Take it easy, but take it.

Dog sculptures turned golden from tourists petting them throughout the years

The Rough-Stuff Fellowship were doing off road touring long before it became fashionable and the club is being celebrated with an upcoming book. The crowdfunding campaign for the book ends this Sunday so if you want a piece of this cycling history, get in quick.

Igor Razdrogin - Book Bazar (1975)

Home for the night.

Noto Hanto, Japan

1985

Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".

Give me sixty lines of error code that tell me in excruciating detail exactly which memory address fucked up. I want microsecond accurate interrupt calls. I want to be able to find the individual transistor that caused this issue and humiliate it in front of its peers.

chilchuck going "sorry leave me outta this one. i cant fight" but then hitting literally every precise shot with an arrow or projectile he ever made in the story INCLUDING PIERCING A RED DRAGONS EYE BY THROWING A KNIFE WHILE LEAPING AWAY my bro is a rogue with dex 20 and wants no one to know biggest liar in history

As a fellow union man i can relate - you do not let your employer know you can do anything you don't want to become your job

not to be pretentious, but a lot of stuff you guys complain is being ruined by capitalism/the algorithm/whatever can be solved by consuming something else than the most basic mainstream stuff that's thrown in your lap. "songs nowadays are getting shorter to fit entire tiktoks and it's ruining music" have you tried listening to something else than Spotify's Top 100 my dude? "fanfiction-to-publishing pipeline is churning out mediocre books and it's ruining literature" have you tried reading something outside the NYT bestseller list my dude? This is not a post about how algorithm based industries give visibility to the lowest common denominator art at the expense of actually creative and meaningful art that struggles to make itself known, which is a valid discussion for another time, this is about people actively not giving this kind of art their visibility because they won't get out of their way to discover stuff outside the mainstream radar and prefer to be passively fed what to consume while bitching that is not up to their tastes.

a wikipedia poem on software entropy

Rackstraw Downes - At the Confluence of Two Ditches Bordering a Field with Four Radio Towers, 1995

Frank Halmans (Dutch 1963)

Geen Huis / Instalation #3 (2007)