#the modern equivalent of a chain letter at least

[pencilpat]

also! i know you asked for headcanons on sanders sides, but!

i find your ocs nelson and wilson like, reaaaally interesting 👀✨ i saw some wips you did of them not so long ago and can't get them out of my head, if you'd like, care to share some info on them? :3 💛

Oh my gosh, thank you for asking me about them! These birdbrains for anyone who didn't see them (yes I lost the files I was colouring, yes I'm devastated):

Wilson (left) and Nelson (right) are twin brothers from a universe populated by bird people. They were raised in a monastery built into a cliffside. The monastery was run by mainly birds of prey, while the twins are falcons, and that led to some differences in needs of care that couldn't be met properly. The monks they live with tried to raise them both into their religion (which included not eating meat) and while it went well with Nelson, Wilson was a rebellious and somewhat aggressive child. He ended up running away eventually, and found himself in a much more fastpaced modern world that he didn't know how to cope with at first.

The timeline would be the equivalent of the 60s-70s in our world.

Wilson managed to get hired at a convenience store, where the manager took pity on him and let him rent an apartment he owned. Wilson slowly began to live a relatively normal life. He took up smoking and drinking just to rebel, to feel in control of himself. He eats entirely meat now, like he always was meant to. He feels happy. He feels free. And sure maybe sometimes he has to drop off the face of the earth for a few days to feels like an adult, or chain smoke and binge eat and fly higher than is healthy to in order to feel in control, but it's much better than being stuck with those monks. Wilson is generally very good-natured and loves to laugh and joke around, but he can sometimes be very angry and lash out at the people he cares about.

Nelson is a whole different story. His wing was damaged as a result of one of Wilson's outbursts, which was one of the inciting incidents of Wilson running away. Nelson, therefore, can't fly. The monks subtly, unintentionally convinced him that Wilson's outburst was a divine punishment of sorts. Falling off of the cliff was a sign from their God to do away with the wicked spirit of his brother, and it is a blessing. Nelson lives the lifestyle of the monastery and does it very well. He's mostly a bookkeeper and the one who keeps the library clean and tidy. He is also a record keeper who writes down the happenings of the services and the day in general. Nelson is very serious and cold most of the time, but occasionally, when he's genuinely happy, he can be very soft and childlike.

Wilson eventually missed his twin a lot, and they've been exchanging letter like penpals for years. Wilson is always trying to convince Nelson to leave and come at least visit him, to see how big and awesome the world can be. Nelson very much doesn't want to do this. But eventually he might, to make his brother happy.

[arkadarp]

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better.

@theriu called me out, and so now y’all have to suffer through me rambling about all the medias i have CONSUMED

Last Song: i’ve been listening to “Leaving All Behind” by Karsten Koch on repeat while studying. “Last Rain of Spring” by 4EverfreeBrony has also been excellent studying music. “The Bells” by Phil Ochs has been my go to sing-along music recently though (and you should click through the link to see some amazing animation by Betsy Lee).

Last Film: it’s been so long since i’ve sat down to watch a movie blehhhhhh. i think it was rewatching Avengers: Endgame? and i think before that it was Edge of Tomorrow. idk it’s hard for me to just sit down and watch a movie.

Currently watching: i watched the first episode of Queen’s Gambit with my folks, and i’ve been meaning to watch the rest. do things currently airing count? cos my body is ready for the last season of Attack on Titan (only the first ep is out rn). i guess i’m also watching the new season of RWBY, but it’s a garbage fire and i’m hate-watching it.

Currently reading: do fimfics count? because that’s all i’ve been reading lately. i recently re-read “Stardust” by Arad, which was the crossover event i didn’t know i’d ever need. currently reading through “First Law of Magic” by Jest, which is kinda brutal, but good so far. also shoutouts to “Background Pony” by shortskirtsandexplosions, for being one of very few stories that made me legit cry. i haven’t done it yet but @hymnthesiren sucked me back into the Warriors fandom, so i have an urge to re-read those books, but they’re stuck back at home.

Craving: finals to be over... and maybe a nice deep dish pizza

Tagging: there’s no way i’ll be able to find 9 people to tag, but imma just pull names from the ianaa server @thehyperumbreon @zenaquaria @dalkenstarbyne @hymnthesiren (congratulations, you get double tagged), uhh @ask-violinsunrise (idk if you have a modblog) and i guess let’s get @blurry-kun in here

[scmhrd123]

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[packratblog-blog1]

