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  • I love the quiet of black-and-white art. In some manga there's a sense of peace even in the action scenes, like you have this character hanging in the air about to kick a monster cyborg in the face and you can see their shadow on the ground, the background is maybe white or just a gradient
    An Interview with Linnea Sterte: 'Small moments are probably the easiest thing for me' - The Comics Journal
  • stealing a small world to go on an adventure in it
    An Interview with Linnea Sterte: 'Small moments are probably the easiest thing for me' - The Comics Journal
  • I found myself drawn to older books or books by older writers where one could feel in some totally intangible way the author had never been in a twitter argument and did not live in fear of ever being in [one]
    An Interview with Linnea Sterte: 'Small moments are probably the easiest thing for me' - The Comics Journal
  • The reason it’s so hard to get AI to stop hallucinating is that it’s permanently hallucinating. Its whole existence is one long lurid trip.
    If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
  • Something’s happened to the world; it’s all gone flimsy.
    If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
  • We share this planet with an alien intelligence, and the sensuous world is buckling around it.
    If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
  • Game developers do the opposite. They focus on the mundane, routine tasks.
    Juice
  • Asking to apprentice was a very normal American approach, but here, it violated a sacred norm. We hadn’t earned the right to ask
    chinese creativity (a visit to china pt.3)
  • background-position, background-size, background-angle or opacity are very cheap to animate. Animating color stops, adding or removing gradient layers or switching between different gradient types is a bit more expensive.
    Understanding Gradients
  • We are the world’s rice masters.
    Suzumo Sushi Robot: Official Website for North America – Suzumo International Corporation
  • Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience
    Walter Benjamin Storyteller.pdf
  • when you could be lying in a meadow by a glassy stream, rien faire comme une bête, eyes melting into the sky.
    The internet is already over - by Sam Kriss
  • Not thinkpieces or blogs, but the essay, the manifesto, the satyr, and the screed. Ludibria, pseudepigrapha, quodlibets. Or folktales. Prophecy. Dreams.
    The internet is already over - by Sam Kriss
  • I would like to see if, in the belly of the dying internet, it’s possible to create something that is not like the internet. I want to see if I can poke at the outlines of whatever is coming next.
    The internet is already over - by Sam Kriss
  • People will cheerfully admit that the internet has destroyed their attention spans, but what it’s really done away with is your ability to think. Usually, when I’m doing something boring but necessary—the washing up, or walking to the post office—I’ll constantly interrupt myself; there’s a little Joycean warbling from the back of my brain. ‘Boredom is the dream bird that broods the egg of experience.’ But when I’m listlessly killing time on the internet, there is nothing. The mind does not wander. I am not there. That rectangular hole spews out war crimes and cutesy comedies and affirmations a…
    The internet is already over - by Sam Kriss
  • This machine has never produced anything of note, and it never will.
    The internet is already over - by Sam Kriss
  • To push the market toward this ideal, Patek squeezes from both sides of the sale. They weed out flippers by making the path to the scarce models so costly in both time and money — so inconvenient and unreasonable — that only a genuine fan would endure it. The lower tier watches sell for below retail on the secondary market, because Patek doesn't restrict their supply, so a would-be flipper should have to spend years making money-losing purchases before he could even get something he could flip at a profit. Apparently some people still manage to beat this system though, so Patek's countermeasur…
    The Brand Age
  • Push it. Examine all things intensely and relentlessly. Probe and search each object in a piece of art; do not leave it, do not course over it, as if it were understood, but instead follow it down until you see it in the mystery of its own specificity and strength.
    Write Till You Drop
  • Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.
    Write Till You Drop
  • Each post will not only be available via the world wide web, but I will also be printing out a physical copy and stapling it to the sign outside my house each week. Though we are digital workers, we should not limit our work to the digital realm. This breeds separation and turmoil in society.
    What is The Garden of Earthly Delights?
  • Their strategy for life is so entangled with this method that their strong belief is that if they don't suffer they will become homeless vagrants or some other such ineffectual person.
    Neurotic Gradient Descent: Core Transformation
  • The pattern is that when you desire something, you make a contract with yourself to suffer until you get the thing. The motivation this generates creates the activity needed to go out and get the thing.
    Neurotic Gradient Descent: Core Transformation
  • The laser cutter he used to help make prototypes had melted. “It’s now a pile of metal,” he said. “A 3-D printer is now a pile of ash.” Rare paper, including fig-based paper from a tiny village in Mexico, had burned. He went on, “There were correspondence letters with other origami artists over the years that were a historical record for me and perhaps for others. And then my exhibition collection was there. The pieces I had in moma”—a large grizzly bear, a bull moose, and a fiddler crab, all folded between 2003 and 2007—“are gone.” As he evacuated, however, he was able to grab a single piece …
    The Master Origami Artist Whose Collection Turned to Ash in Altadena | The New Yorker
  • He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art.
    Akira Yoshizawa
  • When you fold, the ritual and the act of creation is more important than the final result. When your hands are busy your heart is serene
    Akira Yoshizawa
  • All of the artists had been outsiders. They had not been part of a scene. But when you grouped them, they looked like a constellation—like lone suns, hung in infinite darkness, that from afar revealed themselves to be part of the same pattern. It was a pattern of people with a compulsive need to look at the landscapes around them, at their small life worlds, and to capture what they saw. I imagined myself and Johanna as a part of the constellation and took comfort in that.
