Mason Hershenow

Education administration professionals will hand you a four-page packet and call it a “one pager”.

The drawing Karina made on Drawfee's "Spam Emails" episode which depicts an attractive woman crying as she thinks about kissing an anthropomorphized fighter jet. There is a table setting in front of her with an untouched ass on a plate. Behind her there is a large banner that says "President's Day Ass Sale!" The anthropomorphized fighter jet is saluting the American flag while a man who took a single bite of his ass is being choked by Jesus. The devil watches in dismay shouting "Not again!"

to all who celebrate

cringe

Flat space

#photography #streetphotography

“My art isn’t political” is just a quicker way of saying “I don’t think critically about the things I make or do, have no understanding of the history of my medium and my place in it, and I’m too lazy to be bothered with correcting either of those personal failings.”

It should be obvious at this point that the people pushing AI on you hold you in contempt and think that you're a mindless drone.
You cannot run your own life and need them to do everything for you. You only deserve meaningless slop, you don’t even get to have your own thoughts.

San Francisco with an unreliable Diana F+, some years ago.

#photography #streetphotography

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I’m pretty proud of this. If the indecipherable algorithm shares this with you somehow, please give it a read and spread the word.

Good Art is the Ghosts We Make Along the Way Portrait of a Lady on Fire reminds us why our past should remain a part of us.

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It’s all just so fucking stupid.

And just as I’m applying for professorships. My career might already be over—back to the espresso mines with me!

Why would you want this? That 10 percent is where all of your new favorite things are hiding.

Ralph Gibson (b. 1939)
"The Somnambulist"series, untitled #3; ca. 1970
#Photography #RalphGibson #Gibson #hand #door

Might start doing stuff on Substack. For now, here’s a poem I wrote in 2019: open.substack.com/pub/mhershen...

Meaning What: New Year Spectacular! A new year has dawned, and with it a fresh batch of hopes and horrors. This week, Mason and Sean discuss what the creative landscape looks like for 2025. Things may be bleak now, but hope rises with e...

New episode! Mason and Sean discuss the social landscape for artists and creatives going into 2025.

It’s a mixed bag, but Gen Z is buying minidiscs so it can’t be all bad.

Listen now: meaningwhat.com/site/new-yea...

I’m surprised I haven’t seen this sooner. It feels right.

Misery abounds, but humanity still creates beautiful things sometimes.

Gaze

The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.

Really good system we’ve got here. Truly stellar.

one lesson from this should be that leveling mountains of praise on an author or creator, rather than their work, is risky and potentially toxic. Worth noting that the article starts by discussing the way fans used to throw themselves at Neil. His degeneration wasn't just from internal factors.

I host a podcast called Meaning What, where my cohost Sean Ang and I discuss art and culture. It can be found everywhere you can find podcasts, and you should give a shot.

Futility by Morgan Robertson is not a good book, but I do think Titanic would have been a much better movie if Leonardo DiCaprio fought a polar bear in the middle of it.