Hong Kong 🇭🇰

Hong Kong is a unique beast. It’s two sets of sharp teeth stretching high into a vast and often humid sky, skyscrapers and high-rises compete with each other for height, space and architectural magnificence, glaring at and taunting each other across Victoria Harbour. Beast is a term that gestates two major connotations; majestic and wild. It’s not a term that I choose to use lightly, but the images and ideas it fosters in the mind are completely relevant. This is a place that is a living, breathing contradiction…in the best possible sense. Hong Kong is Western yet firmly taking its place in the East, has one of the highest per person per capita densities on the planet, and yet has an insane amount of park and green space (surprisingly only 25% of its land has been built on!), these being just two basic examples. The beast is fascinating. Situated on (and off) the southern coast of the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong is made up of islands, in fact there are at least 200 of them, with Hong Kong Island and Lantau Island being the largest and most territorially significant. As well as this Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories also make up the areas connected to the Chinese mainland, all in all constituting what we today call Hong Kong. You may be left asking a common question by this; “Is Hong Kong Chinese then?" …My answer is a frustrating one; it’s a yes and a no, and it’s giving an answer on this that the history nerd in me is really my best ally. Hong Kong’s full and long-winded name is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. So by that definition, yes, it’s Chinese. However, the Special Administrative Region aspect is really important. This means that Hong Kong is given autonomy from Beijing and up to a point, governs itself. More questions. The next logical one is why then is it separate from the rest of China and why does it have this special status? As is the answer to many historical, geopolitical lines of questioning, the short answer is, “the British.” Britain colonised Hong Kong at a considerably late point in the grand scheme of its colonial history and governed the territory consistently between the end of the Second World War and 1997. It is this aspect of Hong Kong’s past that makes it the unique beast that we know and love today. From the 1970s onwards Hong Kong’s unique status and decreasing need for British rule gradually paved the way for what is widely known as ‘The Handover’, and on July 1st 1997, sovereignty of the city was given back to the Chinese. Hong Kong’s considerable cultural, financial and political differences to China are all aspects of Beijing’s decision to give autonomous leeway when negotiating the Handover with Britain and establishing the city-state afresh for the future. In the wake of The Handover, today Hong Kong stands as an economic powerhouse, a bridge between East and West, and in terms of further human standards, as a beacon of the future; it boasts the planet’s longest life expectancy for its residents. So yes, Hong Kong is a beast. However, it's entirely possible to love a beast, beasts are fascinating. Mike Tyson had his tiger, Slash keeps a few hundred snakes apparently and numerous Bond villains have had sharks and stuff. Beasts, while not docile, comfortable pets like rabbits or kittens are unique and wild, they’re lovable because they’re as interesting and as unpredictable as hell. It’s for that reason that this post is a love letter. I love Hong Kong. Hong Kong just works, it’s an unbelievable place that’s a testament to human efficiency and co-existence. When Hong Kong’s population (approximately just under7.5 million people as of last year) is compared with its land mass (of around just under 3000 square kilometres), the number crunching tells you one specific, standout fact; that’s an insane amount of people for an insanely small place in comparison). It’s despite this population density, the planet’s fourth largest (more on that in future posts), that Hong Kong really does just somehow work. Traffic is an issue but not in the same way as it is in other major global conurbations, the people follow rules such as walking on the right side of the pavement/sidewalk to alleviate congestion and they follow jaywalking laws to a tee. The city’s fantastic metro system (the Hong Kong MTR) is clean, efficient and consistently modernised, it can get you to any corner of Hong Kong and it even runs on time! (I’m from England…google ‘Train reliability in Britain’ if you want to find out more about why I’m amazed at trains running on time). And while I’m singing the praises of Hong Kong running like highly modernised, mechanised clockwork there is still that amazing unpredictability that sets my teeth on edge. You can walk along one street with gleaming, modern skyscrapers, your nostrils filled with the scent of Char Sui buns from local street vendors, then turn a corner and be surrounded by quaint Chinese streets filled with Buddhist temples and the smell of incense hanging in the air. It’s unique: It’s modern, it’s steeped in history, and it truly is like nowhere else I’ve ever been. We’ve both been endlessly excited to get back here and it still holds a tonne of new experiences and insights for both of us that we just can’t wait to get our teeth into. Can