Thunderstorms and Neon Signs

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It’s been said that we still have only the crudest understanding of ghosts. Here are a thousand vintage ghosts I’ve invited over.

It's possible to criticize capitalism without being fucking stupid you know

Good criticisms of capitalism:

Large companies taking advantage of cheap labor and under-regulated manufacturing in impoverished countries

Regulations that push small businesses into bankruptcy but allow giant ones to just continue growing and swallowing smaller ones

Overall unhealthy work culture that pushes 8+ hour days with few to no opportunities for vacation or even medical leave at times

Addendum to unhealthy work culture: convincing people that their careers are more meaningful than any of their human relationships

You don’t have to be a communist to criticize capitalism y’all 

Healthy market regulation is important to curtailing the excesses of capitalism, desiring them is possible without wanting to be socialist or communist, there are answers that don’t require a bloody revolution and the death of free markets.

Val D'Orcia

breathe.

Paul Lothar Müller (1869-1956), ‘Frog concert’ (Frog concert), “the peepshow”, 1909

mutuals! do this 👆

FRICHES

Samedi prochain, c'est déjà l'événement de clôture de FRICHES, avec une visite des friches et le cocktail de finissage au Centre d'art Jacques et Michel Auger. Ce sera l'occasion pour moi de retrouver ma meule et de voir comment elle s'est maintenue lors de ce dernier mois passablement pluvieux. J'ai très hâte de retrouver la friche et de pouvoir comparer les deux parties du champ, celle dont j'ai fait la fenaison en juillet et celle restée intacte. Je suis aussi très impatient de découvrir les friches et les nouvelles oeuvres de Karine Locatelli, Angela Marsh et Sonia Reboul. Vivement la fin de semaine prochaine, en souhaitant vous y voir en grand nombre!

Wild Chamomile

Snowy Highway, 1960s

I’ve always wanted to animate something sheep-related and here it is.

There will be more, but animation is very time consuming.

I say this in the most endearing way, last looks like puffed wheat running away

every now and then you strike gold in comment sections of obscure websites

thanks p-dawg

Horseback riders in Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.

Oregon

1960

a very high premium is placed upon individual liberty in a Democratic Republic. But in the final analysis, freedom simply means the right to choose our own obligations. There is no “absolute freedom”. In fact, in a certain sense free men will always be more bound then men in an authoritarian state. They will always have more and deeper obligations than a slave of the state. The owner of a big business does not merely work 8 hours a day  he carries the responsibility of that business throughout his waking hours. It is his own personal charge. The members of a family are thoroughly obligated to, and responsible for one another in a free society in which the state does not see to every need of the citizens. They are bound to one another rather than bound to the state. It is therefore no coincidence that in many of the nations with the largest social welfare systems in the developed world, the family itself is the most in tatters. Leftist social thought has always worked to undermine the sense of obligation and commitment to the elements of the private sphere.  For the radicals of the 1960s,  marriage was a form of bondage and free commercial enterprise an evil. 

But the sweetest and most fulfilling joys of this life are those bonds which we first CHOOSE to be tied to. And they are the bonds that truly own us.