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LunchMeat 🍖🍖🍖

@lunch-meat.bsky.social

A real ham that's low on bread 🥪 Colorado based starving artist type. My politics are planet and people. My art doesn't understand you either.

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Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 3d ago

We have 6–7 years left to halve global emissions. The fossil fuel industry? They’ve had zero years of conscience. Every delay they buy with our money brings us closer to tipping points — heatwaves, wildfires, failed harvests, and hunger. We don’t have time for their profits. #ActNow

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phoenixrising@mmcarthur.bsky.social · 3d ago

Helen Frankenthaler : The Joker, 1959 Oil, crayon, and collage on paper mounted on board 30 x 21-5/8 in | 76.2 x 54.9 cm Recorded and archived by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Created during a transitional phase in the late 1950s when Frankenthaler expanded beyond her signature soak-stain technique into more material, abstract-expressionist-feeling works on paper. Composition: Features a distinct, energetic, and centralized structure akin to other notable works from her 1959 period.
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 3d ago

I always credit this book for starting me on my book journey. Baldwin took me down so many rabbit holes, I realized I wasn't smart enough yet to really grasp what he was saying. Baldwin was born 102 years ago today, and I owe his layered writing basically everything. Happy birthday James Baldwin

A Library of America book of collected essays by James Baldwin including: Notes of a Native Son Nobody Knows My Name The Fire Next Time No Name in the Street and The Devil Find Work
phoenixrising@mmcarthur.bsky.social · 4d ago

Philip Guston (American, 1913–80) : If This Be Not I, 1945 Oil on canvas | 42.25 x 55.25 in Kemper Art Museum Washington University, St. Louis, MO Further description in the alt text 👇

The nine figures in If This Be Not I are contained within a space much like a proscenium or, as Janson called it, the “porch of a tumble-down house.”13 In fact, the structure seems almost like a ship with two large masts, fabric draped from a rope like a sail, and wooden slats of flooring. One critic in early 1945 noted that Guston’s newest interest was the painting of space, “but the hard way, without compositional props or perspectival aids.”14 The careful placement of large and small objects at various angles in If This Be Not I—from an upside-down coatrack to a massive door—lend a sense of layered depth. Forms are flatter and less volumetric than in previous paintings by the artist, and their sheer number creates a claustrophobic effect akin to Beckmann’s signature work. Indeed, Guston’s array of imagery functions as much as structural markers as personal allusions. The spatial complexity of If This Be Not I is further heightened by Guston’s attention to texture, or what one reviewer called “richness of surface.”15 Critics praised Guston as a colorist and for his ability to create contour without sharp-edged lines. “Now, for the first time,” wrote Janson of If This Be Not I, “the evocative power of the work springs as much from the richness and depth of its color as from the design.”16 By restricting his palette to a few colors (primarily grays, blues, whites, and the occasional burnt sienna) and painting wet-on-wet, Guston created tonal modulations and depth.17 For example, in the far left register of the painting, directly above the head of the reclining boy, is a plane of textured color resembling wood grain. It is painted on top of a grid of lines resembling a grate, which winds up and back into space at an oblique angle. Behind it, an open door creates the only opportunity of escape from the cluttered surroundings.
Climate Dad@climatedad.bsky.social · 4d ago

Our world is a tinderbox as we approach 1.5C above preindustrial temps. We’re locked in for at least 2C, & on track for 4C in our children’s ‘lifetimes’. Tumbleweeds as we wait for governments, the media & the public to provide a proportionate response to this information.

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Robert Llewellyn@bobbyllew.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach us, and not one of those miles goes through the straits of Hormuz." From Bill McKibben's recent TED talk, worth a few minutes. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

Our last, best chance to cool the Earth

We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...

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Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 5d ago

A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.

Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 5d ago

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

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