you tell I’m hungry? Yep, the food’s unbelievable too. With all of that in mind, let's get started on some of my favourite things about Hong Kong... AREAS/PLACES TO VISIT: - Victoria Harbour: The harbour can be seen from either side and whichever way you choose it's always impressive. Arguably though, if you had to choose one or don't have time for both, visit the harbour on the Kowloon side around evening time. If you're lucky (and depending on the time of year) you'll get to see the skyline in the daylight and after a slight wait of an hour or so you'll get to see it lit up for the evening (at 8PM there's a light and sound show each evening which is mega impressive!) I love Victoria Harbour, I believe that if I saw it every day it still wouldn't become something that doesn't blow my mind. - Garden of Stars: Get the MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui and two minutes away is Garden of Stars. This place is very cool, it's Hong Kong's equivalent of LA's walk of fame. Rather than the stars in the pavement/sidewalk, Garden of Stars features handprints and monuments from some of HK cinema's biggest names. The coolest part though? They have this amazingly detailed Bruce Lee statue that really, if you're a martial arts fan, you've kind of GOT to make the voyage to see! - Victoria Peak: Yeah, it's a tourist thing to do but even if you're the kind of person that hates that you should still 100% make the trip up. I'm a skyline and building nerd, and to be honest, besides from the Kowloon side of the harbour, nowhere else in the city gives you a better view (with so many different angles) of HK's unreal skyline. Again, you never get accustomed to that view, it melts my mind. Ocean Park: You won't often find me visiting many theme parks (not out of dislike, I just don't tend to!) However, Ocean Park is very cool. It's equal parts theme park (with rollercoasters and other rides), stunning island-to-sea views, an extensive aquarium and a pretty big outdoor zoo. The best part...they have pandas, and it's unbelievable to see them up close, it's worth a trip just for that. Since I last visited HK last October, Ocean Park now has it's own line on the MTR, which is much easier than the previous bus that was required to make the journey. - Big Buddha Monument: Definitely the largest Buddhist monument I've ever seen, it's situated at the top of a mountain and it's amazing. There's a great cable car trip up there which provides some great photo and video opportunities up over the bay. - Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery: The name sums this one up, it's a hike to get up to the main area of the monastery but the whole way is lined with SO many different Buddhist statues. There are even more at the top where you're also rewarded with great views and some really cool temple buildings. - Kowloon Walled City Park: I get these weird things that I become fascinated by and I end up doing endless research on them...Kowloon Walled City is one of them. The Walled City was a former shanty town which occupied a full city block on Kowloon Island up until as recently as 1994 when it was demolished. It may sound boring, but I saw a documentary on it years ago and became amazed at it's ramshackle, improvised stacked-up architecture. Google it to learn more (as I could go on for ages about this)...it truly is fascinating to consider how the place became a city entirely of it's own. Since demolition in the mid-90s, the city block it once occupied has been transformed into a lush, tranquil park which acts as a great relief from the hectic pace of HK for the locals. To visit was very cool, and it was unbelievable to stand in the centre and imagine the place going back 30+ years. FOOD: Before I start this, I want to state that Hong Kong's food is magnificent. I'd argue that the city is worth visiting just for the food alone (it's that good!) While this isn't an exhaustive list because I could go on forever, this is a list that I've tried to include some different options and price ranges... - Cafe de Coral: It sounds French, it isn't. Cafe de Coral is a large chain in HK. They provide phenomenal Cantonese food with the efficiency of McDonalds. While it's great at any time of the day, what I love about Cafe de Coral is that it's always busy, it's always full of locals which speaks volumes for the food. It's also a good cheap option which makes it great for backpackers and other budget travellers. - Maxim's MX: MX is much like Cafe de Coral and have sprung up all over the city over the last year. It's extremely similar to Cafe de Coral in both the food served and the mode of service as well as price. It's worth visiting both at some point though, as they both have delicious signature dishes of their own! - Tim Ho Wan: There are a few of these phenomenal restaurants dotted around the city. We recently visited the North Point location (a few times, I have to admit), and it's hands down the finest Dim Sum at a reasonable price in Hong Kong, I can't recommend it highly enough. Hong Kong gets more and more interesting and exciting each and every time I visit, we'll be back to visit in a few weeks time. Before that though we cross the border into a place I've always been fascinated by: mainland China. Hong Kong, we'll see you again soon...Shenzhen, we'll see you even sooner!

