#unsquares

[stochastique-blog]

I dont Understand...

Winter scene on Galata Bridge ❄️ 2017 Ocak ayının ilk haftasıydı. Şehirde kar en son o zaman coşkuyla kendini göstermişti. Hala o kadar net hatırlıyorum ki Galata Köprüsü'nün o halini. En fazla 8-10 kişiydik köprü üzerinde… Bir de çok sevimli bir köpek vardı. Evet soğuktu, hem de çok soğuk ama fotoğraf vardı, balık vardı, hayat akıyordu. Üstelik hepsine de İstanbul şahitti. Nice şahitliklere😊

Ve tabii ki günü kapatmadan en önemli mesajımı da paylaşayım. Tüm kadınlarımızın anneler gününü gönülden kutluyorum. 💐💐💐 Bizlere de annelerinin yüzünü güldüren, onların emeklerinin küçücük bir kısmını bile olsa layıkıyla ödemeye çalışan evlatlar olmak nasip olsun.

Sevgiyle, sıhhatle, mutlulukla 😊🎶💐

Fujifilm X-T1 16-55mm f:2.8 f:9 1/200s iso200

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[artbyblastweave]

Geiger by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank is compelling to me because it's the first time I've ever seen someone put two-and-two together by having a superhero whose stock powers-from-radiation-exposure origin story wasn't a lab accident or experimental detonation gone awry, but a world-ending nuclear war- resulting in a guy who'd be on the Justice League in a better timeline instead puttering about a fallout/mad-max style wasteland doing folk-hero shit.

[dividedsingularity]

Just wanna say your art is super inspiring. Tell te-ka I said hello

🫶

"Thank you, and hello to you as well, kind stranger! It is not often dear Menix receives such heartfelt comments on her artistic efforts."

And a thank you from me as well, it means so so much to read that!! Have a quick doodle for your kindness ^^

[djevilninja]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Unsquare Dance

[stochastique-blog]

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[figureskatingcostumes]

Eric Sjoberg skating to Take Five and Unsquare Dance for his short program at the 2019 Junior Grand Prix Chelyabinsk.

(Source: veravalenta)

[kseenefrega]

Unsquare Dance

[silkyartshark]

Was bored so yeah, the one with sword and med was on a whiteboard so

[batbetbitbotbut]

My first time doing clasped weft technique! It's slow but so so striking! It has unsquared my overshot but I'm treating that as a feature this time.

You throw the shuttle in from one side, loop it round your second yarn and throw it back through the same shed to pull the second yarn into the cloth....

.... And then you beat very very slowly and carefully while pulling on each yarn to get the colour change exactly where you want it, and then you carry on and admire/curse your result. It's an absolute bastard to unweave.

For these colours I am making a zigzag between them, but for my next pair of colours (blue and orange) I will do something else.

[bagelcollie]

HELLO EXCUSE ME AND THANK YOU !! AAAAAA

lil birthday dooble for @bagelcollie hope you have a good one :O

[candyheartedchy]

Perfectly shaped for you to hold him

THEY UNSQUARED HIM 😭

[janhooks]

Everyone trying to prove how cool and unsquare they are by acting like they wouldn’t be bothered at all if they turned a corner and saw two people fucking butt ass naked on a public bench

[mintchocochipsposts]

I just finished up reading New 52 and Rebirth Green Arrow (and finally caught up on the 2023 run), because I am a slave to completionism. Thoughts under the cut.

Obviously ten years late to the party and I usually hate to complain about runs but oh my goodness I don't know what they did to all the characters in New 52 and Rebirth. Just took a hatchet to everyone's backstories. Dinah didn't need a different backstory, the Earth 2 version was already more than complicated enough, and I can't bring myself to read New 52 Birds of Prey, but the allusions to her new backstory were also just so boring. Let her be the JSA's niece. Mia of all people didn't need a different backstory for the five issues she showed up. Cringed every time we did flashbacks to Roy. How do you make every reference to snowbirds worse and worse and worse while also changing the substances? (How was the narrative improved by completely erasing Ollie's decades-old relationships with Roy and Dinah? The Green Arrow-Speedy relationship is integral to both their characters! Axe that and they are completely different people. And the narrative truly suffers without Dinah!) Connor can't exist because Ollie has inexplicably been deaged from like 50 to 25. There's like 5 different versions of Ollie in the 52 run, which is impressive given it's only 52 issues. None of them are at all similar to preboot Ollie. None of them capture the ethos of Green Arrow either. Also the complications the retcons make to all his relationships just get worse and worse the longer I think about them. I like Emiko! Her backstory is like...unsquareable with preboot canon. Couldn't she have just been Komodo and Shado's kid that Ollie decided to adopt? This way when we rebooted we wouldn't have to try and square Grandpa Ollie having a teenage sister? Who's mother he had a kid with preboot? It's terribly convoluted and they could have just...picked a slightly different backstory for her. And the inane amount of magic cult lore. Green Arrow is supposed to be just some quixotic guy with a bow and arrow! He's (affectionately) a weirdo obsessed with Robin Hood. How do you manage to lose that aspect of the character? And the resurrected from the dead evil parents plots. Oh my goodness do I prefer the mauled by lions story.

