Those are wonderful, but tiny criticism- they would be even better without most of the zooming/panning/tilting effects. The idea that all images must be moving to keep our interest is a modern design disaster.
Agree with the above comment very much. Firstly I do not get the point of it other than to grab the denizens of anti-soscil media who seem to insent that evevr image must be moving at evsry singlt moment.
When I saw Sandro Botticelli's ''The Birth of Venus'' in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence., Italy, I was abl to move my BODY to see various aspects of th painting,
In the above ''art'' the pictures move so you cannot investigat in that way.
I supect that if someone were to do this today, the "Venus pudica" in that masterpiece, whose right breast is covered by her right hand and billowing long blond hair partially shrouds her body; wwould likely be made such that one could see the right brest by the movement of the picture, destroying an integral part of the art.
I must repeat waht Paulomatic said...''The idea that all images must be moving to keep our interest is a modern design disaster.'' but then there is now also the atrocity of TikiTok stars where billions(?) of people learn to be imitators of mitators of imitators of imitators of imitators of imitators of imitators... ∞
Can't wait to show a dear Left Coast artist friend, a Brooklyn-born Graffitist who, with his High School of Art comrades, said they were always the best of the little scoundrel NY graffitists, because artists. He will swoon.
Cool! One place we went in Cuba was a kind of artist's collective where they were doing interesting stuff like this. (Also the public art in Cuba is wonderful and everywhere.)
I had heard about the murals in The Point neighborhood of Salem, Massachusetts, and then I made exactly the correct wrong turn on my way to the registry of deeds to find myself there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punto_Urban_Art_Museum and https://puntourbanartmuseum.org/open-air-museum/art/. It definitely makes going to that registry much more attractive. And checking out the map at that second link reveals how much I still haven't seen.
Thanks as always Martini for uncovering these marvels. I wish I'd known about *this* at the time. Abandoned 50's motel + Bordalo II + almost driving distance would have been right up my motel court:
Rebecca, have you thought about requesting an interview with President Biden? May be a long shot to land, but a 10- 15-minuet interview by you with Biden would be awesome!
I didn't see much mention in the comments but thank you to Rebecca (or if I may be so bold as to use her Native American name, Rebecca Beautiful Head) for posting and to Sally for creating the wonderful artwork to accompany the video for the Dan Hicks song, Moody Richard. Someone else's music is playing over the brief bio but stick with the video for when the song starts. Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks are one of my favorite bands and certainly the most unique. The song, "I scare myself" is one of my all time favorites, and "Where's the Money" is an amazing live album recorded at the Troubadour in Los Angeles at the band's peak. Unfortunately Dan never got the recognition I think he (and his band) deserved. Thanks Sally.
So the Very Fine People™ of Westboro Baptist Church (yes, *that* WBC) showed up in Nex Benedict's hometown of Owasso, OK today to do their version of "Preaching The Gospel", which is sure to have included their Greatest Hit, "God Hates Fags", at the high school and later at the school board meeting. The very idea of WBC at Nex's school make you wanna projectile vomit? Cool, join me.
The GOOD news is that they had a welcome wagon. We (that's Defense of Democracy) were there to meet them, along with our esteemed colleagues from Rainbow Youth Project, Parasol Patrol and Rural Oklahoma Pride. Because, yeah, fuck a bunch of WBC. Haven't they died off yet??
"This week the New York Times — no link — finally did a Bidenista safari with “the superfans” only to imply we’re all flighty old women who are kind of simple instead of being superfans because we can’t believe how much progressive shit he’s gotten done."
Way back when I was a high school and college debater and debate coach, the NYT was just about the only unimpeachable source accepted by every debate judge. If I could have found an article in the paper that claimed compulsory arbitration was the invention of baby-eating Satanists, I would have gone undefeated my sophomore year. But that was long ago. Today I maintain a subscription solely for NYT soccer coverage and the weekly book review, and they've been slipping in quality, too. Let's all agree to maintain our sanity and never read a Times article unless it's mentioned favorably on Wonkette.com!