[samuel28-7]

"God" by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Morton Schamberg

“In the spring of 2017 the Philadelphia Museum of Art told the same old story about an alleged scandal caused by a urinal. In its ignorance what the museum didn’t address was the part played by itself and other venerable Philadelphian institutions in the actual birth of American modern art, for it was in the Quaker City, and nowhere else, that on the day that America declared war on Germany in the first week of April 1917 a chain of events was triggered by an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer that lead to a spring offensive, not in Flanders, but at the Grand Central Palace on Lexington Avenue in New York City: an offensive whose offensiveness continues to resonate in world culture. Those institutions were the aforementioned Museum of Art, the Franklin Institute, the plumbing supply house, Haines, Jones and Cadbury, aka Hajoca, the master plumbers of Philadelphia and, critically, the fulcrum around which these agencies would unwittingly dance, the Philadelphia Inquirer. Whilst it would be on April 2 that Woodrow Wilson would ask a special joint session of the US Congress for a declaration of war, to which Congress responded positively on the 6th, it was in the pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer on April 1 that anticipation of this momentous event coincided with a notice announcing the opening of an open modern art exhibition in New York on the following Tuesday, the 10th. This was the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists (S.I.A.,) some 50 of whose members would hail from Philadelphia and Pennsylvania – some famous, such as Robert Henri, Charles Demuth, Morton L. Schamberg and George Biddle and some completely unknown - such as a certain Richard Mutt who, whilst never making it into the exhibition, but whose corporeality was never questioned at the time, certainly made it into the annals of modern art. And it just so happened that on that same 1 April, a singular German artist, who had fled New York on January 7, found herself as a consequence in Philadelphia, not returning to the capital until twelve months later. Astonishingly, this was the daughter in law of the Kaiser’s Chief of Staff, Gen. Lt. Hugo Freiherr (Baron) von Freytag Loringhoven, the most celebrated military strategist in Europe: none other than the Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, who had been christened plain Hildegard Plötz, of Swinemünde (Świnoujście) Pomerania.. One of the Baron’s descendants would be in Hitler’s bunker at the end: another is presently Head of Intelligence for NATO. Funny old world. Ironically, on February 6, Elsa could have read in The Inquirer an interview with her father-in-law published under the headline ‘Militarism a Myth, Says German officer: General von Freytag-Loringhoven Denies Germany Started Out for Conquest – Says Allies Spent More on Military.’ Elsa’s response is not on record. An artist’s model who had also been arrested many times for public obscenity, the ‘colourful’ Elsa had left New York in a hurry, having been arrested once again of shoplifting – this time, of a box of chocolates and a bottle of olive oil from a drug store at Broadway and 110th St. on the 5th. But, hijacking the police wagon that was taking her to the Harlem jail on the 6th, Elsa paused at the Lincoln Arcade apartments’ only to collect her Pekingese dog, Pinky, as the police entered front door at 65th Broadway (no. 1947) as Elsa left through by back, proceeding thence to the Pennsylvania Station from whence, in a few minutes, she would have simultaneously crossed under the Hudson River and over the state line into New Jersey, beyond the reach of the New York Police Department and the jurisdiction of the Penal Code. As a repeat offender she was up for a maximum of $1000 fine and/or 12 months: her bail, which she couldn’t meet, was a whopping $300. As news reports confirm, three weeks later the police were still staking out the apartment of the individual they considered the craftiest shoplifter and ‘quick-change artist’ in Manhattan: not that it did them any good; she’d long gone. But Elsa, who when not in disguise was, for a variety of reasons, busy taking her clothes off, was also an artist, the most radical of the New York avant-garde, and in Philadelphia she would create the two most important early works of American Dada, which today, by chance, embellish the Arensberg Collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. One appears, by proxy, in the form of a so-called ‘replica’- a urinal signed R. Mutt: the other is what the curators of the museum apparently imagine to be a simple plumbing trap, made of iron, which could not be further from the truth, on both counts. The first is still misattributed to Marcel Duchamp: the latter was re-attributed to Elsa only in the 1990s. Quite simply, these two works demonstrate Elsa to be the lost genius of American avant-garde art, written out of the boys club but whose sojourn in Philadelphia in 1917 would completely rewrite the history of modern art, as it will again. Elsa’s reaction to the declaration of war on her beloved Germany would result in the unannounced arrival at the Grand Central Palace on the 9th of April, 1917, of a urinal that was summarily rejected because the artist apparently responsible for sending it in, one Richard Mutt, had no right to exhibit since had he neither joined the society, paid his fees and dues, registered his entry or delivered his work on time. And two reports of the ensuing argument over whether it should be accepted or not, published in the New York Sun and the Herald on April 11, stated plainly that Mutt’s Fountain and its author hailed from Philadelphia, its author “shipping from the Quaker City a familiar object of bathroom furniture manufactured by a well known firm of that town.” And how did they know - because its source would have been obvious from the details on the way-bill inevitably attached to its shipping crate, without which it couldn’t have moved an inch, and from the supplier’s brand and logo on the crate and the urinal itself, which both bore the image of a Quaker derived from the celebrated statue of William Penn, enclosed within a banderol declaring the company’s name, and crossed by its logo. This was Haines, Jones and Cadbury (aka Hajoca,) then, as now, the most venerable plumbing supply house in Philadelphia. Both the reporters had even given Mutt the initial’s ‘J.C.,’ the capital letters of Jones and Cadbury. Beginning its life as a manufacturer of plumber’s ground key brass work in 1885, like every other major jobber of plumbing goods in the US, the Hajoca diversified into a one-stop shop, eventually manufacturing porcelain-enameled plumbing fixtures itself but never double fired vitreous ceramic ‘china’ equivalents, such water closets, lavatories and baths, or the urinal that Elsa would acquire from a local plumber: only the jobbers could buy from the manufacturers, and only in bulk; the plumbers had to buy from them. These vitreous ceramic (‘china,’ or ‘porcelain,’) plumbing fixtures were almost exclusively manufactured an hour