So, there's only three people left who still read the Archipelago. And one of YOU is asleep...
...But the long wait is over. Finally, finally i have a piece of news worth imparting.
3.11.18
The most important news you'll read today
2.11.18
The rules of the game
b1-66er: KTXT is a knife. It's got a serrated side that's a bit rusty...
...and the other side of the blade...
You read it? You're gonna get cut.
You just decide where in your mind...
...and what side of the knife.
Special K: Great.
1.11.18
Walk the cog
b1-66er: Are you walking out today?
Special K: No. I'm not going to the office, but if I were, I wouldn't walk.
b1: That's what i both thought and predicted.
K: You know me.
From what I can tell, the walkers skew younger.
Lots of pictures:
Bigger than I thought it would be. 47 offices, >1000 people so far. Now they're saying 3K in NYC.
b1: So what do they all do? Take the day off?
K: Go for an hour, there are speeches, go back. Some probably took the whole day.
b1: Does seeing all this make you want to join in?
This won't make Rubin's life easier.
K: No, it makes me cringe, and I'm glad I'm not there. And I'm not sure why I feel that way. Of course I support what they're saying. It's self-evident. But this protest feels limousine-liberal to me. The company is supporting it. That makes no sense.
b1: I've never seen the phrase "ll" before. That's a good one. Did you make it up?
K: No, I've heard it before.
b1: Its great. I'm using it.
K: Me too.
b1It precisely describes an exact thing.
You have a powerful joining force in you. I'm surprised this event doesn't automatically switch that magnet on.
K: Yes.
b1: Would it be bad form to do the walk as a skeleton...
doing a protest/Day of the Dead two-fer?
Hey, can you even PUT a pussy hat on a skeleton?
K: No, yes, and I'm sure someone did.
b1: If you do that, you've gotta put a tombstone on your head:
Killed by Andy Rubin
and top it with a pussy hat...
...And carry a limo hot wheels.
K: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
NOW I wish I walked out.
And a sign reading
ANDY! STOP RUBIN' MY PRIVATE PARTS
30.10.18
I mean what you said i think you mean, i think
b1-66er: Conversation with D4rw1n about this graffito
Suttonhoo: Lion Air went down yesterday -- this tail is Malaysian Air -- that one disappeared in 2014, so I'm thinking not too soon
b1: Me too.
I hadn't thought of that wrinkle.
***
b1: On your first glance at the graffito, did you think it was a reference to the Lion jet that just went down?
D4rw1n: Yes
b1: Ah. I hadn't even considered that wrinkle. Suttonhoo suggested that after reading our TXT thread.
D: In fact it did not even occur to me that it wasn't until you asked me just now
Just this side of the wall
(All this starts with me sending the plane graffito to D4rw1n)
D4rw1n: Damn too soon?
b1-66er: I can understand why you'd say that, but i personally don't think so...is it too soon to wonder what the hell happened to your loved ones that never got explained and you'll never see again?
D: I guess that started immediately and probably won't ever end for the victims' families.
b: So...what do YOU think? Is it too soon?
D: I take your comment as implicit criticism that I'm thinking of myself as much as them when I ask "too soon?"
I can see both sides of that
I'm the guy who initiated and moderated a fax bulletin board of Dahmer jokes starting the day he was caught
So a bit of yes and a bit of no
When I saw the Banksy (?) piece you sent my mind first identified with the pain of loss and judged the art to be too soon
b: That whole thing just creeps me out.
We've both taken flights that could've been that one.
The plane disappears. Government demands answers. People wail.
And then? Nothing.
D: Now when I look at it from a perspective you suggest (e.g., the art asks the questions the victims' families are probably asking) I can see it as positive
Yes
Everyone gone in a flash
b: It feels to me that 2 days after the incident wouldn't be too soon.
There's an interesting question there and that's one of intent.
Is it poking or prodding; or is it compassionate and demanding?
D: Both? Plus protest and rage and guilt and despair
It's a beautiful piece of art
Even for just sparking this conversation
b: EXACTLY.
Very very few pieces of art hold that quality.
Especially now in the us-or-them world.
D: Right
Good art
b: Look closely again at it. Look at the blurb on the far R.
Now tell me your impression.
D: Saw that too. It's part of the work. It's painted on the wall I believe
b: Yes.
I THINK the guy in front is actually just walking past.
D: I had wondered about some of the other stuff. Like is the "Load Studio" logo part of the work?
I was going to make the same joke
b: If that IS a guy just walking past, the pic is perfectly timed -- maybe even staged.
D: Also there's a small trompe l'oeil within the trompe l'oeil (am I spelling that right? A word I learned from RJ): the airline logo is designed to look 3D. And it does, even in a 2d painting of a 2d painting.
b: Yes.
10.10.18
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