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Tues. August 18, 2020: Die For Tourist Dollars Day 90 — Grief To Art Launches

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 New Moon Pluto Retrograde Jupiter Retrograde Saturn Retrograde Neptune Retrograde Uranus Retrograde

Grief to Art Today is the official launch of Grief to Art: A Site for Collective Mourning, which is my response to the grief from the thousands of deaths from the virus to which our government is indifferent. I hope you will take a look around, share the information, and…

FEATURES- CHEVY WAITING TO STRIKE – David Hall 1970 Chevy Nova

Most of us are familiar with the idea of hibernation. You know the drill: animals bury themselves deep in a hole and sleep through the winter. Hibernation is an energy-saving measure that allows the critter to survive long periods of time when food is typically scarce.

However, some animals like snakes who live in milder climates don’t actually sleep—they stay awake all winter looking for the…

It is obvious that we essentially market ourselves on our social media, It is less obvious how exactly we do it and what these iterations of our identities have to do with our “true selves”. 

The meme that divides images of ourselves, characters or celebrities into 4 squares depicting how we present on different social media is emblematic of a culture dealing with becoming self aware. It is an assumed but generally unspoken truth that almost everyone with an online presence now does their own PR, making the “content creators” and artists among us not so different from anyone else. But how, as we become increasingly sophisticated image makers, are we dealing with the fragmented way in which we market ourselves for our different purposes?

The meme generally follows a pattern of assumptions about what the different platforms are; Facebook is family friendly, LinkedIn is obviously professional, Instagram is posed and pseudo expressive and Tinder is where we try to look hot.

LinkedIn in particular is a peculiar one in this day and age. We list our qualifications and expertise with a nice professional image of ourselves, as if the employer cannot easily find us many of us being a deranged mess with questionable politics on the rest of the internet. Professionalism, with it’s old fashioned limited scope seems as though it should be redundant, yet people still subscribe to it. The relevance of a professional image is questionable because there are now many other ways to signal credibility; we may show our social status via careful selection of images or our virtuous sense of ethics by public displays of philanthropy - we may even choose to subvert expectations, displaying our understanding of the game and conscious rejection of it.

Facebook is an archaic but enduring platform that most of us will keep because of the amount of connections we have on it. It’s the default one you are expected to have where nothing vital happens but may be extremely useful on occasion. It is also the one where we have the most integrated, though potentially blandest, presentation of personas.We amass “friends” over great lengths of time and enjoy being celebrated every now and then for major life events. It’s also where Generation X to late Baby Boomers seem to now dominate; sharing lengthy posts of political outrage, personal anecdotes and life updates. it is best suited to this age group due to their longer, less visual, attention spans and love of newspaper/water cooler conversation-like taste for current affairs.

Instagram is Facebook for a more visual era. For those who know how to use it, Images are chosen either carefully or deliberately un-carefully and words are more poetry than prose. The captions we use are sometimes merely descriptive, through they are often more witty and indirectly related to the images. The posts themselves seem to be becoming poem like and indirectly sensical, with the multiple picture function being used increasingly to group things together that would have different meanings if they we’re separate. I’d argue that out of all the platforms, its currently the most vital means of self presentation, with a large element of it’s success being in it’s unspoken nature. (oops)

Tinder, in the context of this Meme is more like a symbol of dating apps as a whole, which though they may vary in function are are virtually identical in use of images. Dating apps are where we try to look hot, but they’re also where we must signal they we are not an axe murderer and are capable of being balanced enough to get involved with. Part of this balance is the balance of authenticity and conformity. And because this is a potentially sensitive area where we may be quite insecure, our communication tends to be very basic; people will show a photo of a them with a dog, a pic with friends (to display that we indeed have friends) and bunch of other tropes depending on how we wish to perceived. The basic stuff must be laid out plainly - the only exception being if you take a more niche high risk, high return strategy that only a select type of person will appreciate.

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Hello everyone and good morning! So today I want to share my bucket list and things to do before I die. I have been thinking a lot of things and what I really want to do for myself or mybe with a few member (friends, family and my fiancé)

So here we goooooo!

Arts

See musical.

Enter in an Art Exhibit.

Go to a famous singer concert.

Be a fashinable and can duplicate an outfit from magazine.

Own Armani Clothing.

Get my own professional camera

Have my potrait painted.

Dance in the rain.

Go to disneyland.

Travel

Travel 5 countries (Ireland, Greece,Italy,Iceland and Amsterdam)

Travel with my friend, my love or alone.

Visit a castle.

Travel by a Vaporetto through the Grand Canal, Venice.

Eat Seafood in Venice.

Live in Dublin with my love.

Others

Go to gaming festival

Go to Comic Con.

Collect polaroid.

For Me

Take a photo of all of these.

Create a Bucket List Journal.

Things to do before I die 

Visit the 5 continents

Travel to at least 10 countries.

Learn at least 3 language.

Live in another country

Go surf or learn surfing.

Go kayaking

Bungee-jumping.

Skydiving

Horse riding

Go to a great festival.

Dye my hair (Probably I do this after I done with my degree)

Go dive.

Swim with sharks.

Swim with whales.

Cliff jumping

Go on a road trip.

Travel through Europe by train.

Ride on a noria.

Chinese lanterns with love.

Go in hot air ballon.

Play paintball.

Play twister with paint.

Ride on jet ski.

Ride in a helicopter.

Go hiking

Go to an excotic island

Watch solar eclips.

See a rain of shooting stars.

Adopt axolotl.

Be vegetarian or vegan (still in progress)

Swim in a waterfall.

Dance in the rain.

Go climbing

Be a voluntary in a foreign country.

Plant a tree

Learn to take photos and take photos of everything.

Do yoga.\See lava

Go on Safarai

Watch sunset and sunrise.

Have kids

Go to Disneyland.

Go to gym.

Go on cruise.

Give a food to a homeless person.

Be an organ donor (when I dies)

Donate blodd.

Buy something expensive.

Buy something expensive with my own money.

Ride a vespa

Take a pictire with one of the buckingham Place guards.

Learn some song on the piano or guitar.

Changing my style and be more fashionable.

Be more confidence and talking more with strangers.

Lie down in a field full of flowers.

Words by Katie Wells

Ashkent Creek Councilman Paul Emerson has been rocked by scandal following leaked information. The Councillor is understood to be linked in connection to the disappearance of several instances of missing blood supplies and donations to Ashkent Creek General Hospital. An as of yet unnamed source contacted the paper, linking the Councillor’s involvement to an article posted several months earlier about the case leading some to speculate that he may have been involved in their illegal sale. 

This news follows the Councillors recent resignation, earlier today citing exhaustion and a desire for change. Last year Emerson successfully campaigned for a regeneration project in an effort to clean up aspects of the town which had been due to take place by 2025. It is understood that these plans have now been shelved pending investigation.

Photographs have also emerged, appearing to show Emerson engaging in bizarre liaisons at a local Amnity Road establishment, Teeth. The photographs appear to show Emerson and two unknown individuals who appear to be shown biting the Councillor.  However, these are yet to be confirmed as genuine by experts.