away by rail, in Trenton, New Jersey, and one of the companies from which Hajoca are known to have sourced their vitreous ceramic fixtures was the Trenton Potteries Company (TPCo) which manufactured the model of urinal that Elsa/Mutt send to the Independents, which would not be attributed to Marcel Duchamp until 1935, and who could not have bought it in 1917 from where in 1966 he would say he had - from the J. L. Mott Iron Works at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth St, N. Y. C - since the design of the urinal was unique, its identity and origins unmistakable – as long as you know what you’re looking at, which helps. Neither was it made nor factored by Mott’s: nor was it available for retail purchase at that address, since this was a set of showrooms, dedicated solely to display. And neither was the urinal in the Mott catalogue current in 1917: the only manufacturer’s catalogue in which it could be found at that date was the Trenton Potteries ‘Blue Book’ Catalogue ‘R’ of 1915, although of course it appeared in catalogues issued by plumbing supply houses such as Hajoca from no later than 1906 to at least 1922. But not in Mott’s. Whilst sourcing their vitreous ceramic urinals from the TPCo, Hajoca had the option of having that firm’s ‘star-in-the-circle’ trademark replaced with their own, described above, a practice they adopted for all fixtures and fittings they sold, whether manufactured by themselves or not. The Hajoca logo was what the two New York journalists had seen at the vernissage on 9 April. Two days after the urinal was rejected, Duchamp admitted in a letter to his sister in Paris that not he but a female friend had “sent” it “in,” a typically routine observation that never entered the public domain until fourteen years after Duchamp’s death, in 1982, by which time the false attribution to himself had, in complete ignorance of this admission, become embedded in an establishment myth that persists to this day. And the only female friend of Duchamp’s with whose existing practice Mutt’s submission imbricated seamlessly was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Duchamp’s only female friend in Philadelphia, the only individual in North America capable of conceiving and executing Mutt’s gesture - and with good reason to do so since, at a stroke, on April 6, Elsa had become an enemy alien whilst Marcel joined the allies who had already embraced him, and rejected her. Not that that was the only reason. These events explain why the urinal appeared out of the blue at the Grand Central Palace on April 9. For Elsa had left New York three weeks before the first notices of the ensuing exhibition began to appear - in the New York press, on the subway, and the ‘El,’ announcing the forthcoming exhibition, inviting artists to join the society – on January 20. Since no such notice appeared in any Philadelphia newspaper, the first Elsa would have known about the show would have been on the April 1st, when a note to prospective visitors to the show – not artists intending to submit works: it was too late for that - informed Philadelphia that all members of the society would exhibiting up to two works, but omitted to mention that membership of the organisation was obligatory, a condition which, therefore, Elsa could not have known. And if the plumber’s shop from which Elsa procured the urinal had been as typical as those habitually described in the plumbing press, then, in the corner Elsa would have found the plumbing trap that would become Exhibit B now on display at the Philadelphia Museum, and known as ‘God.’ Since – as its condition then as now demonstrates, at least to plumber, but not, thus far, any self-regarding orthodox Duchamp scholar - it was useless junk, Elsa would probably have got it for nothing: the urinal would have cost her no more than $10, probably less, because it too was no use to a plumber, since it had suffered a fault during its manufacture. Unlike its description on the Philadelphia Museum current website – a plumbing trap made of iron – Elsa’s ‘God (made, as any Joe the Plumber, then and now, knows, from brass,) was in fact a Bennor Anti-Syphon Globe Trap, the original form of which had been patented in 1883, whilst the more refined design (properly ‘pattern’) exhibited by ‘God’ first appeared in a Hajoca catalogue ten years later, alongside its ancestor. This original – not, as in he case of Mutt’s urinal, a ‘replica’ - had been awarded a Scott Premier Medal by the Franklin Institute in 1894, for manufacturing ‘novelties.’ Like the aforementioned museum, that same Franklin institute is today unaware that the sole surviving example of Joseph Bennor’s design can be found a stone’s throw down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The significance of Elsa’s ‘God’ does not so much reside in the contribution that Bennor’s design made to the history of sanitation – his anti-syphon globe trap being one of the most successful anti-sewer gas and anti-siphon designs marketed between 1884 and 1914, when it disappeared from the inventory – but in the fact that, after 1883, it was made exclusively – in Philadelphia - by Haines, Jones and Cadbury, the company that had also factored – in Philadelphia - the urinal that Elsa would submit – from Philadelphia - to the Independents’ exhibition, providing the final nail in the coffin of the attribution of Mutt’s urinal to the oeuvre of Marcel Duchamp. The confirmation of the de-attribution from Duchamp ‘s oeuvre of Mutt’s urinal, and its re-attribution to that of Elsa, confirmed by the identification of the genealogy of Bennor’s Anti-Syphon Globe Trap, has profound implications for the legitimacy of the most radical and ubiquitous form of avant-garde art practice of the second half of the twentieth century, Conceptual Art. For the legitimacy of its theorisation, by Joseph Kosuth, in 1969, depended on assumptions that no longer retain any validity. These are as follows. That Mutt’s urinal had been submitted by Marcel Duchamp as a work of art in the form of a Readymade, for the express purpose of demonstrating that the definition of art was the prerogative of the artist, which the urinal’s exhibition had validated. But the common origins of Elsa’s ‘God’ and Mutt’s urinal prove that none of these assumptions are correct. That the propitious conjunction of the critical events described here, circumscribing this narrative, occurred in Philadelphia, and nowhere else, makes the Quaker City the true cradle of America Dada, and its progenitor, not Marcel Duchamp, but Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Thanks to Philadelphia, the ‘father’ of modern American art was in fact a ‘mother’: and so much for the attribution of the Philadelphia Museum’s ‘replica’ urinal to Marcel Duchamp. Anybody thinking that the institutions cited above would be interested in this subject would be advised to think again. (Further reading, by the author. 'Elsa in Philadelphia.' Summerhall, Edinburgh, Summer 2017. 'Only in Philadelphia.' Moore College of Art Philadelphia website: Moore Women Artists. 'Duchamp's Urinal? The Facts Behind the Facade.' Wild Pansy Press, Leeds University, 2015.)”  - author unknown

