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Favoriting August 5, 2024: Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use

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Today: Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use

Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland (Sunday, August 11, 2024 – doors at 6:30pm, film at 7pm). Hosted by Station Manager Ken Freedman. Live Zoom Q&A to follow with director Ryan Worsley.

Negativland website

Wobbly website (Jon’s solo project)

Over the Edge at KPFA

Over the Edge archives at the Internet Archive

Variations podcast, curated by Jon Leidecker, from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA)

Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2, the book by Negativland

Fair Use as Market Failure: A Structural and Economic Analysis of the Betamax Case and Its Predecess (Columbia Law Review, December 1982) by Wendy J. Gordon

Station Manager Ken’s show from Jan 24, 2024 – interview with Mark Hosler, Jon Leidecker, and David Wills

People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) and her WFMU show Do or DIY

The Statute of Anne, “also known as the Copyright Act 1709 or the Copyright Act 1710, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1710, [and] was the first statute to provide for copyright regulated by the government and courts, rather than by private parties.”

P(doom) is “a term in AI safety that refers to the probability of catastrophic outcomes (or “doom”) as a result of artificial intelligence.”

13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music by Jennifer Walshe (Dec 15, 2023): “AI isn’t coming for your jobs. Humans are. ‘A.I.’ is a way to avoid talking about that.”

DADABOTS: “Eliminate humans from music”

RELENTLESS DOPPELGANGER \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/: recording of livestream by Dadabots

PIZZAFIRE (Oct 23, 2023): documentary telling the “origin story of AI band DADABOTS”

Beatboxing thru a Neural Net (Nov 9, 2023) by DADABOTS

KRAFTWERK

The League of Automatic Music Composers

Jon Leidecker – United Feedback

Louis and Bebe Barron, electronic music pioneers

David Tudor, experimental music composer

The Sonic Arts Union, experimental music collective

Feedback works of Éliane Radigue (1969-1970)

Roland Kayn, electronic music composer

Gregory Bateson, an “English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.”

George Dyson and his books Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence and Turing’s Cathedral, which covers the work of John von Neumann

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  Jon Leidecker, aka Wobbly, on Negativland and fair use
Tomaš Dvořák  Game Boy Tune   Favoriting Machinarium Soundtrack  n/a 
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  Mark's intro      
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Negativland  Don't Don't Get Freaked Out   Favoriting The World Will Decide  Seeland Records 
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  Interview with Jon Leidecker      
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Wobbly  Every Piano   Favoriting Popular Monitress  Hausu Mountain 
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Listener comments!

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People Like Us:

Looking forward! And back! And sideways!
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Y. pestis:

Shop as Usual... and Avoid Panic Buying
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ultradamno:

Mark! Techtontivlanders!
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ultradamno:

↳ People Like Us @6:01
...and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
NotARealDoctor in Norfolk VA:

Hello Mark, just started reading Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill over the weekend and boy it's scary stuff!
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Webhamster Henry:

A big Wobbly Welcome to you!
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People Like Us:

good evening
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Bas NL:

Mi Mark! All!
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Kat in the chat:

Nice list o' links!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
tim:

Hi Mark and everyone! I was really hoping that tonight was Sandwiches Part 2 hosted by Matt Warwick but this discussion looks pretty dang cool!
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joe_rosevear:

Hello, Mark and all the Techies!
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Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

Hello Mark and tech fiends.
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spodiodi:

Wobbly time! woohoo!

hi Mark and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Ike:

Last summer I discovered ITAA thanks to this show and it has helped me a lot! internetaddictsanonymous.org
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spodiodi:

yay!
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Kat in the chat:

Good news for once
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Kat in the chat:

Would love to be there
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spodiodi:

need a ride from sf
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tim:

Regarding the Fair Use book, I see SST is pressing and selling Helter Stupid. Is Negativland cool with it? Or did Greg Ginn pull his sleazeball crap?
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People Like Us:

↳ tim @6:07
that wouldn't have been authorised by them
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JeremyB:

Funny that google news itself has no article mentioning the antitrust ruling.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
spodiodi:

Wobbly, your work makes life enjoyable
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tim:

↳ People Like Us @6:07
Thanks! That's what I was thinking.
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spodiodi:

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
  6:11pm
GC in Bmore:

Enjoyed Jon L many times at ATA and elsewhere in the Bay Area! Thanks for this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Webhamster Henry:

"Not programmed for love!" The robots we were promised. wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
spodiodi:

so good
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ultradamno:

