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"Shepherds camping in the fields, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we Muses know how to say many deceptive things looking like genuine things, but we also know how, whenever we wish it, to proclaim things that are true." (Th. 26-28)
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"What’s missing now is the imagination to reject art that trades in well-worn formulas, stock emotions, and immediate comprehensibility and pursue work that expands the possibilities of human perception. Doing so requires creators to strive for complexity, ambiguity, and formal experimentation"
Restoring cultural invention doesn’t require upending the current industries—it just needs a small vanguard to change its direction, writes W. David Marx:
21st-Century Culture Has Hit a Wall. Here’s How to Break Through.
Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than the boring stuff.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
"What’s missing now is the imagination to reject art that trades in well-worn formulas, stock emotions, and immediate comprehensibility and pursue work that expands the possibilities of human perception. Doing so requires creators to strive for complexity, ambiguity, and formal experimentation"
@edrybicki.bsky.social a special treat
Hear the First Live Performance of the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar:” Recorded at the Fateful Altamont Free Concert in 1969
Hear the First Live Performance of the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar:” Recorded at the Fateful Altamont Free Concert in 1969
Stone ripped into Time, Life, Newsweek, the New York Times for their coverage of the 1969 Altamont Free Concert: “When the news media know what the public wants to hear and what they want to believe, ...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Absolutely essential information:
A Database of Paper Airplane Designs: Hours of Fun for Kids & Adults Alike
A Database of Paper Airplane Designs: Hours of Fun for Kids & Adults Alike
Though we can trace the history of paper aircraft back 2000 years to the Chinese and their kites, and into the 19th century with the French and their imaginary airships, the origin of the modern paper...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Absolutely essential information:
I wonder if this is how the ancient Greeks felt just watching their lives get absolutely rag-dolled time and time again by their useless idiot gods
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"There they are, poised to descend from the topmost peak of snowy Olympus. That is where they have their bright dancing-places and their beautiful abodes. Near them the Kharites [Graces] and Himeros [Desire] have their abodes, amidst festivities."
Hesiod, Theogony 62-65
Hesiod, Theogony 62-65
Stephen Halliwell "Greek Gods and the Archaic Aesthetics of Life"
YouTube video by Boston University
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November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"There they are, poised to descend from the topmost peak of snowy Olympus. That is where they have their bright dancing-places and their beautiful abodes. Near them the Kharites [Graces] and Himeros [Desire] have their abodes, amidst festivities."
Hesiod, Theogony 62-65
Hesiod, Theogony 62-65
Artist William Kentridge discussing Philip Guston's "The Studio" (1969):
"it's a double self-portrait. You've got the artist painting the artist, painting the artist. So it's a painting about what happens in the studio."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_0a...
"it's a double self-portrait. You've got the artist painting the artist, painting the artist. So it's a painting about what happens in the studio."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_0a...
William Kentridge responds to Philip Guston’s 1969 work, ‘The Studio’
YouTube video by Hauser & Wirth – Art Gallery
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November 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Artist William Kentridge discussing Philip Guston's "The Studio" (1969):
"it's a double self-portrait. You've got the artist painting the artist, painting the artist. So it's a painting about what happens in the studio."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_0a...
"it's a double self-portrait. You've got the artist painting the artist, painting the artist. So it's a painting about what happens in the studio."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_0a...
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"Kleio Play"
In Hesiod's catalogue of Muses in the "Theogony", the first Muse he names is Kleio. Her name derives from 'kleos' a term that denotes an account of significant events that a singer receives from the Muses (who witnessed it) and transmits to an audience (who imagines it).
In Hesiod's catalogue of Muses in the "Theogony", the first Muse he names is Kleio. Her name derives from 'kleos' a term that denotes an account of significant events that a singer receives from the Muses (who witnessed it) and transmits to an audience (who imagines it).
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Kleio Play"
In Hesiod's catalogue of Muses in the "Theogony", the first Muse he names is Kleio. Her name derives from 'kleos' a term that denotes an account of significant events that a singer receives from the Muses (who witnessed it) and transmits to an audience (who imagines it).