[placetobenation]

Welcome to the Wednesday Walk Around the Web, where we weave & wind through weblinks weekly. Hopefully you will find the links on offer amusing, interesting, or informative.

Netflix gave Gwyneth Paltrow a whole ding-dang TV show to hock her brand of claptrap and snake oil, which thankfully at least one reviewer hate-watched so no one else has to.

Also in junk science, for hundreds of years people believed that salamanders were fire-proof, including Pliny the Elder, who tossed one in a fire, disproving the idea which still survived for centuries longer in his preserved writing.

Dear friend of the Walk Steve Wille brings word of J! Archive, a treasury of hundreds of thousands of Jeopardy! answers and clues. Y’know, in case you need a way to spend the rest of your year.

Steve, bless him, also brings our optimistic note of the week: There’s always the hope that if you’re being assaulted in public, someone will help you, or if you see someone in trouble that you’ll be the kind of person who knows how to step in and actually does it. These noble furries are an example for us all.

As far-right hate groups swarm, more people have to shoulder the responsibility of documenting and tracking them for the sake of both contemporary comrades’ safety and a better historical record.

There are so, so many things that if we’re going to be fair cannot still hold up, and yet still hold meaning for people. For something like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is so problematic and yet deeply resonated with a lot of people in a way not a lot of other things did, that’s worth examining seriously…especially during this transitional period before Disney yanks the movie from midnight showings.

We’ve talked about a lot of the horrors wrought by techbro firms and the corporate miscreants of the internet. Google hosts conspiracy theorists on YouTube and sends people spiraling toward radicalization down the related video algorithm. Twitter has moved from coddling GamerGate terrorists to coddling actual factual neo-Nazis. Uber does all it can to screw over its employees, including not considering them employees for tax purposes, but doesn’t care when they rape or harass passengers. Facebook convinced all of our elderly relatives (and our more elderly-at-heart contemporaries) that the groups they hate are definitely coming for them through the modern equivalent of chain letters (I bet most people won’t post this). SpaceX is little but a wankfest run by a dilletante with delusions of Galthood. They all collect whatever they can glean about you, especially the ones you carry devices for or send your DNA to. So there’s a lot of competition when it comes to counting down the most evil tech companies.

Casper Mattresses’ business model may be transferring money from venture capitalists to podcasters.

This Week in Music: How better to improve your favorite album cover than taking the people off and replacing them with cats? I scrolled down looking for Nevermind, and I was indeed rewarded with Nevermind.

This Week in Medical Malpractice: Look, we all love happy-dappy fun-time meme videos where people are doing fun stunts and the like, but maybe you shouldn’t be standing on a hoverboard while pulling someone’s tooth.

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Seoul-based designer Sukwoo Lee designed the medals for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which will take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The jagged front are based on the letters of Hangul, the Korean alphabet that dates back to the 15th century. More images at Dezeen. (via Dezeen)

Bendor Grosvenor writes about museum image fees and how they’re out of whack:

But for ‘old’ art the situation is very different. Many museums will have you believe that because they are licensing newly taken photographs of, say, a Hogarth, then they have copyright over that photograph, and can therefore charge what they want for it. But this is not the case. There are variances, but essentially in both US and UK law a straightforward photographic reproduction of an old painting does not generate any new copyright implications. For a new photograph of a Hogarth to have any copyright vested in it, it must in some way be original (ie, amended, added to, written over, distorted). So don’t let museums tell you that what you’re paying for is the right to legally reproduce their photograph of their painting. They’re not. In fact, all they’re doing is hustling you.