The Amazon ads that air during The Boys on Freevee would be a goldmine of sampling opportunities for this sort of thing. They're like fake ads made to appear in a dystopian science fiction movie, but they're real and apparently oblivious to how creepy they are.
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Niall:

I didn’t know Leidecker was affiliated with Negativland beyond being in that general plunderphonic circle of friends.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Hello, Mark and Wobbly types.
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dale:

hey now. hour of crap played a ton of those programs a month or two back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
mariano:

Yes! When I lived in San Francisco, Over the Edge on KPFA was one of the highlights.
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Mark Hurst:

↳ People Like Us @6:01
Hi Vicki! Thanks so much for joining.
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herb.nyc:

Hey, will try and come to screening. I’m only casually familiar w negativeland. I’m v sure the band is in this compilation cd, 2000(?)-


To protest the expansion of copyright law, the magazine sponsored the Illegal Art exhibition, website and compact disc, all featuring artists challenging copyright or art works which were the subject of copyright suits. Stay Free! also published a free media literacy curriculum.
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People Like Us:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:17
hi Mark! I'm trying to get Jon on chat but he's on a phone
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Mark Hurst:

And welcome to YPestis, ultra, NotaReal, Webham, Bas, Kat, tim, joe_r, Peter, spodiodi, Ike, Jeremy, GC, Niall, KfHP, dale, mariano, and herb!
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cosmic matrix:

wow, i'm a little late, but how good is this???
  6:22pm
dan in wisconsin:

Negativland - Time Zones feels pretty timeless and prescient
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Kat in the chat:

↳ dale @6:16
Don-O is still playing them now and then
  6:23pm
chresti:

Hi mark and Jon and techtoniacs!
We’re in SF!
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Niall:

Deconstructing Beck: man, this takes me back.
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People Like Us:

hi chresti
  6:24pm
chresti:

Yay evaporating lawyers!
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People Like Us:

haha
  6:25pm
chresti:

Hi people like us!
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Kat in the chat:

What happened to Girl Talk? I went to a couple of those shows.
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tim:

What is Kid 606 up to?
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People Like Us:

↳ chresti @6:25
hi Chresti! More Cinechamber in Nov!
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Niall:

I had Extracted Celluloid and Commercial Ad Hoc, too. Oh! And that terrific collaboration between Wobbly and People Like Us. Lorne Green singing “Wide Open Spaces?” Never grow old, folks.
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herb.nyc:

Oh, Jon mentioned Stay Free! magazine’s Illegal Art. (& he used word FLAGRANT, commonly said by jon wurster for Best Show skits)
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People Like Us:

↳ tim @6:25
he's still doing stuff
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People Like Us:

you don't get sued but robots take you down on corporate platforms with a 3 strike rule
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tim:

↳ People Like Us @6:25
Oh good!
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Niall:

↳ Kat in the chat @6:25
I was the sole paying member of the audience at. A show he played in Detroit with Kero and Xanopticon. What a shitshow that was. He covered “Scentless Apprentice” while stripping.
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Mark Hurst:

I've posted links to People Like Us and Do or DIY on the playlist at left - but you can check out Vicki's work here: peoplelikeus.org
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Sometimes I hear about political events that play music without the permission of the artists.
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ledzeppelinsucks:

Insurance keep cases they know they can win out of court to prohibit discovery.
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Kat in the chat:

↳ Niall @6:27
LOL!
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mackeral:

glad to be here, folks
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People Like Us:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:27
thanks
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Kat in the chat:

Vicki's new "Copia" is not only wonderful listening but has WFMU peeples on it
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tim:

Wow! This is fascinating. I like Negativland's approach. Legal acumen combined with playing a confident game of chicken with the big dogs.
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People Like Us:

↳ Kat in the chat @6:28
Jon is on it
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Niall:

Is Steev Hise still active, I wonder?
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Kat in the chat:

↳ People Like Us @6:29
yes!
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ultradamno:

I saw this morning Elon Musk has a new suit against Open AI because he thought they were going to work for the betterment of people and earth and the universe when he invested in them...
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Webhamster Henry:

↳ People Like Us @6:26
You can check out my experiments with machine learning, music, prose, and who knows what :
largelanguage.bandcamp.com
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Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

Let me get this straight. This guy is slagging AI - rightfully so. But he claims it's OK for Negativland to sample anything they want without paying a royalty?

