EAST 'N' ROLL

A probléma, hogy a szabályozás végrehajtása az országok kezébe került és nincs rá egységes rendszer. Ez sem kéne hogy rossz legyen feltétlenül, csak hogy az összes ország full egyedi módon kezeli a kis és mikro vállalkozásokat. Van, aki eleve nem foglalkozik a kicsikkel, van ahol a kicsik minimális díjért működhetnek, de van csomó ország, ahol a hozzánemértők hozták meg a helyi szabályokat és a miniket egy kalap a tették az óriási gyártókkal.

Az EU közben próbál már kiigazítást adni, hogy a kicsik igazából nem számítanak gyártóknak, de ettől még mindig csomó probléma nem oldódott meg. És persze most pánikol az összes kis és mikro gyártó.

Nem gondolom amúgy, hogy a következő pár hónapban bármi negatív (büntetés) éri majd ezzel kapcsolatban a kicsiket, egy picit most túl van aggódva ez az egész (nagyon sokan jelentették be hogy nem szállítanak majd ide/oda), de nem baj, mert így legalább felhívja a figyemét a törvényhozóknak, hogy ezzel valamit kezdeni kell. Szerintem ősszel módosítani fognak a szabályozáson, az EU ehhez itt várja a visszajelzéseket:

To The Parking Attendant Who Asked What I Was Doing

lol they only want bigot to the second degree

congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!

Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?

An early exploration of the themes Hokusai would keep coming back to is Spring in Enoshima, done in 1793 when he was 33. The wave is small and there are no boats, but Mt Fuji is clear in the background, and Enoshima is in Kanagawa, so we are clearly beginning to work towards something here.

A second pass, eleven years later in 1803 when he was 44. The title of this one begins to get more familiar: The View of Honmoku Off Kanazawa. It has a towering wave over a smaller boat, but Mt Fuji is not present, and the boat is considerably larger and has a sail. But the feeling of danger in the wave and the smallness of the boat are here, and of course the general composition is definitely recognizable.

This is A View Of Express Delivery Boats, done in 1805, merely two years later at age 46. Here we find the wave and the boats almost exactly as we'll find them in The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, though Mt Fuji isn't present, and the location is uncertain. And it's a good picture! The wave is threatening, the boats are small -- but the feeling of "ocean" isn't really there yet, is it? It's unlikely this picture would have become a classic for the ages. But that's okay, there's still time.

And here we have it, a full 26 years later, done by Hokusai in 1831 at the age of 72. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, one of the most recognizable pieces of art in the world. The boats are there, the mountain is there, the wave is there, and the FEELING is there. He did it! He reached the apex of his ongoing motif and theme!

Or did he? Because the whole point of a motif is not that you're striving to get to the perfect version of it, the one idealized image you carried in your head all along, and when it is done, you are also done. Hokusai is on record at the age of 73 saying he'd only just begun to feel like he was learning how to draw things properly, and that "if I keep up my efforts, I will have even a better understanding when I was 80 and by 90 will have penetrated to the heart of things. At 100, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live decades beyond that, everything I paint — dot and line — will be alive." He had drawn The Great Wave, but he didn't believe he was finished -- he thought that he was still just beginning to get started.

And he wasn't finished with his ocean motif, either. Please check out his Mt Fuji At Sea, done in 1834 at the age of 75.

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