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An encounter with my ailing ex this summer sucked me into an event horizon of existential angst (eggs-istential angst?), a mid-life crisis I'd dodged up til now. There is not enough therapy in the multiverse to fully process all the heartbreak you get to experience... if you live long (& arguably well) enough. Roz Chast or the like had a cartoon called "Museum of Ex-Boyfriends" that I cannot find. Maybe the Mandela effect? I mentioned my idea to a friend at Sign of the Dove, who suggested "Eggs Boyfriends, amirite?" So it had to happen. Technically, some were boyfriends only in name, or only in other ways, but, whatever.
Heat Rock
To paraphrase:
“If you’re gonna be stupid, why not be stupid with someone who already loves you as a friend?”
We were FWB, maybe still are, but decades might pass before we pick it up again.
This egg didn't take color well. A later attempt looks much better.
Manderly
That's supposed to be a Sleep No More mask.
Jotto
He (presumably) also plays wordle now.
Playa Bats
My first burner...
Yeah...
Coffeecat
Coffee, cats, cogs, and the Core. I have already thought of other symbolism, so there'll be a second egg. Not sure how to draw “What? professors don’t motorboat!” Although that happened decades after we dated, just good friends trying to get the other to snort their coffee during a shared bus commute.
Carmen Medusa
In college, some combination of women's studies & art history made me muse about melting plastic bananas to make a post-modern Gorgon headdress. Reflecting upon it now, there is a non-trivial chance it was also inspired by the heraldry of a pretty boy I photographed walking off the Pennsic battlefield, back when I was still an undergrad. Nearly a decade later, he pretty much threw himself at me at Arisia. Still cute, but unrecognizable. “Wait, you're who?” It was a big ego boost to discover I wasn't out of his league.
Spoiler: No one is ever truly out of your league. To paraphrase a recent conversation, when you arrive in hell, you first get a list of all the people who would've been yours if you'd merely asked.
Balloon Snake
A moment with a fellow "ninnie". Still a friend.
Inspired
The Ailing Ex, about which there is so much to say...
Hopefully that Red Crescent will deter folks who might misappropriate Icelandic sigils. The semaphore references The Cure song that still reminds me of our moody matchup.
The greenish shell luckily etched beautifully to look like antiqued gold on white. The heraldic colors look stunning. More eggs in progress to try for that effect again, but eggshells are moodier than we were.
Black Lotus
The first person whose intense first impression I immediately read as "Love at first sight" or, as I now know, "stupidly obsessed against all reason". The griffins are pretty cool, but I possibly over-etched the shell in my effort to get the egg to take color better. A later egg came out much better.
The Fourth Tower
He introduced me to ZBS. "Life’s like that," says the Moon, picking its teeth with a twig."
The egg did not take color as darkly as it looks in the photo. I like the design tho, so may redo it.
Frosted Flakes
He introduced me to the SCA. He was visually intense, sharply angular. He looked like he stepped out of the marginalia of medieval scrollwork.
Cloud Report
The only 2 kids of the oldest day camp group who weren't paired off, folks naturally assigned us together. During a rainy overnight we all ended up in the YMCA gym rather than at camp. He took me to the highest point in the building we could get to, not to make out, which disappointed my tween expectations, but just to enjoy the sky.
Now his "cloud report" posts on social media are a treat.
Sick Girl (1881)
Artist: Christian Krohg
Christian Krohg’s Sick Girl has often been interpreted as a socially polemical painting, portraying the dark underbelly of modern industrial society. But more generally, the painting is a harrowing depiction of an existential theme, as succinctly captured by the art historian Jens Thiis:
“You encounter this sick child and recognize her as though she were your own, even as there is something in her eyes that recalls a sick animal. Uncomplaining, they hold you captivated, and you give in to a nebulous sense of grief, as you feel the pain of seeing her animal vitality being inexorably consumed by death.”
The neutral surroundings and simple clothes detach the image from time and space and focus our attention on the psychological content. The dying girl is heavily foregrounded, allowing the viewers to almost feel as though they are in the same room as her. We are confronted with a brutal reality, but the girl herself expresses no sorrow or despair. Krohg adhered to the ideals of realistic painting and rarely used symbols, but in this case the withering rose in the girl’s lap is an unmistakable emblem of transience.
We do not know who sat for Krohg’s painting, but there is reason to believe that the memory of his sister Nana’s illness and death in 1868 was a crucial backdrop. Krohg suffered the same fate as Edvard Munch in that he lost both a sister and his mother at a young age, and Krohg’s Sick Girl may well have been a source of inspiration for Munch’s The Sick Child (1886).
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www.visitoslo.com/en/articles/national-museum/
On 11 June 2022 the new National Museum opened in Oslo. This is the largest museum in the Nordics. The new museum now consists of the collections of the former National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.