Sorry, that doesn't fly.
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joe mulligan:

Kalle Lasn culture jamming not Alex Jones. it's like they stole the concept for bad use
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mackeral:

yes, the "art" stuff is slight of hand.
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Niall:

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:32
Negativland and their ilk typically present their work as critique of and commentary on the sampled works; that’s the point of fair use as defined, while OpenAi just plagiarized it. I don’t see a disconnect.
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People Like Us:

Fair Use allows this
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chresti:

Franco saw a self-driving car with cameras all over it surveilling all directions
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Niall:

Oh man, I haven’t thought about “Wind Done Gone” in like 25 years…
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
DjLorraine:

Sorry i was late. A sick friend needed food delivered to his water damaged condo.
  6:38pm
chresti:

THEY’RE EVIL!
  6:38pm
ledzeppelinsucks:

Those cars stage at 38th and Balboa, there are probably 7 of them parked in front of BofA now. They hoard the diagonal parking there.
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People Like Us:

I hear you can put a traffic cone on them and they stop
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Niall:

↳ People Like Us @6:39
“LOOK AT ME, I’M A GIANT WITCH.”
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People Like Us:

consciousness is in every object
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mackeral:

↳ People Like Us @6:39
"But on the underside, it didn't say nothin'" - Woody Guthrie
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ultradamno:

I tried to get an AI to make a Furiosa and Garfield mash-up, I don't think it's in danger of infringing on any copyright mastodon.social...
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ledzeppelinsucks:

Halloween and Halloween party night, Santa Con and gay parties and parades where regalia is likely worn are days when the Acars have the day off as they haven't learned costumes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Kat in the chat:

I haven't played with AI because I keep thinking about what Mark says about how it wastes resources on a colossal scale
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Niall:

↳ ultradamno @6:43
It just needs the chrome spray-paint!
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People Like Us:

new tools always get used in creative ways - first the object exists but then follows that use for it
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cosmic matrix:

so many great links, mark! not to mention fantastic interview.
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Mark Hurst:

↳ cosmic matrix @6:45
Thanks! Jon had so many good pointers.
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Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

↳ Niall @6:35
My problem is that Negativland seem to think that they can sample for free. As someone who writes music, I have an issue with that. IMHO if we all went along with Negativland's approach, pretty soon it's back to the badf old days of Napster.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
Mark Hurst:

Fair use en.wikipedia.org...
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spodiodi:

thanks Wobbly!!!
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PaulRobeson1924:

Mhmm
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People Like Us:

We all breath in other people's ideas. No one is an island. Stay Free!
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Niall:

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:47
Negativland typically falls within fair use; it’s not the same as a SoundCloud rapper making millions off your hooks, for which you would have recourse.
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Kat in the chat:

It matters what you do with it
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cosmic matrix:

it's all about intent
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alan the painter:

Mark, Thank you for a great interview.
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People Like Us:

you cannot necessarily harm something by referencing it, in fact you may promote it, enhance and enrich it.
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ultradamno:

Maybe Goblin tonight mastodon.social...
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Niall:

Also, to crib from Lautreamont, “plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.”
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People Like Us:

"To create is divine, to reproduce is human.” -- Man Ray
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cosmic matrix:

now i have too many tabs open
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Kat in the chat:

↳ People Like Us @6:54
hmm, that sounds familiar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
cosmic matrix:

the kids are always like "stop copying me! so and so copied me!"
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Matt_E:

Great show, thanks Mark
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People Like Us:

hi
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Niall:

↳ People Like Us @6:54
“We must confront the basic facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.” Or something like that. -Brecht
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spodiodi:

thanks, Mark!
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Kat in the chat:

yes thank you Mark! usually lurking on Mondays but unlurked for this one
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Bas NL:

Thanks Mark, Jon, Vicki! Interesting topic.
  6:56pm
chresti:

Thanks Mark and Jon!
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cosmic matrix:

many thanks
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bleubombersune:

Marks Thanks great interview
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Kat in the chat:

↳ Song: "Every Piano" by "Wobbly"
OH THIS IS MY FAVORITE
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Niall:

I like that Messiaen album Wobbly did. regards?
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People Like Us:

↳ Niall @6:57
yes
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Webhamster Henry:

Nice show tonight!
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tim:

Thank you, Mark!
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Mark Hurst:

Thanks, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

A gazillion links tonight, as is appropriate!
  6:59pm
ledzeppelinsucks:

Crews in Yosemite National Park say they have found two missing hikers from Santa Cruz.
  7:02pm
tikbartok:

Dave Mandel, aloha from Maui!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5mYFRC9PY6aFNBH48

if this link doesn't open it's a photo of a large store window out a business called "it's complicated", in Paia, Maui
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