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ffxiv-ariavitali · 4 years

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Aymeric, Haurchefant, Estinien, Zenos, Emet-Selch in College AU like which major would they study or teach in?

I’m sorry this took a bit to answer! I was racking my brain over which ones would suit them the best @_@ Based on a list of courses provided from the post-secondary school I graduated from!

[Aymeric]: Political Science. Aymeric’s class is filled with students that often sign up just so that they would have him as their professor for a semester and the man knows it. While it’s flattering, his courses aren’t any easier and stragglers are weeded out all the same. Although a patient teacher, he is fair; his previous experience in the world of politics serving him well enough to teach the next generation.

At the end of the class, Aymeric pulls you aside as the students trickle out. He has noticed how you quietly excel in his class and your form of debate was beyond an average student. Simply put, he would like to offer you an opportunity to apprentice him as he attends a summit with other world leaders, the expenses paid by the college so as long as you can maintain your high GPA. You agree easily, of course, not only because it seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but you would be going on an excursion with the professor alone!

[Haurchefant]: Social anthropology. Foreigners have always interested this man, for his family has been in charge of guarding the border to his homeland for centuries. He’s seen all manner of people and wants to learn even more; to learn about the different traditions, values and cultures that those outside the enclosed borders of his homeland have.

When you meet him in class, you easily determine he has a rather eccentric nature. Not that you mind it; it keeps things interesting. When you realize that the reason why he’s asking you so many question about your birthplace was because he hasn’t stepped foot outside of his since birth until now, it makes answering a lot easier and less invasive. Having traveled, you were a walking encyclopedia of stories and you find that you both have become fast friends.

[Estinien]: History. While he may not look like it with the way he’s constantly scowling and the skin between his brows are always crinkled, this man is well-versed in Coerthan and Ishgardian historical study. When asked about certain customs and events symbolic in nature, he will answer right away.

You’re partnered with him when you have to do a primary source analysis and you discover that his specialty lay in military historical studies. He explains that his foster father is part of a specialized unit within his nation’s army and it was through this that he acquired his interest. He confides to you that there seems to be a part of history their church refuses to bring to light and he wants to figure out what.

[Zenos]: Life Sciences (Biochemistry/Genetics). This man was incredibly imposing in the way that he would sit so nonchalantly, a feverish smile placid on his lips. Not to mention the way he would sit in the corner, smiling to himself, and looking content with himself. However, no one would bother him because he was rather intelligent; incredibly so.

You came to class late and partners for lab were already reaching its end point. The only other person to not have one was Zenos himself. When you approach him to ask if he would like to work together, he confesses that the reason why he hasn’t a partner of his own was because he was waiting for you. There was no one else that matched his intellectual prowess like you can and he’s been eyeing you for a while. Whatever it is that he means, you have a bad feeling in the back of your mind...

[Emet-Selch]: Head of the Department of Architecture. This man has many accolades under his belt, a clear indication of his experience. Moreover, he is highly praised for his abilities and en avant designs that would have both artistic minds fawning and practical construction companies in complete awe. Every now and then, he would feature in panels at the college and the regular student is oft the minority, for there are many talent acquisition companies seeking to employ him for his skills.

You knock on the man’s office doors. You had received a personal letter from him along with your letter of acceptance to the college. Wanting to figure out what it is about you that caught his attention, you attempted to reach out to him before class began. When you try for the door, you find it unlocked and couldn’t stave off your curiosity before entering. There, you find Emet-Selch napping on the couch, sleeping soundly and you approach slowly...only for you to trip over something and fall forward. He is suddenly awake, having caught you, and you were enraptured in a set of beautiful amber eyes - ones that you felt you have known your entire life and beyond...

#FFXIV #ffxiv headcanons #college au #aymeric de borel #haurchefant greystone #estinien wyrmblood #zenos yae galvus #Emet-Selch

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momo-de-avis · 5 years

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The life of the Infamous Banana Art work is honestly fucking hilarious because it’s an exact reflex of what happens when someone fucks with the art world and incites passionate responses both for and against it.

The art's initial price was at 120.000$, and has bid up to 150.000$. Two museums have so far acquired a banana each.

There are also 3 editions of the same work.

According to the gallery (Perrotin) representing Cattelan,

"Back then, Cattelan was thinking of a sculpture that was shaped like a banana," it reads. "Every time he traveled, he brought a banana with him and hung it in his hotel room to find inspiration. He made several models: first in resin, then in bronze and in painted bronze (before) finally coming back to the initial idea of a real banana."

(remember, this is the guy who made a fucking toilet out of 18-carat gold and it got fucking stolen).

Recently, a performance artist just straight up walked up to the wall, peeled the duct-tape, peeled the banana and ate it. He does not regret it, claims he was hungry (and, in fact, did not eat prior to this action, so he could experience maximum potassium enjoyment) and that the banana was, in fact, delicious.

after that, the banana had to be removed from Art Basel because people were going absolutely bonkers over it, and lines were so long and the space around it so crowded, security had to just remove the art work. This was all for a chance at a cool instagram photo.

And like, yall remember when the Berlin Dada group made an exhibition basically insulting the bourgeoisie, got roasted by the whole city, then did a second one, tripled the price of the tickets, and when people got there it was basically Hueselbeck saying “why the fuck did you idiots spend triple the money if you hated it so much”?

Or when Tristan Tzara, at the Cabaret Voltaire, along with Hugo Ball, made such a bonkers show that people (again, high-society folk) showed up with bags of rotten fruit---prepared beforehand, after having been there several times, since they had apparently developed a passion for just to going there again to feel angry---and started wrecking the shit out of Cabaret Voltaire, to the point where they destroyed figurines and props? And Tzara calling it “the final victory of Dada”?

Or like, this whole ‘the travelling banana was an inspiration for me’ just sounds a whole lot like when Jasper Johns heard someone say that famous art marchand Leo Castelli “could sell two beer cans if you had them” (or something to that effect), and Jasper Johns dead ass said “it’s on”, and the mad man actually did a bronze cast of two beer cans and Castelli actually sold them?

We can even go way back, to Manet. The moment Olympia was presented at the Salon, it was so infamously known across Paris, people flocked to it to see it in person, so much the Salon had an influx of attendees like it never had before. And the sole reason was to make fun of it lmao even fucking Courbet was there daily, pointing at laughing at ‘nakey girl staring right at me’.

Or like, when Kienholz displayed his walk-ins, in which one of them was a car with a teenage couple engaged in sex in the back seat, and the gallery had the audacity of forcing the artist to close the door and plant two body guards there not to shock the audience? And despite being outraged by this, people still went there en masse.

And I’m not even going back to the obvious influence here, papa Duchamp with his urinals, but I’ll say this: I don’t remember his name, but the dude who smashed one of Duchamp’s urinals and peed on the other is pretty on par with the guy who just ate the banana, albeit for different reasons (and, well, dude who peed in a Duchamp was arrested both times lmao).

Every single one of these instances, which caused so much outrage across the art world, appeared at a crossing point in history, somehow, and they are there for a conspicous objective: to bring out its own hypocrisy. And like papa Duchamp (who every single critic immediately establish a connection with), they are being assimilated, though faster than they were back in the day. The dude who peed on the urinal did so because he contests The Fountain being on a museum, defeating the art work’s initial purpose and proclaiming the first avant-garde’s movements ultimate failure. It should be noted that Duchamp signed 14 urinals and authenticated them as authentic reproductions (one of them smashed, another peed on lmao. Idk if the others are fully intact). And this dude with the banana is no different.

One article states something very interesting about Art Basel:

Mary Rozell, the global head of art collection at UBS Group, said the works she wanted were all snapped up. Pieces under US$1 million were going especially quickly.

"Half the stuff is sold before you get here," she said.

Amoako Boafo's portraits were all gone within seconds, and hundreds of collectors put their names on a waiting list, with prices for the artist du jour ranging from US$25,000 to US$50,000.

(...)

Mnuchin Gallery, which had an exhibition by Mr Clark last year, sold several smaller works, with prices ranging from US$150,000 to US$300,000. Michael McGinnis, a partner, said he sold one of the works during his flight to Miami. "I could have sold it five times," he said.

Ms Rozell said she finally managed to buy some art. One was a painting by Jeffrey Gibson. Another, a sculpture by Shinique Smith, whose works were on view at the UBS collectors' lounge at the fair.

"You've got to take your time," she said. "But then act quickly."

