Caramel Ripple is so dang handsome
"Wherever we go, we are friends" -Sloth and Manatee
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When you can't see, but you gotta believe
It's not possible to perceive all of everything. Also, if time didn't exist, then everything would happen at once, and what a mess that would be. And so, we are limited to our senses, and where we are, and what we're looking at, listening to, and noticing.
Sloth and (Moon)atee
Sometimes you don't see it, and then you do see it, and you're still confused
Apparently we're living in the "attention economy" where our very own brain power is being used to generate profits for other people. That's weird.
Although I've also read that what you pay attention to literally is your life, since that's what you experience, so this attention thing seems kind of important.
Many people have blathered on about how to "take back your attention" and such, and how capitalist it all is, so I won't. Instead,
Here are some things to look at for a couple seconds, just because.
Like: This goat, whose name is Caramel Ripple, who is just so dang handsome
And a dancing rainbow bear
And also a fashionable giraffe
Which is a way of saying, for everything that you're paying attention to, there's infinite other things. For every icky news story of someone being icky, there's tons of people out there quietly being not-icky. For every business-y tech-y thing out there, there's a crunchy leaf or a rain drop. For every accident, there's a happenstance. For every ice cream cone, there's an elephant. And so on.
This week I saw an installation at SFMOMA by Fernando Palma Rodriguez, a collection of kinetic sculptures that were moving around in response to far-away meteorological measurements from various parts of the Earth. I spent quite a while in there watching these sculptures do their thing.
Here is a page on the exhibit and describing the work.
One of the sculptures:
Oh! Also: I'm making a teeny animation every day in December leading up the the Solstice or so. It's like an Animated Advent Calendar, I guess. This was Day 3:
Okay! Don't forget there's veritable tonnage of cartoons available now in handy book form as well as Sloth and Manatee books and I love sending em direct to people from my book shop. With stickers!
Okay! That's enough nonsense for now.
May you get to pay attention to something ridiculous or colorful or both, may your day be filled with stuff you actually want to pay attention to, won't you be my neighbor?
-Betsy
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