On June 15th artists worldwide will hide mushroom paintings and sculptures for you to find. To join the hunt, follow hashtags #gameofshrooms and #shroomdrop on Instagram, check out the artists in your area and follow Attaboy for updates. If you are an artist and Artists who would like to participate, explore the How To /Guidelines.
Whatever you think of AOC, the New York Post reports:
“The progressive darling filed legislation Friday to encourage studies of psilocybin, ecstasy and other drugs that some believe could treat a range of ailments, from depression to headaches. Psilocybin is often referred to as magic mushrooms. The measure, an amendment to an appropriations bill that would fund the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, would allow the feds to spend taxpayer money on the mind-blowing experiments.” link
In this Vice animated tale, the narrator takes us on the story of her first LSD experience.
Ah, the reason that I felt so uneasy was more to do with my environment and state of mind that I had going into the experience and less to do with the acid itself.
One of my favorite past-times is scavenging the Internet Archive for open-use footage of old films, home movies, advertisements, corporate training videos, etc., and editing them along to music. This one is for a friend’s now-defunct band, Tumble Dry. The song is SXYMTN.
Here’s some events that happened!
Dates All Common Era
306 Diocletian abdicates, Constantine I claims Roman throne.
313 Constantine converts to Christianity (sees cross in sky, says Eusebius).
300s-400s Huns under Attila control Eastern Europe, Goths and Vandals weaken Roman Empire.
323 Constantine moves capital to Byzantium and renamed Constantinople. Division of Empire begins.
325 Nicene Council
334 Constantine makes Christianity state religion.
381 Council of Constantinople elaborates the Nicene Council’s condemning of Apollinarianism.
410 Visigoths sack Rome.
413-426 St. Augustine writes “De Civitate Dei.”
430 (circa) Anglo Saxons begin settling Britain.
451 Rome sacked by Vandal Genserio
476 Romulus Augustulus last Emperor of Roman Empire, gives throne to Odoacer, a Danubian German.
570 Muhammad is Born.
800 Charlemagne crowned Emperor of the West on Christmas Day.
1000 (circa) Leif Erickson’s Vikings reach Vinland.
1054 “The Great Schism” East and West Churches split.
1066 Norman conquest of England, William the Conqueror defeats the English at Hastings.
1096-99 The First Crusade, Jerusalem captured in 1099.
1147 The Second Crusade, Rallied by St. Bernard.
1163 Construction of Notre Dame begun.
1187 Saladin captures Jerusalem, leading to Third Crusade.
1194 Construction of Chartres Cathedral begun.
1202-4 Fourth Crusade
1218-21 Fifth Crusade
1228-9 Sixth Crusade
1248-54 Seventh Crusade
1270 Fifth Crusade
1267-73 Aquinas writes Summa Theologica.
1308-20 Dante’s Divine Comedy.
1337-1453 Hundred Years War between France and England
1347-50 The Bubonic Plague kills millions.
1378-1417 Later Great Schism, Rival popes in Rome and Avignon.
1429 Joan of Arc leads French victory at Orleans, has Charles VII crowned King of France.
1431 Joan of Arc burned for heresy.
1453 Turks sack Constantinople, collapse of Byzantine Empire.
Wow, things have happened!
For many (regardless of if they realize it), watching a PBS Joy of Painting with Bob Ross episode is akin to ego loss — an individual who during each “class” seemed utterly selfless, calming, soothingly optimistic, brilliant without needing credit, purely present with each moment.
Now that Ross has passed, his family and friends manage his estate. Their inventory includes 1000s of his paintings worth probably millions. Interestingly and anti-capitalistically, they don’t sell his work because, “that isn’t what Bob would want” (they do sell art supplies and classes). In fact, the employees claim selling his works hasn’t even crossed their minds. This short New York Times documentary is compelling:
via BoingBoing
A few interesting Bob Ross facts, via Biography.com:
So hot tub boats are a thing. Instead of your normal dilly dallying, why not try a superlative activity? A perfect excuse to get stoned (where it’s legal), wet, bubble and chill. I’m not sure where rentals are available outside of Seattle, but you could always buy one (or buy two and give one to me). From my experience, hopping on a boat is like hopping into a vacation. Hopping on a hot tub boat is ___________.
I’m scheduled to try one on July 4th. I’ll report back.
The Life of Death, an hand-drawn animated short by Dutch filmmaker Marsha Onderstijn. It is about “the day Death fell in love with Life” and explores the perspectives of death as beautiful and natural.
Neave.tv is like that part in movies where the character channel surfs in an aimless dreamlike meaningless void, except perhaps there is meaning in there somewhere. Neave streams VHS lo-fi style videos, and a mouse click or phone tap moves on to the next one with no possibility of rewind. They are weird, creepy, surreal, transitory, silly and maybe addictive. I find them most compelling without sound in a random browser tab. I do work or other browsing and hop over every now and then to see what’s weird.