Sometimes I get frustrated when I compare arts and tech salaries, but
look
tech people
I'm not saying you are the problem
I'm saying the exchange rate is in our favor
and someone with a FAANG salary could literally commission their own opera once per year
so we should do that
Sure, you could post on Stack Overflow,
OR
pay 10% of your salary for a 20 person off-broadway production of "cryptodaddy47, You Are Wrong About C Pointers (and Everything Else)"
The Renaissance was a notable cultural era not because of good marble or new paint
but because a bunch of newly-rich Florentine wool merchants discovered Spite Patronage
One issue is that ya'll degenerates *are* paying for full body furry commissions (good for you!) but keeping it private. Thats no way to create cultural impact.
Rent a gallery and host an art show
Buy a chapel and have them paint a ceiling
Sculpt it in marble on your Mausoleum
Rich people realizing that Great Artists can be rented for pennies
+ Proudly displaying both Revenge and Cringe commissions
= World changing art movement
Don't sleep on your destiny, my spiteful overpaid nerds.
Oh, a viral thread!
I haven't got a soundcloud,
so pick someone replying to the thread and hire them to write an inspirational and catchy folk song about your favorite cause, right?
Muting the thread (though y'all have been very pleasant!)
Wishing you the best of evenings, and the greatest pleasure in art that you -- and only you -- find delightful
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Since we've all decided that @TaikaWaititi needs a cowboy movie to complete his vampire and pirate trilogy, I want to introduce you to Walter Scott and Albert Johnson
Walter Scott was a fake gold prospector. He sold fake investments and defrauded a variety of New Yorkers, while also performing in sold-out theatrical shows about himself, AT WHICH HE WAS ARRESTED FOR FRAUD
One man who bought his mine shares was Albert Johnson, a teetotaler who has miraculously recovered from a train wreck after near paralysis.
"this glyph represents a face sound"
"this glyph represents a face sound, but more formally, and only at the beginning of a larger face sound sequence"
"We need a standardized differentiation" is such a weird record of human needs
upper/lower case letters
pronouns for gender, but not age or distance and only sometimes number
last names=family, nicknames for first but not last names
probably lots more but I never remember them