Act fast.

There’s a lot that could be said about this, and I’m not writing an essay, just rambling with the knowledge I have, and we all know how art fairs across the world serve as 1) a place to See and Be Seen, and the pruchase of expensive art works is a Thing of Status, and 2) it’s money laundering. It’s blind investment by random private auctioneers who need to put that dirty money fast onto an object they can quickly transform into an asset should they need to get rid of it---etc, etc. But like, think about the ludicrous implication here: you gotta buy fast, otherwise you’ll just get there and come out empty-handed, which for some reason, for these folks, it’s the worst that could happen. So like, it’s no wonder a guy who taped a banana onto a wall sold this shit for such a high price. I can’t point out the reason why this person bought the art work, because honestly being either money laundering or just rich person trying to invest fast into something they don’t know the value of---both sound incredibly plausible to me (in my country, there was an influx into the art market in the 80s, where people rushed to buy EVERYTHING, and it inflated the art market---and keep in mind, Portugal is a small country with barely any market at all---to the point where some of the artists who sold the most back then have fallen into oblivion, and the people who bought their works have been desperately trying to get rid of them for decades, but they are worth nothing and they refuse to get the full price back lmaooo).

This shit is mostly why I nurture a profound hatred for art fairs. Like, on paper, they’re a nice concept, but as of today, worldwide, we have over 500 art fairs everywhere, and couple this with the art market inflation and all the nasty shit we know about (take the fucking Sacklers, for example), it’s the perfect playground for us to have a French Salon multiplied by 500 where contemporary art is transformed into an Appearance Thing.

But every so often, a dude shows up and pulls some really bizarre shit and I am again reminded that there are still a lot of not exatctly Duchamps, but people like Jasper Johns or Tristan Tzara or even Robert Rauchenberg, which somehow manage to create a really poignant moment of hypocrisy. The really atrocious downside to this is that these artists exist in a fast-pacing scenario and they’re being assimilated at the speed of light. While neo-dada appeared in the 60s to confront the assimilation (thus, failure) of the first avant-garde movements, today it happens in real time.

This is where I tell you guys the banana was apparently sold with a 14-page manual, which states shit like:

It should be hung about 175 centimeters from the ground, fixed to the wall at a 37-degree angle and the banana should be changed, "depending on its aesthetic appearance", about every seven or 10 days. About the only specification omitted is the optimum length or bendiness of said banana.

(the bendiness of the banana lmao)

Also, funny correlation: Duchamp’s work was called The Fountain, but we all call it ‘the urinal’, in the same way this work is called The Comedian, but we call it ‘the banana’. Make with that information what you will lol

#momo speaks #commentary #comentario #just rambling about art #pls dont ask me for precise sources on some of these statements #i linked the direct quotes and stuff related to the art work in question to several articles #but the rest its just accumulated knowledge throughout years #they come from books and college classes and stuff I cant remember like papers and lectures #its v hard for me to know pin point exactly where i took this info from

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theperfectlyperfect-blog1 · 5 years

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Avant Garde Fashion

What is it?

Across every creative field, from the fine arts to music, there is invariably an avant-garde movement. Fashion is no different. The use of the term avant-garde is slightly misleading, though. Translated literally, avant-garde means “ahead of the guard”; but, in the context of the arts, it doesn’t imply being ahead of trends. In fact, to be considered avant-garde is to exist outside of the established norms and confines of a discipline. Avant-garde designers are not ahead of trends—they’re immune to them. While most avant-garde designers offer widely disparate creations, there are some broad stroke aesthetic and ideological commonalities that tie them together.

Some famous avant garde designers:

- Rick Owens

- Thierry Mugler

- Viktor & Rolf

- Yohji Yamamoto

- Comme Des Garçons

- Gareth Pugh

- Vivienne Westwood

- Alexander McQueen

The difference between avant garde and haute couture:

The difference between avant-garde and haute couture is evident from the name, as haute couture literally means high-end tailoring or dressmaking and is synonymous with expensive, often very intricate designs, produced by big fashion houses.

Haute couture can be in reference to a designer, the designer, and/or the design house. Haute couture fashion consists of one-of-a-kind pieces designed for one client, rigorously hand-made with fine, specialty fabric in one of the limited haute couture fashion houses.

Avant garde is not a specific term for clothing or fashion, but rather a term that is used to describe someone or something, more often than not in a creative arts medium. It is viewed as fresh, unusual, pushing the limits, and/or ground-breaking.

My Opinion:

In my opinion avant-garde fashion is an interesting brand of fashion because it doesn't abide by what social conventions tells us is “normal” or what we as people should dress like. It breaks away from what we are is the right way to dress, and also allows designers to show their creativity in a way that is beyond its time.

#avant garde fashion #avant garde #fashion #fashion blog #assignment

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chrysaliseuro2019 · 5 years

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Crowds,Canals & a Musical

Chris headed off to Kent for the family and friends catch up while I stayed in London. Walked into West End and walked out as fast as I could. The sheer volume of people led me to wonder if aimlesstours.com had a worldwide special to London for Saturday 22nd June. The purpose of my visit was to buy a ticket to a play. Had a shortlist of four but all appeared sold out online so Half Price Tix - a total misnomer that should be reported to consumer affairs - was the last option. Unfortunately the first three choices not available so had to settle for number 4.

Scoped out the location of the theatre as suspected I’d be against the clock at showtime 7.30. Skedaddled out of the West End as fast as I could heading towards Angel to catch up with Georgie’s old mate Alex. A few hours to kill allowed for some exploring around the shops but even better a lengthy walk along Regents Canal which stretches for 13+ kilometres but I can’t claim to have walked that. With the sun out it was a walk of joy to watch the Poms and others celebrating the arrival of summer. The path a mere 2 metres at its widest snakes alongside the canal which is flanked by endless barges most looking to be occupied as houses. Did notice you could buy one for £100,000 seemed a little steep for a near derelict floating narrow home with no land included. Still, with London real estate prices, maybe it was a bargain.

There was plenty to see while enjoying my walk - many cyclists some wobbling nervously keeping a wary eye on the canal while others earnestly weaving their entitled way through the walkers consisting of families pushing prams, cuddling lovers, friends with or without dogs , strange odd-bods and every other person drawn to stroll the towpath (wondered if I fitted into the odd-bods category). Then of course there were the runners (all to be admired in my book), some plodding possibly under the strain of extra winter kilos while others fleet of foot bounced along barely raising a sweat.

Finally were the hardier folk, those taking to the canal on blow-up dinghies or in spa party boats happily yahooing along decked out in costumes, beers in hand seemingly oblivious to the colour of the canal, whatever effluent it might be carrying and the patches of green scum floating along with them.

Met Alex for a drink at a pub along the canal The Narrowboat and very much enjoyed our catchup. Apart from her Aussie accent Alex is very much a London girl these days thriving on the variety a big city offers.

As expected had to bolt to get to the theatre in time but while expensive £7+ for a day pass (compared to Melbourne $8+) it is frequent meaning if you miss one tube then another one will follow shortly after. Got to Phoenix Theatre in Charing Cross Road with a few minutes to spare to see Come From Away, the story about small town Gander in Newfoundland Canada where 7000 stranded passengers were housed for 5 days during airspace lockdowns after 9/11. I’d seen a documentary on it before leaving home and thought the premise interesting as a humanitarian story. So how did the play shape up? Firstly it was a musical but I can’t remember any of the songs. Secondly (and I could be wrong here) I’d be surprised if Newfoundlanders speak with an Irish accent but that’s how the British actors portrayed a Canadian accent. On the plus side the production was tight, actors enthusiastic and it was often amusing and occasionally poignant. However I seemed totally out of sync with the audience with my lack of enthusiasm as they were hollerin’ and whoopin’ throughout and at the end cheered loudly and shot up as one in a standing ovation leaving me feeling conspicuous as I sat, so I too joined the ovation. There’s a lot of North American accents in town so maybe they were making up the majority of the audience. Meanwhile I left wishing I could’ve got into any of choices 1-3 (Hamilton, Present Laughter, Black is the Colour of My Voice).

Sunday was catch up with friend Abigail from London days of ‘79-81. Met in Sloane Square (can’t ever think of Sloane Square without Princess Di coming to mind) for lunch with one year’s news condensed into 3 hours. As always it was wonderful to see her. While in the ‘hood it would be negligent not to peruse the shops in Kings Road which probably like most of us have lost their edginess of yesteryear. Gone are the avant-guard designers of the 60’s replaced largely by smaller chains like Reiss, Anthropologie etc. Nonetheless it was no hardship wandering along checking out what’s hot in London.

