Some of Van Gogh’s best work was done during a period of his life that he spent in a hospital being treated for his mental health problems. I could be wrong but I think Starry Night was among those.
This is consistently the case. Creators tend to do their best work when they are in a healthy place and receiving proper treatment and not being self destructive in their efforts to cope. Go figure.
All our experiences, good and bad, inform what we create, but suffering is not the price of great art. Suffering is what prevents artists from completing great art.
The story in the OP is from Hannah Gadsby’s show, Nanette. It’s on Netflix. It is an extremely good special. Go watch it if you can.
Sharing a recent commission that holds a very special place in my heart 🥹🫶
My commissions are still open!!
[Image: art of Barbie wearing an outfit in the colors of the asexual pride flag. Her dress is tight and sleeveless with a pattern of alternating rays of black and sparkly purple and large sparkly ruffles at the hem in black, gray, light purple, and dark purple. On her curled blonde hair is a flat purple cap with wide white feathers and thin black feathers. She is also wearing small white gloves, a little white scarf tied around her neck, and pearl earrings.
She is kneeling so that the ruffles on her dress cover her legs, with only her knees peeking out. She winks at the viewer, one hand on her knee and the other held in the air with a heart in the colors of the ace pride flag floating above it. /end ID]
The Barbie movie isn’t about girl power. It’s not about how women can do everything they set their mind to. It’s about how sometimes women are tired and average and that has to be okay too, because you don’t have to do everything to be worth anything. (And that this is also true of men.)
I slept in and just woke up, so here’s what I’ve been able to figure out while sipping coffee:
Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.
The official branding is that a tweet is now called “an X”, for which there are too many jokes to make.
The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn’t reclaim the username first.
The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.
Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name “X” in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for “X” in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.
The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term “X Japan” is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.
Elon had workers taking down the “Twitter” name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says “er”.
He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as “Xvideo”. Nobody tell him.
This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.
not that i didn’t want to believe you op, but i had to check that er thing out for myself, bc that just seemed too cartoonishly stupid to be real
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