Winnick got like one issue in New 52 and it was the most in-character Ollie got the entire run. But such obvious obvious editorial meddling. Boy oh boy was 52 a slog.

I've read a couple of New 52 runs so far that weren't completely egregious (Catwoman (the Valentine portion), Nightwing, Batwoman) where it's like...modifications but not to the point the character isn't recognizable. This makes all the retcons done to the Wonderfam characters post-COIE look mild. It makes Chuck Dixon's Ollie characterization look fabulous. At least I was rooting for Dixon Ollie not to die. New 52 Ollie failed at even being sympathetic, and the stakes were not there to make me care. I am again reminded why I've been putting off touching these for so so long and why I distrust so many post-Flashpoint runs.

And it really feels like such a waste because there really were interesting stories you could have done with a luddite Ollie running around modern Seattle dealing with the effects that tech money has had in the region (or Star City). I was not prepared. I mean I knew the broad strokes but the CW-ification of everything.

And the 2016 run...like, better but missed the mark? At least we get Dinah back! But it's a Dinah who's meeting Ollie for the first time ever. While they still try and pull on the contentious break-up and make-up dynamic between her and Ollie that is lacking tension because it's lacking history. Ollie is too rich but spends most of the series on the run and definitely not enough time focused on smaller-scale issues. And the same issues with Roy and Ollie persist and the run makes Ollie constantly seem like a giant asshole. (Which he can be, but usually he's not so douchey.) Kate Spencer was the most in-character player in a Green Arrow comic. (And the politics-poor Denny O'Neill.)

Anyways actual point to this rant is I saved all of Williamson's run to read in one go because I wanted to get through the other titles first. And what a breath of fresh air! I literally had a smile on my face for the whole first 13 issues. A writer who likes Ollie and appreciates that he has a personality and actually gets the ethos of Green Arrow and writes with the heart that you need for a good Green Arrow run. Showing Ollie actually caring about people and his family! I know some people were a little less than thrilled as the run went on but it reads pretty good if you read it all in one chunk; the only iffy spot is when you get to the Absolute Power crossover bits. The multiversal time-travel shenanigans that had to be pulled in to fix Ollie's history and also the history of all the surrounding cast are a little wonky, but you do need space as a corrective for all the previous reboots. Evil villain who goes in and specifically targets Ollie's timeline to ruin his life is not my favorite Green Arrow plot, but definitely a necessary one to fix things. What a love letter to his comics history! And the art! You know it's going to be a good Green Arrow comic when the art is gorgeous! The Izaakse art was fabulous, and I loved loved loved how they pulled in Phil Hester to do all the flashback scenes! It really really reestablished 'okay, this is what canon is now'. And the emphasis on the whole family being together was needed after literally erasing half of them from comics for like a decade. I don't even care that they didn't all have a ton to do, we're literally just real establishing that they exist. Emiko and Diggle are from an alternate universe, I guess I'll swallow it with all the time-travel nonsense that gave us teenage Lian back. But everyone being back to their history and their characters! Ollie ranting and fighting the government and having his flaws back! Connor having his memories back and suiting up as Green Arrow! Mia being back! (Connor and Mia being back in a Green Arrow book!) Dinah acting like Dinah again and the narrative not holding her so hostage that she can't go be in Birds of Prey! Roy having his history and his relationship with Ollie restored, and also Roy and Dinah and Roy and Lian finally being reunited!

