Jules Breton’s “Song of the Lark” was deemed the most popular painting in America in a poll conducted in 1934. A young peasant woman stands silently in the flat fields of the artist’s native Normandy as the sun rises, listening to the song of a distant lark. It currently hangs in the Art Institute in Chicago, one of my favorite museums.
The painting was Eleanor Roosevelt’s favorite work of art; it also inspired Bill Murray to try again while he was struggling actor in Chicago.
HandCrafted Thrones will build the epic chair of your choice – whether you want to sit in one with wings, make your own music video, or to re-create the scene from Scarface.
Despite record spending of up to $500 million per year ($531 million in 2023 alone), Oregon’s homelessness is becoming even worse. In fact, it’s the worst in the nation. Oregon is now #1 in rate of homeless families.
Axios reports that Oregon’s rate of unsheltered homelessness among children is 19.9 for every 10,000 kids, according to the report, which relied on point-in-time survey data, a census count conducted on one night.
The second-ranked state, Hawaii, had a rate less than half that of Oregon, with 7.2 of every 10,000 kids experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The national average was just 1.4.
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Jesse Martin does an extreme zoomin on his art (I’m betting there’s some splicing, but it’s a great zoom-in). He also has a ‘making of’ video how he used ProCreate to do it.
Reminds me of the ‘Powers of 10’ video from 1977
The dog’s face is the best.
An ethereally beautiful and melancholy song by Emile Mosseri – Jacob and the Stone | Minari
Ranks right up there with ‘All the Beauty in the World’ from the Molly’s game soundtrack.
When teaching myself to program as a kid, my first language was type-in BASIC programs. After that, I made the very un-orthodox choice to learn assembly. I wrote a small database, a TSR (Terminate and stay resident program), and a couple other small creations.
Looks like GreatCorn did one better by writing his own game in x86 assembly.
Proof that an existential crisis is more powerful than a gun
I have written previously about the Dead Internet Theory, but this is a decent walkthrough of how the theory works. It’s up to you to decide if it’s true, but as of 2024, we do know at least half of all internet traffic is bots.
Jonathan Frakes hosted a cheesy little show called Fact or Fiction in which the viewer tries to guess if a short story is real or made up. People have had a lot of fun re-cutting the intro/outro portions to make some funny clips. Here’s some good ones.