A photograph of a blue neon sign with a quote from Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations: "276. “But don’t we at least mean something quite definite when we look at a color and name our color impression?” It is virtually as if we detached the color impression from the object, like a membrane. (This ought to arouse our suspicions.)"

Infinite Blue @ The Brooklyn Museum

When I visited the Brooklyn Museum in February they were in the middle of their Infinite Blue exhibition. Surveying the entire collection, Infinite Blue collected museum objects that prominently featured the color blue. Part of their Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum.

A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum presents the history of feminism and feminist art while showcasing contemporary artistic practices and new thought leadership.

While not explicitly stated in their literature, Blue seems to have been selected by the museum’s curators for embodying core feminist values:

In cultures dating back thousands of years, blue—the color of the skies—has often been associated with the spiritual but also signifies power, status, and beauty. The spiritual and material aspects of blue combine to tell us stories about global history, cultural values, technological innovation, and international commerce.

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Salvador Dali, Set for 'Bacchanale'

The Painter Goblin: Part 5, And Finally…

The work on the Painter Goblin is almost complete for now. The automation of their work is pretty much ironed out with regular tweets happening every night.

A recent favorite:

Maria Krzymuska
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28727544

I just wanted to round off this series of blogs with some remaining thoughts.

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A screenshot of my Twitter banner showing my newly created heritage avatars, created dynamically for Twitter and using binary numbers to represent the day of the month.

Dynamic avatars on Twitter

The visualization tells me that the first publication from my Twitter bot, created to dynamically update my avatars daily was 20 December 2012. My bot was a simple Python script that generated images in binary to represent the day of the month.

Visual representation of the binary number 0b10100 indicating the 20th of the Month -- in this instance 20 December 2012
20 December 2020 via https://github.com/exponential-decay/binary-numbers/blob/334d417ad2fef1ac37e082e7d78f42412d176de3/binary-numbers-original-images/binary-numbers-original-images-all/20-12-2012.png

Why?

Well, doesn’t it get a little boring looking at the same thing every day?

Lets look at the details below.

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