being interested in... the internet.
in case you have never “hung out” there, its like reddit culture, but the format is you press the left and right arrows and just go through images and gifs people have posted, and then people make short comments below. thats the whole site, and its very insular. like reddit.
just found this book. interestingly i am fairly certain this series was folded into other books later, although im not sure. either way this might actually be from 1911 and continues my sub-plot of ellen white books spontaneously emerging into my life
i really like finding things over 100 years old when im... in the field. also that fit into historical instances (ie i believe there was an edit and reprinting of her books around 1911 just before she died). this next one is killer. check this out. ur not ready for this one
last year was so insane. feel like i made this + then could physically feel my brain give out a little bit, like doing a huge satisfying deadlift (not that i would know) and immediately shifted my energy over to the comics front. although recently i can feel the balance restoring
thats gotta be my favorite single image i made last year for sure
i have seen the word vs shape “discourse”. just want to go on the record as saying i cant spell + my job / craft is literally manipulating shapes so im all in on shape gang. in fact i can only engage with words and ideas as interacting shapes so its shapes all the way down for me
i find this conflict particularly interesting because i notice it within myself, for example if i am 100% in “drawing mode” and suddenly have to write something i occasionally totally lose access to the spelling part of my brain and will accidentally write words phonetically
after playing guitar and bass all of my music theory knowledge is also based on shapes. theres no going back for me.