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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 5h

I did some work on the Art Review Generator and it is back online after a short break. artreviewgenerator.com

Art Review Generator

A tool to generate and analyze language used to describe fine art.

artreviewgenerator.com

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 12h

Sitting on the right meant you supported reformed monarchy and a new blend of institutions that centered aristocracy. If you stood or sat in the middle you were in the "swamp".

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 12h

The political terms left and right come from one meeting in a specific building in 1789. It was a royal horse riding ring made to teach princes how to ride. The French revolutionaries gathered there. Sitting on the left meant you wanted all new governance by the people.

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 12h

cahiers de doléances – notebooks of grievances (what's in yours?)

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 13h

Sentence of the day from my book on pre-revolutionary France: "while the elite agonized, French people learned to read."

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 1d

www.ircam.fr

Ircam

Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique et Musique

www.ircam.fr

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 2d

"Today's artist lives in an era of dissolution without guidance. He stands alone. The old forms are in ruins, the benumbed world is shaken up, the old human spirit is invalidated and in flux towards a new form. We float in space and cannot perceive the new order." – Walter Gropius, 1919

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 4d

plantuml.com

Open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw beautiful UML diagrams.

Easily create beautiful UML Diagrams from simple textual description. There are also numerous kind of available diagrams. It's also possible to export images in PNG, LaTeX, EPS, SVG.

plantuml.com

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 4d

madness, as a distinct mental state, was an invention of the mid-1500s. The first mental hospital was Bedlam, in London. The French were the first to split prisons into criminal and psychiatric institutions, which had enormous benefits to mentally ill people. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem...

Bethlem Royal Hospital - Wikipedia

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 4d

dithyramb – an over the top statement or speech with poetic flourish

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 5d

crowd reactions at my train station performance

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 5d

If you reach a goal by compromising your values, you haven’t succeeded.

If you fall short of a goal by upholding your values, you haven’t failed.

The highest form of accomplishment is standing by your principles when they’re tested.

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 7d

For someone rejecting aesthetics she sure made some wild sports clothing

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 7d

Interesting to look at AI art debates through the lens of Russian Constructivism. Art at the service of the state becomes just another tool, another machine.

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 7d

"Technology and experimental thinking will take the place of aesthetics. Art will be purged." – Varvara Stepanova en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varvara...

Varvara Stepanova - Wikipedia

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 8d

www.buchstabenmuseum.de/en/

BUCHSTABENMUSEUM - Buchstäblich Berlin

Das Buchstabenmuseum ist das erste Museum weltweit, das Typografie aus dem öffentlichen Raum sammelt und als Teil der Stadtgeschichte präsentiert.

www.buchstabenmuseum.de

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 9d

liahgreenfeld.com/books/nation...

Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity

Book Description by Harvard University Press Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. It accomplished the great trans…

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 9d

www.lichtkunst-unna.de/en/tickets

Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst Unna

www.lichtkunst-unna.de

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 9d

70s punk icon Soo Catwoman has passed. Her family is collecting donations for her funeral. www.gofundme.com/f/soo-catwom...

Donate to Soo Catwoman Funeral Expenses and Memorial Fund, organized by Shem Lucas

Hello, We are Shem and Dion Lucas, the children of Susan Lucas, known a… Shem Lucas needs your support for Soo Catwoman Funeral Expenses and Memorial Fund

www.gofundme.com

lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 11d

d) patterns of parallel consumption with engagement timers. They probably haven't watched many movies all the way through either, without multitasking. Even though they might binge watch 2 seasons of a streaming show, they aren't actually watching all of it, they are binge multitasking.

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