Oh fuck I forgot the fifth division, the fifth division of Federal Project One was just an archivist corps that would make indexes of materials stored in town and state level archives and libraries. of course this very boring department lived the longest though it did so by being folded into various other WPA and government branches.
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Halloween season is over, so changed it up to some awesome artwork, and I’m surprised how good it looks that the forum fit the shape into the circle that way, making it look pretty awesome.
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Well, one out of two. 
jk
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HMF Members know that this profile picture stands for high quality hot takes and bitching about a 24 year old video game everyone else forgot 
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I mean, games 2, 3, and 4 were pretty good but I don’t know that anyone really forgot about the first version of The Sims.
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Of course they don’t. I mean, if you ask me how to spawn the Tragic Clown npc, I can still tell you that. TS1 is a difficult game, like it doesn’t even have a weekday/weekend system. As long as you don’t miss work/school for 2 consecutive days you will be fine, unless you want to get rid of your sim children who will never grow up. Man, the first Sims is wild!
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Going on a vacation or going to the magic lot also pauses the need to go to work 
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Changed my profile pic to Secretary Buttigieg. Here’s to 2028.
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City Night, 1926 - Georgia O’Keeffe
Views From The Shelton - O’Keeffe’s New York Period
O’Keeffe is perhaps most famous for her more colourful and organic works that emerged from her earlier life in New York especially her almost yonic depictions of flowers or her cow skull and geographic paintings from her most famous artistic period working in New Mexico however for the duration of her residence in the Shelton Hotel with her partner Alfred Stieglitz, a noted photographer and art dealer, would lead to a seemingly singular body of work that appears much different to her most well known works but does appear to show a lot of techniques used in the rest of her catalogue.
The first immediate similarity of course is the use of angles especially the very defined and very straight ones you see here used to give a sense of rising depth then repeats it going off into the distance that simulates the effect of walking through a street crowded with skyscrapers. The sort of sense of openness you get with O’Keeffe’s later works especially some of the cow skull paintings gets replicated not by the wide openness of the landscape but in the ever-shrinking yet still infinite recess of the street as it goes into the night towards the moon.
In fact the moon, the only natural, tangible element in this scene, is the roundest object in the frame but it also contrasts the scene by being the source of O’Keeffe’s trademark softness, its almost angelic pulsations of white moonlight contrast especially with the stark white edifices in the background and doubly so with the almost monolithic black slabs in the fore. It goes well with the similarly natural sky, the cool blue of the night in a beyond liminal space.
Next is the slight asymmetry in the scene which mimics the sense of slight disproportion found in a lot of O’Keeffe’s work which makes sense of course because asymmetry happens a lot in nature but contrasts with man-made structures which adopt straight lines as a means to allow function over form. This sort of effect leaves the buildings something more akin to basalt stacks than Manhattan at night.
Finally I just want to so this painting along with many others like it from this period of her work is currently on display in the US, right now the exhibition entitled “My New Yorks” is in Atlanta at the High Museum of Art until February 16, next year. It is an attempt to do what I have done here and reconcile what appears to be a very distinct visual language distinct from her earlier and later works to those said other more natural works she is known for.
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Can’t tell if that’s supposed to be the night sky as seen from the ground while standing between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, or the ruins of an Isu temple from Assassin’s Creed. Also can’t tell which of the two options my mind went to is sadder.
It is the night sky seen from the ground though it isn’t the Twin Towers of course, construction of the WTC complex wouldn’t have even begun let alone be completed. Though O’Keeffe lived in the tallest residential building in the world at the time she painted this.
Actually living in New Mexico you probably could just go and see plenty of her works and places where she lived.
You lucky bastard.
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I live in Texas, not New Mexico, and I just realized what you meant as I was typing the first third of this sentence out, goddammit.
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I mean that is still pretty close relatively speaking.
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Nice, I remember playing Shadow of Chernobyl very long time ago - like the huge map that time and the anomalies.
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Ah, another Stalker member
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the idea was i’d switch from the halloween penguin to the christmas one on november 1st for the joke, but in practice i did the siwtch on discord then forgot all about it!!
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