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“Cat’s Cradle” marker doodle from my sketchbook
#catscradle #sketchbook #cat #kitten #markerdrawing #penandink

Ticket request: I was a dumbass and waited too long to buy a ticket for #Fust at #CatsCradle Backroom in #ChapelHill on Saturday 4/19 and now it’s sold out. Anyone got an extra, know of one, or can otherwise hook me up? Thanks!

Break it off with that special someone… who isn’t that special someone.

Inspired by the Bokonists of Cat’s Cradle, this breakup card pairs a Fox & Thistle Studio poem with a ribbon of strange sincerity, in the spirit of Vonnegut.

$4 each

https://foxandthistle.studio/products/bokonist-breakup-card

#KurtVonnegut #CatsCradle #Bokononism #BreakupCard #FoxAndThistle #BusyBusyBusy #IndieDesign #absudism #originalpoetry #poetry #poem #greetingcard

Promotional image for the Bokonist Breakup Card by Fox & Thistle Studio. The card features a poem written in tribute to Kurt Vonnegut and the Bokonists from Cat’s Cradle. The poem begins with the refrain “Busy, busy, busy” and continues with humorous lines about being too busy for connection, ending with “I’m busy too, Goodbye!” A picture of the card’s front shows illustrated hands entangled in colorful string, alluding to the children’s game Cat’s Cradle. Text highlights the price ($4 each) and includes a link to purchase the card.

"I can't remember what all Frank had fighting in the jar that day, but I can remember other bug fights we staged later on: one stag beetle against a hundred red ants, one centipede against three spiders, red ants against black ants. They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar. And that's what Frank was doing, shaking, shaking the jar." - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle #KurtVonnegut #CatsCradle #BugFights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle

Cool show alert! M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) plays a solo show at Cat's Cradle 1/25/25 performing his album "Bad Debt" and other favorites.

https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/86772076/hiss-golden-messenger-solo-plays-bad-debtand-other-favorites-carrboro-cats-cradle

#HissGoldenMessenger #CatsCradle

Ended up in a curio store of sorts last night and picked up a Cat's Cradle while I was in there. Haven't had one of these in decades. #catscradle

A Cat's Cradle booklet and the accompanying loop of string.

No takers, so make me any offer. I don't want this ticket to go to waste! Incredible lineup.

https://catscradle.com/event/merge-35-friday/cats-cradle/carrboro-north-carolina/

#Merge35 #CatsCradle #Raleigh #Durham #ChapelHill #MergeRecords

I have one ticket to Friday night’s sold out #Merge35 show at #CatsCradle. Selling for face + fees.

This lineup is awesome: Ibibio Sound Machine, Lambchop, The New Pornographers, Quivers, Rosali, William Tyler & the Impossible Truth, M. Ward & Wye Oak

More info: https://catscradle.com/event/merge-35-friday/cats-cradle/carrboro-north-carolina/

#Raleigh #Durham #ChapelHill #MergeRecords

Based on an idea from @bruces, I wanted to see what Bing CoPilot would do with the prompt "Make me a picture of two people playing cat's cradle. Focus on their hands. Make it as accurate to a complex, late game, configuration of cat's cradle as possible."

None of the images were good. This one was the most "accurate" and it is still not good.

https://mastodon.social/@bruces/112794732720299382

#CatsCradle #AICatsCradle #ai #AIGenerated #MicrosoftCoPilot

AI Generated image for the prompt "Make me a picture of two people playing cat's cradle. Focus on their hands. Make it as accurate to a complex, late game, configuration of cat's cradle as possible."

It depicts two hands in the background and two hands in the foreground ostensibly playing the children's game, cat's cradle. However, instead of string, the material being used for the game looks like thin white plastic rods with wooden beads at the connection points.