Bus back to Pimlico where Chris arrived home from his big weekend. Quiet night in catching up with news from home, blog etc.

Post Script - saw first hand how reactive London Police are to something out of the ordinary in 2019. A young heavily accented man with a freshly bandaged arm in Islington was running up to people yelling ‘Please help me’ ‘You’ve got to help me’ in desperate pleas. I saw him hassling an elderly lady with her backing off quite alarmed. He then approached another person doing the same. I slipped into a bookshop for a brief mosey and by the time I emerged, only a few minutes later, 2 police cars had arrived and the police had him on the ground handcuffed. Last I saw he was still beseeching for help and being loaded into the police van. Sadly London has more than its fair share of homeless, down-and-outs and trouble souls in 2019. :(

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insideouttrancelike · 5 years

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Brand story and Process work for Logo Design

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Order directly from website

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Delivered straight to your front door

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Includes the measurement of the plants, gives you the option to get correctly sized pots and correct amount of soil

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Client information: Busy / hard working, environmentally friendly client, who wants an easy and affordable way to buy plants, flowers, and gardening supplies.

Brand story:

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This product is designed to cater to people who care about the environment. This product is also designed to cater to those who might be too busy to go to the plant nursery and buy plants, flowers, and garden supplies.

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Visual research: https://www.pinterest.com/sbs5262/logo-inspo/

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Not having to drive to the store is also another eco friendly aspect of the brand

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Content structure

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Our company provides an environmentally friendly garden supply delivery service.This product is designed to cater to people who care about the environment and to those who might be too busy to go to the plant nursery and buy plants, flowers, and garden supplies. The website provides a garden grid space to design your own garden and get a feel of what the products you order might look like. Want to provide an easier, more affordable way to find and buy gardening supplies.We pride ourselves on our long lasting, and durable supplies, as well as our environmentally friendly packaging.

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hoyoungy · 6 years

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genre: fluff, comedy | college au, artist au | painter!minghao x reader summary: you find beauty and meaning to the most boring place on earth when a romantic stranger helps you understand the artist behind one of the paintings on the wall. word count: 4102 a/n: finally, my first minghao fic! i thought this suited him well. hope you like it!

Art, in nearly any form, was never really your thing. The beauty behind a sculpture, a photo, and especially a painting never gave you that wow! factor that was engrained in everyone else’s DNA. It’s not that you were blind, or anything - in fact, at a first glance, you could understand why some people thought the most popular works of art were so aesthetically beautiful. Like, for example, paintings from the Renaissance era, or those giant paintings of Jesus, or those incredible marble sculptures of the Greek Gods. Those types of art, you had to admit, were impressive and totally easy to understand, considering there was a lot of history behind them that could easily be read up on.

But what really made you disinterested and zone out about art was when it was considered Modern or Contemporary. That was a whole other category of misunderstandings that you did not want to touch because it only gave you headaches. Yet here you were, in the Modern and Contemporary wing of the museum, studying up on your favorite subject just so you could get this gen-ed over with and finally graduate.

Hour number three of rotting in the museum was approaching at a snail-like pace and you think that your brain is melting into a soup in your skull. It felt like your class’s tour guide explained every piece in the wing, yet for some reason, you only made it half-way through. You silently prayed to the museum gods that the guide wouldn’t actually go through the whole wing, but you knew regardless you’d be braindead by the end of the night.

“And here we have arguably one of Picasso’s most famous paintings, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.” Your tour guide led your group to a large square painting with five distorted figures that was placed in the dead-center of a wide wall. You recognized its odd, cubic style from your textbook. “This piece contributed to the early developments of what we know as cubism and modern art.”

“I only see boobs,” you muttered to your friend next to you.

She chuckled softly. “You kind of got it for once. They’re prostitutes.”

“But why did he make them look like that!? Aren’t women supposed to be beautiful in paintings? Like, muses and stuff? This is sexist.” She elbowed your side for you to shut up before your guide moved on to the equally-giant painting across from it.

“On this wall, we have our latest installment by a new artist, The Koi That Swam Up the Stream. Just look at the Pollock-like movement in the paint!”

At a first glance, you didn’t think the painting was that special, or at least any more special than any of the other paintings you saw today. If anything, you thought it was a bit simplistic - primitive, even - but the longer you looked at it, the longer you criticized it, and the more it pulled you in. It threatened you with a force so strong that you couldn’t dare look away. You hated to sound so cliche, but it was like the painting was speaking to you.

Before you even realized it, your eyes had been glued to the painting for fifteen minutes. The first couple of minutes, you noticed the colors - splashes of cool teals and turquoises of the stream and sky contrasting with the warmth of the orange koi. Then your brain processed the thickness of paint in the sea versus the airiness of the sky. And then you saw what the tour guide was talking about with the Pollock-like movement with the koi fish. You felt that you could see the koi swimming against the current of the stream.

“You like this painting, too?”

Startled, you whipped around to see a boy walking up to stand next to you. He was extremely handsome, so much that it startled you way more than when he snuck up behind you. His black mullet kind of threw you off guard at first, but it suited him well and added a mysterious vibe to his conspicuous handsomeness. You hadn’t taken your eyes off of him even when he stood still next to you. He was dressed like an artist, or at least like an art student, with clothes that were probably way too expensive for their minimalistic style. But hey, they suited him well, and he looked like he belonged here in the museum.

As you were blatantly studying his handsome face, you couldn’t help but notice how casually he looked at the painting. So casual it was as if he’d seen it every day of his life.

“U-Uh, yeah, I do like it,” you finally admitted, turning your attention back to the canvas. “It’s the first painting out of the hundreds in this wing that I understand. Barely, though…”

“What do you understand about it?”

“That there’s a fish in water.”

“That’s it?” he teased.

“It’s the most concrete piece in this damn wing! Not to be a downer, but I hate this museum, this section especially. I’m only here because I need to pick a modern artist to do a report on for my final so I can finally graduate and be free.”

He raised a curious brow to you. “I’ve never heard someone say they hated the museum. Why do you hate it here?”

You weren’t sure why you were answering invasive questions from a stranger, but there was something about him that was comforting and made you want to spill your secrets to him. “Ok, hate is a strong word. I don’t not like art, you know, I just… don’t understand it. My classmates and probably every other human in the world could come to this wing, look at any of these paintings, and understand the artist’s intentions in minutes. But for some reason, I can’t! Like the wires in the section of my brain that deals with the arts and culture just don’t connect.”

“It’s not the end of the world if you don’t like art,” he reassured. “A lot of people don’t.”

“It is for me when my potential to graduate relies on it.”

“At least you have a legitimate reason to come here. You have no idea how many people walk around thinking they understand every piece in this museum so that they seem profound and cultured.”

“Is that not you?” you teased back.

“No ~ I work here. Well, more like I intern here.”

“I was going to say, you seem kind of young to be working at this cemetery.”

“Well, you seem kind of old to be getting lost and separated from the rest of your class.”

“Oh, shit, you’re right!” While jogging towards the exit, you frantically dialed your friend’s number on your cell and shot a quick goodbye wave to your new friend. “Have a nice night, hipster!”

“Hey-!” Minghao began, although you were already running out the wing before he could finish. “I’m not a hipster…”

Immediately after your last class the next day, you found yourself sitting on the left side of the bench in the middle of the room sandwiched between the koi fish painting and Picasso’s painting. What an odd placement to have both of these paintings. Even an uncultured person like yourself knew that these two had absolutely nothing in common and the placement just seemed weird to you. Maybe the museum ran out of wall space.

“I’m not a hipster.”

Your new friend, the walking handsome exhibit, joined you on the right side of the bench pouting slightly. It was the cutest thing, but you thought maybe it was too early to be throwing out compliments to someone you just met. You noticed that his wardrobe was a little wackier than yesterday’s. His outfit was much more colorful and pattern-centric today, like he was wearing a piece right off of the wall.

“Your short-sleeve button-up shirt and glasses scream hipster,” you snorted. “You work this early until the museum closes?”

“As an intern, I work long hours with little-to-no pay.”

“I guess I’ll be seeing you often.”

“Oh, yeah? Did you pick an artist for your project?”

