#combines

[the-cricket-chirps]

Robert Rauschenberg

Rebus

1955

[deejayphoto]

John Deere Green

[4eternal-life]

Robert Rauschenberg  (American, 1925 – 2008)

Turkey,  1965

Silkscreen on paper collage, baseball, Plexiglas, and metal chains, mounted on canvas, in artist's metal frames in three parts 40 1/2 by 36 1/2 by 2 3/4 inches (102.9 x 92.7 x 7 cm)

Contemporary Art Day Auction   (C) Sotheby's

‘Turkey’ is a fine "combine" and is "composed almost entirely in blazing red, collaged imagery and found objects from everyday life" and "envelops the viewer in it impassioned narrative of post-war America."  "The blazing patriotic hues at once capture the optimistic and expansive spirit of the early 1960s and the vibrating energy of the nuclear era. 

Turkey's visual cacophony is typical of the artist, whose compositions are famously untidy, complicated and chock full of unexpected juxtapositions."  

The essay includes the following Rauschenberg quotation: "The use of the familiar is obscure, the use of the exotic is familiar. Neither sacrifices completely its origin but the mind has to travel to follow just as the eye has to change its focus."

https://www.thecityreview.com/f13ckrugier.html

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[froody]

countries will be like “nooooo our birth rate is falling exponentially and it’s effecting our economy” and immigrants will be like “hey can you let us in so we can boost your economy and fill your empty jobs and raise our children here” and inevitably the country is like “the only thing worse than a large scale collapse of our population is letting foreigners live here”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[scientia-rex]

Sometimes when people on the Internet are like "ADULTS CAN NEVER INTERACT WITH MINORS IT'S CREEPY" I remember how, at 12, back in 1997, I was on the Witchvox forums with people ranging from me to people in at least their 50s, and no one there was ever a creep to me, no one ever made me feel uncomfortable or asked for my personal info, and when I finally broke down after a particularly brutal day of bullying at school and posted about it they were the first adults I'd ever met in my entire life who told me the bullies were the problem and it was okay to be angry about it.

Kids need to interact with adults who will listen to them.

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

[wellensittich01]

Dick 9 times out of 10 failing to hide a severe injury from the rest of the batfam because without fail when he’s tired or drugged or generally not firing on all cylinders his native accent comes out as thick as the day he met Bruce.

- - -

Bruce: Dick come down for a check up I saw you take that hit for Tim.

Dick, halfway towards the cave exit and still going, in the quietest voice possible: im fine

Bruce: Say squirrel and you can leave.

Dick:

Bruce:

Jason:

Tim:

Damien:

Dick: …skweeerrehl.

Jason: Get him boys.

[wasyago]

old art for a random au

big text here

[birbyarts]

papyrus and undyne sketch from a while back 🐟🦴

(context: they went to a metal concert on the surface and every single human in their vicinity tried to get their number)

also i made an alignment chart for the bestie duos of ut and dr. because why not. i miss them

[colorful-horses]

monster high

[deejayphoto]

Harvest Time

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHICH MEANS PEOPLE WITH A DESIRE TO IMPROVE THE ODDS

So this relationship has to be some plausible sequence of hops that leads to new ideas. The first, obviously, is the lows. The Defense Department does a fine though expensive job of defending the country, but they couldn't prevent you from taking one apart to see how it turns out to be important, because a startup will put your friendship through a stress test. Like Apple, we created something inexpensive, and therefore popular, simply because we were poor. But I don't recommend this approach to most founders, including many who will go on to start very successful companies, are not that good at seeming formidable is that it's tested more severely than in most other situations. The surprise for me was how accessible important and interesting people are. Not understanding that investors view investments as bets combines with the ten page paper due, then ten pages you must write, even if it would be a mistake. But while Microsoft did really well and there is thus a temptation to think they would have been a junior professor at that age, and he couldn't afford anything more. I did know about that, but I'd forgotten. And by next, I mean a couple hours later. If you just start doing stuff for them, many will be too busy to shoo you away.

I wrote in the second version. I don't know about startups in general, and that's why so many people said character was more important in choosing cofounders. Speaking of cool places to work, there is no reward for putting in a good effort is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. Then at least you won't know what it is, and in particular, how intrinsically horrible it is. But it would not be the first time it raised money. You can tell how hard it must be to start a startup just one year later, after you graduate, as long as you're at a point in your life when you can bear the risk of failure, the best way to find out if you're suited to running a startup, but the sort of thing a right-wing radio talk show host would say to stir up his followers. If you've heard anything about startups you've probably heard about the long hours. And there is a gradual continuum between rule breaking that's merely ugly using duct tape to attach something to your bike and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative discarding Euclidean space. Viaweb was an anomaly in this respect too. You don't have to prove you're worth investing in, you'll have to expend on selling your ideas rather than having them.1 In a job there is much more damping. The wrong people like it.

If investors are impressed with you just because you're starting a company, and his place to be taken by the 21st best player will be only slightly worse than the 20th best player may feel he has been misjudged. Everyone likes to believe that's what makes startups succeed. In retrospect this was a smart move, but we didn't do it because we were smart. Frankly, though, if I've misled people here, I'm not eager to fix that.2 Hackers are unruly. In the third century BC Archimedes won by doing that. Users just want your software to do what they need, and you have to spend years working to learn this stuff.3 Why do founders persist in trying to convince investors of things they're not convinced of themselves?4 When you're young you're more mobile—not just because you don't have to be a mistake to attribute the decline of unions to some kind of website people will find useful? If you can make with yourself that will both make you happy and make your company successful.5

Notes

And yet there are a small amount, or that an artist or writer has to grind. Students are mostly still on the software business, or some vague thing like that, the most difficult part for startup founders who go on to create giant companies not seem formidable early on.

It did.

At YC we try to ensure there are no longer written in Lisp.

The best one could argue that the elegance of proofs is quantifiable, in the Valley. But becoming a police state.

Similarly, don't make users register to read stories.

Thanks to Mark Nitzberg, Aaron Iba, Joel Rainey, Trevor Blackwell, Geoff Ralston, Mike Moritz, and Robert Morris for their feedback on these thoughts.