King Arthur Baking is the best, tho. Employee owned. They employ master bakers who you can call to answer your baking questions. You can also email them and they respond with great tips and helpful adaptions of recipes to your dietary restrictions. But their brand, support a good company!
(I don't work for them or anything, just a stress baker and have received so much help from their team)
My esteemed spouse Prince Albert is working his way through the Baking School cookbook. Yes, he is insane enough to make not only his own puff pastry but phyllo dough. I will tell him about the email thing because his last attempt was no bueno and he was pissed off. Thanks!
Sinema’s “quirky” outfits are a symptom of her narcissistic confusion of attention seeking with accomplishment. They’re not the reason she’s terrible but are a result of it.
I can’t fathom that people aren’t aware of Trump’s desires to be dictator. Where have they been for the past eight years?
I’m surprised Sixty Minutes pushed back against Moms for Hitler. Is that even allowed?
What are the odds that Trump will void that settlement against Liberty Diploma Mill if he (Jeebus forbid) gets back in?
Ladapo is amazing example of ideology trumping education. He’s been to medical school. He used to work at UCLA. The man has to know what he’s peddling is bullshit. He just doesn’t care.
The NPR link was a gentler version of the reasons LU received record fine for Clery violations, their greed put their students (especially females) in harms way and kept them there because they shielded the rapists (sound familiar?) and blame under staffing. They saved a lot of $$$ using prayers instead of campus police, it won't help the victims of the past (but many of them sued separately) liberty (FU) and Justice for all.
The Pioneer Woman’s show is so cringe. Especially when you find out the Drummond family is the one that really stuck it to the Osage Nation over oil. “Hi y’all, this is what I feed Lance and the boys when they come back from a hard day exploitin’”.
Yay! Jose Garza, the progressive and incumbent Democrat DA for Travis County (Austin) handed the pseudo-Democratic candidate Jeremy Sylestine his ass in yesterday’s primary. Sylestine ran the nastiest down-ballot campaign I can remember in recent history. The icing on the cake is that ol’ Elon Musk posted a desperate plea on Xitter for folks to go out and vote for Sylestine.
I think you all will enjoy learning a little about our hed gif artist, Bordalo II: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/bordalo-ii
Those are wonderful, but tiny criticism- they would be even better without most of the zooming/panning/tilting effects. The idea that all images must be moving to keep our interest is a modern design disaster.
Okie dokie, thanks for your input.
Agree with the above comment very much. Firstly I do not get the point of it other than to grab the denizens of anti-soscil media who seem to insent that evevr image must be moving at evsry singlt moment.
When I saw Sandro Botticelli's ''The Birth of Venus'' in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence., Italy, I was abl to move my BODY to see various aspects of th painting,
In the above ''art'' the pictures move so you cannot investigat in that way.
I supect that if someone were to do this today, the "Venus pudica" in that masterpiece, whose right breast is covered by her right hand and billowing long blond hair partially shrouds her body; wwould likely be made such that one could see the right brest by the movement of the picture, destroying an integral part of the art.
I must repeat waht Paulomatic said...''The idea that all images must be moving to keep our interest is a modern design disaster.'' but then there is now also the atrocity of TikiTok stars where billions(?) of people learn to be imitators of mitators of imitators of imitators of imitators of imitators of imitators... ∞
with no originality or talent whatsoever..
Thanks for this! I've been getting a little discouraged with my own art so it's always cool to see what others are doing.
I was going to try to choose a favorite of his but I can't, such stuning and inspired work! AOT,K!
Oh, BorDAlo. Nevermind.
Thanks for this!
INCREDIBLE. Also, INCROYABLE.
Can't wait to show a dear Left Coast artist friend, a Brooklyn-born Graffitist who, with his High School of Art comrades, said they were always the best of the little scoundrel NY graffitists, because artists. He will swoon.
