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welcome to my twiisted factory......

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the ability to tell the difference between bad art that doesn't make sense and good art that isn't answering all your questions is one of the things you sacrifice by "dismantling it for data"

it's like how a necessary skill of visual artists is knowing how to zoom in and out of the piece you're working on (edit: and I don't mean zooming in and out in your art software, you do this on paper too). you HAVE to occasionally pull back and literally let your eyes unfocus a little as you reappraise the piece as a whole. you can tell when someone hasn't done it and that all they know or care how to do is drill down on the details, because their finished piece is nothing but a hundred details smushed together and it doesn't look good.

"pull back and let your eyes (metaphorically) unfocus a little" is also a skill that applies to reading and watching, and to the uninitiated it might sound like "just turn your brain off and enjoy the show, poindexter" but it is not

idk where I picked up the ability to just be comfortable with not fucking understanding what im reading, maybe it was learning to read before I was in kindergarten and naturally blasting through books I couldn't possibly grasp or contextualize and just being fine with that because I was a tiny child, but I am begging everyone reading this to stop trying to Solve books and movies and even ARGs and spooky YouTube projects.

you must let the unanswered questions linger while you absorb the rest of the text. the author is using questions and ambiguities to create landscapes in your mind. the best kind of reading gifts you with questions you do not answer until years later, or never. the questions are gifts because they make you wonder about things, sometimes for the rest of your life

please just chill out. experience a narrative. a major factor of many challenging and grown up narratives in all mediums, written or otherwise, is ambiguity and mystery and a lack of answers. this type of negative space in good storytelling allows the reader to expand to fill that space. approaching everything you read or watch with a gamer mindset is anti-intellectual, and will prevent you from experiencing the pace and Vibe of a story because you will be stopping every four words to try to answer every single question raised by the text. that's not the correct way to read things. the unanswered question is itself a narrative tool. "[popular prestige television show] FINALLY SOLVED! (1:34:06)" fuck yourself. fuck Off. you are the enemy of all art. you are a philistine and a ruiner

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Reidar Särestöniemi (1925-1981)

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You know what, fuck it, I don't *want* some frivolous, artisanal, lighter-than-air computer with no customizability, no upgradeability, no reparability, no ports, and a lifetime of *maybe* 3 years if you're lucky. I want a fucking great BEAST of a computer that's designed to last a minimum of 50 years, with ports up the wazoo and optional drives for every kind of media! I want modular components that you can drop in a bog for a year, dry them off, and have them still work fine! I want them to make a noise like "ker-chunk!" when you slide them into place! I want a switch that you pull to turn it on! And I don't want software that constantly forces you to get a pointless, cosmetic "upgrade" every few months either! I want durability! I want longevity! I want satisfying haptics! I want Silicon Valley to go fuck itself!

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100k notes and i'll @ my crush on this post

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Luigi Lucioni (Italian, 1900 - 1988) ‘The Three Graces’, 1949 Oil on canvas, 43.3 x 35.7cm

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just searched ‘bobby hill tboy swag’ and tumblr said 0 results. praying this is a tumblr glitch but i feel absolutely sick to my stomach if nobody out here had commented on bobby hills stunning amount of tboy swag and charisma before

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Kazuo Haba

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hylics 💫🌕

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Interesting to call this “confiscating” when it’s just making the rich pay their fair share, especially considering all the stolen wealth from the bottom 99% and historic tax evasion.

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reblog and put in the tags your first introduction to neil cicierega aka more widely known as lemon demon

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A hard zero for me.

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at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

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Allmende Kontor, Tempelhofer Feld, September 2022

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