    On the compulsion to make art - by Henrik Karlsson
  • I found much more comfort in the stories of artists who fixed toilets but never got famous, and who did it anyway.
    On the compulsion to make art - by Henrik Karlsson
  • “You have to make the time,” Donald and I said, practically in unison. “It makes your life better,” I said. “Why don’t you go to Turkey to get a hair transplant?” Roy snapped. “That would make your life better.”
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • They have too much money and nothing going on. They have no swag, no smoke, no motion, no hoes. That’s all you need to know.
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • It's a good sign when your answer resembles nature's.
    Taste for Makers
  • Strangely enough, if you want to make something that will appeal to future generations, one way to do it is to try to appeal to past generations.
    Taste for Makers
  • There's a real dream here. It will be intense: think 80-hour weeks for a month. But if it succeeds, it will likely be widespread news and a precipitating point in human history — the first demonstration of rich thought decoding, to neurotech as GPT-1 was to AI. This problem deserves our very best. We're looking for someone extraordinary, a highly technical mind who carries deep thoughtfulness and care for all humans. More info here.
    A heart of fire
  • Around twothousendandsomething I birthed my brainchild, PINKMNAN.TV
    alberto mielgo info — +
  • IF BY ANY CHANCE YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT WORKING WITH ME, OR CONTACTING ME: First and foremost, thank you. Not pursuing family-friendly animation projects. Not pursuing PG-13 animation projects. PG-13 is not a real thing. If I change my opinion I will happily eat my words but this is what I say for now. I refrain from engaging in Art Direction or Production Design unless I'm also directing. I don't participate in commercial pitches unless attached as the director, nor do I undertake commission paintings or portraits at this time. I love to hear from you if you are an student or another artist b…
    alberto mielgo info — +
  • When there was nothing that distracted us, nothing that entertained us, nothing that happened unless we dug inside ourselves and made it happen, it was as if our thoughts grew clearer and clearer.
    Things that connect us to ourselves, and things that don't
  • To make a painting meaningful, we need to fill it with meaning; we need to listen inward and channel the felt sense that the painting evokes into the gaps left in the art. We need to attune to ourselves. And so when we step out of it, we feel closer to ourselves.
    Things that connect us to ourselves, and things that don't
  • Nevertheless the purpose of his selection is not the role he believes himself to play, but slaughter—a purpose conceived by beings whose aims neither he nor the other sheep can fathom.
    2025 letter | Zhengdong
  • That few million could’ve been a castle, with battlements, grounds, and a link to Robert the Bruce. Even Peter Thiel declared that Silicon Valley real estate, for what you get, “is probably the absolute worst in the world.”
    2025 letter | Zhengdong
  • The world is changing, and Tyler Cowen is right, there will be combinations of place and time lost to us forever.
    2025 letter | Zhengdong
  • What was supposed to be my most personal, intimate AI had just gossiped about me, violating every privacy principle we’d built the product around. And yet—somehow it was the most prosocial, helpful thing it had ever done. It took personal knowledge I had shared and tactfully transformed it into exactly what Devin needed to show up for me, without betraying my dignity.
    Gossip is Good
  • As snake gourds get older, their flesh becomes tougher and more bitter and their rind turns dark red and hardens. Curiously, fully mature snake gourds are tough enough to be turned into didgeridoos. Inside they contain a soft, red, tomato-like pulp that can be used as a tomato-substitute in cooking.
    Observations on a strange vegetable - the snake gourd | Kew
  • As snake gourds get older, their flesh becomes tougher and more bitter and their rind turns dark red and hardens. Curiously, fully mature snake gourds are tough enough to be turned into didgeridoos. Inside they contain a soft, red, tomato-like pulp that can be used as a tomato-substitute in cooking.
    Observations on a strange vegetable - the snake gourd | Kew
  • As snake gourds get older, their flesh becomes tougher and more bitter and their rind turns dark red and hardens. Curiously, fully mature snake gourds are tough enough to be turned into didgeridoos. Inside they contain a soft, red, tomato-like pulp that can be used as a tomato-substitute in cooking.
    Observations on a strange vegetable - the snake gourd | Kew
  • Instead, the energy is generated on the ground, from the tug on the line. “The brake on the winch is generating the electricity
    After a Shaky Start, Airborne Wind Energy Is Slowly Taking Off - Yale e360
  • The theoretical global limit of wind power at high altitude has been estimated to be about 4.5 times greater than what could be harvested at ground level.
    After a Shaky Start, Airborne Wind Energy Is Slowly Taking Off - Yale e360
  • For a two-fold increase in windspeed, that’s eight times the power
    After a Shaky Start, Airborne Wind Energy Is Slowly Taking Off - Yale e360
  • Wind farms typically need a whopping 71 acres to generate a megawatt
    After a Shaky Start, Airborne Wind Energy Is Slowly Taking Off - Yale e360
  • He calculated that such a balloon could lift a considerable mass, and hence that 'mini-cities' or airborne towns of thousands of people could be built in this way.
    Cloud Nine (sphere)
  • Giugiaro is perhaps most widely known for the DMC DeLorean
    Giorgetto Giugiaro
  • Lamborghini Countach
    Gruppo Bertone