drawing by stage
more line drawings on his twitter
March 2018
mirrrroring tweets re: facebook
Mar 19
u were too busy making art critiquing FB to delete ur profile
Mar 21
lol u mad they used facebook as intended?
Mar 21
when you knowingly build your social life, career, etc. on the back of unethical platform capitalism, it is your responsibility to deal with the consequences of that. the communication provided by FB's ubiquity is service not a right, no one is obliged to provide an alternative. [responding to an annoying Mar 20 tweet by @jilliancyork: "The 'Just delete Facebook' crowd has always been a bunch of bros and nothing has changed. They say 'just leave' but fail to offer usable alternatives every time.]
Mar 20
the lady on NPR throwing out the heavy question “CAN YOU TRUST FACEBOOK WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? NEXT ON MORNING EDITION”
bruh we landed on ‘FUCK NO’ in like 2006
Mar 20
all the psuedo-political artists scouring Ebay rn looking for Cambridge Analytica dad hats to replace their Lehman Brothers ones
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Congratulations to @mirrrroring (Michael Manning) for his show that opened Friday at Last Resort gallery in Copenhagen, Bummer Island.
Francis Ruyter
I missed the show of Francis Ruyter's paintings at Eleven Rivington (exhibiting under his former name of Lisa) but I like these images based on Depression-era photos of scrap metal:
Francis Ruyter, John Collier: Fort Kent, Maine (vicinity). Salvage drive for scrap metal at 4:30 p.m, acrylic on canvas, 2014.
Francis Ruyter, Anne Rosener: Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. Outworn metal articles of every kind lie in a neighborhood junkyard pending segregation and shipment to a steel mill where this valuable scrap will be processed into war materials, acrylic on canvas, 2014.
The delicacy of the line and the artist's mid-range pallette functions well with the visual chaos of the discarded metal shapes, suggesting a calm order behind the jumble. A believer in predestination might say that this order existed all along, and history was "fixed" to bring all these parts to this particular state, before transitioning to the next state (possibly a battleship, since at least a couple of these were for WWII scrap drives).
Here is an uncropped example of one of these acrylic-on-canvas paintings, titled Martha McMillan Roberts. Conservation. Scrap and iron steel. Auto 'graveyard' of usable parts. Non-ferrous metals are burned out and the steel chassis and dealers. Such yards are these supply tons of scrap iron, steel, and rubber yearly, which in [sic], 2014:
Flash Art discussed the top image (the jpeg here is slightly reduced in scale).
The bottom two images (also slightly reduced) and captions came from an Artnet article on the show.
Tracktion Waveform 9 - Multi Sampler
Tracktion Software just released version 9 of its Waveform digital audio workstation. I've been learning it because it runs on Linux PCs -- one of the rare proprietary DAWs that does. Version 9 includes a new instrument called "Multi Sampler." It's intuitive and easy to work with. Essentially you drag any sound file into the sampler, cut it up, and assign it to a MIDI note. Multiple samples are assigned to keyboard zones a la Kontakt. It also records and resamples. Best of all (for me), it plays Soundfont files.
Individual sample; some light processing with filters, envelopes and LFOs is possible:
Sample being sliced in the "Record" pane:
Keyboard "zone" assignments:
The zones in the third screenshot show a Soundfont file (.sf2) version of a 1990s E-Mu synth module, Orbit 9090 v. 2. This is a kit of electro-style drum hits.
Screenshots, top and middle, were found "on the internet." The bottom screenshot is mine.