crazy how much this plaza in new orleans, a popular example of postmodern architecture (1970s), really looks like walking through an educational 90s computer game. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/16f3e86438b90b472eab4bc2d59990de89a5a480f320b2e1d0ec7253470ab84e.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c2bffbe0254fe8fc9c131c23ec1f9e7884daf6ef6b01461dc41fd33e6c1cb3ac.file

learning about fonts has a cursed dimension to it. there is a large old cemetery i pass while driving. they put up a new sign at the front. its in helvetica. truly painful every time. it would be better not to have this knowledge.

in the lab grinding out the last touches on our next book so, here’s another rejected new yorker cartoon. with this one i was straight pandering. i just imagined being the 40 something female editor who reads these submissions. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/bb3de32cf3680bb4ccfcd109d776fec7c560822fdce61cd368579491d74e43f0.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9cba59983185804eb3849b47261cb5106e9749e4e8838ba9608b3cf2ccac0373.file

everyone wants to go on their phone and read “crazy stuff” until they go on their phone and read crazy stuff. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6f5df493180b7fca60e59ad1404d2f010df45ba3793bd0746283dca1ae5c0328.file

his book is great, its pretty much the definitive text on what its title describes: how colors interact with one another. i would describe it as essential. he said something like: the fall foliage in the US was something anyone interested in color should experience. noteworthy. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5e9af6d84a7e5811d29e3140571e70d00af41fc22ac527db1d8793b443fbd42b.file

so in his studio he just had hundreds of tubes of paint, buying the same hues and colors from different manufacturers, thus providing the slight variations and differences he would need, but could then also deploy again reliably. in his work, which has a scientific dimension. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/821174b572b4dff85645b3233d784923b7205428c83fdc9a858f72ba65904f0a.file

this has always been a subtle flex for me and something i think about at this time of year. his obsession with studying color was so extreme he never mixed paint for his paintings - because technically, you would never get the same exact color again. its not an exact process.

joseph albers’s speciality was color. his paintings (left), obviously modern art, are really something like a scientist making objects that explore how color works. in his book, ‘on the interaction of color’, he says the northeastern US has the best fall foliage in the world. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/50419af73893881e7763b3bb9e7d0a4d1c6c79c2ad140f5ef3fa02f9599c1648.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6de134dae47cb8a91abf1cc7d9f65bda95bf6c097ce32471b6e4b3aa883f10b4.file

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its sort of a game of chicken. for a huge organization to address a particular individual, even if its with something punitive, elevates them and calls attention to them. its somewhat absurd to imagine the vatican taking time to chastise a youtuber - yet, this may be inevitable.