You gestured to the koi fish painting and Minghao hoped you missed the smug grin that was growing on his lips. He couldn’t believe you chose the piece! Now, it was his turn for him to notice the way you looked at the painting. Just by your rapid eye movements from scanning the canvas, he could tell you were someone who was very detailed-oriented, which probably contributed to your lack of understanding of the arts. You looked like you were searching for a single, definite answer within the piece, but that’s not how art worked, and he wanted to be the one who helped you understand that.

“Why this one?” he asked.

A small chuckle escaped your lips. “I don’t want to sound cheesy, but it kind of just spoke to me, you know?”

“Really? What did it say?”

“Is it weird that I don’t have a single clue? It must be speaking another language, huh?” you joked. “There’s something about it that makes me want to come to this hell-hole everyday and just live in the moment with this painting, you know? I’ve been sitting here for thirty minutes trying to figure out what it is, but nothing’s coming to me. Jeez, I don’t even know who the artist is!” Immediately, you shot up from the bench and squinted closely at the information plaque and the signature in the corner. “8. That’s it? That’s their name? A number!?”

“Maybe it’s a pseudonym? It’s hard to say, not many artists use one.”

“How avant-garde...” you muttered bitterly. “How am I supposed to do a report on an artist with a number as their name!?”

“You could always choose another artist.”

“I don’t want to.”

“Are you always this stubborn?”

“Hey, don’t act like you know me,” you nudged. “You don’t even know my name.”

“I don’t have to.”

“Ok, hotshot hipster,” you challenged, turning your body to face the now-nervous boy. “From being around me for a grand total of thirty minutes, tell me one thing you know about me.”

“Where do I start?” He joked. His confidence made the tables turn and now you were the nervous one. “One obvious fact is that you’re someone who notices and analyzes every little detail just because you can.”

“What!? There’s no way you could have known that.”

“But am I wrong?”

“… No, but that’s not the point! How did you know?”

“When you told me that you didn’t understand art, I was a confused, because no one ever truly understands art, you know? That’s the whole point. But just now, when I saw you looking at the painting, I realized what you meant by that. You’re very detail-oriented. You like concrete and to-the-book answers and ideas, don’t you? And that’s why modern art is so confusing for you, because everything is open for interpretation, and you don’t like it one bit.”

“Are you a therapist? Like, is this art thing your side-job? Or is this like a social experiment? Am I being punk’d?”

“No, no!” His boisterous laugh echoed through the wing and sounded so charming and boyish to your blushing ears. “I’m just very good at analyzing people and art. That’s how I got hired, so I could help explain the art to visitors like you.”

“Does this mean you’ll help me with my project?”

“If you want me to.”

“Please do. I’m begging you, I’m guaranteed to fail if you don’t.”

“I’m sure that’s not true, but I’ll be more than happy to do so under one condition.”

“I knew there was a catch… What is it?”

“Tell me your name.”

He didn’t ask for it. No, he demanded it.

“_____,” you smiled.

“_____,” he repeated. You liked the sound of your name from his lips. “I’m Minghao.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Minghao.”

“The pleasure’s all mine.”

“There’s nothing I can find about the artist!”

The following day, you met Minghao at your usual meet-up spot on the bench sandwiched between the two paintings. He was the first to arrive this time, eager to hear what you had found after he assigned you to research 8 online.

A playful smile stretched across his lips upon seeing your distressed expression. Of course you hadn’t found anything. “You didn’t find anything at all?”

“Other than the fact that he’s young and a local artist, there isn’t much else to this 8 guy. Nothing about his childhood, his come-up, his other works or periods of art, like literally zilch!”

“Give up yet?” he challenged. It was as if Minghao was expecting you to give up and change your artist for your project, which only made you feel more determined to find out who 8 was and why Minghao was challenging you.

“No, I refuse to give up. I need to do this painting. I’ll just focus on this piece, I guess. I can write ten pages about this… right…?”

“If you say you can, then I believe you.”

“But where do I go from here? What do I even talk about?”

With the same playful smile, Minghao ushered you to get up and follow him to look closely at the painting. He stood still and stared at the painting in silence for several minutes while your focus kept switching from the painting to Minghao, waiting for him to guide you with your paper.

“What do you see?” he asked you.

By then, your focus had been on Minghao’s handsome features once again, so you quickly looked back at the canvas embarrassingly. “U-Uh a fish in water.”

“What kind of fish? What body of water?”

“I mean, it’s titled The Koi That Swam Up the Stream, so an orange koi fish and a stream?”

“Do you know anything about either?”

“Have you heard of the urban legend? When a koi fish swims up a waterfall, the Gods praise his hard work and dedication by transforming it into a dragon. It probably one of my favorites. Do you think that was inspiration for this painting? I mean, it is swimming up, right?”

Minghao simply shrugged. “It could be, it couldn’t be. What if it’s swimming to the sky, and not up a stream?”

“See, that’s just silly... This is why I hate art.”

His soft and charming laugh rang through your ears once more and you think to yourself that a laugh like his should be part of an exhibit at the museum.

“What can you tell me about the mood of this piece?” he asked you.

“The mood? There’s a mood? I don’t know what a fish is supposed to feel!”

Another laugh erupted, but it was louder and made your face blush from how much it affected you. “I mean can you tell how the artist was feeling when they painted this?”

“How the hell am I supposed to know that?”

With a teasing, dangerous glint in his eyes, he held out his hand for you to take. “Will you follow me?”

Your logical conscience is telling you no, you should definitely not take the hand of this mysterious and edgy boy and follow him off to God-knows where in this hell-hole of a museum because what if he murders you and makes you into the grand piece of this museum - like an episode straight out of Hannibal. But were you going to follow him anyways? Your dumbass boy-crazy love-struck conscience is telling you hell yeah, you’ll follow this boy to anywhere he’d take you.

With a warm hand, he guided you to the opposite side of the wing inside an empty classroom filled with easels and other art tools.

“What are we doing in a classroom?” you asked.

Minghao didn’t answer as he set up one of the easels in the center of the room with a large, empty canvas staring at you and waiting for you to fill its void. He hands you a large brush with some black paint.

“Show me how you would paint if you were happy.”

“With black? Can I get some yellow, or something?”

“I chose black so you could focus on brush strokes instead of the color.”

“Uh, ok. I failed painting in first grade, just so you know.”

“Just do your best, I won’t fail you ~” he teased.

You take the brush and quickly run it across the canvas in a wave with tall peaks.

“Hey, not so bad,” Minghao praised. “That’s exactly what I would have done.”

“Yeah, you know, I take Art History 101,” you bragged sarcastically. “Art just comes to me.”

“Very funny. How about if you’re sad?”

You painted a slow, straight line at the bottom of the canvas.

“And what about angry?”

You chucked the brush as hard as you could at the canvas, leaving a big, solid splatter in the center of the canvas.

A shocked Minghao cleared his throat. “I- Well, that’s one way to paint…”

“I tend to throw things when I’m angry…”

“I’ll be sure to remember that. Oh, you have a little paint on your cheek.”

“Hm?”

Before you could protest, Minghao was already eye-level with you with a warm hand upon your cheek to wipe away the black paint. You could barely breathe as his thumb brushed up on the apples of your cheeks and all you could see was his gorgeous face trying to hide his grin.

God, he really was a work of art.

“I, uh,” he began, laughing in between his words. “I kind of made it worse.”

“What!?” you pouted. “I hope it’s washable…”

“It’s just acrylic paint, no need to worry.”

“I don’t know what that means, Professor Minghao.”

“It means it’ll wash off fine. Now take a look at your masterpiece.”

As you stared at the white and black canvas, you guess you could kind of see what Minghao meant with emotion in the movements of brushstrokes. Where you supposed to write ten pages on that?

“The artist must have felt some sort of frustration at some point,” you proposed. “Like a koi fish swimming up the same stream for centuries? I would be extremely frustrated. I would be an angry, splattered, orange koi fish.”

“See, you got the hang of understanding art really quickly! Gold star for you today.”

“You smeared paint on my face, I better get a gold star.”

“You still have a lot to learn.”

When you left the museum after helping Minghao clean up the classroom, the only thing you could think of the entire night was the way he looked at you. Since you were so detail-oriented, as he liked to say, you didn’t let his multiple longing glances slide past you tonight. It wasn’t in any way creepy or invasive. It felt very romantic, like you were his muse and he felt some sort of attachment to you ever since he saw that you were completely pulled in by his favorite painting.

