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it's the first movie this year that multiple friends have told me to see!

'Nonverbal Communication: Notes on the Visual Perception of Human Relations', Jurgen Ruesch and Weldon Kees

Security Envelopes | Cindy Bernard Since the late nineteenth century, the technical capability of photography to accurately describe and convincingly distort the visual world has exponentially increased. It is only now, with widespread...

Cindy Bernard showed photographed security patterns in the 1989 Whitney Biennial www.cindybernard.com/works/securi...

the twist was so oddly structured. presumably it meant to affirm the film's MSNBC moral universe, but it discards it, centering providence over the characters' concerned professionalism

very funny imo

stollen

got two amazing pairs of shoes in the first 5 minutes i was there 🤠

i think the usps is not a bad gig!

*at Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

thoughtful clarification on recent FGT presentation

also, the unexpected currency of the concept in YIMBY and tech-adjacent conversations about society (whatever that is)

interesting also that Bowling Alone was published 25 years ago!

not sure there were actually more in previous places i lived, but events to meet up fills that gap

i've gotten very interested in "third spaces" since moving to a small town and feeling their absence.

Tony Feher - Untitled (2012)

hard to know which one though

need the @phenomenalworld.bsky.social coverage

any non-clickbait articles on AI data center energy usage vs other internet servers?

Endnotes 1-5 (pdfs)

Endnotes 1 (2008): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 2 (2010): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 3 (2013): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 4 (2015): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 5 (2019):
files.libcom.org/files/2022-0...

Starbucks workers are on strike at OVER 300 stores today. 5,000 baristas have walked out. I’ll post updates here throughout the day!

tabs left open long enough become a recommendation system

Background for this is in part Harun Farocki’s “operational images”, pictures that are part of machine processes and thus less symbolic/appear closer to reality

YouTube video by ToughLoveRecordings Cindy - 'The Bell' (Official Video)

Have you heard the newish band Cindy? May be of interest, sounds like the quieter side of C86 youtu.be/j233o0XKFxA?...

The Field of Contemporary Art: A Diagram - Notes - e-flux Andrea Fraser lays out the five subfields of contemporary art and their complex interrelations.

a more useful take on incentives, institutions and the current state of contemporary art www.e-flux.com/notes/634540...

which I guess fits with the mag's name

Power 100

odd choices on compound words and hyphenation in this list
artreview.com/power-100/

My periodic reminder to all Jung became a passionate full on believer in Nazism 1/4

Libra Season: Angels in America | Spike Art Magazine Following Trump’s slop-fueled, broligarchic triumph, one poll worker asks: How can art get back to turning clout into power?

another recent diagnosis spikeartmagazine.com/articles/lib...