singing house of the rising sun at the pub last night and when the song ended the musicians just kept playing while people ad-libbed more verses about various pubs they knew
(with ominous hurdy-gurdy accompaniment): "there is a pub in walthamstow, it's called the fox and mole, but we don't go there (long pause) any more. Because the manager is an arsehole."
my issue with the argument that "disliking ai art is inherently reactionary" is that it acts like pro-ai art people are somehow less reactionary on their views on art, when like the majority of defense's of ai art as like a higher form art are indistinguishable from the arguments people use to defend the art of like. hitler
like the logic is that hitler was actually a great artist, entirely hinges on the belief that "objectively good art" is just art that looks detailed if you've never drawn before, which like why ai artists who want to prove their actual artists will just make a pretty looking building or lady, cause it's all about aesthetics i guess
like i'm not saying your a nazi if you like ai art, i just think it's silly when people act like anti-ai artist's are just hysterical luddites, and that ai artists are the ONLY people who actually care about art, when 99 percent of ai artists on twitter only care about art that's "beautiful" on an extremely superficial level.
Jacob Geller dissected the intersection of Fascism and modern art in 2020, sadly before the AI art boom, and goes into better detail than I can about how abstraction is a threat to fascist ideals. I also want to draw attention to possibly my favorite commentary on modernism.
Comic by Ad Reinhardt, an abstract painter, who's made multiple comics about art and perception.
AI slop only bring repetition and lack of original idea to the table. it's an advanced form of stolen art collage. It seeks only to trace and multiply without provoking. It's the anthesis of art.
The way I explained it to my young cousin was like this:
Back before cameras, paintings were just recording reality, and that's why painters tried to be as realistic as they could, and only paint things that could exist in the world around them--objects, and people, and animals. Sometimes they did paint things from their imagination, but only to illustrate stories, like stories from their religion.
Then, cameras came along, and painters were free to paint things cameras couldn't see--things like the artist's feelings, or ideas, or thoughts, or lots of things. Some artists tried to see if they could paint from every angle at once, and we call that Cubism. Some artists tried to paint very quickly, as quickly as they could, so they could capture one single moment of the daylight, or their impression of a moment, with all the feelings light gives, and that's why we call them Impressionists. Some artists were more interested in the process of painting, like Mr Rothko; or in finding the most intense versions of a colour, like Mr Klein. Some were more interested in the spaces between things, like Mr Mondrian. But art, after cameras, could suddenly SAY something, say something by itself! And art, as it turns out, has a lot to say!
"I can do that too! I can do that!" You can, little friend! We all can!
My little cousin didn't get mad looking at modern art; she was excited, and asked her parents if she could have fancy grown-up paints, because she didn't know Art could be something she could do, could be something about expressing her feelings and ideas. This is a child who can't yet write very well, and not nearly as fast or as well as she speaks, so you have to understand something clicked for her, that she could express the complex human things inside herself with colour and shapes and images, instead of struggling to learn how to spell "melancholy" or "excited" or conjugate verbs to a degree that could encompass it.
Because words take TIME to master as an art form--I should know, I've been practising using them to express MY ideas and feelings artistically for 36-and-a-half years! Paint, however, doesn't require such mastery in order to begin expressing the artist; certainly it helps to know skills, but it isn't as required as it is with words. You can just scream and yell with paint, you can experiment more purely with images than with sounds, which after all are regimented into languages before we can begin to use them at all, let alone for the art words make.
And honestly, why are whole-ass adults not understanding that "I could make that!" should be exciting, should inspire you to go and make that! Why are you so mad? "I could make that!" Yes you can! And you get to! And you're an adult, you don't have to ask your parents to buy you paint and canvas and brushes, you can go and do that yourself and be expressing your own feelings this very afternoon! Nothing is stopping you! You don't NEED that plagiarism machine, you can do better art yourself! And nobody else in the whole world, now or in the past or in the future, is EVER going to be able to make the art YOU can make, the art YOU have inside you! So go make it!
yonkers is such a deeply unserious name for a place. i bet nobody even dies there
no they do i know cause i once saw the headline "7 dead in Yonkers incident" and said "what the fuck is a Yonkers incident"
Fuckin wild
IS ANYONE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW LAUNCHPAD DISCOVERED F.O.W.L. AND THE FIRST THING HE SAID WAS THE MORE SOPHISTICATED SOUNDING WAY OF SAYING "OH NO NOT AGAIN"
BECAUSE HE SAID THAT
HE SAID AGAIN
A G A I N
LAUNCHPAD FREAKIN KNEW ABOUT F.O.W.L. ALREADY, SAW THEY WERE MAKING A COMEBACK, AND SAID "NOT AGAIN"
FREAKIN WH A T-
This is going to be rather metatextual on my part, so bear with me.
Why should it be puzzling that Launchpad already knew about the existence of F.O.W.L.? We already knew about the existence of F.O.W.L. Some of us did, anyway. And not from this show.
