276 leaving it dark is an edgy act



The thing between painting on cardboard and painting on pixels is painting on cardboard it's all about what you're not painting. The stuff you leave blank is the darkest thing on the canvas. And the act of leaving it dark is an edgy act that you can witness right before you in paint. Either you pull it off or you don't. That's part of the awesome nature of some paint mediums. You get it on the first try or it's over.

Digital, of course, none of that's true. You can go back and fix as much shit as you want. The act of leaving something blank is not really that radical when you have an eraser. 

So the question is, how do you find something that looks edgy and people can see the artistry of an individual in a digital format? Anime and classic styles of comics can be lovely and done by masterful artists can be very individual but I'm talking about that impressionistic 'Oh this painter did this, I can tell by these brushstrokes' type-of-feeling from art?



Was just reading about it dear leaders latest shenanigans. Apparently the acting secretary of defense has asked the Pentagon to stop briefing the incoming administration. This is after news the past few days of a pretty widespread hack of government computers in the past couple years. 

My guess is dear leader is going to turn his retaliatory firing of Krebs, the HSA CISPA security intelligence guy, into his prescient fighting against the hacking of our election which he really won. This guy is really too much.

My hope is his former fixer's prediction is right, and he goes to Florida for the holidays and never comes back.

(And as far as Russell's question, what part of a two trillion dollar slush fund doesn't seem like a money grabbing opportunity?)

Deb got an alert yesterday telling us to stay home.

At this point, it sort of feels like we went a little overboard during the summer. I guess I'm getting lockdown fatigued. 

No, fuck that, this is central planning fatigue. But what are you going to do? Nobody has a crystal ball, and it sure does seem like this stuff will pop off given any opportunity.

If you zoom in, just to the left of the tower, you can make out Jupiter. Saturn was there, too, but not so much on camera.

This station in Cameroon had an excellent, ad-free, french language DJ spinning. Awesome work music. I will be back!


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