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360? Guess you didn’t enjoy any red rings of death.
360? Guess you didn’t enjoy any red rings of death.
This looks like a Borg engagement ring.
Sorry about that I’m cursed with excellent taste and unparalleled laziness.
It’s pretty straightforward but I had to look it up: https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-dance-ten-looks-three-by-audrey-landers/
That punchline got me real good.
Like “pump up kicks” though that’s more obvious.
Or:
I’m a Barbie girl in a Barbie world Life in plastic, it’s fantastic~
That’s all it takes.
So a speedrun from what actually happened.
So Christmas?
To me nothing says hedonism like the Belle Epoque.
Degas has fantastic depictions of urban leisure: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-ballet-scene-from-meyerbeers-opera-robert-le-diable-30908
This is one of my favorite paintings of the time, though you might want to pass due to the “implication”. Show me the “Manet”: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-bar-at-the-folies-bergere-207293
If you want more merry colors and simpler times then probably going back to Jan Steen might be a good idea: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/merrymaking-in-a-tavern-209153 He liked painting people having a grand time: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-interior-of-an-inn-the-broken-eggs-115662
If you like alcohol as a motive, but also seeing hedonism pushed to the metal, here’s some moral teaching in fantastic colors: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-last-day-in-the-old-home-200702
If you don’t like sermons but enjoy light: https://www.wikiart.org/en/peder-severin-kroyer/hip-hip-hurrah-1888
For maximum debauchery, Gin Lane’s your lane: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/gin-lane-1
In case you need something more Mediterranean, Triumf of Bacchus has some of that vivid face depiction Velazquez provides: https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/los-borrachos-o-el-triunfo-de-baco/4a23d5e2-9fd4-496b-806b-0f8ba913b3d8
As a piece of resistance, James Bartolacci does clubbing art: https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/James-Bartolacci_JB1006_1664490656.jpg
If there’s nothing you fancy, please let me know.
This is being known for a long long time (think 90s and before).
Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah is a great book where this is also explained, if anyone’s interested.
These captchas are getting out of hand.
What a terrible day to have internet.
Ants don’t taste, ants smell.
And also have chemical sensors that look like hair and that may sound like taste buds but they aren’t, or so I want to believe.
Plus they arrested a suspicious number of journalists, lawyers and college teachers.
Otherwise we couldn’t chin up.
They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is
I’ll say it’s been long enough since we had an Antipope.