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Mon Jul 23 09:18:11 EDT 2018 Slept from eleven-thirty to six-thirty. High of eighty today. 20% chance of rain. Work: - Work on winbind notes Done. - Work on move-out photos project Done. Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Overcast. Saw a monarch butterfly. https://paulgorman.org/technical/linux-active-directory-auth.txt.html Home: - Tell Yvonne I can't make dinner on Sunday Done. - Brainstorm D&D adventure ideas Done. - Go to bed early Done. Talked to mom. This is Renny's last week before retirement. http://narrative.ly/secret-life-of-an-autistic-stripper/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17589075 > Faceblindness is common among ASD individuals. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/916ruw/a_year_on_our_experience_launching_a_paid/ https://hyperallergic.com/56801/what-does-outsider-artist-even-mean/ > What makes someone an outsider artist? Is it a question of simply being outside the art world establishment? Is it a matter of influences: someone who has studied art history and consciously absorbs the work of other artists versus someone who makes his or her art in a vacuum? Or is it, as Chayka implies in his post on Vainity, about intentions and distance — whether the creator is purposely diverging from the mainstream or just translating his or her weird vision of the world into art? > > When you break them down, none of these definitions really work. If you follow the first, you end up with vast numbers of outsider artists and a fluid category that artists can pretty easily leave behind. The second seems a bit more feasible, but also sort of false: while some artists may not follow the developments of the art world, it’s hard to find anyone truly working in a cultural vacuum these days — especially someone who uses the internet, or at least YouTube, like Vainity. As gallerist Frank Maresca, co-owner of Ricco Maresca Gallery, put it when discussing the work of self-taught artist William Hawkins an interview with New York Social Diary: > > > We consider William Hawkins to be a self-taught artist … [he] was operating outside of the art-historical continuum. He was not influenced by any other artist. But it doesn’t mean that he wasn’t influenced by popular culture. > > I struggle with the third distinction the most. If someone makes a work of captivatingly weird art, if the final product is great, does it matter whether the gesture was self-conscious or in earnest? How much does — and should — the artist’s intentions affect how we receive his or her work? I don’t know. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17586349 > The term [outsider artist] refers to people who don't try to get into the art world in-group but still create interesting things, so "outsider" is an accurate and literal description of their status. However the in-group is uncomfortable with consciously engaging with this dynamic and the dysfunction it points to, so engages in a little double-think and invents more palatable justifications for using the term "outsider". > The idea of ignoring in-group games of meaning and status, instead creating works entirely from playful self-expression, is so alien it is best left outside. https://ablogfullofdemons.blogspot.com/ https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2016/01/dungeon-checklist.html 1. Something to steal 2. Something to be killed by the PC's 3. Something to kill the PC's 4. Different paths (i.e., a non-linear map) 5. Someone to talk with 6. Something to experiment (play) with 7. Something the PC's probably won't find This looks remarkably like [my list](https://devilghost.com/rules/adventures.html#adventure-checklist). Watched _Mary and the Witch's Flower_. Lunch: coffee, steak salad Dinner: left-over salad

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