The painter is the first viewer

The more that an artist develops an image, the more risks are created of the image being deficient/insufficient.

That is not an argument against development.

It is an argument for it.

One is seeking to open as many doors and windows as possible on one's conception across the surface of the painting. Those doors and those windows ultimately exist in the viewer, and the painter is the first viewer.

The more deeply an artist draws upon the original conception, the more that each successive layer ignores what is already on the canvas.

Ha ha ha!

All Statues Matter

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Have you listened to this 1980 album by Split Enz? There's a couple songs that are sort of imitative - of who I can't say off the top of my head - but for the most part, well, all the songs (some of them instrumental!), they were really quite good! They always have that good rhythm section going. What an underrated band!

Question

What good is your orthodoxy, and your traditionalism, and your conservatism, and your apocalypticism, if its sum total end is to swallow a camel?

A Philosophy

I know that God at least
does not reject this rule of thumb,
though by itself it has deficiency:

that I do not so soundly sleep
as when my feet are sore beyond belief,
and concrete labour makes me dumb,

and mental constructs like rags are wrung,
and aired out in the morning.

All Statues Matter

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"They came to the pillar of the White Hand. The pillar was still standing, but the graven hand had been thrown down and broken into small pieces. Right in the middle of the road the long forefinger lay, white in the dusk, its red nail darkening to black.

'The Ents pay attention to every detail!' said Gandalf." -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

It's not iconoclasm. Nor is it mob revolution.

It's just looking after the details.

As such, it is right and good.

These figures, represented under dime-a-dozen state benefactor commemoration bronzes, are repellent not only for who they represent and what that person did, but also in that they feign to make an "official" minting of who that region's benefactor is.

In other words, THANK YOU SLAVE TRADERS WHO MURDERED SLAVES IN THE THOUSANDS FOR THE GENEROUS MAMMON YOU HAVE SO BENEVOLENTLY BESTOWED UPON US BRAVELY PAVING THE WAY FOR OUR WELL BEING!!!

And yet the world just spent the last three months exhausting its cosplaying energies in telling us who the REAL ESSENTIAL WORKERS are that build our civilization and keep it running. All the while writing headlines asking how the Bezos (whose bottom lines Spray Tan studiously padded out) could "make it safely to their yachts through the germ-ridden masses".

THANK YOU ESSENTIAL WORKERS! BUT PLEASE ESSENTIAL WORKERS DON'T TAKE DOWN THOSE STATUES OF THE MONEYED INTERESTS WHO MURDERED SLAVES IN THE THOUSANDS YOU RIOTING LOOTERS!

In truth, these protestors are not "erasing history". They are removing the "official" historical lie.

Huh, imagine that.

The evangelical opportunity that was perfectly ripe in the use of the pachamama relief carving, used by indigenous people in innocent devotion to Our Lady, expressing by means of their own culture their love for Our Lady, was shot down by white Catholics ideologically obsessed by a fascistic appropriation of western culture, and unjustly stolen and thrown into the river.

Because, according to these assholes, as they whitesplained to the indigenous people, that, no, pachamama is a demonic god who devours babies! You stupid naive uncatechised savages. Yeah, no room here for seeking the good to be baptized (in spite of long historical precedence that says otherwise) about pachamama which is generally Mother Earth. No, you can't have a rather open-ended symbol to yield up to Our Lady and bring a new aspect of understanding her - no. Pachamama is a baby-eating demon!

But the literal racist slave trader murderers who literally committed mass genocide, devouring the actual lives of real living people - yeah, their bronze representation isn't an idol or whitewashing of a lie and it most certainly should not be cast into the river, because NUANCE, it's more nuanced than that, there were many shades, and you know, it was complicated, and he was a complex person.

Right.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!

provocateur

That's an oft used word in places like Quebec.

Double o assonance followed by vowel a, and beginning r consonant book-ended by r consonant at the end of "teur" (e before the u, or u before the e?).

Gotta totally ROFL love how someone is brought in on special occasions to cobble Spray Tan's tweets.

LOL

Heart the Rock Biter so much

Great Vancouver film.

Did you know that in Gastown they have a bronze statue monument of Bastion riding the dragon Falcor, and people touch it when they pass by for good luck?

Ha ha! Just kidding. There's no such monument. But the film is certainly one of Vancouver's greatest films of all time.

Interesting: air-conditioning is contributing much to global warming

pumping out heat into the air, like turning on a heater in the summertime.

Ya can't do that! Dontcha know ya need aliens to help ya?!

Latin spelled backwards

"Nital is a solution of nitric acid and alcohol commonly used for etching of metals. It is especially suitable for revealing the microstructure of carbon steels. The alcohol can be methanol, ethanol or methylated spirits.

"Mixtures of ethanol and nitric acid are potentially explosive. This commonly occurs by gas evolution, although ethyl nitrate can also be formed. Methanol is not liable to explosion but it is toxic.

"A solution of ethanol and nitric acid will become explosive if the concentration of nitric acid reaches over 10% (by weight). Solutions above 5% should not be stored in closed containers. Nitric acid will continue to act as an oxidant in dilute and cold conditions." --Wikipedia

Libertarian: self-governance, bitches!

Also Libertarian: who you gonna call when the civil order collapses and the rapists come to pay you a visit!

This is right and good

“We still have to follow the rules,” Francis said. “Thank God, we are leaving the worst part, but always by obeying the rules that the authorities have stipulated.” --Pope Francis, June 7, 2020

If you listen to what Pope Francis is saying and doing, you will not go astray.

Thank God we have the Pope we have, and that the majority of Bishops around the world - weighing very heavily the situation and courses of action - are exercising due care for their flocks by continuing to implement the proper safety measures so as to not cause a second outbreak.

Thank God the majority of our Bishops are not sectarian reactionary anti-science conspiricists. Can you imagine the deadly damage it would cause if they were running their dioceses according to the manner of irresponsible internet personalities who have no care for a local diocese and have no authoritative standing in the Church?

These freewheeling wandering internet personalities have no connection to any locale; they network and echo each other as a global cabal. Their consummist, hyper-fundamentalist ideology becomes virulent through a kind of cultic e-cabal.

Yet lockdown/quarantine/safety measures around the world have been implemented quite differently from country to country, province to province, town to town: what we have seen with COVID-19 is a kind of resurrection of localism in the fight against the virus, neighbour discovering neighbour (ironically in a time of so-called "isolation") while the conspiricists deal globally, and have made demands and arguments in favour of the global financialized market they have been so afraid for losing.

The actual spread of the virus was not due to globalism, but simply to air travel. And air travel is a multi-billion dollar capitalist enterprise. But the resistance to safety measures against the virus has been entirely globalist.

The local scientists were telling us the proper measures to take for the sake of our fellow men and women according to the situation of their local region, while the conspiricists were giving the bullhorn to the global financial economy as their top priority.

The conspiricists like Vigano et alia are really globalists. They are a kind of global cabal disconnected from any local diocese, and they have infiltrated the Church, and like Donald Trump, they carry a deadly moral virus.