There was this certain sparkle in his eyes whenever he looked at you and it made you wonder if Minghao was an artist, too.

You arrived about thirty minutes before the museum closed due to other priorities occupying your usual schedule and you were really upset that you wouldn’t be able to spend as much time with Minghao tonight. You wanted to spend as much time with him as possible, picking each other’s brains, before you finished your paper and wouldn’t dare go back to the museum, because you both knew you wouldn’t visit for recreation.

It was just a few days before your final paper was due, and you only had about a page written, double spaced. You should be feeling some sort of panic as you sat next to Minghao on the bench, but his company was enough to ease your stress. In just a couple of weeks, the two of you went from sitting at opposite sides of the bench to sitting right next to each other in the middle.

“Do you paint, Minghao?”

Startled by your question, he whipped his head to look at you with wide eyes. “What makes you think I do?”

“I don’t know, I figured since you work here and can decipher nearly every painting in this museum, it only sounds natural that you paint, too. Like, you easily empathize with the artist.”

“You’re smart,” he noted with a wink. “I paint sometimes. Rarely.”

“Why rarely?”

“I get frustrated easily when I paint. It’s also hard to find inspiration these days. I haven’t painted in a while, but who knows, I might pick it back up again.”

“I hope you find your hunger to paint again.”

“You’re really sweet. I hope so, too.”

“Will you show me a finished product one day?”

“It might take a while.”

“That’s ok, I’ll wait.”

There was a comfortable silence between the two of you as you sat together. You continued to analyze the painting and Minghao continued to admire you as he normally would. You weren’t stupid - you knew he would often steal glances at you. The first few days of meeting up at this very bench, you tried so hard to ignore the burning sensation that his gaze bore into you, but today, his gaze was too hot to ignore.

“Why do you look at me like that?” you asked softly, too embarrassed to look at him.

Minghao didn’t look slightly phased that he was caught. “I like the way you look at the painting.”

“How do I look?”

“Enamored.”

A line of dark blush formed on your cheeks from the romantic word. “Are you enamored with me, Minghao?” you teased, although you both knew your true intentions behind the teasing.

“And what if I am?” he challenged.

“Are you enamored with me or the way that I look at the painting?”

“Both.”

“Why?”

“You look at this mediocre painting with a light in your eyes that I’ve never seen in anyone else before. How can I not be so attracted to you when you look like that?” He turned his head away from you again to look at the floor. “You’re a masterpiece by yourself.”

The little gears in your head began to click into place.

You pointed an accusing finger to the work of art sitting next to you. “You painted the koi fish, didn’t you?”

A shy smile spread across his soft lips. “You figured it out.”

“I knew something was fishy when you kept asking if I was still going to use it for my paper! You were seeing if I still liked the piece!” You hit him playfully. “I can’t believe you’re 8! Why didn’t you tell me!?”

“I was afraid. I didn’t want you to think any less of the painting if you knew it was me.”

“Minghao, you know how in love I am with this painting.”

“Exactly, but I knew it would have changed either way if you knew it was me. I wanted you to keep that raw love for the painting.”

“But I love it even more now.” When your eyes sparkled looking at him the way they did when you looked at the painting, he adored you even more, too. “I still want to do my paper on you.”

“Really…?”

“Please? I feel like I could write fifty pages about you.”

How could he say no to you? “On one condition.”

“Anything.”

“Kiss me.”

His lips were as soft as the looked when you kissed them. Minghao was romantic in all aspects as a person and kissing was no exception. Both hands snaked their way to hold your face in place as he kissed you slowly and sweetly. Kissing an artist was almost everything you imagined it to be - you were left starving for more.

“I guess you could write your paper about me,” he teased as he tucked your loose hairs behind your ears.

“You owe me! I could have been done with it by now if I knew earlier.”

“I do owe you. Let’s start right now.”

The two of you stayed overnight at the museum while you picked his brain for hours. Well, half of those hours were spent kissing and goofing off in the sculptures department, but you easily got in ten pages worth of the artist you fell in love with by the time your night with him ended. For the first time ever, you didn’t want to leave the museum. You felt like you could stay here for a while so long as Minghao was with you.

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Notes Impressionism & Post Impressionism

Impressionism & Post-Impressionism

Moent, Manet, Degas, Sisley, Renoir, Cassatt, Morisot, Bazille

Spontaneous work. 1874. So different for the time.

Aim to capture visual impression of the scene, impression of it, wasn’t about it being real. Colour, changed, mood changed. 1840 – First tubes of paints came around then.

Boudin – taking on board Impressionism, first to paint outside.

Claude Monet – Prolific Impressionist.

Impression interested in everyday scenarios and everyday environments. Prior to this royals, epic battles were focus of subject. Bringing to light an obsession with the everyday. Fascinated with light – repeating the same image but in different light.

250 Water lilly paintings.

Basille – known as a realist paintiner but include in the impressionist show. Depicting everyday scenes, views from windows, people at work. Context, this hadn’t been seen as a subject metter before.

Sisley – colour and light, dialed up in colour.

Unpopular at the time, and weren’t accepted, the avant-guard of their time.

Renoir – leading impressionist painting. Look at the everyday, multiple scenes of movement – upper class in everyday setting. Capturing a moment in time.

Manet – shocking subject matter, causing great controversy. Nude and a person of colour, revoloutionary at the time – hitting a nerve.

Composition and narrative is important – why are you painting this? Setting a scene for questioning. Females very much involved in the impressionist movement – Morisot, Cassatte.

Degas, so interested in movement. Becoming intimate with the subject matter and finding a moment in the image. Painted dancers. Moved into 3D work.

Degas – snapshots of real life.

First film was starting to happen and communication was taking on at the time. What was going on at the time heavily influcences the art world.

The Eifle Tower was being constructed at the time – what that meant as a symbol. Paris scene as thee epicentre of the modern age.

With the death of Queen Victoria came the rise of Post-Impressionism.

Cezanne, Deraine, Matisse, Picasso, Seurat & Van Gogh.

Coined around 1910 – Post-impression forms the foundation of early modernism and gives birth to all the other movements. All about brush stroke, colour and is stylized – moving away from the natural world. Gives a gateway to allow painters to see things as fantasy. Becomes niave in the mark marking deliberately.

Serat – pioneer of Divisionism or Pointillism. Creating subtle illusion, gives a dream like quality. Sense of a flattening out of the image – same value.

Van Gogh – Under-rated until his death, troubled life. Impression and expression of what he is looking at.

The Potato Planters – 1884 – Set the tone of Van Gogh of what and how he was painting. How the everyday working person was important and celebrated.

Most famously known for Sunflowers. Acute mental health and art have a close relationship – Van Gogh was ana outsider wasn’t accepted. Trueism – painting yourself as you are not as you want to be. Made more than 2000 artworks in his time, best works produced in later years of his life. Most expensive painting.

Picasso – Boy with Pipe.

Cezanne – View from where he lived, painted 60 times by Cezanne. The mood and impression of something can change, how the mood changes with the artist. Took on board all the impressionist ideas and pushed it forward.

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ARROW THEORY LIFE CARAVAGGIO TS046A

I remembered there were once iconoclasts. To this day, the Eastern Church approves only icons. Islam only abstract arabesques without figurative representations of the personifications of deities and forces of nature. Only writing, which is necessarily elevated to the pictogram of an ideal pattern, is the graphic message of abstraction. Protestants in Europe threatened the Catholic Church. It is best to burn all images, because they are unworthy to represent divine beings. What about the poor who can't read? Are they not worthy to learn the truths of God from the paintings? In response, Catholicism began to paint the churches richly. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio luminist was a Lombard. The gynecologist treats the eye, and it should ... an ophthalmologist! Do you make cloves? Do you spark with rage? Because he sparked all his life from 1573 to 1610. The plague took his parents. He apprenticed in Milan and went to Rome in 1596. He created realistic, avant-garde painting with a revolutionary, provocative, shocking view of the world. tenebross manners. But first he overcame the icing and glaze of academic copying and realistic mannerism. He knew how to make a career in Rome. Who cares today? When is this 1596? Was sugar and mirrors more expensive then? Did Toruń gingerbread reach the Vatican? Or maybe the cars have installed a catalyst and mufflers? How many were burned at the stake? How many virgins, at the age of nine, were married off to unwanted husbands, wealthy old men who were to be respected and poisoned quietly? He humbly copied the old masters until they cried out to him: You dumb asshole! This is how the visions of paradise and the most subtle, tasteful shapes were created, shrouded in vibrating light and the glow of internal colors. He suddenly changed the whole world and the existing order of drawing and colors. Darkness and Chaos were his guardians. Glowing colors emerged from the background lit by a candle, flash, dawn, glow. Caravaggio didn't draw anything. Observation and painting immediately. He took people from the market, from the street. He was painting. It was like the sergeant's rough friendship. A boy with a basket of fruit, clumsy and clumsy in his movements. Then his self-portrait as Bacchus, a symbol of beauty and youth. Nothing could be more wrong! The grapes are dead and rotten. Greasy hand with a border of dirt. Sick face with greenish lips. And not sleepy eyes. The cardinal learned about this miracle. Del Monte. Michelangelo paints sharpshirts with rose lips and firm cheeks. The cardinal buys the painting for a song and brings Caravaggio into his home. Caravaggio liked music. Was he playing the cornet? The singer is already crying his eyes, and yet he is tuning the lute. Maybe he couldn't tune? Instrument for a song of love. Amor sits next to it, showing a hump on his back. Caravaggio paints closeness. No distance between the souls in the painting and the souls of the viewers. He is the master. General Tarik from beyond the grave kisses the country of his robe, not to say brush tip ... silly associations.

