Twitter C/D

Sorry to this Ackman

Weird flex, bro

i thought you approved of things that hardly anyone reads! (don't worry i'm teasing)

Resistance Twitter is still rockin

i know this isn’t meant to be funny but I’m crying pic.twitter.com/cosskP1Kwf

— oatmeal influencer (@acechhh) January 12, 2024

wont someone think of the lanes

felt a huge happy surge of near-parental pride when elon described gawker as “evil to the core”

(i know only a few gawker-folk actually learnt their battle techniques at ilx but i like to think it was an important few: when musk finally goes down i want him to be mumbling "all noise dude summertime fun board and pickle bar", like instead of rosebud)

I hadn't seen that, it's glorious

bad to the bone

the fruits of a poisoned pickle bar

The Chancellor of the Exchequer personally responding to someone called "Globe Emoji Žižek Capital" is why this website is so unique https://t.co/TWMiVIPz85

— Ell Folan 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ (they/them) (@EllStats) January 13, 2024

I love you https://t.co/Gth9TCAbdG

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 14, 2024

This is fine? Though I've never done it myself

Sunday Sauce with Mom. There are raisins in those meatballs. IYKYK pic.twitter.com/mFgudcwCq0

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) January 14, 2024

I've never heard of it in meatballs, but I've made lots of Sicilian type sauces with tomato, raisins, capers, pine nuts, lots of pepperoncini, etc. Sicilian has a spicy/sweet/savory thing from the Arab influence.

I had never had it and then some friends made them later year— was rather good!

I had some over the holidays when a friend made proper ragu with a second course of stuffed brisket which had been cooked with the sauce (after browning the outside ofc).

Great sauce with a white fish as well.

I had a thought this morning

Musk’s fortunes would change and accountability for one’s Twitter feed would vastly increase if they charged you $1000 to delete a tweet

lol ackman

https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3kj43jsjzmd2q

jesus

guess that's why he's writing unreadable screeds about endorsing Dean Phillips

if ackman wasn’t worth a zillion dollars he’d be one of the many posters constantly making excuses about why they can’t be normal

i like neri oxman's art.

on chapo they said she makes "yarn art for rich people" and i don't think that is true at all.

i understand there is a broader ideological battle here where oxman and her husband are on the wrong side. this is just sort of a separate point.

agreed, her stuff has much more of a giant paper weight for rich people aesthetic

like Chihuly and any number of others, Oxman and her fans have mistaken “design” and “decor” for “art.”

That isn’t a value judgment on decor and design— we need quality stuff in those realms too!

the vast chihuly hanging piece in the entrance hall to the V&A is tbf p striking (and of course the V&A is a museum of design and decor) but these days when you view it from the nearby balcony it is often also p strikingly *dusty*: evidently they are afraid of taking feather brooms to it too often in case it comes crashing down on the reception desk below

Like that piano that used to hang suspended in the entrance to the Tate

one percent inspiration, forty-nine percent perspiration, fifty percent considering the logistics of keeping it spick and span after you've gone

I’ve always loathed Chihuly for looking like stoner wax art gentrified for the world’s most boring liberals.

(i mean i make fun of this stuff all the time, i was just trying to not be a dick)

(i don’t think Chihuly or Oxman are good designers or decorators)

https://i.imgur.com/2p6b6Xi.png

so there is no way to get rid of this ad?

close the tab

that worked

My sense of Chihuly is that his work always impresses people, but this is due to it being colorful and obviously requiring plenty of technical skill to make. But being impressed by it should not be mistaken for enjoying it. I don't enjoy it.

I think his stuff is just ugly.

The only time I found any enjoyment in Chihuly's work was touring his exhibit by the Space Needle, where it was like enveloping yourself in the stoned alien landscape and less about a kind of ugly "focal" point in another context.

that pbs chihuly documentary with the tom tom club music was pretty ok

Footage of Chihuly and his team working >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the finished product

new synecdoche for Everything Wrong With Music and/or Music Journalism just dropped

saw a chihuly exhibit once, silly stuff IMHO

like Chihuly and any number of others, Oxman and her fans have mistaken “design” and “decor” for “art.”

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, January 17, 2024 7:28 AM (eight hours ago)

on the one hand, I'd be very curious to hear your definition of these things, but otoh I have don't have any interest in either of these people's work

i am meh about chihuly’s work being art but i am more than cheered that aesthetic snobs hate it

I am not a snob, despite some past pronouncements on this site. I like all kinds of stuff in most media forms.

What I don’t like is what artless rich people, tech yups, and corporations deem “inoffensive” art, or what I would call decoration. It’s offensively bland and bad.

You’re a snob and that’s fine be proud of it

You’re a snob

As we are now dealing in labeling people, pray tell what would your label be?

i tend to agree with u table i think it is v often bland, tho sometimes it is not quite that to me. part of me is pretty enraptured by elaborate or even like, baroque process, and i think there's so much implied, necessary process in some of his pieces. and i tend to find some art in some of that necessary process, if done well. even if it is not transgressive, challenging, or offensive. even if it seems to some like mere decoration. no accounting for my bad taste, for sure.

The mask she designed for Bjork was kind of cool.

I find her self-importance far more objectionable than her art.

Yeah, that's my feelings on like 99% of the art world.

Hunt3r, that makes sense— I can admire the process behind something while also thinking it is objectively not interesting qua art. Chihuly (and much glass craft) is a good example.

In the end, I don’t really think the problem is with what’s being made— it’s that at a certain point, “craft” became a naughty word and everyone started calling the mugs they made on the weekend or the elaborate pieces that Chihuly’s studio makes “Art,” when in the past it would be described as (and admired for its) craft.

My best friend is a professional ceramicist. They make functional things and art pieces, and while both are part of their practice, there’s a huge difference between them.

Oxman exists at the point where design, craft, and technology meet. I just don’t find it very interesting, provocative, or cool— it’s empty stuff from someone who has little sense of art, but a lot of aesthetic smarts.