The new museum has a permanent exhibition of about 6 500 objects. Design, arts and crafts, fine art as well as contemporary art will be exhibited alongside each other. As such, the permanent exhibition highlights interesting connections between different collections that previously have been on show at three different museums. Additionally, audiences will be able to see the most famous paintings by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, including The Scream (1893) and Madonna (1894).
The building was designed by Kleihues + Schuwerk Gesellschaft von Architekten, with emphasis on dignity and longevity over sensationalist architecture. Great care was given to achieve a balance with the museum’s surroundings and the existing monuments in the area, such as Oslo City Hall and Akershus Fortress.
The most eye-catching feature of the new museum is the large, illuminated exhibition hall on top of the building. It will be used for temporary exhibitions.
The rooftop terrace offers a unique view of the inner Oslo fjord. The square in front of the main entrance has become an urban meeting place, with benches and a café that invites you in to take a rest.
www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/visit/locations/the-national-mus...
news.artnet.com/opinion/new-national-museum-norway-2129606
www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2022/06/14/what-to-expect...
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This mannequin caught my eye because when I first spotted him (rather, them) I thought it was a family standing out in the aisle. As soon as I got closer, I realized they were just mannequins.
I am sure that at least part of the effect here is what he was wearing, and the harsh overhead lighting in the store, but I have never seen a mannequin with a thousand-yard stare like this guy.
It's like somewhere in his plastic depths, he's having an existential crisis and questioning his life choices.
Your community does not exist. Social media meets anti-social media? Or existentialism rearing its ugly head? Either way, it was a very good laugh!
This is not on my map since it does not exist. Note the date stamp on the picture - which I did not modify! - as November 30, 0000.
Sick Girl (1881)
Artist: Christian Krohg
Christian Krohg’s Sick Girl has often been interpreted as a socially polemical painting, portraying the dark underbelly of modern industrial society. But more generally, the painting is a harrowing depiction of an existential theme, as succinctly captured by the art historian Jens Thiis:
“You encounter this sick child and recognize her as though she were your own, even as there is something in her eyes that recalls a sick animal. Uncomplaining, they hold you captivated, and you give in to a nebulous sense of grief, as you feel the pain of seeing her animal vitality being inexorably consumed by death.”
The neutral surroundings and simple clothes detach the image from time and space and focus our attention on the psychological content. The dying girl is heavily foregrounded, allowing the viewers to almost feel as though they are in the same room as her. We are confronted with a brutal reality, but the girl herself expresses no sorrow or despair. Krohg adhered to the ideals of realistic painting and rarely used symbols, but in this case the withering rose in the girl’s lap is an unmistakable emblem of transience.
We do not know who sat for Krohg’s painting, but there is reason to believe that the memory of his sister Nana’s illness and death in 1868 was a crucial backdrop. Krohg suffered the same fate as Edvard Munch in that he lost both a sister and his mother at a young age, and Krohg’s Sick Girl may well have been a source of inspiration for Munch’s The Sick Child (1886).
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www.visitoslo.com/en/articles/national-museum/
On 11 June 2022 the new National Museum opened in Oslo. This is the largest museum in the Nordics. The new museum now consists of the collections of the former National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.
The new museum has a permanent exhibition of about 6 500 objects. Design, arts and crafts, fine art as well as contemporary art will be exhibited alongside each other. As such, the permanent exhibition highlights interesting connections between different collections that previously have been on show at three different museums. Additionally, audiences will be able to see the most famous paintings by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, including The Scream (1893) and Madonna (1894).
The building was designed by Kleihues + Schuwerk Gesellschaft von Architekten, with emphasis on dignity and longevity over sensationalist architecture. Great care was given to achieve a balance with the museum’s surroundings and the existing monuments in the area, such as Oslo City Hall and Akershus Fortress.
The most eye-catching feature of the new museum is the large, illuminated exhibition hall on top of the building. It will be used for temporary exhibitions.
The rooftop terrace offers a unique view of the inner Oslo fjord. The square in front of the main entrance has become an urban meeting place, with benches and a café that invites you in to take a rest.
www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/visit/locations/the-national-mus...
news.artnet.com/opinion/new-national-museum-norway-2129606
www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2022/06/14/what-to-expect...
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Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence. We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It’s an existential quality that we are losing. It’s almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.
There is, of course, something inherently romantic—if not heroic—about the extreme solitary explorer enveloped by nature. The very image of Herzog on foot recalls the iconic 19th-century paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, especially his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with its lone figure staring out at the wide vista above the clouds.
'Truth itself wanders through the forests,' Herzog writes near the end. Yet here he embroiders his memories for effect: The vast swath of geography between Munich and Paris is littered with industrial towns and cities.
Once he comes out on the other end, traversing the deforested Champs-Élysées (“We were close to what they call the breath of danger”), Herzog emerges victorious.