Cool! One place we went in Cuba was a kind of artist's collective where they were doing interesting stuff like this. (Also the public art in Cuba is wonderful and everywhere.)
https://paul-rebmann.pixels.com/art/cuba
The murals we have here in Florida (Saint Petersburg) are just about the one good thing about the state.
Oh fun, I will have to explore a bit.
Also, street art in Brazil and Argentina is amazing.
More so than in their North American counterparts.
I would add Jaco, Costa Rico to that list. Some really high quality street art around town.
Have you seen all the murals in Philadelphia? The city has quite the collection
I had heard about the murals in The Point neighborhood of Salem, Massachusetts, and then I made exactly the correct wrong turn on my way to the registry of deeds to find myself there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punto_Urban_Art_Museum and https://puntourbanartmuseum.org/open-air-museum/art/. It definitely makes going to that registry much more attractive. And checking out the map at that second link reveals how much I still haven't seen.
What a fantastic resource! Thank you!
You're welcome! I got to find out how much more there is to see. Now for a title exam in Essex South and a nice day to take a walk.
I have not, but if I find myself there I will certainly have alook, thanks.
As does Crenshaw
https://twitter.com/RepMaxineWaters/status/1762546992620708276?t=9ruhmkopQ9oT6w25QwvcxQ&s=19
I am enchanted by this artist's creations!
Thanks as always Martini for uncovering these marvels. I wish I'd known about *this* at the time. Abandoned 50's motel + Bordalo II + almost driving distance would have been right up my motel court:
https://justkids.art/projects/wildwildwaste-bordaloii
So cool! My husband can use this in his art appreciation class!
The great thing about an art appreciation class is that one can use almost anything in an art appreciation class.
Rebecca, have you thought about requesting an interview with President Biden? May be a long shot to land, but a 10- 15-minuet interview by you with Biden would be awesome!
I didn't see much mention in the comments but thank you to Rebecca (or if I may be so bold as to use her Native American name, Rebecca Beautiful Head) for posting and to Sally for creating the wonderful artwork to accompany the video for the Dan Hicks song, Moody Richard. Someone else's music is playing over the brief bio but stick with the video for when the song starts. Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks are one of my favorite bands and certainly the most unique. The song, "I scare myself" is one of my all time favorites, and "Where's the Money" is an amazing live album recorded at the Troubadour in Los Angeles at the band's peak. Unfortunately Dan never got the recognition I think he (and his band) deserved. Thanks Sally.
So the Very Fine People™ of Westboro Baptist Church (yes, *that* WBC) showed up in Nex Benedict's hometown of Owasso, OK today to do their version of "Preaching The Gospel", which is sure to have included their Greatest Hit, "God Hates Fags", at the high school and later at the school board meeting. The very idea of WBC at Nex's school make you wanna projectile vomit? Cool, join me.
The GOOD news is that they had a welcome wagon. We (that's Defense of Democracy) were there to meet them, along with our esteemed colleagues from Rainbow Youth Project, Parasol Patrol and Rural Oklahoma Pride. Because, yeah, fuck a bunch of WBC. Haven't they died off yet??
https://twitter.com/RainbowYouthUSA/status/1765492711740563524
bless you for this work.
"This week the New York Times — no link — finally did a Bidenista safari with “the superfans” only to imply we’re all flighty old women who are kind of simple instead of being superfans because we can’t believe how much progressive shit he’s gotten done."
Way back when I was a high school and college debater and debate coach, the NYT was just about the only unimpeachable source accepted by every debate judge. If I could have found an article in the paper that claimed compulsory arbitration was the invention of baby-eating Satanists, I would have gone undefeated my sophomore year. But that was long ago. Today I maintain a subscription solely for NYT soccer coverage and the weekly book review, and they've been slipping in quality, too. Let's all agree to maintain our sanity and never read a Times article unless it's mentioned favorably on Wonkette.com!
WSJ article about assassinations of Russian dissidents, chilling. Maybe paywall but I got through it https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/russians-keep-turning-up-dead-all-over-the-world-6acc8990
"Joe Biden, FIX. THIS." Don't count on it. Those miserable, huddled masses are always political pawns, no matter who is President.