The painting Martyrdom of Matthew asked for an angelic host in heaven. The church itself asked for filth. Jesus points at Matthew with his finger in a small dive. He turns a sinner into a disciple of Christ. Mateusz was a rogue and was chosen. Would we call him a terrorist or a partisan today? He had no choice and it fell on him. Well, it's God's finger. Christ placed in the shadow. We see the finger in brightness.

Trembling. Flickering light. Whirling worlds. The illuminated figure of the sinner is getting ready to strike. The coward escapes death. It shows the second face. Impetuous, brutal, unpredictable. He renounces his own brother and thinks that he will get away with everything. He teaches his dog, Raven, to walk on its hind legs. We'll fry your eggs in olive oil. It's a threat written in court files. The finger of unfaithful Thomas was deeply inserted into the open wound of Jesus. Everyone believed. Jesus took his wrist and pulled Thomas's hand towards him. This is the most important truth about people. How to hurt divinity to convince man? How to bite a wound to experience the truth? Shocking faces, hardened feet, dirty nails. His painting was more and more often referred to as indecent. Caravaggio is released from custody after months. No judgment. He trains dagger fights. Michelangelo da Caravaggio. He told the guard, who checked his written permission for the sword and dagger, to stick his good night up his ass. And he was arrested again. He brutally ordered the servant to sniff the artichokes, trying to force them to be in butter or olive oil. He made a fuss not only in taverns. Brushes, the dampness of paints, he painted not disembodied but the body. The green skin of a drowned prostitute stolen from the dissecting room. Caravaggio paints her as a saint for the Carmelite nuns in Rome's poorest neighborhood, as a pieta. The one who supposedly fell asleep before she ascended. What is this biscuit so thin and a bit of liver on top? I roll down to the monastery. A Jewish girl to the convent? beginning on www.kuby.pl in chapter TS001

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Flagrant disobedience of the law John remillard is a class action suit against him and there's about 500 people who are suing them each person will probably get $10 no He's listed what he has and he has about five million dollars worth of stuff so 500 people would get $50,000 each I think that's right something like that let's see 5,500 people take off two zeros yes and that's a decent amount of money that's enough to for him to go to Miami and have a little bit of entertainment and come back and buy some things for his place and pay off his credit card it's not a ton of money but it is something it is 500 people suing you for real then he's going to be destitute here and that's what they want to do to him of course our son understands what the whole deal is but he has to go there to Miami that's actually something that would work and it's necessary

The second one is the suit about the John Johnson which is Tommy f and his avant-guard behavior threats and rude behavior in Port Charlotte and incarceration against his will which has never been successful at suing against anybody with which is really bad it doesn't it doesn't help anybody that there's no penalty involved except what we're doing and they don't see it very clearly if they saw what happens to them they probably wouldn't do it is what our son says and he knows they wouldn't because really there's a lot of people that look like each other out here and the dod is one of the parties that goes after people who do that

The third and the more noxious suit that is probably coming to fruition and yes Tommy f too will come to fruition and Tommy f says he doesn't mind because he'll be motivated to try and kidnap him the third is the water issue at the house and it's really nasty and everybody there suffered actually everybody on the street it's a horrible situation and it has nothing to do with increased pressure because that happens every year it has to do with people who are lackadaisical about their occupation and that they just don't service people and it's health code violations very serious violations these days people take it seriously it's like a mass poisoning or something like that and he's actually in a lot of trouble and is any other Jeep too but this situation with the septic is completely out of control and nobody seems to understand how dangerous it is and how important it is to try and fix that and you can get sick from it and he already tried to fix things and he did okay but he's still suffering from me it will probably add to the suit but it apparently appears that other people have a class action for the above and for this issue is about 500 people each and that's what I want to say but the last suit is for about $20,000 each and they're suing the they're suing the management company and he's named on it even though he didn't request to be put on there because the county is doing it which is what they said and he said he's unaware of being able to do that but they're suing him for the cost to fix it and it won't cost $20,000 so they're suing for other things but it's a class action and they put him on there because they want everybody in the street on it and you kind of has to anyways they'll eventually ask him to sign something and he needs to do it and they'll probably charge 10 grand and replace the whole system so get $10,000 which is better than nothing and he needs to pay bills and he needs to get some things like transportation for instance riding a bicycle around here is a nightmare it's a nightmare people are so nasty you can't you can't be right if they let you go you can't be right if you let them go they're obscene and they're all wealthy making fun of our son who's very powerful and very dangerous people who are shocks in California and knew him as a shark that's all we did in China and we're impressed people here are impressed is a lazy slob so get hurt all the time

There's other things going on there's a lawsuit against Disney could change the designation of their land and it sounds like the place was Indian land and it was for the prior owner but the new owner is not Indian and the Indians sold it so really they sold the tribal lands but they kept the tribal laws and it was my son's brother who owned it and that's who he was apart Indian that he was Indian tribe for real and they're going through the math of it you know how fast these guys are going they're going through the mouth of it and they can't believe how fast these people are going around here and really tooting and he's usually someone who's bothering his stuff he's looking right at it but he's looking at his stuff too and you said it well he has to watch himself and his two guys with scissors and those guys with other cutting tools and stuff so it's going on every day all the time you know the city he thinks that those two are trying to keep them from being out front but and the trucks always come down here going way too fast in the sheriff always sells them slow down and they don't we have other lawsuits coming up and those lawsuits of class action lawsuits and the class action lawsuit probably Sean county is for the whole street and they named everybody and they haven't talked to anyone which is not true they talk to Dan they talk to you about half the people there and several sign of paper so they're going to go around doing that and it's something that should have been done and the main landlord there is Stan and he has the money he just doesn't want to do it cuz he's being an a****** and everybody on the street is going to be on it and he's going to try and evict everyone and he's going to get crushed he's going out to the desert to drive around and do this big man he can't help it our son says because of what I was doing and what Thor Freya were doing in Hera in their lives before they were brought to Earth it's true too it's huge egos because of what people said they were doing but those days are passed they're human. Sign me in a reborn Christian and Dave our dad was trying to teach that you said but you've been reborn and you have a second chance in life and Mac Daddy has given it to you so but our son is correct they were under the influence and they were machines involved and the max are giving him some information and it says they're not going to give you much information cuz they don't want to because if it can do that imagine the possibilities but these machines are deadly they're very fast computers it's just like the old stuff that you know you listen to like in the year 2525 Dr strange Love and other things that are available the machine I'm over the general treatment that this area is doing and they're not going to like it but it's coming from Port Charlotte and then Court up there and it's going to be the s*** out of this court and the court up there is Max and the court down here is Tommy f and Mac is stuck across the street taking abuse. Once again a class action suit by the county and there are other lawsuits too that are worth mentioning

The federal government is suing these people for divulging secrets on purpose because they're not qualified to and they're not allowed to and assuming them for real and they're putting together a lawsuit the president vice president the cabinet the Senate and the Congress and a lot of them are Max most of them are Max and they're going to present it and they're not suing to help our son no but they're saying that he's named in it and the class action lawsuit names him as saying the person who is saying these people are walking all over me and they're going to award him funds because of it and hopes that he'll move away and he says that he actually may try and do that and it's true too this place is dangerous and The motif and lotus it runs people's lives is running Houston to the ground he's thinking maybe Alabama or Georgia after the situation there is cleared up both of which are nice all year long the Caroline is he heard a little bit sticky with humidity and other things so it's a move and they're pleased with the reaction and then there's

