You'd probably believe me if I said this painting was done in 2022.
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) June 26, 2022
Actually it's from 1566.
So let's explore the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an inventive painter centuries ahead of his time:
(they get even stranger than this…) pic.twitter.com/O75xLX8zY8
I sometimes want every person to make art. But especially the most distinctive people. People who are extremely themselves – I love. There is perhaps no more valuable quality
— ππππππππππππ (@michaelcurzi) June 18, 2022
Writing is better than therapy for a lot of people because thereβs no substitute for the felt experience of your own power to privately crystallize a new self
— Sasha Chapin (@sashachapin) June 2, 2022
Last night, Bill Maher went on a rant about comic books & those who love them & the generation (it rhymes with Schmelennials!) that uses words like #adulting & doesnβt want to give up the things they loved as kids or grow up
— Catherynne M. Valente (@catvalente) January 26, 2019
Well my name is Miss Valente & I got something to say
I think my best stuff emerged from low-value time that I had the option to just waste entirely. Itβs wonderfully liberating when your only goal is to have more fun than doing nothing at all, and youβre just feeding free time/energy into imagination and seeing what comes out.
— Venkatesh Rao βοΈ (@vgr) March 5, 2022
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) July 14, 2021
100 tweet thread of 100 things Iβve done x100 or otherwise am thinking of doing
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) February 3, 2021
Beauty is a powerful thing, almost as powerful as money, nearly as powerful as a gun. The only difference is that Beauty is subtle in the way it makes its power manifest in the world.
— Gas Station Barbie (@GasBarbie) September 5, 2021
my teenage self would be very satisfied to know that my "job" involves very earnestly asking things like "what are questions" and "what are problems"
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) November 7, 2021
I have not yet truly accepted in my heart that I cannot ship the book I have in my mind, I can only ship the one I have in my hands, and that will have to be enough for now
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) November 18, 2021