Uh so anyways, if anyone was ever contemplating about reading the 2011 or 2016 Green Arrow runs, spare yourself and just jump ahead to 2023.

[joelletwo]

unsquarable moebius strip i dont think gintoki would let himself be topped by anyone (half of his friends) and i dont think he can be normal/undissociated enough to top anyone (the other half of his friends). so he doesnt fuck. unless drunk. congrats to the real happy couple hasegin

[jardaworksgallery]

Music I like from my vinyl record collection -

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920, Concord, California – December 5, 2012, Norwalk, Connecticut), known as Dave Brubeck, was an American jazz pianist. He wrote a number of jazz standards, such as In Your Own Sweet Way or The Duke. Brubeck's style ranges from sleek, classy compositions to grandiose masterpieces.

While creating, he took advantage of his mother's teaching and his brilliant ability to improvise. He experimented with unusual time signatures in a number of his compositions. Together with Paul Desmond, Joe Morello and Eugene Wright, they formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet, popular in their time.

His long-time collaborator, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the Brubeck Quartet's best-known piece, Take Five, which is in 5/4 time. Experiments with the timing of songs accompanied a significant part of Brubeck's musical career, such as Pick Up Sticks, Unsquare Dance, and Blue Rondo à la Turk.]

Brubeck's mother studied piano in England, planned a career as a concert pianist, and made extra money by teaching piano. But Brubeck did not particularly enjoy the constant playback of scores, rather he tried to compose his own melodies. He started studying piano at university, but after one of the professors discovered that he couldn't even play the notes properly, he wanted to expel him. Fortunately, other professors stood up for him. They claimed that his ability to manage counterpoint and harmony was above average. But the school was still worried that Brubeck might cause a scandal and let him graduate only on the condition that he never teach piano.

In 1942, he successfully completed his studies at the university and immediately afterwards enlisted in the army. It was the war years, so he served in the army for 4 years (he even took part in the Battle of the Bulge). After returning, he continued his studies, this time in California. After completing his studies, he signed with the California record company Fantasy Records. He founded his own octet, but also played in a trio at the same time. Later, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond joined the trio. They started experimenting, recorded a few records, but still had few opportunities to play. Brubeck was quite disgusted by this, so he returned to the trio again. Again without Desmond, who secured appearances with a different line-up. So Brubeck spent several years just playing jazz standards over and over.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet After a short hiatus caused by Brubeck's back injury while swimming, The Dave Brubeck Quartet is formed in 1951. Paul Desmond played the saxophone in it again. The quartet got a long-term engagement in a club in San Francisco, but it became more widely known through its regular concerts in student dormitories. Three albums emerged from these concerts: Jazz at Oberlin, Jazz Goes to College, and Jazz Goes to Junior College. In 1954, Brubeck's photo appeared on the cover of the prestigious American magazine Time - he was only the second jazz musician to be on the cover of this magazine (the first was Louis Armstrong).

The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1967. Left to right: Joe Morello, Eugene Wright, Brubeck and Paul Desmond. In the mid-1950s, original quartet members Bob Bates and Joe Dodge were replaced by Eugene Wright and Joe Morello. Because Wright was African-American, Brubeck had to cancel a lot of concerts in the late 1950s. Club owners were willing to organize a concert, but they set the condition that the quartet must have a white double bassist. Brubeck also canceled a television appearance after learning that the camera was intentionally not focusing on Wright.

In 1959, the quartet releases the album Time Out. Although the music publishing house was enthusiastic about it, it delayed its release a little. The album is special in that almost none of the songs on it are in regular time signature. The album includes the compositions Take Five, Blue Rondo à la Turk or Pick Up Sticks, which are already considered jazz standards today. Despite experimenting with unusual time signatures, the album sold very well and soon went platinum.

During this time, Brubeck and his wife wrote the musical The Real Ambassadors, which depicts their experiences touring the United States. The soundtrack to this musical was recorded in 1961. It featured Louis Armstrong, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and Carmen McRae. The musical itself premiered a year later.

The quartet followed up the success of Time Out with similar albums: Time Further Out: Mirror Reflections, Countdown: Time in Outer Space, Time Changes and Time In. All these albums are also known for the fact that the covers were created by modern painters of the time - Joan Miró, Sam Francis or Franz Kline. This was also the time for the live album At Carnegie Hall, which critic Richard Palmer called "undoubtedly Brubeck's best concert".