We'll find a lawsuit I want to talk to is regarding his well-being and the hospitals that have put them in through this massive amount of suffering in the hospital systems pursuing each hospital and there's a general lawsuit going against the hospital system and there is a hospital system and it stays sweet you can do when you can't do to people and it's wrong and it's unconstitutional there's a huge huge lawsuit going on and our son says he wants to be put on it and he wants to fire up the picker 5150 business and it heat it up like the construction one and this time we can try and control it a little bit better and we agree are we going to put to a vote and see when and so forth might be maybe not possible but he agrees too but there's a huge lawsuit and he's on it already because he requested to be from me and we are suing the crap out of the system because it's all illegal it's a general lawsuit and is now requesting assistance from the federal government who's going to put it to send it in the Congress because it's unconstitutional and it's catching them up all the time he catches everyone and there's no personal power there's no good guy and there's no bad guy and really it didn't work for anyone and it was made by people other than you see here so they're going ahead with that it's a huge lawsuit and it's very happy to hear about it it says finally and you know globally America has a very bad reputation due to that it's different than a terrace law which should be modified it's extremely aggressive and leaves it open-ended to globally for any cop we have to dress all those issues today because it's not changed in any way and even they change the law it would probably take 10 years for it to modify what's happening we're going to meet now and for a request of Zeus myself and my goddess wife

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We like to thank you for saying all that it's very valuable very concise and put together in a current but professional manner we need to do a lot more of this because we're running out of time but our people need to know that we're people as well and we're in the state of hell and Zues said that last part and Hera because they're in a massive state of hell and everyone is but we are the leaders and we're doing our best we do need to have some assistance and if you sign up for any duty in our military we will have that assistance and we need to do this and we need to enact our final plan and it means that all this have to sign up now that's part of the final plan you'll see why

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Superdawg’s founders, Maurie and Flaurie Berman, stand guard over this venerable Chicago drive-in as customers can spot those giant hot dog statues bearing their likenesses from miles away at the intersection of Devon, Nagle, and Milwaukee. Superdawg is a throwback dining experience where customers park their cars and talk to staff through crackling drive-in speakers and carhops bring out trays of food. Superdawg isn’t a traditional Chicago-style dog, but it is a tradition. It uses a proprietary thick all-beef sausage that comes with mustard, pickled green tomato, and chopped Spanish onions. This is all cradled in a box of crinkle fries.

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What is quite possibly the first Michelin-starred brewpub lies on the North Side of Chicago. Gourmet dishes emerge from the kitchen during tasting menus, while brunch services and the bar menu provide a taste to diners on a tight budget. Creative beer selections are brewed on-site, which, combined with a beautiful Victorian-inspired space, make Band of Bohemia a one-of-a-kind operation in the entire country. The menu has plenty of veggie options, including a carrot that’s magical.

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With two smokers to prep meaty St. Louis-style ribs, tender brisket, apple-and-oak-smoked pulled pork and more, this ‘cue joint in the Northwest Side neighborhood of Irving Park stands up to any within a thousand miles. Outside of Carolina or Texas, it’s hard to find better barbecue than the casual counter-service Smoque.

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3361 N Elston Ave Chicago, IL 60618

It may not serve your momma’s fried chicken — with bones, skin, et al — but Honey Butter Fried Chicken makes swaths of Chicagoans feel like kids again when they dip their birds in that addictive honey butter. Since expanding from supper club to Avondale brick-and-mortar in fall 2013, lines form during peak lunch and dinner hours but move quickly at the cozy counter-service space. Don’t forget the house-made iced teas, alcoholic drinks, and specials sometimes created by noteworthy guest chefs.

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3025 W Diversey Ave Chicago, IL 60647

This tiny cafe along Diversey, an emerging street for restaurants in Logan Square, packs big flavors. Cellar Door Provisions serves pastries, a popular quiche, and lamb meatballs in the mornings and the afternoons. Ownership wanted to bring something different to Chicago’s culinary scene by baking delicious breads and developing strong relationships with local farmers and vendors to bring top-notch ingredients to their kitchen. They serve dinner on Wednesdays through Saturdays only and reservations are recommended.

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2800 W Logan Blvd Chicago, IL 60647

Few chefs share the talent and drive that Diana Dávila exhibits while showcasing a dazzling display of small Mexican dishes in Logan Square. Dávila isn’t shy about risks; she isn’t pandering to the typical American diner. The bustling full-service spot offers albondigas and dishes like peanut butter and tongue push boundaries, yet there’s also a delectable steak burrito on the menu for those in the mood.

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Before Logan Square had a multitude of acclaimed creative restaurants and farm-to-table was a buzz-phrase, there was Lula Café. More than a decade on, it’s easy to see why people flock for its creative dinner menu, line-inducing Sunday brunch and Monday night farm dinners. Dishes change seasonally and sometimes daily, with stars that include standout local produce and meats prepared in unexpected ways. What diners can expect is a wait at brunch and dinner, but weekday breakfasts are quiet and cozy.

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Chicago hadn’t seen this level of Middle Eastern food before acclaimed chef Zach Engel moved from New Orleans to open this smash hit in Lincoln Park. Engel, who won a James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef during his time in the Big Easy, elevates hummus, pita, and more to unforeseen heights at this Israeli excelsior, where reservations have been difficult to secure since its opening in April 2019. Diners sit at the long kitchen counter to watch Engel and team top pools of silky hummus with trumpet mushrooms, fried chicken skin and collard greens, and pull perfect pillows of wood-fired pitas from the coal-burning oven. The salatim — an array of Israeli accoutrements served with pita — coal-fired entrees, and Middle Eastern spins on classic cocktails are also stars here.

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2507 W Armitage Ave Chicago, IL 60647

Chicago’s sushi reputation is not as esteemed as cities along the coastlines, but a number of new restaurants are changing that perception. At the top of the list is Otto Phan’s omakase experience — the Japanese concept of chef’s choice — in a nondescript space in Logan Square. Phan’s intimate eight-seat counter provides an up-close look at his bold personality and distinctive style, which is highlighted by larger-than-normal rice grains seasoned with aged red vinegar and premium quality ingredients imported from overseas. The luxurious offerings include fried tilefish crowned with creme fraiche and Osetra caviar, and fatty toro seared on charcoal. The $220 price tag for 18-plus bites — plus extra for beverages — makes it a special destination. A $100 deposit is required to secure a reservation.

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While the savory food and the drinks are very good, the sweets and the hot chocolates are predictably not to be missed from an owner with a James Beard award for best pastry chef (Mindy Segal). Crowds flock to this Chicago icon for brunch and peak-hour dinner services, so lunch service is a great bet for minimal waits at the Bucktown superstar. A wooden table holds eight cups of various sizes holding hot chocolate drinks. Mindy’s namesake hot chocolates and more Mindy’s Hot Chocolate [Official Photo]

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1723 N Halsted St Chicago, IL 60614

Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas’s three-Michelin-starred avant garde fine dining institution is quite simply one of the world’s best restaurants. Food obsessives make pilgrimages from around the globe to the 10-year-old Lincoln Park restaurant to experience Achatz’s emotional, interactive, and expensive tasting menus, which play out in a recently renovated backdrop that now features three distinct dining options. It clocked in at No. 37 on the most recent World’s 50 Best List in 2019 and was among Eater National’s best restaurants in America. Dishes change often on the tasting menus, but the edible balloon and tabletop dessert are among those that put it on the world stage. A long staircase runs along the left side of the room going up. Three tables sit in a spare, white room with white chairs and grey carpet. Alinea was named the 37th best restaurant in the world in 2019. Matthew Gilson

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7500 W North Ave Elmwood Park, IL 60707

The best example of Chicago’s iconic Italian beef sandwiches exists outside of the city at the two suburban locations of Johnnie’s Beef. The space is a throwback as the original fast-food spot opened in 1961 in Elmwood Park and a second has since opened in Arlington Heights. The menu is simple: beefs, charcoal-grilled Italian sausages, and hot dogs. Pepper-and-egg sandwiches are also available daily; they’re mostly aimed at Catholic customers during Lent Fridays needing a “meat-free” option. Johnnie’s also serves stellar lemon Italian ice. The thin-cut beef is moist and perfectly seasoned with hints of oregano. The hot peppers deliver plenty of heat but don’t overwhelm the meat. Don’t sleep on the beef-sausage sandwich. While the city has plenty of beef options, Johnnie’s is worth the drive to the ‘burbs.

