Looking at the micro-comic you basically outlined using an image generator, I'm thinking artists in the comic industry ought to be shitting their pants right now. If I can get Bing to draw the Batman story in my head, what the hell am I paying DC and Marvel for?
Also, about those living rooms: The second one is definitely closer to my memories from the 80s. All it needs is the smell of stale cigarette smoke caked into the upholstery. The first picture is some Saved by the Bell bullshit.
As impressive as Dall-E 3 is, it took a lot of repetition and tweaking to get pictures that were even half-way acceptable. It's a fun toy, but I doubt you'll be able to make your own comics... yet. As the technology gets better, though, it may get to that point. And, given how bad the current crop of writers at DC and Marvel are, it wouldn't take much to put out a better product. For now, though, it's definitely a fun little toy.
I can also smell those rooms. And feel the shag carpet under my feet. I was too young to ever live in one, but I remember visiting plenty of houses as a child that looked (and smelled) exactly as they would have at the time. Even for me, it's a nostalgic aesthetic, though, I won't lie - I definitely prefer the Saved by the Bell bullshit, as unrealistic as it is.
I can't believe you'd slice off the juiciest part of the article and put it in another piece. Monster! Now I have to wait ~a week to see how it ends.
I will say, however, that your recent series all looking at American consumer/pop culture (and another article which I just can't remember the name of) has really brought to the fore my mind how interconnected mass-market consumerism and the Progressive ideological aqua regia really is. Does one exist without the other? Can one exist without the other? I feel like there's a rich vein of thought to tap here, either as regards the historical roots of both Progs and the modern economy (which both seem to be strangely connected to English Dissenters and their fellow-travelers) or how it manifests today
>Zoomers are convinced that the late 90’s and early Oughts were this bastion of wholesomeness, homeliness, and comfort
Well, after finishing the next part, it turns out that won't exactly be the end, either. The story of Barbie and the American Girls is a big one, and the political and cultural morass surrounding them even moreso. T
That being said, no, I don't think the two can really be separated, but that would definitely warrant a write-up unto itself. I did a lot of research and writing on the "Protestant Work Ethic" back in college and, I'm telling you... it's a rabbit hole. You're more right than you know. Assuming you've never heard of the Protestant Work Ethic before, which it sounds like you might.
I must admit I have literally no idea what you're talking about regarding the World's Fairs. I can see the photo is of the one in 1893, but whether the little girl was a Tartar or from Tartarus, what the photo has to do with either alternative, and what makes the St. Louis fair a part of the same complex, is absolutely opaque to me.
It's just a reference to the first article in the series, where I made a joke about there being a lost and/or hidden and/or censored American Girl doll of Tartarian extraction who's storyline took place during the St. Louis World Fair. Loathe as I am to use this word, there's a "conspiracy theory" that's gained traction over the last couple years that photos purported to be of the world fairs of the late 1800's/early 1900's were actually pictures of cities as they were at the time and that there was some catastrophic conflict that completely leveled them and that the true history of America is being covered up by the powers that be. And, somehow, a separate conspiracy theory popular in Russia that claims there was once a hyper-advanced, world-spanning empire called Tartaria, based in today's Siberia, existed, and that these cities were either Tartarian in origin, or America had Tartarian technology, something along those lines.
It varies wildly depending on which source you find about it. While there are some very small kernels of truth to each different conspiracy theory in their own right, I don't put too much stock into it and I don't believe it, but I'm fascinated by the concept alone. So, it's all an oblique reference to that, as if there's some American Girl doll meant to represent this lost or censored period of time that's being stored in a vault somewhere.
Which I wish there was, because that would be kind of cool.
It’s 100% the latter. Not just “here’s a bad thing some people deal with (like being an orphan)”, but “here’s a valid alternative lifestyle, which there is nothing wrong with”
Looking at the micro-comic you basically outlined using an image generator, I'm thinking artists in the comic industry ought to be shitting their pants right now. If I can get Bing to draw the Batman story in my head, what the hell am I paying DC and Marvel for?
Also, about those living rooms: The second one is definitely closer to my memories from the 80s. All it needs is the smell of stale cigarette smoke caked into the upholstery. The first picture is some Saved by the Bell bullshit.
As impressive as Dall-E 3 is, it took a lot of repetition and tweaking to get pictures that were even half-way acceptable. It's a fun toy, but I doubt you'll be able to make your own comics... yet. As the technology gets better, though, it may get to that point. And, given how bad the current crop of writers at DC and Marvel are, it wouldn't take much to put out a better product. For now, though, it's definitely a fun little toy.
I can also smell those rooms. And feel the shag carpet under my feet. I was too young to ever live in one, but I remember visiting plenty of houses as a child that looked (and smelled) exactly as they would have at the time. Even for me, it's a nostalgic aesthetic, though, I won't lie - I definitely prefer the Saved by the Bell bullshit, as unrealistic as it is.
I can't believe you'd slice off the juiciest part of the article and put it in another piece. Monster! Now I have to wait ~a week to see how it ends.
I will say, however, that your recent series all looking at American consumer/pop culture (and another article which I just can't remember the name of) has really brought to the fore my mind how interconnected mass-market consumerism and the Progressive ideological aqua regia really is. Does one exist without the other? Can one exist without the other? I feel like there's a rich vein of thought to tap here, either as regards the historical roots of both Progs and the modern economy (which both seem to be strangely connected to English Dissenters and their fellow-travelers) or how it manifests today
>Zoomers are convinced that the late 90’s and early Oughts were this bastion of wholesomeness, homeliness, and comfort
Don't get me started on that one
Well, after finishing the next part, it turns out that won't exactly be the end, either. The story of Barbie and the American Girls is a big one, and the political and cultural morass surrounding them even moreso. T
That being said, no, I don't think the two can really be separated, but that would definitely warrant a write-up unto itself. I did a lot of research and writing on the "Protestant Work Ethic" back in college and, I'm telling you... it's a rabbit hole. You're more right than you know. Assuming you've never heard of the Protestant Work Ethic before, which it sounds like you might.
I must admit I have literally no idea what you're talking about regarding the World's Fairs. I can see the photo is of the one in 1893, but whether the little girl was a Tartar or from Tartarus, what the photo has to do with either alternative, and what makes the St. Louis fair a part of the same complex, is absolutely opaque to me.
It's just a reference to the first article in the series, where I made a joke about there being a lost and/or hidden and/or censored American Girl doll of Tartarian extraction who's storyline took place during the St. Louis World Fair. Loathe as I am to use this word, there's a "conspiracy theory" that's gained traction over the last couple years that photos purported to be of the world fairs of the late 1800's/early 1900's were actually pictures of cities as they were at the time and that there was some catastrophic conflict that completely leveled them and that the true history of America is being covered up by the powers that be. And, somehow, a separate conspiracy theory popular in Russia that claims there was once a hyper-advanced, world-spanning empire called Tartaria, based in today's Siberia, existed, and that these cities were either Tartarian in origin, or America had Tartarian technology, something along those lines.
It varies wildly depending on which source you find about it. While there are some very small kernels of truth to each different conspiracy theory in their own right, I don't put too much stock into it and I don't believe it, but I'm fascinated by the concept alone. So, it's all an oblique reference to that, as if there's some American Girl doll meant to represent this lost or censored period of time that's being stored in a vault somewhere.
Which I wish there was, because that would be kind of cool.
It’s 100% the latter. Not just “here’s a bad thing some people deal with (like being an orphan)”, but “here’s a valid alternative lifestyle, which there is nothing wrong with”