Spent the afternoon trying to get my 3500U to downclock to anything lower than 1.4GHz... long story short, amd_pstate is gatekept by Lenovo's unwillingness to allow us to enable ACPI on the BIOS of the Thinkpad T495, where there is a huge amount of people complaining about this and yet no BIOS update has been provided... some work is ongoing on kernel 6.8+ to bring compatibility to AMD APUs but we are not there yet... Of course, if I had Windows, this works, regardless of the BIOS. So there's that. I'll wait for the geniuses to crack this CPU power savings and underclocking. Meantime? Will carry my laptop charger, just in case I need to juice it up.
He was enjoying a meal at a restaurant when a man interrupted him, handed him a napkin and asked:
“Could you sketch something for me? I'll pay. Name your price.”
Picasso took the napkin, pulled a charcoal pencil from his pocket and started sketching. Using only a few strokes, he drew a goat that was unmistakably a Picasso. He held it up for the man to see. The man smiled and reached to take the sketch. But Picasso withheld it.
Picassos "Femme à la montre" für 130 Millionen Euro versteigert
1932 porträtierte Picasso seine Geliebte Marie-Thérèse Walter. Nun ist das Gemälde für rund 130 Millionen Euro in New York versteigert worden. Es stammt aus einer der weltweit bedeutendsten Sammlungen moderner Kunst.
"Nieder mit dem Stil! Hat Gott vielleicht einen Stil? Er hat die Gitarre geschaffen, den Harlekin, den Dackel, die Katze, die Eule, die Taube. Genau wie ich. Elefant und Walfisch, das geht ja noch, aber Elefant und Eichhörnchen? Eine wilde Mischung! Er hat geschaffen, was es nicht gab. Ich auch."
Cat Catching a Bird 1939, by #Picasso at the time of Franco and Hitler. "The cat stands menacingly on the threshold of the times to come." "I did not paint the war because I am not the kind of painter who sets out looking for subjects, like a photographer. But there is no doubt that war is present in the paintings that I did at the time. Later, perhaps, a historian will demonstrate that my work changed under the influence of the war." #Art
I love 'Moose' by Kirsty Elson; she creates art by upcycling driftwood & other found materials (circulated by #WomensArt at the other place)... but it also reveals the enduring influence of #Picasso's bicycle bull.
I have a kind of theory ... The best creatives are not ones who are consistently good, but are ones who create so much that they can't fail to at least create some good stuff.
#Writers like (probably) #StephenKing (although I've only read a few of his books but I'm sure there are plenty of stinkers). And other prolific writers.
If you create enough, and vary your output, at least some of it is likely to be great.
It doesn't matter if most of it is bland. People only remember the good bits.
I suppose looking at #artists the best example would be #Picasso, who made loads of #art ...
But then, I think most artists work that way: make loads of shit, then a few pieces turn out to be pretty good. Then you just milk your best ideas for all they're worth ...
Today in Labor History September 7, 1911: French poet, playwright and novelist Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum. They released him after a week. The crime had actually been committed by his former secretary. Apollinaire was one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. In fact, he was credited with coining both of these terms, the latter in1917, with respect to the ballet, Parade, with music by Erik Satie, libretto by Jean Cocteau, and costumes by Pablo Picasso. Apollinaire wrote one of the first Surrealist literary works, the play “The Breasts of Tiresias” (1917). He was admired during his lifetime by the young poets who later formed the nucleus of the Surrealist group (Breton, Aragon, Soupault). Apollinaire died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.