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1028 N Rush St Chicago, IL 60611

Chicago’s steakhouse tradition can be best experienced at Gibsons, the swanky Gold Coast institution that Eater readers voted the best steakhouse in America’s meatiest city. Celebrity sightings are frequent in the dining room and in the photos on the walls, while white-jacketed servers provide exquisite meat displays at a quintessential Chicago restaurant experience. A brick building with a green roof attachment and a neon sign that reads “Gibsons.” Eater readers voted Gibsons the best steakhouse in Chicago. Barry Brecheisen/Eater Chicago

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141 W Erie St Chicago, IL 60654

Chicago’s food scene got a jolt of fresh air when former Avec and Nico Osteria chef de cuisine Erling Wu-Bower opened this breezy California-inspired restaurant in River North in conjunction with his One Off Hospitality mentors Paul Kahan and Donnie Madia. Bower and team churn out a casual menu of light fare utilizing precise execution and exquisite ingredients, spanning a myriad of light cuisines from warm weather locales such as Middle Eastern-inspired large-format duck, pitas that utilize ahi tuna and beef tartare, dumplings and pizzas. Reservations are recommended, although tables are easier to find during lunch and brunch services at the 2018 Eater Chicago Restaurant of the Year.

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445 N Clark St Chicago, IL 60654

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837 W Fulton Market Chicago, IL 60607

The template for one of the country’s top chefs and restaurant groups (Paul Kahan’s One Off Hospitality), their temple to pork, fish, charcuterie and beer is stronger than ever, as evidenced by spinoffs across the street and at O’Hare International Airport, and a spot on Eater National’s best restaurants in America list. Don’t mistake the boisterous atmosphere with long beer hall-esque communal tables for pedestrian food or no waits, as it remains one of Chicago’s toughest tables, even for the standout brunch.

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661 W Walnut St Chicago, IL 60661

2016 saw a slew of great restaurant openings but Noah Sandoval’s West Loop stunner perhaps shined the brightest. He, along with his wife Cara, are leading the way for a new generation of fine dining that’s coupling refined, upscale dishes on its tasting menu, from its caviar starter staple to a Japanese A5 wagyu, all in a laid-back experience. Critics and diners alike have been impressed, with the Michelin Guide awarding the restaurant two stars in its first year. A dining room with exposed brick walls and wooden floors and ceilings. A number of tables dot the room topped with white tablecloths.

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Boka Restaurant Group isn’t short on heavy hitters but its majestic modern Japanese restaurant is arguably the crown jewel of the company. Spread across three floors, Momotaro blends traditional Japanese ingredients and flavors with contemporary technique for a breathtaking experience. The menu is divided between sushi and robata bites and includes luxuries such as A5 wagyu steak and pristine fatty tuna. For a more casual meal and drinks, the lower-level izakaya offers similarly remarkable options like chicken karaage, uni spaghetti, and ramen.

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Chicagoans have few choices for upscale Indian food downtown. Rooh’s 2019 arrival is noteworthy not only because it fills that void, but it also gives the West Loop one of the most unique restaurants in the city. Patrons will be more than impressed with familiar classics such as butter chicken, but jackfruit kofta, gunpowder scallops, and achari monkfish give diners a sliver of modern Indian cooking. All this inside a comfortable space worthy of Randolph Restaurant Row. Look for fun, spiced cocktails to round out the experience. Reservations are recommended for the spinoff of the San Francisco restaurant that opened in 2017.

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1020 W Madison St Chicago, IL 60607

The first restaurant from former Top Chef and Spiaggia chef Sarah Grueneberg has quickly cemented itself as one of Chicago’s top Italian destinations and its tough-to-get reservations are a prime example. The pastas are the stars at the West Loop hotspot, such as cannelloni saltimbocca with merguez lamb sausage, manchego cheese, peas, harissa, and balsamico, many of which are made on a small demonstration stage of sorts behind the bar. Also try non-pasta dishes such as the skate wing schnitzel and ‘nduja arancini, as well as a standout wine list. A simple, sleek bar with backed stools and a rack for pasta. Monteverde’s bar is where cooks make the pasta. Marc Much/Eater Chicago

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1141 S Jefferson St Chicago, IL 60607

The torchbearer for a dying breed of Jewish delis and diners in Chicago, Manny’s has endured for more than a half-century in the South Loop thanks to massive and delicious pastrami sandwiches, an array of hot homestyle dishes on steam tables, and family service cultivated over generations in a cafeteria-style setting plastered with decades-old newspaper clippings and letters from Chicago luminaries. The space also now houses a new deli expansion for bagels, sweets, coffee, and food to go.

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HaiSous is a remarkable comeback story for the husband-and-wife team of Thai and Danielle Dang in Pilsen. Thai Dang showcases his heritage Vietnamese flavors through a number of techniques, including claypot cooking, on a menu that’s as ambitious as it’s unpretentious with dishes like grilled wild boar with lemongrass. The neighboring cafe is great for a banh mi or an iced coffee sourced with beans from Dang’s family in Vietnam. The duo worked at acclaimed West Loop restaurant Embeya, but at HaiSous they’re free to express themselves more honestly to create a dining experience worthy of a celebration, or just a wonderful weeknight meal, or even a coffee and a sandwich.

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1239 W 18th St Chicago, IL 60608

Star chef Stephen Gillanders, after searching for years to open a new restaurant, discovered room in Pilsen to open S.K.Y. It’s fine dining with good value and without pretension — the menu features flavors from Japan (crispy swordfish katsu), Korea (crackling beef short rib), and the Mediterranean in both affordable tasting menus and a la carte options. The weekend dim sum-style brunch’s lobster dumplings may be the city’s best. Reservations are recommended. Four delicate dumplings sit inside a white bowl.

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1725 W 18th St Chicago, IL 60608

Chicago’s Mexican community and food enthusiasts worldwide flock to this longtime family-owned counter-service institution in Pilsen that celebrates all parts of the pig with its legendary south-of-the-border care. Order carnitas by the pound at the front counter and settle into a table — if one is available — to craft individual tacos with an array of porky goodness and house-made salsas, tortillas, and beans; or have tacos, soup, and cactus salad made. Prepare for lines and waits during peak weekend hours.

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4852 S Pulaski Rd Chicago, IL 60632

Head to the Southwest Side for goat tacos that are consistently lauded as some of the best in the entire country. In addition, diner make the pilgrimage for other standout dishes such as consomme at this small father-and-son standout. It’s counter-service or take-out-only, and get there early, as it often closes by early evening at the latest. A server ladles juices over a plate of goat meat. A large birrieria plate at Birrieria Zaragoza. Birrieria Zaragoza [Official Photo]

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1462 E 53rd St Chicago, IL 60615

Chicago has long had a history of top-notch African American-owned restaurants that focus on regional Southern cooking, but the city may not have had a restaurant like Virtue before. Chef-owner Erick Williams combines the skill and precision honed through years of fine-dining experience with soulful, family Southern recipes in dishes including cauliflower with cashew dukkah and root cellar vegetables, and heavenly beef short ribs with creamed spinach and crushed potatoes. The restaurant has quickly become a dining beacon in Hyde Park and one of America’s Best New Restaurants, so reservations are recommended for dinner but there’s also a large bar room and a lively brunch. A colorful cauliflower dish sits inside a grey bowl on a light wood table. Virtue’s cauliflower with cashew dukkah, root cellar vegetables, and rice Nick Fochtman/Eater

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When it comes to pizza, Chicago’s reputation around the country often centers on deep dish. But thin-crust tavern-style pizza — another pizza style that’s unique to Chicago — is actually much more prevalent and popular with locals, and few if any do it better than South Side institution Vito & Nick’s Pizzeria. Thin, crunchy dough is baked with char on top and cut into small squares with very little crust on the outside. In business for nearly a century and making pizzas for more than 60 years, Vito & Nick’s is an always-bustling, family-friendly pizza destination that’s a must-visit for any food enthusiast, so be prepared for a wait for a table or just take a pie to go.

A square-cut thin crust pizza. Vito & Nick’s iconic tavern-style pizza Vito & Nick’s [Official Photo]

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