Salvador Dali visits a Modern Art Exhibition /  by Mirena Rhee

“In 1936, in Paris, I visited an exhibition of so-called abstract painting in the company of the late Maurice Heine, the erudite specialist on the Marquis de Sade, and he noticed that during the whole visit my eyes kept coming back to a corner of the exposition room in which no work was being exhibited. “You seem to be systematically avoiding looking at the paintings,” Heine said to me, “It's as though you were obsessed by something invisible!” “It's nothing invisible,” I replied to reassurehim, “I just can't help looking at that door—it is so well painted. It is by far the best painted thing in the whole exposition."

LIST OF COLORS UNSUITABLE FOR ARTISTIC PAINTING from the book of Jacques Blockx /  by Mirena Rhee

“Considering that it would be pointless to dwell at length on these colors, we will limit ourselves to pointing out those whose use is most widespread.

We will say, in substance, that among the coloring materials whose use we discourage, we include both those that rise too much in tone or that blacken, and those that fade or react with certain others by decomposing them. In a word, we reject any color that does not possess the qualities required to ensure complete stability in artistic painting.

We believe we must speak here, in a very particular way, about bitumen, which, as a pigment, is truly the worst material one could imagine. Bitumen acts on white, on madder lakes, and in general on all light toned colors laid over it, as tar would. That is to say, its oily component penetrates them and, over time, gives them a brownish tint. Bitumen never hardens. A relatively low heat softens it. It causes cracks that increase over the years, to the point of reaching several millimeters in width. We would wish for those of our readers who use this very pernicious substance to forget it entirely.

LIST OF COLORS UNSUITABLE FOR ARTISTIC PAINTING

Snow white.
Cochineal carmine.
Carmine lakes.
Calcined madder lakes.
Chrome yellows.

Note: Egyptian mummy has defects similar to those of bitumen.

Weld lake.
Stil de grain (buckthorn lake).
Indian yellow.
Zinc yellow.
Antimony yellow.
Raw sienna.
Green earth or Verona green.
Green ochres.
Paris green.
Scheele’s green.
Schweinfurt green.
Green cinnabars.
Green lakes.
Malachite green.
Cobalt green.
Mineral blue.
Prussian blue.
Violet lakes.
Umber.
Bitumen.
Egyptian mummy.
Ivory brown.

Many other colors could be added to this list, but since they are rarely prepared in oil, we do not think it necessary to mention them.”

I'm okay with prostitution, any adult can do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt other people. The problem is consent, informed and willing, not under any kind of pressure /  by Mirena Rhee

I'm sick and tired of the whole Epstein thing, it is no brainer to not have a pedophile around you, especially a registered sex offender. Why are smart and capable people doing this. So they can't pay just a regular prostitute or an escort or whatever the fuck? How about a mistress, or several mistresses? I'm open to that.

Why I no longer read the New York Times and you shouldn't either /  by Mirena Rhee

I still have no idea why anyone reads anything in the New York Times. I remember very well when they sold the Iraq war, writing hit pieces on Iraq and the WMDs. It was very early days of the internet and hard to obtain alternative information unless you went to Iraq yourself. The paper had a lot of clout in shaping public opinion. Many thousands of people died because this trusted media source told them so. Yes I'm old enough to remember this and from this point on I didn't read a single line from that newspaper without remembering that little fact. Also made sure to not pay them any attention.

They've written hitpieces not just to incite war but to destroy the lives of people, for money. One example was an artist whom I grew to understand much better by visiting the exhibitions in person. Many people would form opinions simply from reading an article rather than having the in-person experience because perhaps they can't. Not many people can fly to New York City and see the exhibitions. I now know that they've destroyed the life of this person and he died prematurely because of that. The artist is Philip Guston, and what is even eviler is they tried this again, after he died, but quickly backtracked and pretended to defend him after many artists were outraged.

They are the epitome of evil. The best way to destroy evil is not to feed it. Don't read them and don't mention them.

Why I prefer watching Movies to Podcasts /  by Mirena Rhee

Podcasts are just talk shows.

Very few podcasts are a place where you can learn something. Very few.

Watch podcasts instead of a movie they say.

Number one movies are storytelling. Storytelling beats everything else.

A movie has a production value of millions of dollars and usually is made by the collaboration of a number of very talented professionals often trained by Hollywood, to tell the story. So I'm going to take the millions of dollars story that I can consume for my spare hours rather than having to watch two people talk.

My eyeballs like to enjoy things, nice looking stuff. Good sets and good lighting. Good acting.

I will just go read the books quickly if I need to learn.

Oftentimes I need to unwind and need my brain in a soup of good feelings and movies provide that. I'm a movie superfan.

Movies take my mind off of things. Even a few of the good TV shows like Landman which I really liked. I rarely watch TV shows maybe once a year. If there's a good one.

I like my real mind to be on my stuff, not other people’s.

I really liked Landman because it was promising to be gritty but ended up a feeling good movie.

Feeling good movies for the win!

Yeah watch them consume them and rejoice.

I always make sure before I start watching that they will not sneak some horror movie on me. Sometimes they label them action movie with sci-fi but instead it's some sort of horror. Why the fuck would I need horror in my life? Especially in my unwind time? Fuck horror movies.

All hail the feel good movies.