In Hesiod's catalogue of Muses in the "Theogony", the first Muse he names is Kleio. Her name derives from 'kleos' a term that denotes an account of significant events that a singer receives from the Muses (who witnessed it) and transmits to an audience (who imagines it).
"When a year was up, and the seasons came round as the months were waning and the many days were coming to fulfillment, she [Mnemosyne] gave birth to nine daughters, all like-minded, who have song on their minds, in their breast. They have a thūmos without worries."
(Hesiod Theogony 58-61).
(Hesiod Theogony 58-61).
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"When a year was up, and the seasons came round as the months were waning and the many days were coming to fulfillment, she [Mnemosyne] gave birth to nine daughters, all like-minded, who have song on their minds, in their breast. They have a thūmos without worries."
(Hesiod Theogony 58-61).
(Hesiod Theogony 58-61).
"They [the Muses] were born to be the forgetting of misfortunes and the cessation of worries. For nine nights did Zeus the Planner lie coupled with their mother [Mnemosyne/Memory], entering her holy bed, remote from the immortals."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_My...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_My...
Lascaux Virtual Tour
YouTube video by Gaven borrego
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November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"They [the Muses] were born to be the forgetting of misfortunes and the cessation of worries. For nine nights did Zeus the Planner lie coupled with their mother [Mnemosyne/Memory], entering her holy bed, remote from the immortals."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_My...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_My...
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As threatened, here is a very non-slick video of Melpomene in action.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
As threatened, here is a very non-slick video of Melpomene in action.
"They are the Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Zeus. They were born in Pieria. The father was Zeus, son of Kronos. Their mother, who mated with him, was Mnemosyne [Memory], who rules over the heights of Eleuther."
(Hesiod, Theogony. 50-55)
(Hesiod, Theogony. 50-55)
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
"They are the Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Zeus. They were born in Pieria. The father was Zeus, son of Kronos. Their mother, who mated with him, was Mnemosyne [Memory], who rules over the heights of Eleuther."
(Hesiod, Theogony. 50-55)
(Hesiod, Theogony. 50-55)
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About bloody time.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
About bloody time.
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"The 2024 Oxford Ancient Languages Society performance of Euripides' Orestes. In the original Ancient Greek, with a freshly edited text and a complete new musical score, written in accordance with all that is known of Euripidean music."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
Euripides' Orestes (Complete Ancient Greek Tragedy)
YouTube video by Oxford Ancient Languages Society
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October 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"The 2024 Oxford Ancient Languages Society performance of Euripides' Orestes. In the original Ancient Greek, with a freshly edited text and a complete new musical score, written in accordance with all that is known of Euripidean music."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hk...
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Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
They sing how much he is the most important of the gods and the greatest in power. Then again, they sing of the genos of men and of the strong Giants, thus pleasing the noos of Zeus, who abides in Olympus.
Hesiod, Th. 49-50
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dd...
Hesiod, Th. 49-50
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dd...
The Gigantomachy on the Athena Parthenos Shield
YouTube video by ascsathens
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September 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
They sing how much he is the most important of the gods and the greatest in power. Then again, they sing of the genos of men and of the strong Giants, thus pleasing the noos of Zeus, who abides in Olympus.
Hesiod, Th. 49-50
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dd...
Hesiod, Th. 49-50
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dd...
a matter of reverence, starting from the beginning, telling about who were generated from Earth [Gaia] and the vast Sky [Ouranos], and what gods, givers of good things, were born from them. Next, they sing of Zeus, father of gods and men, both when they begin and when they end their song.
(Th.44-48)
(Th.44-48)
September 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
a matter of reverence, starting from the beginning, telling about who were generated from Earth [Gaia] and the vast Sky [Ouranos], and what gods, givers of good things, were born from them. Next, they sing of Zeus, father of gods and men, both when they begin and when they end their song.