King Arthur Baking is the best, tho. Employee owned. They employ master bakers who you can call to answer your baking questions. You can also email them and they respond with great tips and helpful adaptions of recipes to your dietary restrictions. But their brand, support a good company!
(I don't work for them or anything, just a stress baker and have received so much help from their team)
My esteemed spouse Prince Albert is working his way through the Baking School cookbook. Yes, he is insane enough to make not only his own puff pastry but phyllo dough. I will tell him about the email thing because his last attempt was no bueno and he was pissed off. Thanks!
King Arthur is awesome! I stress bake as well; bread dough is especially therapeutic : ).
Sinema’s “quirky” outfits are a symptom of her narcissistic confusion of attention seeking with accomplishment. They’re not the reason she’s terrible but are a result of it.
I can’t fathom that people aren’t aware of Trump’s desires to be dictator. Where have they been for the past eight years?
I’m surprised Sixty Minutes pushed back against Moms for Hitler. Is that even allowed?
What are the odds that Trump will void that settlement against Liberty Diploma Mill if he (Jeebus forbid) gets back in?
Ladapo is amazing example of ideology trumping education. He’s been to medical school. He used to work at UCLA. The man has to know what he’s peddling is bullshit. He just doesn’t care.
yeah no offense to wonkette overlords but i think ms sinema's outfits are totally fair game.
she's a piece of work who's work is enabled by her chosen look.
I made a comment in the NYT about missing her fashion sense the most and some other commentors didn't recognize my snark. They thought I was serious.
Get a sense of humor, ya loonies!
This was quality time well spent. Especially that video about Bogotá. 🫶🏼
I posted this the other day but it's just worth mentioning again
https://www.rawstory.com/ken-chesebro-wanted-trump-to-meet-the-bidens-for-coffee-and-jokes-to-settle-insurrection/
The NPR link was a gentler version of the reasons LU received record fine for Clery violations, their greed put their students (especially females) in harms way and kept them there because they shielded the rapists (sound familiar?) and blame under staffing. They saved a lot of $$$ using prayers instead of campus police, it won't help the victims of the past (but many of them sued separately) liberty (FU) and Justice for all.
https://fortune.com/2024/03/06/liberty-university-pay-14m-failing-disclose-information-crimes-campus-treatment-sexual-assault-survivors/
Your Wonkette Movie night reminder, this Saturday is 𝐇𝐨𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐳𝐳. With Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-march-9-hot?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The second movie in the Cornetto Trilogy, the first was Shaun Of The Dead.
The Pioneer Woman’s show is so cringe. Especially when you find out the Drummond family is the one that really stuck it to the Osage Nation over oil. “Hi y’all, this is what I feed Lance and the boys when they come back from a hard day exploitin’”.
Most of the recipes on her blog are actually lifted from Fannie Farmer anyway.
I did not know that.
Yay! Jose Garza, the progressive and incumbent Democrat DA for Travis County (Austin) handed the pseudo-Democratic candidate Jeremy Sylestine his ass in yesterday’s primary. Sylestine ran the nastiest down-ballot campaign I can remember in recent history. The icing on the cake is that ol’ Elon Musk posted a desperate plea on Xitter for folks to go out and vote for Sylestine.
What were the Qs voters asked to uncover the fact that Sylestine was a pseudo-Democrat?
Bc we're going to need a lot of that.
In other FANTASTIC news, top popdick Jared Woodfill was defeated in his GOP primary bid for a State seat. That guy is the worst of the worst.
TBH, I liked Manic Pixie quirky Ant Hot Topic's style. I'm weird like that.
Yes also too babby rattlesnake is cute too makes great little bate for fish.
Knew of a kid that used them [once] for fish bate. Stinger worms he called them.
Ended up in hospital ...anyways...bye bye girlfren! Thanks for making AZ GREAT again.
*goes back to lurkin hi teh, hi ya