Anyways I’ve been getting over 380,000 notes a month easily and now I’m getting supposedly less than 1,000 a day. The ‘best stuff first’ feature has downgraded this site a tremendous amount, not only is the feature destructive to smaller blogs, they also somehow fucked up the activity page, and is no longer accurate or useful.
Staff on tumblr rarely responds to unanimous disapproval unless shoved in their face, so I’m asking you guys to spread this post, and others like it around as much as possible as to get the message into their thick heads – that this greatly devolves the tumblr experience.
It’s like seeing a movie with all the action scenes first and all the dialogue at the end.
Chronology matters.
Ummm…
-I guess I can cross “play an empty bar room with three patrons and the bartender” off my bucket list. It’s funny, but singing to three is more difficult than 30.
-Buying a replacement gas tank cap for my 2005 Toyota cost more than I’ve spent on clothing this year.
-Watching Stranger Things 2. C. doesn’t care for the special effects in this show, “I prefer my monsters dry. These monsters are all slimy.”, she says.
-Some minutes are sublime. Some seconds are of highest quality.
-Lately
I’ve noticed myself wishing I could receive positive feedback about the
quality of my work from someone who actually knows what my work
entails. It’s funny that this should be a concern. My customers are
usually pretty happy with what I do for them, but on some important
levels they have no idea of some of the hoops I manage to jump through.
Working in isolation makes this kind of affirmation really difficult.
-Do
you ever worry about the music you’re missing? The stuff you aren’t
exposed to that would change your life, but for some silly twist of fate
that kept you from hearing it? It’s a feeling I used to get when
entering a big library and being confronted with the realization that I
wasn’t ever going to be able to get through ALL the books. But, what if I
don’t even get to the important ones?
the lute player
Pierre Michault, La Dance aux aveigles, France 1466
BnF, Français 1654, fol. 171r
This is an amazing image, because it portrays an early Renaissance lute being plucked with a risha-style plectrum as used with Arabian ouds.
I think every writer/artist has that one story/drawing that gets completely skipped over, and they’d never say it aloud, but inside they’re like
‘fuck all y’all, that’s one of the best things I’ve done’
plus one story/drawing that everyone loves
‘really? that one?’
apparently this rant has struck a chord with people jfc
You people that like the spooky stuff, do you know about the surrealist short film Meshes of the Afternoon? It’s just… wow. It was made in 1943 by a husband and wife team,
Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid and it’s not just technically amazing for what is essentially a home movie, it’s deeply unsettling. The thing is like a dissociative fugue state.
It’s on youtube in various versions and people like to create music for it. Whatever soundtrack is provided – TURN IT OFF! It didn’t have one and it doesn’t need one. Watch this film in silence – it’s the kind of thing that will trick your brain into providing the sound.
The effect is mesmerizing.
The scariest thing I saw on TV as a kid was a short student film that was incorporated into one of the regional after-school children’s shows. I wish I could remember which one. It was wayyyy too weird for the age range the show was usually aimed at. I saw it at least twice.
Filmed in smeared, grainy, black and white, maybe 8mm, or a 70′s-era video camera, it was just so incredibly disturbing. A young boy digs a hole and uncovers a small white box which contains two eyes. The scene changes and we find ourselves in a slightly dingy basement, where he inserts the eyes into the empty sockets of a very realistic skull which seems to be sitting on an old chest freezer.
I’ve been looking for this one for a long time.
Lachrimaestro 