This photo is so crazy bc the guy on the left robbed the guy on the right at gunpoint or whatever and in the process realized he was robbing people bc he was repressing his gay feelings and they started dating and now they’re like married or something
Ladies and Gentlemen i present to you John Carpenter’s The Thing, as performed by the claymated, Antarctic cast of the hit children’s animation Pingu. Directed by Lee Hardcastle, in under 3 minutes. Noot, Noot.
Fun fact: There’s software which can tell a real Pollock painting from an elaborate forgery. How the hell is that possible? Because Pollock’s work contains fractals: infinitely complex, never-ending mathematical patterns that are specific to his work. While everyone thought he was merely dripping paint everywhere randomly like a drunken contractor you hired on Craigslist, he was in fact creating entire worlds.
So how do we know the fractals aren’t there by accident? Well, the later the Pollock painting, the richer and more complex the patterns, and thus the greater its fractal dimension. And there are even more mysteries hiding in his work. It appears that Pollock took advantage of an area of fluid dynamics scientists have only recently thought to study. This phenomenon is called “coiling,” and you’ve experienced it while dripping honey, except no one gave you millions of dollars afterward. It’s when thick fluid falls onto itself in the form of coils, similarly to rope, and creates patterns that can be described by a mathematical equation.
Anyway, in order to control the coiling, Pollock used a rod to drip the paint onto the canvas instead of pouring it straight from the can or using a brush. By mixing paints of various densities and moving his arm at different speeds, he was able to control the patterns that would show up in the final painting. Dude was doing high math and making it look like a stoner playing with finger paint.
someone with 8 million dollars owns almost 500 years of other people’s time at minimum wage. there is no fair way for that to happen. that person did not “earn” 500 years of someone else’s work.
my point here is that money is time, money is power, and our economy creates enormous disparities of power.
Even if money is tied to “usefulness” (somehow), one would need a pretty good argument to try and posit that one person is as “useful” as 500 other people.
