Elena Delle Donne

the original paint is good from far but far from good. i have a velocals decal set and am torn between having it stripped and powdercoated: - an orange-y adobe brown - metallic copper if you have opinions, by all means. i'm keeping mech a mix of black and chrome, more black though.

self-promotion! my 1986 panasonic touring deluxe build. bought this last year, had planned to bike cross country on it this summer but coronavirus cancelled those plans. it came to me in meh shape and it's a well built if not particularly valuable bike so i scrapped many of the parts and built it up. drivetrain: the rear drops were already stretched, like someone had planned to do this, so i fit an 11-speed cassette in the rear. has a white industries VBC crankset thats 46/30 for loaded touring. lots of low gear range even if i'm not gonna win any flatland races. i kept the downtube shifters for now (long arms) but am debating whether to move to brifters or bar ends at some point. wheels: handbuilt by a local shop. velo orange grand cru hubs and 36h RAID box section rims, strong and functional. heavy! but it's a heavy bike, so whatever. thickslicks only because the roads on my commute are so packed with glass and plastic that i flat out 3x/month on anything that's not these or gatorskins. (i'm about to replace these and haven't even had them for a year. my commute is 30 miles round trip, so they really go through it.) brakes: kept the original cantilever brakes, swapped for kool stop pads. i am tempted to get those pretty and eye-wateringly expensive paul cantilever brakes because i am stupid but should prob just get calipers. bars: one of the FSA gravel bars with a little bit of spread. i got a bike fitting and the fitter put me on these, so while i don't remember the specifics, they feel so good. bike fittings: worth it if you really ride a lot. (i have to re-wrap my handlebars, i know they look bad, be nice!)

wall street genius update: i've decided to buy stock in the company that shares my graffiti name. maybe they'll finally mail me a golf shirt

@Mercera very good point about inflation here and a reason that i'm not going to let my cash sit—i was addressing real estate investing more generally in the other thread. the economics are totally upside down right now. regardless of who wins in november i think we're gonna print money until it really burns us; markets are used to being juiced at this point

oh yeah i'm not saying don't include him at all, sorry if it came off that way. he earned a spot and was in WYWS. i just feel like he got so much space on that top floor and as a curatorial decision i wasn't into it. i would've cut some and tried to give a chunk of it could've to other (former) writers who have post-graffiti fine art practices like ian de beer or even contemporary writers whose work ends up in galleries like uter. obviously they're not household names like fairey and y'all make a good point re: name rec and attendance. but i would've shaken up the top floor a bit and given more space to smaller artists who nevertheless fit the "what is made after graffiti" space that was in effect up there.

gaming sounds so good this winter while we'll be locked inside with nowhere to go. but damn i reeaaaaally don't have the time to burn

finishing a sketch, doing a piece tonight

this can be hard to pull off but you will make someone's day

an app so i could browse at work would be nice. once work from home is over i won't have a lot of time to oontz anymore. edit: i have to give a joke response too, right? need a cap that sprays 12 dots. or print a fuck 12oz shirt that looks like fuck 12

the fleetwood mac meme comeback makes me happy.

wait

wait, this is really positive and nice. fuck outta here!

and onlyfans is a thing now? women i got sober with are selling masturbation videos for the price of a small 7-11 run. 2020 is lit.

old ich is a treat

damn i thought we were actually gonna debate eggshell stickers. ever gotten them under your fingernails? damn... too sticky

i want to clarify, here, that facebook/IG is uniquely dangerous because they connect you to new groups and people; youtube just connects you to content. it's the difference between being connected to a white supremacist flyer and a white supremacist meetup. i agree with this, mostly. i still paint and am grateful for accounts that post hard copy photos and accounts that post typographical graffiti (or just typography) that inspires me to rethink letters and dimensions. the social side of graffiti is weird to me; i don't like it or trust it. if anything it's pushed me closer to the handful of guys i know and trust and inspired me to stay away from the rest. but i also think i'm older and grumpier, too! my philosophy on meeting up with people or being in "the scene" is not at all what it was when i was 20. if i was 20 i'd be hyped.

bumping this. i agree with joker, this sort of thing is very much roger gastmans schtick now and you know what you're gonna get when you see something he's curated. that said they were thorough, at least, and the beastie boys section was genuinely cool even if adidas sponsored it. i am a fan so i'm biased, of course. i went with a buddy who isn't into this world and he had a great time. definitely appealed to a broader cross section of people, which is gastmans job, i guess. i wasn't a fan of the massive treatment shepherd fairey got but i'm sure he put up $$$$ to help make this show happen.

absolutely, for sure man. don't miss where the covid vaccine is actually a bill gates mind control serum

thanks @Schnitzel! good to see you here

here to reminisce. almost made my new screenname "dog-whale evolution"

social media has segmented people so thoroughly that it allows people to live in and experience different realities. this is perhaps our greatest threat to civil society. the effects of this are most acutely felt in the united states because of our solitary lives of "rugged individualism" or whatever that actually just makes us more susceptible to pyramid schemes and qanon and encourage elderly people to die alone and in poverty. facebook is very guilty here and eagerly connects people to their preferred flavor of extremist groups. youtube also pushes people down radicalization holes but the research on whether that actually radicalizes people or just activates and motivates existing biases is mixed.

this is a whole-ass era. nowadays i drink a bunch of coffee, put on socks i like, and piss in an alley on the way

wow we have negaprops again and i can drop clown emoji? it's a new day

bumping. what's up alcoholics!? over seven years ago i bottomed out and fat ralphy was one of a few who helped me get settled in this life. wherever you are now, FR, i can't thank you enough

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