noneofthisisreal

I sat down and I started making these 18-inch-high kites, teaching myself step by step. This was pre-internet, before YouTube tutorials, so I had a bunch of books. I would build one and go to Grant Park across the street and fly it, and then it would crash in a certain kind of way, and you have to think, why did it crash? So I’d go back to the studio, build another one. I ended up building 45 or 50 of these things, and they were all thumbtacked over the big wall that I was supposed to be using to make paintings. I was in the painting program, so I felt an obligation to make paintings. Amy Sillman was one of my professors at the time, and I talked to her about it, and she was like, “You don’t need to make anything you don’t want to make! This stuff is so much better than your paintings.” At the time, I was huddling in the corner and, like, shaking, very concerned about how I was going to finish that program. At some point, I went into the studio to clear off the wall and make the paintings for real. I hooked a paper clip onto each one of these kites, put a wire across the studio, and I hung them from this wire. There was this big row of them hanging from the ceiling like Chinese lanterns or something. I started making the paintings, and I remember sitting on my bench, drinking my tea one day and looking at my terrible paintings. I looked up at the string of kites, and I was like, yeah, I could totally do something with those! It was kind of what I was trying to do with the painting but couldn’t do

When butterflies get together like this, it's usually to slurp up some nutritional goodies from an unexpected source—like, oh I don't know, animal pee. This behavior is often called "puddling" or "mudding", though the insects don't just suck on damp earth. To get missing nutrients like sodium which aren't common in the nectars they usually drink, they'll sip up turtle tears, fecal fluids, and even the juices from rotting corpses. So they're certainly not above a nice little pee puddle if it contains what they're looking for—and it does. There's sodium in basically all urine because it's used to draw the fluid from the body, though the amount varies.

The Cherokee syllabary (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ ᏗᎪᏪᎶᏙᏗ, romanized: Tsalagi Digohwelodohdi) is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he was illiterate until its creation.[3] He first experimented with logograms, but his system later developed into the syllabary. In his system, each symbol represents a syllable rather than a single phoneme; the 85 (originally 86)[1] characters provide a suitable method for writing Cherokee. The letters resemble characters from other scripts, such as Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Glagolitic, but are not used to represent the same sounds.