I’ve started reading “Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now” and it’s pretty compelling.

More than a top-ten lists, each argument talks about the working fundamentals of social media and their ties to behavioral modification going back to Skinner.

More on Oliver Jeffers’ dipped paintings.

Oliver Jeffers creates paintings half obscured by dipping into a vat of paint. I find it interesting how the painting denies us the subject matter. The subjects appear to both be hiding and drowning.

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If you can quit social media, but don’t, then you’re part of the problem, Jaron Lanier says - Recode

Juul & its House of Smoke & Horrors

Lucas Lasnier creates lush, bonkers semi-surrealist paintings and murals.

Danny Heller’s “Modern Leisure” series of paintings depicts a hyper-idealized modernist, sub-urban world devoid of people. His images feel like the space between seconds, eternal, unmoving, and gone forever.

Quartz(y) has the worst headlines. This article, headlined “The Graceful Restoration Of A 200-Year-Old Serif Typeface Shows The Problem With Digital Fonts” shows nothing of the sort.

It is entirely too easy to post to the wrong micro.blog :-\

A nice article on Simon Freund’s Selbsportrait exhibit.

Train doodle of a surly character

Selbsportrait is a new work by Simon Freund where he swaps “signature uniforms” with each of 100 people. It’s fun to see how both parties take on the aspects of the other

For July I took my recent portrait study and decomposed it with poppies. This image was posted as 27 separate images to Instagram over the course of a week.

Digital art allows for recombination of pieces into new forms - here I blend in-process images of a portrait with the finished version and unrelated flowers. The act of making the painting becomes part of the subject - the artistic process becomes it's own subject. 

Also poppies are pretty.

Screentone has been drawing “Casablanca” but with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and it’s the best.

If you can’t be a Ghostbuster - be a Ghostbuster-booster

Gordon Nicholas’ portrait photography looks like it would taste like candy. Some are very posed and structured - some look like serendipitous snapshots.

Sabine Finkenauer is a German painter living in Barcelona and makes colorful, playful soft geometric abstractions.

Tacoma Pride festival

Another portrait study on the iPad - I'm starting to get a better grasp of color and value at the same time.

Robert Roth’s landscapes walk right up to the edge of pure abstraction and then take a step back.