The designer of the Papyrus font justifies his invention after SNL lampoons it:

“I designed the font when I was 23 years old. I was right out of college. I was kind of just struggling with some different life issues, I was studying the Bible, looking for God and this font came to mind, this idea of, thinking about the biblical times and Egypt and the Middle East. I just started scribbling this alphabet while I was at work and it kind of looked pretty cool,” Costello said.

He added, “I had no idea it would be on every computer in the world and used for probably every conceivable design idea. This is a big surprise to me as well.”

Curator Andrew Hunter explains why he quit the Art Gallery of Ontario:

I have always been concerned about the role art museums play in the wider world, about how truly engaged they are with the critical issues of our times. I’m fortunate to be able to teach regularly on museum and curatorial practice (currently in the graduate program at OCAD University). We often begin with the origins of the contemporary museum, which was born out of the private collections of wealthy Europeans who had built their fortunes on the extraction of resources, and people, from the most vulnerable nations in the world.

Out of this dubious practice evolved public educational institutions, or so they self-described. Really, they were outward displays of power that reinforced class division and validated the corporate and colonial systems that had made their founders rich. From wealth came power and then cultural dominance: museums set social rules, coercing the broader public toward shared values they deemed to be “acceptable.”

Saudi king’s gold escalator gets stuck (no comment):

Saudi King Salman's travel companion, his gold escalator, let him down during his historic visit to Russia http://pic.twitter.com/xgTaqV8WWG

— TRT World (@trtworld) October 5, 2017

Is the internet changing time? Laurence Scott writes:

The computer scientist and cyber-philosopher Jaron Lanier, who coined the term ‘virtual reality’ and who has written with both optimism and despair about the trajectory of the internet, believes that digitisation’s prodigious memory will be key to a sustainable global economy based primarily on exchanges of information. In Who Owns The Future?, he outlines a possible world in which data is the central commodity and all of us are properly remunerated for our contributions, conscious or involuntary, to the profitable crunching undertaken in Big Data’s storehouses. A simple example is that if you and your spouse meet on an online dating site and eventually get married, then you will receive a ‘micropayment’ every time two other people in the future are successfully matched up based on algorithms of compatibility to which your own happy coupling contributed. Lanier argues that since the data you provide – interests, profession, goals, politics – continually refine and improve the dating site’s ability to pair people, then you should own a share in the efficiency that your information nurtured. In this system, our digital pasts, archived across the network as data, resemble an actor’s filmography or an author’s back catalogue, an ongoing source of royalties. Such a model echoes Airbnb’s desire for everyone to ‘build a history’ online. Here the past is privileged in the way of all valuable things, as unforgettable as any personal treasure. Lanier’s design proposes an economy of remembering, whereby not even the smallest link in a lucrative data chain is forgotten. There is zero tolerance of structural amnesia in this system. As Lanier remarks, ‘Cash unfortunately forgets too much for an information economy.’

You know those orange-handled scissors that are in homes around the world? This is their story (I love design history.):

According to Jay Gillespie, Fiskars’s current VP of marketing, the company decided to vote on what color the final scissors design would be before it went into production. At the time, Gillespie says, colors like orange and lime were very popular, so they decided to stick with orange. “An icon was born from [that vote],” he says.

Nina Burleigh of Newsweek takes a look at Trump’s relationship with God:

Trump’s long and sometimes confounding spiritual journey started in Jamaica, Queens, at the bite-sized First Presbyterian Church, and later, at the WASPy Marble Collegiate Church on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, where prosperity prophet Norman Vincent Peale preached that you could think yourself to success. In 1952, Peale published The Power of Positive Thinking, a New York Times best-seller for 186 weeks that sold more than 5 million copies and was translated into 15 languages. That tome and his hailstorm of follow-up titles trained a generation of Americans to grin and fake it all the way to the bank. His theology was well summarized by the mantra Fred Trump pounded into his boy, Donald: “You are a killer. You are a king.”

That nugget may have been as close as young Donald ever got to Scripture. During the recent presidential campaign, he called the biblical book Second Corinthians “Two Corinthians,” a transgression on par with referring to the Holy Trinity as the Three Amigos. He has called Communion “my little wine” and “my little cracker.” More alarming for the truly pious, he couldn’t come up with a favorite Bible verse when asked during the campaign, except to say he liked the Old Testament’s “an eye for an eye.”

