Notices by Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)

On the ramparts

@arek @kopimi thank you so much for the civility in understanding. I look forward to following your work here.

@arek @kopimi hi. You are kind to ask. I mean when I look at my phone and there are 3, 4 or 5 (often even more!) lines of redundant nonspecific hashtags trying to "drive engagement," or cover every conceivable plural or permutation of the same words, that's a no go for me. That's all. People have their reasons and that's for them to decide, but that's not the fedi I'm here for. An example: landscapephotography, photography and landscape embed the same words pointlessly.

I'll probably miss a lot of good photography on here, but I'm going to start muting accounts posting more than two lines of hashtags. That is just out of hand and pointless. I think it's mostly pros anyway.

Albert Bierstadt. The Burning Ship, 1865.

Instead of usual heroic or dramatic naval sea battle, he depicted the uncontrolled calamity and waste and pathos and despair of a nation divided in Civil War.

#painting

Henri Duhem. Last Light - Winter, 1917.

What is harder to see here than colors and light: He had just lost his only son to war, gone through an enemy occupation, and was about to lose his wife as well. He would be called on to serve in the administration of recovery, a horrible experience, and he wrote a book about it called The Death of a Home. Still, he kept on painting, for decades more. To me all that seems to peek through those branches, once you know about it.

#painting

The little bell icon in the upper-right corner of Mastodon profiles:

I doubt the feature is new. I'm probably just late discovering it, but it makes all my formerly laborious efforts with "close-follows" lists so easy! One click and it's done, they're a priority. You see every post they make after that.

Georgia O'Keeffe. Blue and Green Music, 1921.

The image has been brightened, but I think it's necessary to capture the vibrant blue strokes on our screens.

The Ukrainian boy flew his drone today and took pictures of the farm and river from high up in the air, a birds-eye view. It was magical, and I was most taken by all of our many shades of green, as seen from above. That feels right, and also humbling, in perspective, a bit like the "blue marble" earth pics from space.

#painting

Us, all our lives, as seen from high up and far away.