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Milton Glaser, Big Nudes, 1968

#milton glaser

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Max Beckmann Perseus's Last Duty, 1949

#max beckmann

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Isamu Noguchi Cloud Mountain

#isamu noguchi #sculpture

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William H. Johnson, New Land Breaking, 1941

#william johnson #william henry johnson #william h. johnson #african american ar #african american artist

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Oscar Niemeyer's Canoe House

South of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, a pioneer in exploring the plastic possibilities of concrete, built a house for his family in which to live within the exuberant nature of the area.

#oscar niemeyer #architecture

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Edvard Munch Madonna Lithograph 1895

#edvard munch

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Everyone Hates Poetry 2024

Here are the finalists, please do not feel bad if you are not here. That doesn't mean your poem was bad or no one voted for it. This is an imperfect system. There were a lot of submissions and most people probably did not read all of the 90 poems. This was an experiment but most things like this have elements of being popularity contests based on things other than merit, like exposure, popularity of the author etc.

Please vote for your favorite poem. Please only vote once because previously we had people voting multiple times and this time I am going to have to disqualify poems where this happens.

Congratulations to all of you for producing some work and getting it read. People got something out of what you did whether you ended up winning or not. I've read some pretty terrible poems in the New Yorker, on occasion. It's good to remember tastes vary widely.

Everyone Hates Poetry 2024 Finalists

The Sky's Back in Blue

Observations

A Good Honest Poem

It is a Kind of Animal Sacrifice

Threnody for Alchemists

When You Have Words I'll be Waiting to Hear Them

Death of an Erotic Photographer

Wasn't There

Skin in the Game

Come Seek Us Once You Become Human

#everyone hates poetry 2024 #please share this #not sure why they ask for email but it's optional you can just not enter it

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Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter.

The film was produced by Kenneth Macpherson and Peggy Guggenheim

Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger. The film won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.

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Happy Birthday Charles Mingus

by Guy Le Querrec 1972 Magnum Photos

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First, you must train your cat to use a home-made cardboard litter box, if you have not already done so. (If your box does not have a one-piece bottom, add a cardboard that fits inside, so you have a false bottom that is smooth and strong. This way the box will not become soggy and fall out at the bottom. The grocery store will have extra flat cardboards which you can cut down to fit exactly inside your box.)

Be sure to use torn up newspaper, not kitty litter. Stop using kitty litter. (When the time comes you cannot put sand in a toilet.)

Once your cat is trained to use a cardboard box, start moving the box around the room, towards the bathroom. If the box is in a corner, move it a few feet from the corner, but not very noticeably. If you move it too far, he may go to the bathroom in the original corner. Do it gradually. You've got to get him thinking. Then he will gradually follow the box as you move it to the bathroom. (Important: if you already have it there, move it out of the bathroom, around, and then back. He has to learn to follow it. If it is too close to the toilet, to begin with, he will not follow it up onto the toilet seat when you move it there.) A cat will look for his box. He smells it.

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Now, as you move the box, also start cutting the brim of the box down, so the sides get lower. Do this gradually.

Finally, you reach the bathroom and, eventually, the toilet itself. Then, one day, prepare to put the box on top of the toilet. At each corner of the box, cut a little slash. You can run string around the box, through these slashes, and tie the box down to the toilet so it will not fall off. Your cat will see it there and jump up to the box, which is now sitting on top of the toilet (with the sides cut down to only an inch or so.)

Don't bug the cat now, don't rush him, because you might throw him off. Just let him relax and go there for awhile-maybe a week or two. Meanwhile, put less and less newspaper inside the box.

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One day, cut a small hole in the very center of his box, less than an apple-about the size of a plum-and leave some paper in the box around the hole. Right away he will start aiming for the hole and possibly even try to make it bigger. Leave the paper for awhile to absorb the waste. When he jumps up he will not be afraid of the hole because he expects it. At this point you will realize that you have won. The most difficult part is over.

From now on, it is just a matter of time. In fact, once when I was cleaning the box and had removed it from the toilet, my cat jumped up anyway and almost fell in. To avoid this, have a temporary flat cardboard ready with a little hole, and slide it under the toilet lid so he can use it while you are cleaning, in case he wants to come and go, and so he will not fall in and be scared off completely. You might add some newspaper up there too, while you are cleaning, in case your cat is not as smart as Nightlife was.

4 Now cut the box down completely until there is no brim left. Put the flat cardboard, which is left, under the lid of the toilet seat, and pray. Leave a little newspaper, still. He will rake it into the hole anyway, after he goes to the bathroom. Eventually, you can simply get rid of the cardboard altogether. You will see when he has got his balance properly.

Don't be surprised if you hear the toilet flush in the middle of the night. A cat can learn how to do it, spurred on by his instinct to cover up. His main thing is to cover up. If he hits the flush knob accidentally and sees that it cleans the bowl inside, he may remember and do it intentionally.

Also, be sure to turn the toilet paper roll around so that it won't roll down easily if the cat paws it. The cat is apt to roll it into the toilet, again with the intention of covering up- the way he would if there were still kitty litter.

It took me about three or four weeks to toilet train my cat, Nightlife. Most of the time is spent moving the box very gradually to the bathroom. Do it very slowly and don't confuse him. And, remember, once the box is on the toilet, leave it a week or even two. The main thing to remember is not to rush or confuse him.

Good luck. Charles Mingus

#charles mingus #jazz #cats

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Exercises in Color Seminar taught by Wassily Kadinsky, studies concerning the affinity of line & color, color & form 1929-30

#bauhaus #wassily kandinsky #vasily kandinsky #color theory

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Chiura Obata, Lake Basin in the High Sierra (detail), ca. 1930. Ink and color on silk mounted on paper, 69 ½ x 102 ½ in. (176.5 x 260.4 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Dr. Leland A. and Gladys K. Barber Fund, 2000.71.1

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Shiko Munakata Fox Among Flowers, 1955

#Shiko Munakata #woodcut #japanese art #woodblock print #ukiyoe #color woodblock #japanese

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Edvard Munch, Weeping Nude, 1913

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Eva Hesse, Cincture 1967

#eva hesse

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Naoko Matsubara, Pine, 1971

woodcut

#Naoko Matsubara #japanese art #woodblock print #ukiyoe #color woodblock #japanese #woodcut

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Max Ernst, Age of Forests, 1926

#max ernst

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Do you follow my infrequent dog snapshot blog? If not you're missing action like this.

terrible battle