The expectation would be for the foreground hands to be oriented with their palms toward the viewer and the background hands to be oriented with their palms away from the viewer. However, that is not the case in this image as both sets of hands are oriented away from the viewer. Each set of hands has at least one additional finger and some of them are oriented in anatomically incoherent way. The fingers are also not actually interacting with the tension of the strings and some of the rods seem to protrude through various finger ends.

Overall, it is a very disconcerting image.

*This is a grotesque LLM "failure," but it's not because ChatGPT isn't "amart enough," it's because it's hard to train an LLM for the complex geometries of human fingers manipulatng strings. #catscradle

Don’t think I shared it here, but #SarahJarosz show at #CatsCradle was incredible.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6uEQj5PTGC/?igsh=MWlwZ2g5Zm55ZXRhMA==

Wow, Kim Gordon is playing #CatsCradle June 21st.

Kim Gordon

The Collective Tour

June 21 Cat's Cradle
Carrboro, NC

Kim appears in a trench coat partly obscuring her face. The photo has been doctored to look like an inverse (negative) line drawing.

Interesting (if a bit confusing) news for music fans in the Triangle. Owner Frank Heath is adding a second location to his famous Cat’s Cradle music venue. He purchased the building at 107 Brewer Lane which is literally around the corner from the existing location and plans to run the two concurrently.

It’s likely to become the main and only location if the landlord on his current place move forward with their redevelopment plans.

#CatsCradle #Carrboro

(Paywall?)
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One of my favorite books

#CatsCradle #Vonnegut

Tiger got to hunt
Bird got to fly
Man got to sit and wonder
Why why why?

Tiger got to sleep
Bird got to land
Man got to tell himself
He understand

-Bokonon

Disappointing that “nine” is not an option here.

#CatsCradle #Vonnegut

Close up of an ice type selector on a refrigerator dispenser. There is an “”Ice Type” button below a stylized image of a bucket containing ice cubes, which represents the current setting.

New #SarahJarosz single just dropped! “Columbus & 89th” from her upcoming ‘Polaroid Lovers’ album.

https://youtu.be/7gI3m22TmrI?si=kTTFfS-gI9ry7-1V

She plays #CatsCradle 5/7/24. Tickets on sale Friday.

#SarahJarosz announces new tour dates in support of her upcoming “Polaroid Lovers” album. May 7 in the triangle at #CatsCradle, May 8 in #Charlotte, May 10 in #Asheville. Can’t wait to hear her new music!

The Dillon Fence/Connells show at Cat’s Cradle last night was so much fun. I listened to both band so much in college and throughout my Twenties.

Collectively, I’ve seen these guys perform several dozen times. It’s such a treat that they still occasionally perform.
#ncmusic #carrboro #dillonfence #catscradle #musicphotography #theconnells

The band Dillon Fence performing outside behind the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro

The band The Connells performing outside behind the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro

Hey triangle, The #MilkCartonKids are playing #CatsCradle Saturday. Well worth your time if you're a fan of #Americana #Folk #SingerSongwriter style music.

https://catscradle.com/event/the-milk-carton-kids/cats-cradle/carrboro-north-carolina/?utm_source=Main+List&utm_campaign=0be0e6ca5b-Upcoming+Shows+4.1.22_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fefdcc294a-0be0e6ca5b-34050473&mc_cid=0be0e6ca5b

#Raleigh #Durham #ChapelHill

Black and white portrait of the Milk Carton Kids, a folk duo. Both are holding guitars and one wears a harmonica around his neck.

#OTD in 1986
In #ChapelHill , an #AllAgesShow occured featuring two of the finest #SouthernRock bands to rise up in the wake of 80s #hardcorepunk scene. It was the day after #CorrosionOfConformity guitarist #WoodyWeatherman's 21st birthday & the influential thrashers from nearby #RaleighNC were playing with pals in #RichmondVA's #HonorRole featuring the #Schick brothers and virtuoso #mathrock #guitarist #PenRollings at the #CatsCradle

#CatsCradle

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