Michael Barrett
This is only a little bonkers and was probably inevitable. Why pay flawed humans who will only get old and disappoint you?
Balmain Army’s new virtual models are the wrong kind of diverse
Now here’s an interesting idea.
Looking at the background of https://goose.game got me wondering how it works which led me to http://schteppe.github.io/cannon.js/ and to http://threejs.org/
I saw this yesterday on my walk to the coffee shop. The sprinklers cast a dry shadow of this tree in the grass.
I recently finished Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now and it makes a pretty compelling case. It helped tip me over the edge to finally just deleting my Facebook account. I’m teetering on the edge of dropping Twitter too. I don’t use Twitter much…it’s mostly just a place to syndicate my writing here. But I can’t say that it brings me much joy, and I don’t like supporting a company that has a hard time finding a moral compass to follow.
I’ve decided to keep Instagram though, because I use it as a tool for artistic expression and research. It’s not that it isn’t toxic, it’s just more useful. I have found that the best way to use Instagram is to simply browse via the web site instead of on my phone. For one, the pictures are bigger. But also it prevents the mindless Insta-gram-checking through out the day. That mindless Instagram-nesia that makes you forget that you just looked at this.
Is there a German word for that ping of anxiety you feel when you look out the window to see a car that is the same make, model, and color of your car but isn’t your car?
Because that guy should really move his car.
Soey Milk’s oil paintings are dense with imagery and texture. I love the mix of expressive abstraction, pattern, and figure. Her collage-like sensibility matches our dizzying visual culture. 🎨
We were invited to see México en el Corazón last night with some friends. We drove up to Seattle, found some parking, and had margaritas (naturally).
We walked to the Paramount theater and took seats on an upper balcony.
The Mexican and American flags stood on the stage. The house lights went down and two women appeared on stage, standing next to each flag. First the Mexican national anthem was sung. The crowd knows the words and they sing along. The song seems somber and restrained. Passionate but serious. The crowd is appropriately passionate but serious.
Then the American national anthem was sung. Everyone knows (most of) the words, but no one sings along. We all wait for that important high note at “the land of the free”. Everyone cheers at this moment while the note is held as long as possible.
The anthems are done, everyone cheers, and the curtain raises. The young woman who sang the American national anthem, dressed in black, runs back to the stage to take up her violin and giant hat. She plays violin with the opening Mariachi orchestra.
Artist Zach Lieberman uses Instagram as a sketchbook. He follows a few simple rules, working 30 minutes a day on each sketch: https://medium.com/@zachlieberman/daily-sketches-2016-28586d8f008e
