Art is made by ordinary people
Art and Fear
by David Bayles & Ted Orland
Living alone
I’m not a hermit, I’m aging in place.
HUD AWARDS $30 MILLION TO HELP LOW-INCOME ELDERLY HOMEOWNERS AGE IN PLACE
Conundrum
Sometimes I forget that I’m reading websites from the UK and headlines about the BBC get real confusing.
That Doesn’t Speak Too Highly of God
Alleged pastor Robert Henderson – appearing on the television program of longtime grifter Jim Bakker – attributed Donald Trump’s repeated courtroom defeats to Satan’s influence in the “Courts of Heaven.”
Henderson said God can do whatever he wants, but sometimes needs a little prayer boost now and then. A little kick to get him through the day. God doesn’t have cigarettes in Heaven? Do these people even hear themselves speak?
I’m far beyond being shocked at their hypocrisy or greed, but their inability to adhere to a basically coherent fictional story world is galling. If you read this narrative in a book, you’d toss it in the trash for lack of consistency. This crew needs an editor, or better yet, an army of red pens.
Click it: Christian Pastor: Satan Infiltrated the ‘Courts of Heaven’ to Block Trump’s Reelection
5 things I’ve Learned Halfway Through A Year Long Portrait Project
In this article, Seattle-based photographer Casey Cosley shares what he learned six months into a year-long project in which he challenged himself to take a photograph portrait of a different person every single day.
Cool project and motivational lessons. You can also follow his Instagram.
Click it: 5 things I’ve Learned Halfway Through A Year Long Portrait Project
Because If There’s One Thing America Loves, It’s Science!
Laura Ingraham insisted Wednesday that any new executive orders and restrictions pitched as helping to contain the coronavirus pandemic should receive full scrutiny from legislators and the public.
“Before Americans are forced to accept new restrictions on their freedom or even be shamed or beaten up for not complying with these mandates, shouldn’t state legislatures hold hearings? We must insist on all of this, demand to see all of the science behind the lockdowns, social distancing and the masks.”
The sad reality is that this is what Americans would like science to work on.
Society is Creating a New Crop of Alpha Women Who Are Unable to Love
Goddammit. Being unable to love is *my* thing. Stupid alpha women.
Alpha Women
Click it: Society is Creating a New Crop of Alpha Women Who Are Unable to Love
Why The Golden Ratio Is Better Than The Rule Of Thirds
Fine art photographer Jon Sparkman wrote a great introduction to how the Golden Ratio (or Fibonacci Circle) can help you compose your drawings or photographs. Fascinating stuff. You have to wonder how many artists knew of this composition technique and which understood it instinctively.
Photo by Jon Sparkman
Click it: Why The Golden Ratio Is Better Than The Rule Of Thirds
TFW You’re So Racist You Shoot Another White Cop
An Arkansas cop who threatened to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters has been arrested for shooting and killing a fellow officer.
Calvin Salyers allegedly told a superior that if any Black Lives Matter protesters came to his house he’d shoot them through the door. A few days later, when fellow officer Scott Hutton knocked on Salyers’ front door, Salyers discharged his weapon through the door, fatally wounding Hutton.
Salyers had been admonished that firing a weapon at someone without identifying or even seeing them would be a bad thing, so he claims his gun went off accidentally as he transferred the weapon from his right hand to his left, because that’s a thing that happens. Salyers has yet to explain why he thought BLM protesters would come to his house.
The Children of the Corn Were More Efficient
As a concept, the Iowa caucuses are well past their expiration date, but that doesn’t stop our corporate media from cherrypicking metrics to create scenarios that will encourage clicks and buttress a candidate preferred by their corporate owners.
A generous reading of even the preliminary votes suggested a tie between Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg in the final delegate count, which is the number that matters. From the start, Sanders led the first alignment count and final alignment count in pure votes, which are the numbers that should matter.
Nonetheless, since Tuesday morning, the media has portrayed Buttigieg as the winner of the caucuses, because he held a few more state delegate equivalents than Sanders. The state delegates represent the voters from the precinct level at the state convention, where the delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be chosen. Or something like that.
The state delegate count is an essentially meaningless interim measure between the numbers that matter: the popular vote and the national delegate count. However, by picking and publicizing the one metric in which Buttigieg leads, the corporate media chose its own winner of the Iowa caucus, a nonthreatening mediocre white guy who is much more likely to weigh in on the side of their owners’ interests. This gave Buttigieg a massive amount of free media exposure, including multiple interviews across morning news/talk shows, and bragging rights leading up to New Hampshire’s primary.
As of this morning, three days after the caucus, Sanders has increased his lead in the popular votes and caught up in the state delegate count. Buttigieg has won 550 state delegates and Sanders has won 547. Interestingly, the New York Times is no longer reporting how many national delegates each candidate has earned. Color me cynical, but I’d guess the numbers would show Sanders in the lead.
How the NYT displayed the results:
Tuesday morning:
Thursday morning:
Click it: How Corporate Media Make Pete Look Like He’s Winning
