Ragged Claws, Silent Seas

Internet storage garage for JDvoracek

The importance of learning to code isn’t so that everyone will write code, and bury the world under billions of lines of badly conceived Python, Java, and Ruby. The importance of code is that it’s a part of the world we live in. I’ve had enough of legislators who think the Internet is about tubes, who haven’t the slightest idea about legitimate uses for file transfer utilities, and no concept at all about what privacy (and the invasion of privacy) might mean in an online space. I’ve had enough of patent inspectors who approve patents for which prior art has existed for decades. And I’ve had enough of judges making rulings after listening to lawyers arguing about technologies they don’t understand. Learning to code won’t solve these problems, but coding does force engagement with technology on a level other than pure ignorance. Coding is a part of cultural competence, even if you never do it professionally. Alsup is a modern hero.

cavetocanvas: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon - Picasso, 1907

cavetocanvas:

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon - Picasso, 1907

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

—Song of Myself, Walt Whitman (1855 edition)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so much pleasure from those strokes cavetocanvas: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant Painting, 1920

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

so much pleasure from those strokes

cavetocanvas:

Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant Painting, 1920

cavetocanvas: Vanessa Bell, The Tub, 1917 From the Tate Collection: In October 1916 Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and the writer David Garnett moved into Charleston Farmhouse, on the South Downs in Sussex. This unusually large painting was intended for the garden room of the new house. It was never installed, and the artist kept it folded up. It was only rediscovered with the revival of enthusiasm for the art ofBloomsbury in the 1970s. Bathers were painted by many of the French painters Bell admired, including Cézanne, Degas and Matisse. Originally the figure was partially clothed; there is a photograph of an earlier version of the painting in the display case in this room.

cavetocanvas:

Vanessa Bell, The Tub, 1917

From the Tate Collection:

In October 1916 Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and the writer David Garnett moved into Charleston Farmhouse, on the South Downs in Sussex. This unusually large painting was intended for the garden room of the new house. It was never installed, and the artist kept it folded up. It was only rediscovered with the revival of enthusiasm for the art ofBloomsbury in the 1970s. Bathers were painted by many of the French painters Bell admired, including Cézanne, Degas and Matisse. Originally the figure was partially clothed; there is a photograph of an earlier version of the painting in the display case in this room.