(Th.44-48)
(Th.44-48)
Glad is the palace of father Zeus the loud-thunderer over the delicate voice of the Muses which reaches far and wide. It echoes against the peaks of snowy Olympus and the abodes of the immortals. And they send forth an immortal voice as they give kleos first to the genos of the gods
Hes., Th.40-44
Hes., Th.40-44
Amalgamation Choir | Live at the Library - Nanourisma (Kato Italia)
YouTube video by Louvana Records
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September 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Glad is the palace of father Zeus the loud-thunderer over the delicate voice of the Muses which reaches far and wide. It echoes against the peaks of snowy Olympus and the abodes of the immortals. And they send forth an immortal voice as they give kleos first to the genos of the gods
Hes., Th.40-44
Hes., Th.40-44
They tell of things that are, that will be, and that were before, having their words fitted together as they sound forth. And their voice pours forth without ever being worn down, coming sweetly from their mouths.
(Hesiod, Th.36-39)
(Hesiod, Th.36-39)
September 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
They tell of things that are, that will be, and that were before, having their words fitted together as they sound forth. And their voice pours forth without ever being worn down, coming sweetly from their mouths.
(Hesiod, Th.36-39)
(Hesiod, Th.36-39)
But why should I care about those things that keep going around an oak or a rock? Listen! Let me begin with the Muses, who please Zeus the father with their song, pleasing his great nóos as he abides in Olympus.
(Hesiod, Th. 35-36)
(Hesiod, Th. 35-36)
September 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
But why should I care about those things that keep going around an oak or a rock? Listen! Let me begin with the Muses, who please Zeus the father with their song, pleasing his great nóos as he abides in Olympus.
(Hesiod, Th. 35-36)
(Hesiod, Th. 35-36)
Foil Arms and Hog take the Roman citizenship test:
September 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Foil Arms and Hog take the Roman citizenship test:
Then they breathed into me a voice, a godlike one, so that I may make glory [kleos] for things that will be and things that have been, and then they told me to sing how the blessed ones were generated, the ones that are forever, and that I should sing them [the Muses] first and last.
(Th. 31-34)
(Th. 31-34)
September 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Then they breathed into me a voice, a godlike one, so that I may make glory [kleos] for things that will be and things that have been, and then they told me to sing how the blessed ones were generated, the ones that are forever, and that I should sing them [the Muses] first and last.
(Th. 31-34)
(Th. 31-34)
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Aristophanes has come to BlueSky
September 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Aristophanes has come to BlueSky
That is how they spoke, those daughters of great Zeus, who have words that fit perfectly together, and they gave me a scepter, a branch of flourishing laurel, having plucked it. And it was a wonder to behold.
(Hesiod, Th. 29-31)
(Hesiod, Th. 29-31)
September 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
That is how they spoke, those daughters of great Zeus, who have words that fit perfectly together, and they gave me a scepter, a branch of flourishing laurel, having plucked it. And it was a wonder to behold.
(Hesiod, Th. 29-31)
(Hesiod, Th. 29-31)
Shepherds camping in the fields, base objects of reproach, mere bellies! We [Muses] know how to say many deceptive things looking like genuine things, but we also know how, whenever we wish it, to proclaim things that are true.
(Hesiod, Th 26-28)
(Hesiod, Th 26-28)
![Greek Archaic Period bronze figurine depicting a shepherd (2nd half of 6th century BCE). The shepherd's cloak is fastened with a large pin. An inscription on the base reads: "Phauleas dedicated [it] to Pan."
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248079](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7pi66iqpp7rrtrv43qosseer/bafkreigij6gab4ljmsjcn2hu4qs7eg5wwxj42cpq5akku5hrrvb7aezilm@jpeg)
September 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Shepherds camping in the fields, base objects of reproach, mere bellies! We [Muses] know how to say many deceptive things looking like genuine things, but we also know how, whenever we wish it, to proclaim things that are true.
(Hesiod, Th 26-28)
(Hesiod, Th 26-28)