Allison Parrish @aparrish@friend.camp

@a it was already determined in another part of the thread that woody from toy story is queen of wands

@oreolek not sure what the problem is here...? "themed on his work" does necessarily mean "where tom hanks is depicted as the figure in every card." also there are traditions of gender-neutral interpretations of the court cards in tarot that go back at least half a century, maybe more. woody from toy story has very queen of wands energy, for instance

@enkiv2 initially assumed this meant "what happens to your body on /r/nosleep"

@jboy i wasn't around for the beginning of these projects and i'm not familiar with the decision-making process. my impression though is that it was more of an organic thing that groups of faculty in similar fields across universities contributed to, and then advocated for adoption in their individual departments. but i know more recently my department has contributed materially to their development (specifically for use in out curriculum)

actually maybe that scene is ace of wands? castaway has so many scenes that could be the hermit. obviously

a tarot deck (very sincere and beautiful, NOT ironic) themed entirely on the cinematic work of tom hanks

so far i know that the hermit is the scene from castaway where he makes fire

@jboy the processing and arduino projects largely fit this description https://processing.org/ https://www.arduino.cc/ (professors in my department contributed to both projects early on, and they replaced proprietary software/hardware in our curriculum like macromedia director and PIC)

the footnote conventions in the translation of the new testament i'm reading led to this particularly meme-ey formulation

@casey i was thinking that there's a distinction—a pilgrimage has to take place on the actual physical pilgrimage path, but the stations of the cross has been abstracted away from the physical path it was originally based on (but still usually requires walking or movement)

"the stations of the cross was the original walking simulator" is a very powerful and useful idea (not my idea)

I have in my head what I think is an iconic image of one of Gordon Matta-Clark's building cuts—in which there are spherical cut-outs on the four corners of a building—but I can't find it on the internet anywhere. I might be imagining a piece that doesn't exist (conflating "Splitting" with "Conical Intersect"?) but I don't think I am... or maybe I'm thinking of another artist altogether? help?

I only go on there nowadays to check my notifications, usually just once a day. sometimes the timeline page doesn't show any notifications but I click on the link anyway and... as though by magic there will be a new notification there? which seems like evidence that twitter "fabricates" notifications, maybe just to give me a dopamine hit? (not that they fabricate the action itself, but that the software chooses to "surface" that action at that particular time)

in both the folktale Hansel and Gretel and the story of Penelope in The Odyssey, the duck acts as a kind of "reverse Charon," ferrying innocent youth back to the realm of the living (rescuing them from dark magic or certain death). likewise Gone Home's Christmas Duck ushers Kate into the Greenbriar home, which though momentarily abandoned teems with life, etc

I haven't even played the goose game so maybe this is explicitly referenced in there, but still, wow (from Armstrong, Edward A. “The Symbolism of the Swan and the Goose.” Folklore, vol. 55, no. 2, 1944, pp. 54–58. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1256902.)

Unfinished Swan, Untitled Goose, Christmas Duck: A Brief Ludology of Anatidae

@ranjit lenticles are lenticular

@casey actual lol applause gif etc