paraboloid.bsky.social
Retired (escaped) from graphic design; once studied printmaking; now draws & paints. Vermonter, terrified.
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ALWAYS READ MY ALT TEXT • I BLOCK ANYTHING “AI” RELATED
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The more I think about this the more I think it might be valid, but only for white cis het men. Except that I’m in that category, and I came out “lower middle class” despite, I assure you, tastes that outrun my budget by a lot. So, I dunno.
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I have a vivid memory of the direct experience, when it was in still at MoMA, and then a sense of shock at how long ago that had to have been—before 1981.
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another from that meeting. for the life of me I can’t remember why there was a pencil stuck in that muffin, somewhere on the conference table.
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I’ll bury this here: these people were mostly illustrators; I was never really a representational artist to start with and was then living by graphic design. I was envious as hell of their drawing skills.
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Ha! Now you mention it, after all these years I can’t unsee it. Apparently I influenced them—Sesame Street premiered 2 years later!
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Nice photo, aptly tagged. I always try to encourage people to use ALT text to describe their images. In this case it might be info about location and exposure data, or even something about your hopes and intentions. This is meant, in my autistic way, to encourage you to consider this in the future.
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© 2025 Michael B. Patterson
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...seldom yielded perfect results, and I never touched it after I finally got access to a Photo-Typositor [look that up], and then of course later, computers.
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I’m so old that when I went to college, you paid your flat tuition and took as many courses as you thought you could handle. I took a lot of them, required and otherwise! Didn’t do well in all, but it gave me a lifelong habit of reading interesting stuff outside my field. That’s how it should be.
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This. No 4-year college degree without some literature, history, art history, and philosophy in the mix. And conversely, no 4-year humanities degree without a little intro math, bio and physics!
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which you won’t if you don’t?
...I’m looking to cross a much more modest milestone, myself.
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And what’s the deal with that half closed right eye? (our left)
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I used to be a graphic designer and art director, and man, I had clients like that.
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My interpretation: He showed up for the shoot, gave the photographer 3 or 4 minutes of his time, and when he saw the proofs squawked that his hair didn’t have that youthful tousled insouciance he thinks it has, so the photog spent another 3 or 4 minutes with Photoshop, and he was fine with that.
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The only thing I know for sure about dealing with Elon Musk is: don’t trust anything he says.