imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists
Sometimes we need reminding that things that seem impossible only seem so until someone achieves them. And when someone achieves, even in an unfamiliar field, it can intrigue, it can instruct, it can inspire. Jasmin Paris, thankyou for the reminder. #smalleuropeanwoman#BM100
This is beautifully written, bleak without being depressive, and more real than Nietzsche's often quoted aphorism on resilience.
My guess - they added breather pipes to prevent a syphon issue. It's not for water coming down but air (and smells) escaping the system.
Julian May's excellent Saga of the Exiles comes to mind.
The thread brought this t-shirt to mind, combined with Meta and Apple investing huge sums in immersive tech, and people attending gigs that watch the stage through their phone screens, as we slowly move toward the world Philip K. Dick wrote about in We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.
One of the few pieces of advice I offer to anyone new or old to any artform is not to conflate suffering for your art, which is not only unnecessary but often counterproductive, with making the sacrifices that are almost always inevitable when striving for any artistic goal. 💙📚
I would say they are cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. Beautiful shot.
You could also use a colon after 'same', drop 'shops:', and wrestle with an Oxford comma, but it wouldn't improve it. Style/voice can be described as deliberatley breaking the rules. I prefer the voice of your original fragment.