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Chapter 1-3 learning about the initial discovery of the whales trying to survive and the generalized history the relationship between first nations in the artic and whaling and the rest of the world. contextualizes Utqiagviq (Barrow)

Omnipresence of advertising = language formulated around sales

“When we realize the promise fails, we feel even more empty, even miserable. Luckily there is always another product around the corner that once again promises us happiness.”

woahhh things are happening fast, delaney moves onto campus, pets get banned, travel is on the outs, and yeah things are feeling claustrophobic

Finished the Designer As Engineer section. Capitalism goes hand in hand with standardization (of which is never unbiased) as well as simplification and efficiency. Maps and mapmaking is very subjective and often times Eurocentric maps (which are most) exclude a vast majority of much more critical and culturally complex information.

Part of designer as engineer. Designers and design principles are critical for creating documents, standards, and supplying documents to bureaucratic systems.

beginning section talks about how the first function of a graphic designer was to create a design for coinage that would establish trust between strangers, often meant to keep track of trading during sea fairing. one side bares the face of the sovereign, the other has various anti-counterfeiting measures

we’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling. read with bee on my lap

A few months has passed since Maidenhair’s death, caught uk with Neelay, Douglas, Adam, Nick, and read the portion with tragic Alan and Dorthy aloud to Abby the other night. Nick has been keeping up with his environmental actions while also being haunted by Liv and working at a book factory lol, while the rest are kind of struggling to readjust.

Holy shit Maidenhair died in an explosion, v intense. Starting final section titled “Crown”

“Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.” 348

Mother Nature and Moses are murdered by bomb at the office. Maidenhair Adam and Watchman must descend after getting assaulted by helicopter and a determined bulldozer crew below

adam goes up to maidenhair and watchmen, he comes to terms with the fact that his study and data gathering must completely change, read while waiting for abby at the train station

i liked the section about neelay walking his father through his built world as vishnu and a beggar together in that moment but never to meet in person again. also douglas and mimi get pepper sprayed and assaulted by the police after chaining themselves to a pillar with 7 others in the headquarters

wind tears through mimas crown, dr patricia westerfield goes to court as expert tree witness and there are some great sections.
“but if you want next century’s soil, if you want pure water, if you want variety and health, if you want stabilizers and services we can’t even measure, then be patient and let the forest give slowly.”

maidenhair and watchman post up in mimas and big scuff between fellers and protesters for mimi and douglas

this is absolutely wild and the tech the every has makes me feel super claustrophobic

almost done literally like 10 pgs away but too tired to finish. furniture has come in from florida to berkeley for jack and memere despite them just moving back three weeks later

read last night at 3 am, rounded out his time abroad didn’t really enjoy france was just ready to go home, now for the final section part four, back in the US

got to part three. finished last part in kayak then in the back of my car in the parking lot, windows and door open. wind. anyway i hate him and how he talks ab women ew ugh literally gross whatever hate his relationship with Alyce girl kill him whatever almost done. so pretty out today

freeloads at this one family’s house with raphael (ick) then us on the way south to mother, tweaks out thinking he lost his bag, it’s just going to get shipped to him lol

back in new york, cold november. read while in hot june new jersey. in the woods where it’s so dark open eyes can’t pick a single thing up. but read before bed. introduces the ruth’s and a relatively serious relationship with ruth heaper

Finished his time in mexico, got to second part of book two in the wind on top of a hill as wheat rippled in the wind

read on kelly drive by the water as a guy literally drove straight into a tree back in the road?!??

ownership in oil painting and another visual chapter

two visual essays and an essay about the perception of women and the distinction between “nakedness” and “the nude”