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Category: ART
TURNING OUR BACKS ON BILLIONAIRES
Sony took away digital movies that people paid for.
Streaming services keep raising rates.
Amazon bricked old Kindles.
Sounds like the LA Clippers broke salary cap rules.
Sports teams use tax payer money to build stadiums.
Billionaires and VC just bought the Lakers, I guess.
See also, The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit.
People will start turning their backs on all this.
Back to buying books, borrowing movies from the library, going to local sporting events. I can see movie rental places coming back. Hobby shops.
A collective act of turning our backs on the whole corporatized entertainment industry. Playing board games instead of video games. Hosting dinners for friends and neighbors. More pick up games.
“What do all men with power want,” asks the Oralce. “More power.”
Modern top tier entertainment can’t stop. It must seek growth and profit while draining the very soul and joy from everything we fell in love with in the first place.
Good riddance.
A FLOATING STORE ON LAKE ONTARIO
From “This Floating Store on Lake Ontario Challenges How We Think About Convenience” via My Modern Met (via SEMI RAD)
“In most cities, convenience stores are never too far away, but have you ever seen one floating on water? Moored in the Harbour Square Park Basin on Toronto’s Lake Ontario, a fully stocked shop called Global Convenience is turning the familiar bodega into something far less accessible, and that’s exactly the point. It invites visitors to think about daily rituals, accessibility, and the ways we interact with the urban environment.”
DEMONSTRATE HUMAN EFFORT
This is from Tom Bedor, about programming and code, but like most solid nuggets of wisdom, this is universal:
If you are requesting human attention, demonstrate human effort.
You want people to buy your album? Sign up for your class? come to your event?
If you are requestion human attention, demonstrate human effort. WOW.
I CAN’T BELIEVE WE GET TO DO THIS
What’s better “marketing” than this? Screaming fans, tender moments, so many smiles – who wouldn’t want to be on that train ride, you know?
And the fun part is this; you don’t need to be as big as Hayley Williams to live this. To be this. Today, make your magic, put it into the world. Big, small, doesn’t matter, it all counts.
DON’T TRY TO KNOW
Great line from artist fnnch:
“I don’t know. You don’t know. Don’t try to know. Just make art that excites you, and make enough of it that you eventually make work that resonates with people.”
Read the rest of “How to Make a Living as an Artist” for even more gems. Link via Kottke.
STICKERS ARE SEEMINGLY FOREVER
Hard to believe this sticker is 16 years old, and references a MySpace page.
BLUE IN PRINT
From Raj Kaur, “Blue is immortalised in my sketchbook, from a session with wonderful Beth Spencer.”
I submitted a photograph as source material for Beth’s online drawing session, and this is from Raj’s sketchbook. I took the file and sent it to a local printer, and they made me a nice print.
I miss my buddy.
REMEMBER THE MAGIC
Tonight, a friend walked me around their space, showing me the works of art left to her. A precious, sweet remembrance of a dear friend.
Tomorrow, I drive to upstate New York to visit an aunt in the hospital. She’s not an artist by definition, but she made people laugh and smile. What else is art but joy?
Remember the laughter, the smiles, the experences along the way. Celebrate the sunset, the dinner together, the conversations that flow like music into the evening.
NOAH KALINA IN THE FIELD
Love these two still images from Noah Kalina’s ‘Out in the Field – Comparing the Phase One IQ360 with the IQ4150’ video on YouTube, on his new Kalina channel.
I sure don’t know much about Phase One cameras, or medium format, but I love following his work, and the epic scenery he captures.
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