I think about this Twombly a lot, about Orphic veils, veils to futurity, and how mark making even without much pure language endows an image with so much meaning.
Cy Twombly, Untitled. 1970. Crayon, graphite and colored pencil with collage on paper.
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Solenoid is just banger after banger
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*making small talk* yeah I’ve been to 23 bookstores this month
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nice hand-painted sign outside of #35 (Reverie Bookstand in LA)
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ultimately went to 49 bookstores, thrift stores with books, and one ambitious public book swap in the month of September, zero regrets (list unordered)
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today’s plane reading is Solenoid
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On the real
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On monsters of the psyche
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shall I compare thee to LA sorbet? thou art more lovely and more temperate
JUST FOUND OUT TIGER TAIL IS A CANADIAN THING LIKE EXCLUSIVELY??? WHAT THE FUCK? UR TELLING ME THE REST OF THE WORLD DONT KNOW THIS MASTERPIECE???????
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i think it's incredibly funny how every single time there's a new breathless post about a model that beats pangram, the prose is always stupendous dogshit remarkable
Introducing Emulate-1 A new undetectable AI model trained on how humans naturally write, removing AI slop and producing more authentic, human-sounding text. I ran Emulate's outputs through Pangram, one of the stricter AI detectors. They came back as human nearly every time
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thriving empires invest in the arts
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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Woven Screens series by Rachel Mica Weiss 1/ Where the light enters you III, 2024 2/ Frequency, 2024 3/ Moss gradient II, 2021 4/ Burnt edge III, 2023
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Mathias Enard in Zone on reading: "there is nothing I desire more than a novel, where the people are characters, a play of masks and desires, and little by little to forget [...] life itself as the paragraphs, dialogues, adventures, strange worlds flow by"
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having a great time with Zone, which is also mostly a single sentence, “so many images linked by an uninterrupted thread that snakes like a railroad bypassing a city”
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“I need to see and to believe that cooking and eating and bathing and cleaning aren’t separate from creative life but rather what allow creative life to continue.”
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This one is perfect. It cannot get better than this.
[tracy chapman voice] you gotta mask bar
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this morning’s transit reading is Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Winter in Sokcho
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“One walks or moves in a city […] and somehow the entirety of the past is silently whispering through locations – ghostly and sepulchral. Like a huge question mark. And implicitly that story becomes one about the future as well.”
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“When we look at the night sky, all we see is the past; the further we look, the further back we see. To see the future, we must turn inward.”
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Claude coded
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