This investigation by Buzzfeed gives very credible evidence for the close relationship between alt-right troll Milo, Breitbart and lots of other figures (including Peter Thiel) with the white nationalist movement. This is a must-read:

And the cache of emails — some of the most newsworthy of which BuzzFeed News is now making public — expose the extent to which this machine depended on Yiannopoulos, who channeled voices both inside and outside the establishment into a clear narrative about the threat liberal discourse posed to America. The emails tell the story of Steve Bannon’s grand plan for Yiannopoulos, whom the Breitbart executive chairman transformed from a charismatic young editor into a conservative media star capable of magnetizing a new generation of reactionary anger. Often, the documents reveal, this anger came from a legion of secret sympathizers in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, academia, suburbia, and everywhere in between.

In case you wondered what equivalent climate regions around the world were for the US, this map is interesting:

US climate with equivalent cities from around the world [OC] [1513 x 983] from MapPorn

Mona Kareem writes about popular fascination with fiction by Arab dictators:

The news of this new release provoked me, specifically because it reflects a demeaning western approach to modern Arabic literature. Back in 2003, Saddam’s novels were widely discussed among Arab intellectuals exchanging accusations of writing for dictators for money, or under threat. It was an exhausting and embarrassing battle, but nevertheless necessary. At least in these debates, no one claimed to be “politically neutral.” Political neutrality is the discourse of the dominant, they who take their individuality for granted and in such they assume that their actions can be abstract, ahistorical, and isolated of all contexts.

The interest in “Saddam Hussein’s world,” as one Iraqi novelist once described it, was a serious western fetish after the Iraq war. Despite the fact that the man ran a bloody and exciting life, in all impossible ways, the scale of horror and violence was not satisfactory for western eyes. They needed play-cards, movies, novels, video games, private recordings, and all sorts of things to complete a picture of the enemy. It was the best way to abstract the mass destruction of Iraq as something far, far away, on another planet, in Saddam Hussein’s world.

If you buy a US flag made in the United States, there’s a good chance it was made by a prisoner:

I was born and raised in California and certainly took my fair share of California history classes from elementary school through college. In high school, I marched in protests against Proposition 21, the 2000 ballot initiative that made it easier to prosecute young people, and I was educated by the types of teachers who gave extra credit for attending demonstrations in downtown San Francisco against the Iraq War. But even I was surprised to learn that our country’s symbols of freedom were made by women who had none.

What should Canadian Twitter users with the new increased character count? Well:

All true Canadians know there is only one proper use of the new 280 character limit on Twitter. | Tous les vrais Canadiens savent qu'il n'y a qu'une bonne utilisation de la nouvelle limite de 280 caractères sur Twitter.

— Matt BB-8 (@tederick) September 28, 2017

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As analyzed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the expected job development for operation management professionals will rise by 12.5 percent. It will be more agile than the combined average for all professions.

Operations management is a diverse MBA specialization. A person associated with it is expected to manage distinct divisions of a business and the tasks related to its services. Two primary segments related to operations are ‘logistics’ and ‘supply chain management’.

Completing an MBA in operations will help an aspirant receive expert guidance required to manage diverse duties. It may include planning, execution, organizing, and supervision of production processes and manufacturing of products and services. The modern management curriculum equips its students for distinct scenarios. After completing a management degree in operations, aspirants are equipped for leadership roles in various industries.

Career opportunity after MBA in Operations

With an MBA in Operations Management, you can become eligible for a wide range of job profiles in various sectors of the industry. You might also have business prospects that might cover consultancy agencies to the hospitality sector, retail shops, construction, manufacturing, transportation, and many more.

Several profiles that an operation management aspirant might aim for includes:

Inventory Planner, 

Operations Manager, 

Forecasting Manager, 

Purchasing Manager, 

Plant Engineering Manager, 

Project Manager, 

Traffic/Quality Manager, and 

Distributor or Manager of Warehouses. 

Note: 

As per a report by BLS, operations managers who have logistics experience may expect pre-eminent job opportunities. The report estimates the job growth rate for logisticians to be roughly around 22 percent. 

Eligibility for MBA in Operations

Almost all students with an enthusiasm for operations management are eligible for this course. There's no need for a mandatory skillset for a student to pursue an MBA in this specialization. 

Yet, the aspirant must hold a graduation degree from a recognized university with at least 55% aggregate marks or any other equivalent qualification. MBA in operations management is an intensive two year PG course and ensures that curious and young minds gain the right knowledge and training. 

You must also know that top universities and colleges in India conduct an entrance test to assess the ability of the aspirants. Based on the results, the candidates are presented with an admission letter. Few of these entrance exams include SNAP, NMAT, CMAT, CAT, and MAT. Each college that offers a specialization in this field has its own unique curriculum; therefore, students must pick the one that meets their requirements in the best possible manner. 

If you're ready to withstand all kinds of hurdles that come across in operation management, then this field is intended for you. Don't get confused any further; get yourself prepared for obtaining various skills and situational based learnings that will help you progress in your career.