― Of Walking in Ice: (Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974)
by Werner Herzog
Brewery: New Holland Brewing Company
Holland, MI, USA
Web site: newhollandbrew.com/corp/beer/high_gravity
Beer style: Imperial IPA (Double IPA, IIPA)
Alcohol (by volume): 10.5%
Tasted at: home
On the 25 October 2016 Philip Hilm presented his lecture "The existential risk from artificial intelligence" at IIM (Institute of Intermedia), FEL CVUT (Czech Technical University) in Prague.
Philip Hilm had earlier an career as a professional poker player and is now an artificial intelligence researcher.
Lecture:
For further information:
IIM (Institute of Intermedia)
Hall H25 at FEL CVUT
Technická 2
CZ-160 00 Prague.
Czech Republic
Existential poem by the aspiring poet Peter Menkin, workshopped on Academy of American Poets site (Poets.org) in 2008, written around 2000.
Courtesy of Eli Klein Gallery, New York City. From the exhibit "Hot Pot: A Taste of Contemporary Chinese Art" on display at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center March 16 - June 23, 2013. For more information, visit www.brattleboromuseum.org.
Full Sail Brewing Company - Hood River, Oregon USA
Altbier (ABV 5.1%) (IBU 43)
[Suggested Glassware: Kölsch/Altbier Glass]
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Aroma: 7/10
Appearance: 4/5
Taste: 8/10
Palate: 3/5
Overall: 14/20
The pour was a clear caramel brown with a large (2-3 finger) off white pillowy head that was mostly lasting, finally receding to a large cap with excellent streaky lacing.
The aroma was nice and enticing with a toasted sweet grain malt, light floral hops and a mild doughy yeast and had hints of caramel, honey and a slight fruity ester.
The taste was good and malty with a nice caramel sweetness in the beginning, and then took on a mild fruity hoppiness with a slight bitterness creeping in at the end. The flavor hung on for a good duration proceeding the swallow with a mild citrus peel bitterness lingering for a little while longer.
Mouthfeel was a few steps above light in body with a smooth creamy texture and a somewhat mild carbonation.
Overall probably the best Altbier I have tasted to date, it was malty-sweet with a good hoppiness and a great drinkability. There is not much more one could ask for within this style...
Sampled: 9/27/2012
"The Famous Existential Crawdad Surfer of Yavapai County" Once this Crawdad commits to the big wave (the spillway at the dam at Mountain View Park in Prescott Valley, Arizona), he has become an existential hero. His choice means death. He will either be killed for some kid's dinner, picked up and eaten by a raven, or die a slow death when the wash dries out and the sun slowly cooks him. Whatever happens, he will choose to struggle and therein lies the heroic nature of any creature. To struggle, to fight to survive--this is the noblest any of us can do. Jean-Paul Sartre be with you, Existential Crawdad Surfer of Yavapai County.
Last year was overwhelming for me, emotionally and I could also say existentially. I've been thinking a lot about what really holds a meaning for me, re-evaluating everything that I always took for granted as a permanent part of "worth" and "truth", for me personally. There are so many things that seems to have lost their worth for me during the last year, and it's not just a depression - even if a loss of meaning in turn leads to depression.
One of the reasons why psychotherapy really didn't do it for me was the complete void of existential discussion, there just wasn't any room for that in my therapist's arsenal of ideas on how to improve my life & mood. Her view of the world and what is supposed to be a "functioning" human being seemed so mechanical to me. It was just as if I was a defunct robot that she could fix by reprogramming me.
It's so easy to talk about burnout, anxiety, fear of people, fear of open spaces, fear of small spaces, fear of plants even, but I wanted to talk about what it is to be human, what really holds a meaning - existential questions. Sure, it's very handy to have strategies to handle anxiety, thoughts to make you feel a little better, but it's really just a bandaid (this is just my personal feeling towards it). I wanted to talk about the core of the problem, and it seems the only place to do that is the church. With all respect to the church as such, that is f***ed up. Why even bother with therapy, if they can't address the most important question there is? It was a huge disappointment to me.
It's been a 24 month long year...
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. - Carl Jung
Artist: Robert Seth White.
Medium: Metal, Plaster, Ceramic and Wood.
Professor: Ben Appl
Honorable Mention Sculpture
can anyone id these little suckers... ? my girlfriend found these on a night dive under st leonards pier
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Due to the state of repair of the sign, I wonder if the guy on the right is not just being depicted as falling through the ice, but is actually falling out of the sign itself.
*yeah, I'm guilty of misusing "existential", but at the moment I can't think of the right word, so it will have to do.
Stopped by a fave spot last evening near sunset, calm water, the gulls in a quiet mood. One of them yawning. Nice evening! : )
The existential zoo is a retreat for those who believe that it is time to abandon LA. They have a fear of traffic lights always looking to the left and the right. Look at that man trapped in his car on a journey to some distant star. Look at that man falling out of the sky. Maybe he thinks that he can fly. There's a candle in front of wilted flowers and a picture of a dead Mexican kid. Let us use this dim light to disciver all the tragedies that have been hid. Walking alone under empty blue skies I don't like the way the land seems to lie. It's tilted a little to one side.