Perry Mark Stratychuk is a solo filmmaker, writer, and sound artist whose surreal, mythic, and speculative creations have been evolving since the late 1980s.
One of the most significant dividing lines in humanity is scarcity mentality vs abundance mentality.
It impacts everything, but it's massively overlooked because it's not easily visible or measurable.
My daughter's friend in grad school, upon being asked by a member of her dissertation committee why she didn't include a Marxist perspective. "I grew up in the Soviet Union. I don't practice recreational Marxism."
Listen to Rupert Lowe read out just 5 minutes of survivors testimony from the rape gang inquiry.
What sounds like a horror movie, was actually perpetrated against British children by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men.
Legacy media refuse to cover it.
Exhibition news: Territoires sauvages. Une traversée intérieure opens June 19 at Château de Jau, France.
Presented by Galerie DYS, the show explores mythic worlds through works by Simone Pellegrini, Abel Burger, Benoît Huot, Yasemin Senel & Emeli Theander.
Through Oct 4.
Explore the rich and often overlooked world of Canadian outsider art in Raw Vision 126. Featuring Richard Greaves, William Kurelek, Alma Rumball, Karine Labrie and Sylvain Martel. New subscribers receive 15% off with code NEWSUB.
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Image: Sylvain Martel
Society collectively needs to stop making excuses for awful behaviour.
There are BILLIONS of people around the world who grew up in suboptimal conditions and they don't use it as an excuse to be a criminal or degenerate.
Tolerance of evil isn't a virtue.
A funny thing I heard way back when I began writing fiction was from my cousin’s husband who asked how I could ever write such an interesting story, (my first published piece). I said the idea came from a dream. He replied with: “Oh, then you didn’t really write it yourself.”
Extended through June 20: Karla Knight: Orbit at Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York.
Filled with celestial diagrams, symbols and imagined worlds, Knight's work explores our enduring search for meaning, mystery and wonder.
#andrewedlingallery#karlaknight
🚀 Space exploration timeline:
1903 — Tsiolkovsky publishes the rocket equation
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1909 — Goddard writes first paper on liquid propellants as fuel for rockets
1910
1911
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1914 — Goddard patents designs for a liquid-fueled rocket and a multi-stage rocket
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1919 — Goddard publishes "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"
1920
1921 — Goddard begins experiments with liquid oxygen and gasoline rocket engines
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1923 — Goddard successfully tests first liquid propellant engine
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1925
1926 — Goddard launches world's first liquid-fueled rocket
1927 — VfR (Society for Space Travel) founded in Germany; von Braun joins as a teenager
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1929 — Goddard launches rocket carrying first scientific payload (barometer & camera)
1930
1931 — Korolev co-founds GIRD (Group for Study of Reactive Motion) in Moscow
1932 — Von Braun becomes chief engineer of German Army rocket program
1933 — Korolev leads launch of USSR's first liquid-fueled rocket
1934 — Von Braun's A-2 rockets reach 2.4 km altitude
1935
1936 — Korolev designs RP-318, USSR's first rocket-powered aircraft
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1939 — Von Braun's A-5 rocket reaches 8 km altitude
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1942 — Von Braun's A-4 (V-2) rocket becomes first human-made object to reach space (100 km)
1943 — V-2 production begins; JPL formally established in USA
1944 — V-2 used as weapon against London and Antwerp; first ballistic missile attacks in history
1945 — USA recruits von Braun
1946 — USA and USSR independently begin reverse-engineering V-2
1947 — First animals (fruit flies) launched to space aboard a V-2
1948 — Korolev's R-1 rocket successfully launched
1949 — Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes first mammal in space aboard a US V-2 rocket
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1953 — Korolev begins design of R-7
1954 — Korolev writes letter to Moscow advocating for an orbital satellite program
1955 — USA announces Project Vanguard
1956 — Von Braun's Redstone rocket successfully tested; R-7 development nears completion
1957 — Korolev's R-7 becomes world's first ICBM; Sputnik 1 — first artificial satellite in orbit; Sputnik 2 carries Laika — first living creature in orbit
1958 — USA launches Explorer 1; NASA founded; first US attempt at Moon probe (Pioneer 0) fails
1959 — Luna 1 (USSR) — first spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity; Luna 2 — first human-made object to reach the Moon; Luna 3 — first photos of Moon's far side
1960 — First weather satellite (TIROS-1) launched by USA; first communications satellite (Echo 1); two Soviet dogs (Belka & Strelka) orbit Earth and return safely
1961 — Gagarin — first human in space, April 12; Alan Shepard — first American in space, May 5
1962 — Mariner 2 — first spacecraft to fly by another planet (Venus); Telstar 1 — first active communications satellite
1963 — Tereshkova — first woman in space
1964 — Ranger 7 — first close-up photographs of the Moon's surface
1965 — Leonov — first spacewalk; Mariner 4 — first close-up images of Mars
1966 — Luna 9 — first soft landing on the Moon; first orbital docking (Gemini 8); Surveyor 1 — first US soft Moon landing
1967 — Apollo 1 fire kills three astronauts; Venera 4 — first probe to enter another planet's atmosphere (Venus)
1968 — Apollo 8 — first crewed mission to orbit the Moon; famous Earthrise photograph
1969 — Apollo 11 — first humans on the Moon; Apollo 12 — second Moon landing
1970 — Apollo 13 — Moon mission aborted after explosion; Luna 16 — first robotic Moon sample return; Lunokhod 1 — first lunar rover
1971 — Salyut 1 (USSR) — first space station; Mariner 9 — first spacecraft to orbit another planet (Mars); Apollo 14 & 15 Moon landings
1972 — Apollo 16 & 17 — final Moon landings; Pioneer 10 launched toward Jupiter; last humans on the Moon
1973 — Pioneer 10 — first spacecraft to fly by Jupiter; Skylab — first US space station
1974 — Mariner 10 — first gravity assist maneuver; first flyby of Mercury
“Amuse: The Art of Enjoyment” at Ricco/Maresca Gallery explores the vibrant world of American carnivals, sideshows and seaside amusements through game boards, circus figures, banners and fairground art.
On view until August 21, 2026.
Image: Jack Sigler
#riccomaresca#outsiderart
Oops to “Wikipedia”. Musk lived in Canada roughly from 1989 to 1992.He moved at age 17 in 1989, because of Canadian citizenship through his mother who wanted a path to the USA. He stayed with relatives in Saskatchewan doing odd jobs. Then Queen’sUniversity in Canada (1990–1992).
There is no greater crime than a parasitic government that repeatedly steals from you under the guise of the greater collective good. I have more stories to share but I’ll refrain from doing so for now. It is truly unimaginable what is tolerated. I’m livid.
Milei: “I have nothing against artists. I myself had a rock band. My problem is that if you need a government subsidy to make art, you're no longer an artist, you're a public employee.”
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What does it mean to invent yourself as an artist?
Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists, now on view at the American Folk Art Museum, NYC, reconsiders the history of self-taught art through self-portraits, alter egos and autobiographical works.
Image: Clementine Hunter