So where did we know them from? From the early 90s cartoon Darkwing Duck, where they were some of the recurring villains.
In-universe, Launchpad is also a fan of a TV series called Darkwing Duck, which seems to be fairly similar to ours, with one key difference being that itโs live-action rather than animated.
What do live-action crime shows do a lot of in our universe? Base episodes and multi-episode arcs on real-life events, to bring that sense of immediacy and realism to the viewers.
So maybe in the DuckTales 2017 universe, Darkwing Duck is more of a โripped from the headlinesโ crime show than a superhero comedy.
Hence its version of F.O.W.L. would be based on the in-universe real version of F.O.W.L., and thus Launchpad recognizes them.
Also, weโve already seen that Launchpad gets into tons of unexplained adventures when the camera isnโt trained on him. This might not be his first real-life encounter with them.
The writers donโt make a huge deal about it in that they donโt have Della wallowing in self-pity over it, or complaining in every episode about phantom sensations or her prosthesis being uncomfortable, even though those are probably things she realistically deals with from time to time.ย
The writers also donโt have her family making a huge fuss, treating her like sheโs disabled and incapable. They donโt constantly ask her if sheโs okay or if she needs to sit this adventure out or any of that. It seems they live by the unspoken rule Donโt make a fuss unless Della does, and since she doesnโt, they donโt.
At the same time, the writers also donโt ignore it entirely. Frank talked about how they have moments when Della uses her prosthesis to her advantage, or times when she cleans or adjusts it.
But then there are also little moments like the above gifs.
Inย โChallenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks!โ Della spent the whole episode walking, running, and jumping, seemingly with no problem, just like many real amputees can. But she landed on her prosthesis jumping out of the log, and seemed to land on both feet jumping from a ledge. Then she ran some more. Maybe by the end of the episode her residual limb was starting to bother her, but she didnโt complain. She just borrowed Louieโs head and Scroogeโs face to lessen the impact on her residual limb as she stepped down prosthesis-first.ย
And then inย โQuack Pack!โ we see Louie and Scrooge giving her a hand after they all fell through the ceiling together. They donโt make a huge deal out of it like,ย โOh no! Are you okay? Are you hurt? You poor, already-disabled thing!โ They just noticed she wasnโt getting up right away and lent her a hand without saying a word.
Sometimes I pay attention to how she moves, since Frank said they worked closely with the Amputee Coalition on how sheโd move, and Iโve noticed after a whole lot of physical activity, sheโll tend to put the majority of her weight on her right leg.
Just like many amputees in real life, there are times she moves around like she would if she still had both of her natural legs, and if she wore long pants you couldnโt tell the difference. But there are also times she needs a little bit of supportโฆ and still other times when her prosthetic limb is an asset rather than a hindrance. How sheโs doing in one scene might not be how sheโs doing in the next, because thatโs how it is for an amputee sometimes. How a residual limb feels can change in a moment.ย ย
Itโs these little moments when you can see the care the writers have taken with Della.
i wish there was an easier way to tell the difference between an "if it sucks hit da bricks" situation and a "sometimes being an adult means doing things that you dont wanna" situation
The best answer to this that I've seen is "You are free to do whatever you like. You must only live with the consequences."
"If it sucks, hit da bricks" is for when you realize that you actually definitely can live with the consequences of Not Doing The Thing.
"Sometimes being an adult means doing things that you don't wanna" is for when you've thought it over and it turns out you would strongly prefer NOT to live with the consequences of Not Doing The Thing.
i actually love seeing vids from like british zoos that have coyotes cause i'm like hey little buddy, i saw you outside my house last night what are you doing in the place for fancy animals. and then i remember that coyotes and bobcats and raccoons and mountain lions are americas-exclusives
[North America has many fine Beasts!]
This is universal. This comedy transcends time and language.
Hes right
As an alternative to 'sugar, spice, and everything nice'
I present: 'salt, vinegar, and everything sinister'
"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.
White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.
Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industryโthe men leave. That industry is then devalued.
Take veterinary school for example:
In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.
By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.
By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%
A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.
But Lincolnโs research found that โmen and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.โ
Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.
For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.
One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (โฆ)
Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but thatโs not what happens.
Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!
Itโs a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.
Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:
โThereโs a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.โ
Now weโve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.
As weโve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.
Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.
A waste of time and money. Youโre much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (โฆ)
When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.
Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (โฆ)
School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.
But we donโt seem to want to talk about that."
I love how succinct this is.
i hurt myself with Big Jack by Pet Foolery (can find on instagram) again and no one seems to have posted the whole comic so. here. someone reminded me of it and i tracked it down. gonna go cry in a corner now.
did not know part 2 existed, here you go. another stab
I love pictures of wolverines laying down like this
That's the exact way I flop down on the couch when I get back from work every day. My mate always teases me about it.
That's a tired man getting back from his 9-5
