#questtion

[iamhippopotamus]

If you belive in reincarnatiion and someone kills you, is that the same as turning a computer off and on again?

[talesoflouistullyandmore]

Just some stupid question

[dailyrothko]

Have you ever seen a Rothko in person? What's it like?

I have seen a lot in person, certainly more than 100. close to 200.

It's hard to say because it varies in a lot of ways as it does for many artists but I think with Rothko the museum lighting is so critical, the variance may be larger than with some. You can't overlight them or they look kind of "Plain".

One of the things you'll notice in his classic work is that the paintings are often quite large. Some as large as ten feet tall (chapel pictures 16 feet) This idea is to envelop the onlooker and put them "In" the painting as in Rothko's instruction to stand 18 inches away. This is not necessary but you might try it with the idea that Rothko wanted you to look at this paintings like he was looking in his studio, he did not generally hang them high and he was nearsighted and stood fairly close to paint. He didn't want anything more than what you felt so you can't be "Wrong" about them but it's also good to give them a chance. It's a Rothko, not a barn door, it may need some time.

But this doesn't answer your question but have pity in me because it's probably not the same experience for any two people.

For me, I am always surprised how good they are, I know that sounds funny from the Rothko blog person, but I am naturally suspicious of my own inclinations, always asking myself if I am seeing something that's not really there or if the work is the same as in reproduction etc.

But the paintings (usually) deliver, many are over lit at museums and that's too bad because it really doesn't help them.

One thing you will notice is there is a lot more going on than you suspect, details cameras don't capture well. An Ellsworth Kelly or Barnett Newman may really be a flat field of color but Rothko had a busy brush, he painted frantically sometimes within these colors. There are drips, volatile brushstrokes, bleeds and imperfections. A lot of action is required to bubble underneath to make the painting come to a conclusion. I have seen this time and time again. Photography never does it justice.

Another thing is that Rothko paints one color over another and has a number of clever ways to make this work, but what he was looking for was for instance an even but not perfect basecoat, so he's using glue and pigment as a primer coat and then very thinned out paint in layers. like one would with watercolor.

Assistant Roy Edwards says about the chapel pictures "But he didn’t want it exactly even- just enough so it didn’t look sloppy. A little bit of play, but not too much. It had to be just right. A couple that we did he didn't like and discarded. After we painted them he put them against the wall and looked at them for a few days. You know, the way the drying process would take, the way the color finally sunk into the canvas, and so forth. After several large paintings were finally prepared in this manner, he began laying out the actual form on the canvas. This was a large black rectangle running up the height of the canvas, so the maroon color became it’s border. This was done in a very precise manner with masking tape."

So what you see often is one color peeking through another, It may look black on the internet but usually it's black with aubergine showing through in places and so forth.

But this still doesn't answer your question and i have failed. Some people think they are garbage, others cry and have life changing experiences and I think the punchline is very true of Rothko but can be extended to any artwork in any art form. .You bring yourself to art. It is just there, someone's vision, yes, but lines and shapes and colors. Every painting is like this. People fume about modern art "It's just shapes!", but you know, everything is just shapes.

I liked Rothko immediately when i was a kid, he was so different from any other painter I knew of. Since I have devoted the last ten years to looking at his work and thinking about it, being disappointed once in a while, awed sometimes, pleased almost always and heartened that someone who couldn't find himself as an artist for a great deal of his life pushed through his limitations and life challenges and through sheer dedication and single-mindedness ended up producing work of sustaining beauty.

So, how are Rothkos in person? Pretty fucking cool, actually.

I hope you feel the same.

[samaspic31]

Have you questioned yourself, the beauty standards and the morals you were taught yet today

[lvsifer]

Just watched the first dune movie while I’m home sick and will watch the second one later. I can’t wait for feyd and Paul interactions from everything you’ve been posting

ahhhhhh so excited for you! they have sadly very limited and short interaction (only at end of the movie) but they still hit. hope you are having fun and also get better soon. let me know what you think when you’re done!!!

[brownsugar4hersoul]

“Plain question & plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.” |Mark Twain|

[icara-mack]

bet

ok, so, if I were to set up a twitch with the express purpose of hopping on and reading old books aloud along with my snarky dumbass commentary as I cram for my return to school and regain the ability to fuckin read (see: the previous ten months of molten chronic illness posts if you aren’t sure why I’d need to do that) would yall be interested in hanging out for that? And also i would likely be wearing some sort of mask, as im not the most chill and comfy person with my face being on the interwebs, so keep that in mind.

[yuurivoice]

Questtion time! I was wondering if shattered or EoE have any content that would summon tears to my eyes

I am desperate for some tear jerking emotional moments that i can listen to a thousand times and cry everytime

It's hard to say. I rarely go into any writing or recording going "whehehe they're gonna be so upset!!!!!" it's more of a naturally occurring thing. I don't think EoE's first episode is going to have any major tears because we're setting up WHY you should feel emotional. If we just immediately were like "here, cry about it" nobody would give a fuck.

Shattered wasn't really planned to be something fluffy, though I'm sure we'll get to the emotional parts. Your biggest emotional payoff for Auron was supposed to be his birthday, so to go from that to ANOTHER emotional payoff right off the bat is kinda silly.

But the BitterSweet Director's Cut is coming, and that's going to be a BANGER. The new artwork, the little changes and performance in Chapter 1, all of that is going to be real for people who are already familiar with it because they know how hefty all of that is in the big picture.

Other than that? You know me. I always have some sort emotional damage on the horizon.

[adastrabbit]

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[lilbabylemon]

Hi Snuffbunny!

What would you prefer to beg for another breath of fresh air or to beg for snuffing you with plastic bag?

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[sinnohstruggles]

junipurr..?

weird questtion

did you leave- a pokeball? in myt room??

green top. looks hardcarvred

figrued its s anyone s yours

@unovan-gardener

uhhh

no

haven't been to yours in a while

[madisonbeersource]

hey<3 do you have gifs form spotify best new artist videos, where she answers questtions, if not, then she has to drink?

nope but on my way to make some for you, hold my beer

[dailyrothko]

Sorry if this has been asked before but you ever been to the Rothko chapel?

I went once. I have been meaning to go again but Houston is far and I never have a reason to be there. so, while it's worth the trip, I need to make it a plan. They have done much renovation since I visited.

If you like Rothko, it's an indispensable part of his work, to him, his most important project.

I cannot say how anyone would feel being there but even if you don't like it, it's kind of an incredible thing. Throughout history people have made, of their own volition, amazing monuments to ideals, love and aspirations, in whatever guise they believe they come. The effort of this belief can be beautiful itself, like walking up endless stairs to a temple.

Rothko was not religious but I imagine if you found something deeply held there, he would, not have minded.

[wizarde-van]

hey pokescientists is that fluffy stuff around carbink's neck asbestos? time sensitive questtion

[delileaf]

everyday i think abt charles smith. why did they make his story so tragic.. why did they make him so pretty. ..so many questtions ...

[2dguy]

wingull questtions why he kept his sunglasses on during the night when suddenly

BAM!

the shot went of and the slugma gangmembers are incapacitated (absolutely not manslaughter) now they are free to get back Oshawotts shell even though oshawott is a little shook about the situation