Said an image going around Tumblr.

Art deprecates. Or maybe it has always been a simple concept. But there are plenty of examples of art being pointless and not actually made (Duchamp) and even not original (Sherrie Levine) . So I don’t see why instagram can’t be elevated to high art. Modern art seems to have the retort “You could have made this but you didn’t” while instagram is the bit that says “that’s pretty and you did it”

Good enough for me.

There was a free admission day on Sunday to Bowers Museum. I’d have to say the highlights were seeing part of the famous terracotta army, the scrimshaw exhibit (because scrimshaw is really fun to say) and the Polynesian art section. There I saw lovely relics such as this adult human tooth necklace and a fork used for eating human flesh.

Yum.

When it lays down and dies.

Saw this near the San Clemente BofA.

Because they kill people, Van Loon.

From Van Loon’s Geography, my new obsession.

Don’t blame the paper, it’s blank. Don’t blame the pencil, it’s just doing its job at minimum wage. But the eraser, uninvited and bourgeois, you could do without.

Nope.

It’s like he just discovered ice cream legos, or got a new bike in the shape of a velociraptor or … he just saw the Lagoon Nebula. Excitement! I hope my kids love space and dinosaurs as much as I did. Spoiler alert. A lot.

The SM building is a mix of new murals and old photos of the universe from the 70s. No need to update the posters, or to get rid of Pluto. It’s a haphazard mix of overlapping eras of science. It makes me feel small in relation to the big galaxies as well as small in history. We look backwards but all we are is this tiny slice of time.

These are probably 30 years old, definitely over 20. Made in China and imported to Romania. My favorite part is that one of the colors is called “indian red”. Shows how far we’ve come (even though this was printed in China.) It’s also interesting how the brand is a western name in latin letters, but a lot of the information is written in Han (i assume) characters.

Fun fact I first started painting with tiny little oil paints made in China in lead containers. I guess the question is did I get lucky or would I otherwise be much smarter?
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