Seattle-based artist Moxie Lieberman spent a year “needle felting” to create “Control,” a system of gadgets comprised entirely of wool. The process comes from transforming wool fiber into felt with the use of barbed needles. The artist creates “unusually dense, solid, self-supporting” structures with this method, which takes several, several hours.
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The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy
“What is Polite White Supremacy?
Polite White Supremacy is the notion that whites should remain the ruling class while denying that they are the ruling class, politely. Affectionately, it’s called #PWS for short. It has been referred to as the Casual American Caste System, Delicate Apartheid, Gentle Oppression, or what I like to call it after a few drinks: Chad Crow, the super chill grandson of Jim Crow.
No but seriously, Polite White Supremacy is very real. So why is it that we must specifically say ‘Polite White Supremacy’ rather than Racism? We must say Polite White Supremacy for three reasons. First, saying #PWS puts the responsibility solely on the creators of a systemic problem. Second, this phrase addresses the subtlety and casualness with which oppression is administered. Thirdly, it eradicates the all-too-common confusion between racism and prejudice. It’s important to eradicate this confusion so it can be clear that racism is tied to a power structure and access to resources.”
- Yawo Brown, “The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy”
(H/T Chad Goller-Sojourner)
[Photo description: A digital drawing. In the center a screw driver. On the left, a white arm, on the right a black arm. On the left above white arm the words “screw driver. On the right above the black arm, the words “burglary tool.”
In the center over in front of the screw driver, the title “The Suble Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy” by Yawo Brown, The magical negro dot net.]
Choppy 8-degree motion in a community of lame static, depth-sorted characters. Need friction and ambient NPC movement. NPC movement will probably be pseudo force-directed (like those swanky D3 graphs), where force is given by social connection or relationship. For general character animation, it’d be nice to use the Catmull-Rom spline points that each lil blob is composed to give them squishy blob-like behavior, but I think I should probably start leaving that sort of polish for later.
