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You are welcome at the [email protected] community. Currently, most submissions are people's artworks, but what you describe is also seems relevant to the community and I'd post content too if there's interest in it!
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"In my view, a lot of the general associations we have with drinking in public are negative, like drunkenness in public, drinking and driving, like drunken hoodlums, all of these things — which make the news, but aren't necessarily the only way people consume alcohol in public."
Dr. Malleck quoted here gets close to the source of the problem, which is classism.
Most mayors, city councilors, etc. are doing well financially and they own their own houses (as well as cottages, investment properties, etc.), so the idea of going to a public park to drink outside with friends seems unusual to them. They view public parks as community spaces, but only within their personal perspectives as homeowners, and therefore what is allowed in parks is restricted to class-based moral sensibilities. It's easy for Councilor So-and-So to bring her laptop to her backyard garden patio for another Zoom meeting. The line worker who just wants to sit outside with her family after 12 hours inside sorting chicken meat for Councilor So-and-So's BBQ that weekend... she was an afterthought when it comes to these kinds of public space bylaws.
This disconnect between how municipal leaders and many apartment/condo-dwelling constituents live also explains the conflicts during the pandemic when people wanted to leave the isolation of their apartments for fresh air, but homeowner leaders (with their backyards, cottage retreats, 'working' holidays, etc.) told them to go back inside and threatened them with fines.
We do we have these bylaws? Ignorance rooted in class.
Just wanted to add that The Verge article quotes from the source document, but does not include its links, etc. Here's a hyperlinked version, including some specific open source resources, which the author calls 'third faction' content: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
Hello friend -- I love your fence! Your garden patch looks like a dream. What kinds of chillis are you growing?
I just reconnected with a friend yesterday afternoon. We ended up talking for two hours and are making plans to meet in a few weeks. The 'sorry-we-lost-touch' part was brushed aside. It felt just like good old times again.
Try sending a text. Maybe your friend misses you too.
A revelation from working on this collage, definitely. We use unbleached paper filters, if anyone wants to try themselves. This filter was dyed brown from natural ink, but they stain in v/a colours.
Very interesting, thanks for the reply. Looking forward to the finished work!
Hello friend. Do you plan to paint this one with acrylics like your last piece? Liquid acrylics or a thicker medium? Please post the painting, if you decide you like it! Here's a few thoughts for the sketch:
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Love the proportions, overall composition of the field, and the layered smoke concept.
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The color scheme is interesting. How did you decide on the colour gradients for each smoke section? My immediate impression is there's slightly too much variation in smoke colour; I count at least 11 shades and that makes it harder for my eye to follow the movement of smoke from centre-front to upper-left in the frame. I would consider reducing the total variety of colours, but keep the scheme/combo: it is good!
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I would consider painting the moon with its predominant color and devote only 1/3 or less of the surface to smoke layers. The current smoke lines, which are almost vertical/horizontal, seem forced.
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Lighten the smoke layers in the smoke trail coming from the far-right house; there are a few dark purple layers near the right-side edge of the piece; if you make them more orange/salmon/red, you encourage a viewer's eye to wind from center-to-right-to-left in a motion similar to how smoke rises in the air (you've already represented that movement with the outlines).
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Darken the mid-gray color in the hinterland, as well as the two rings, of your settlement. From the viewer's perspective -- assuming this is a night scene -- those areas would be shrouded in darkness, but as a visual technique I think it would also help to focus the viewer's eye (bottom to top) on the houses, then smoke, and finally the moon. If those gradients represent a descending elevation, just make them progressively darker; an interesting twist is for the settlement to sit in a crater (i.e., ascending elevation), in which case you could tint the small rings orange/red, to reflect the glow of the coloured smoke.
Hello friend,
Most people see results after they establish and stick with a meditation routine. If you need help, Kurzgesagt has a useful video on establishing habits and routines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75d_29QWELk
Here's a simple meditation technique to start, which requires no special equipment, reading/training, etc. All you need is to sit or stand in a comfortable position that does not make you feel sleepy. The technique is counting breaths and it is the first step for many different meditation traditions.
Your goal is to count your own breaths from 1-10 in your mind without losing count. This is a repetitive exercise like gym reps, but your goal is to NOT ZONE OUT. Your target is 10: breathe in and count '1' in your mind, breathe out and count '2'... breathe in again and count '3', breathe out and count '4'. If you lose track of your count, you just reset to '1' and start again.
At the beginning, you will lose track of your count a lot. Some people take a week or more to successfully complete the first set, much less multiple sets in a row. Our minds naturally wander. Sometimes you don't even realize you lost count until you think, "Wait, what breath am I on?" That is okay... that is the point! If you keep practicing this technique you will begin to train your mind to focus and not wander, which is a major step to conquering procrastination. Once you develop this simple form of mental self-control you will be able to demonstrate other forms of self-control.
Let me know if you want to chat more about it!
I loved this game, but gosh was it difficult...
If anyone is interested, the address is 986 Bathurst Street (right between Dupont and Bathurst). It is currently staffed on Thursdays and Fridays, from noon to 6pm. Here's the website.