Chris Santa Maria

unbelievably ominous, sorry for taking it seriously!

William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops (2002 - 2003)

Where is our wallet? Is our wallet coming back? Where does mommy go when she covers her eyes? | Analysis

Mitchell "Vine Leaf," or "Wine Leaf" camo pattern. The first camo pattern adopted by the US Army. Remarkably figurative by modern standards, it depicts branches and leaves, somehow making it appear more twee and less ferocious and militaristic than most camo patterns.

Romanian soviet-era "spring leaf" camo, a green and yellow pattern that almost looks like it belongs on a Hawaiian shirt, or like a tablecloth from Anthropologie or something.

Congo "Grasslands" pattern, used by DRC Presidential Guards starting around 2010, is highly aesthetic, thanks to its figurative depiction of fern-like branches and leaves in overlapping and alternating colors.

Swedish "M90" camo pattern, uses large, distinctive angular "splinter" shapes, that almost harken back to "dazzle" camouflage techniques once used on warships.

taking my mind off things by getting into obscure, aesthetically-pleasing camo patterns

1) Mitchell "Vine Leaf" (USA, 50s)
2 "Leaf Spring" (Romania, 90s)
3 "Grassland" (Dem. Rep. of Congo, 2010s)
4 "M90" (Sweden, 90s)

Good morning! You feel like you’re going crazy because their attempts to bludgeon you into submission with weaponized unreality aren’t working on you.

Keep it up. You’re doing great.

i've been using insta more like a website that i have to update with art projects once or twice a year (quit tik tok and reels cold turkey bc it was sapping my time and energy away from touching grass)

unplugged entirely from twitter and went all-in on bluesky

no regrets

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

A model of a snowy level from Mario 64.

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

feeling kinda paralyzed by the deluge of horrifying imagery coming out of the zeitgeist (saving it for later) so i keep adding to the scaffolding

/2 I mean what Chappelle is doing is like inviting Jared Fogle on your podcast to talk about parents being too strict

Philip Guston also painted some nice cherries, some of my favorite cherries ever painted

hey thanks! i appreciate you saying that ;)

i, being normal, become enraged at sentient bodies trying to communicate with one another, in their own way

Happy Birthday Guy Picciotto, born on this day in 1965, Washington DC

Fugazi - Bad Mouth - Live at Sacred Heart Church Washington DC - October 1991

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcore #hardcorepunk #posthardcore #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory #otd

built in fragments of Minoru Yamasaki's exterior truss system (from the World Trade Center)

they feel like Charles Burchfield had an affair with Wassily Kandinsky to me, and i love her

haven't looked at babel in a few months (it's been rolled up in a tube, out of sight...but not out of mind)

hung the hide tonight, might fuck around (and find out)

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

jane goodall made me believe i could just go up and hug any wild animal

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo driving a train.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo working on the outside of a building.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

currently obsessed with 93-year-old Bascha Mon's paintings that I recently discovered through Tappeto Volante Gallery (these are gouache + carbon pencil on arches paper, 16 x 12 inches each) tappetovolantegallery.com/bascha-mon

prada marfa, you're next

I really think our reactionary age is downstream of the three heads of the Scam Economy, Wellness, Social Media, and Gambling/Crypto

Bombing my big stand-up special in front of a totally silent room of generals. "What else, what else. Bagram Air Force Base, we're going to do that again, okay? And we're going to do it the right way: through specific types of tattoos, and haircuts."

Navy Seal pardoned of war crimes by Trump described by colleagues as 'freaking evil' Eddie Gallagher ‘OK with killing anything that moved’, Iraq veterans told investigators in testimony obtained by New York Times

To understand Hegseth’s announcement of impunity for misconduct, you must understand that Eddie Gallagher is the model. This is what he means by “warrior ethos.” Trump may have even selected Hegseth because of his similar appearance to Gallagher.

Remember?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...

one reason I think soft coup is underrated as an outcome is that we probably already had one in January 2021 and the collective popular reaction was that we didn’t notice

the sound of the human voice exhausts me

this business model should be flatly illegal

taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome

ban it completely

YouTube video by New York Daily News Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...