The Christmas Thread

[IdleRich]

that bit when Munch started fucking with the first camera he owned and created art.

I do find this fascinating. There are a number of artists (obviously) who were around when cameras started becoming easily available to the general public and I've noticed that whoever they are, even those that you might think of as fairly conservative or traditional, they almost immediately start fucking with the thing, doing double-exposures and putting the film in wrong or whatever to see what happened. I've seen quite a few bits and bobs exhibited as curios in a side room when you have a retrospective of some guy's career. To me it shows how endlessly inventive many artists were in that I'm sure such a thing would have never occurred to me in years (or not deliberately) but anyone good is into it in a few seconds. I believe in fact Munch may have been trying to recreate the effect of an injured eye that he had sustained or perhaps that is someone else, whatever.

 

[catalog]

My dad got me binoculars. You'd think that would be a shit gift but they're actually amazing.

Can you see anything in the moon?

 

[catalog]

Merry belated Christmas one and all

 

[sus]

Holidays are such a time of melancholy, disappointment

It gets built up people want perfect days and don't get them, or they're so hell bent on perfection it causes conflict

Or the nostalgia of past dates

Or an image of what the day is supposed to be, warm and candles and loved ones huddled around

 

[sus]

Holidays me and my mom would always clash, growing up. Not because we were spending more time together stuck together than usual, just because she wanted, pushed for, things to be perfect, the things stop being fun and casual you know

 

[catalog]

Are you going home for Xmas spenna?

 

[sus]

Think we are gonna watch Fanny & Alexander this Christmas. I haven't seen before

 

[sus]

Are you going home for Xmas spenna?

Staying in Wisconsin. Family will come after. But it'll just be us two in the house, buried in feet of snow

 

[woops]

who can put a santa hat on my avatar

 

[catalog]

Sounds really good, that is like my wife's ideal Xmas but we have to go to family

 

[sus]

WBU Cat?

 

[woops]

i don't think i even had an avatar last year so this is like my first christmas on dissensus

 

[sus]

Ah where to? Are there white Christmases in England? I know the Dylan Thomas, they have snow in Wales

 

[catalog]

We will spend it with my family who all live local, there will be 8 of us. And then on boxing day we see my wife's mum and her new boyfriend

 

[woops]

Are there white Christmases in England?

There where were before @IdleRich emigrated, geddit lol

 

[sus]

Lol!

 

[WashYourHands]

Fillet of beef, roast spuds, limit on £ spent, films, actual sleep

New Year’s day is clan/Tribe gathering, the point is to make the midwinter period relaxed, not stressed as fuck wanting to kill

 

[version]

 

[Leo]

we're heading back to Massachusetts to stay with my sister for six days. always pretty relaxed at this point, since there are no kids and we're all just happy to still be alive.

 

[Leo]

want to avoid crowded trains, so we're renting a car. when you don't own a car, the occasional long-distance drive is fun. first you battle the city traffic to get out of the area (Waze is your friend), then kick back and cruise a straight shot up Route 95. the wife is tasked with figuring out how to sync the iPhone with the car stereo system so we can listen to the Dissensus compilation along the way.