everything is potential collage material

"You learn nothing from success", says George Clooney, most successful guy on Earth.

Nothing? You learn what success is, which looks quite nice... 
But point taken. "Try lots of things and make mistakes," as my librarian friend said.

Look: I failed to carve recognizable sew-on snaps on lino.
I pulled one print, just to see.
Yep, FAIL.
Then I drew eyes with a marker, and now it's "Planets Share Secrets" or something.

What I learned:
Carving a block is reductive, you can't add to the block... but you can add to individual prints--by hand, later.
Everything is potential collage material.

Clooney showed up on my IG feed after I'd been texting a friend about daring to FAIL in printmaking... To keep trying to print sewing notions, which are hard, rather than going back to bears, which are easy (relatively).

I'd also seen Clooney when I rewatched Gravity (2013) the night before, but that was on DVD, so the Socials wouldn't know. Would they?

Heh. THE SOCIALS KNOW ALL.

How come some systems work so well it's scary, and others can barely manage the minimum?
Like, how come Amazon delivers our every whim to our door  within 24 hours, driving by people living in tents to get me my doohickeys,
and meanwhile the US presidential race is a malfunctioning Clown Car?

I don't follow politics but some of it is unmissable, and I do think Biden should step down from the race.
You got a print image that doesn't work?
Mix it up. Tear it up. Try something else!

Concerns about Biden's age aside, some young people especially hate him for his handling of Israel enough to not-vote for him. 

UPDATE, to clarify: I worry that Biden might lose to Trump because he’s lost people’s confidence with his frighteningly poor performance in the debate and he’s alienated otherwise sympathetic voters over Israel. 

I'll vote against Trump no matter what, even if Biden were completely gaga—but plenty won’t. 

I hear a lot of people saying they won’t vote at all. 

(Trump's hardline pro-Israel anyway, no improvement there, though he rightly says they are "losing the PR war".
No kidding.
What if they'd let the horrific Hamas terror attacks of October sink into the world's consciousness for a good while longer?)

Maybe the Democrats should learn from strategies in the UK's and France's recent victories:

"The winning parties in both the UK and France won by realizing that the nature of their systems required that they
sacrifice some specific candidates in order to defeat the right."

--via Vox, "The real lesson for America in the French and British elections", July 8, 2024.

I guess I do follow politics, a little:
my primary sources are mostly bink (in person) and Orange Crate Art--then I do look up specific things.
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bink made a print on Sunday too--a terrier (of course) in a beret, holding a coffee mug--based on graffiti she saw in Spain: