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Slightly frayed around the edges but the vinyl is mint. 25% off
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I found an original pressing of IABPOITC in my local thrift store for $3. That has to be a sign.
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Asking to Break
Loading
Tell Me
Fall Back
He's Been Wonderful
Big Hammer
I Want You to Know
Night Sky
Fire the Editor
If You Can Hear Me
Playing Robots into Heaven
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On 7/18/2021 at 1:57 PM, Amen Lare said:
By the way, it is known that certain fungi and toxic bugs digest even the hardest plastic fully (search The Guardian articles for examples). You can then eat the resulted fungi.
But the problem as I understand it is not with plastic per se, but especially toxic components within it, like PFAS, which are used in all types of regular products. This shit is making us infertile and perhaps less man/woman-like too
Read an article in the Guardian that said toilet paper might also have PFAS. Seems too be prevalent everywhere, in our water, food, soil. Here's a list of known health effects from PFAS:
- Reproductive effects such as decreased fertility or increased high blood pressure in pregnant women.
- Developmental effects or delays in children, including low birth weight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, or behavioral changes.
- Increased risk of some cancers, including prostate, kidney, and testicular cancers.
- Reduced ability of the body’s immune system to fight infections, including reduced vaccine response.
- Interference with the body’s natural hormones.
- Increased cholesterol levels and/or risk of obesity.
(source: https://www.epa.gov/pfas/our-current-understanding-human-health-and-environmental-risks-pfas)
There was a study not long ago that tested Australian firefighters with frequent exposure to these chemicals. They found that compared to a control group, the ones that donated plasma protein showed significant decrease in PFAS levels.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790905
Seems donating plasma can help both you and others in need of it, there's more information here:
https://www.pptaglobal.org/plasma-protein-therapies
In NY there is a company called Olgam that will take your plasma for about $50 per donation. A good way to make some extra bucks during this high inflation economy.
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Legos are awesome. I have fond memories playing with them with a friend as kids and it totally soothed my obsessive compulsive itch back then. I rarely constructed any of the official sets and I'm almost certain most of my original collection came from a dump somewhere off Shelter Island where my grandmother used to live.. so many random toys recycled for my enjoyment.. ahh those were the days.
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Been watching instructional videos about SuperCollider because I'd like to build custom synths for sequencing with TidalCycles eventually. Had a revelation listening to this popular instructor off YouTube (Eli Fieldsteel), that he sounds just like Tom Cruise. So now I can't help shake that feelin.. learning SC from Tom Cruise... Ha
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Found a tag sale at the end of my jog on Sunday and decided to peruse. I’m guessing the guy passed away recently and his family may have been trying to make some money liquidating all his items. Lotsa Jewish books, books on Israel, Architectural Digest, a couple of vintage meat grinders and a Texas Instruments typewriter along with this nice Fedora in the attic. So here I am posing with it.. RIP neighbor.
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https://objkt.com/profile/ganbrood/created
https://www.katevassgalerie.com/ganbrood
I’d like to know more about how this guy gets the results he does. I’ve read an interview where he’s mentioned StyleGAN before and I think that’s how he accomplished these realistic portraits:
https://www.basuterwijk.com/gallery/portraits/G0000WVKM6MbiIAc/C0000hFAng_Rwrws
The rest of his work are generative scenes and figures with a surreal retro vibe that look amazing to me. I think he curates his own photographs as part of this process, though I’m curious as to what else he does as they look distinct from the output from the stable diffusion models of AI.
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https://georgewestren.com/en-us
I read about this guys work recently on the Guardian, he made some pretty sick opt art. How'd I imagine fractalized bar codes to appear if I was tripping hard. Maybe this belongs in that thread about chairs:
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"Walk Thru Water" is another generic, hip hop sounding track that for some reason hit me at the right time, they're always playing these types of songs at the Plasma donation site I frequent.
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I almost forgot about this album, thanks for the heads-up!
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3rd one is a collab, and here's some fun my fam and I had with Krita's mirror tool:
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I recently discovered these guys myself and will definitely be looking forward to this one.
They have allot of great tracks, one of my favorites:
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https://github.com/Immorpher/Bandither
A nice shader to add dithering to any game and give it that "Obra Dinn" aesthetic. I had the desire to play an Arena shooter and Quake live still holds up but the graphics are kind of ugly on a 4k monitor. I'd upload screenshots but I'm at work at the moment.
I was also feeling nostalgic of the Road Rash series, which somehow led me to discovering GP Bikes / MX Bikes and playing that with Soundgarden's Rusty Cage in the background. The game lacks AI but makes up for it with the physics engine. BeamNG.drive is my favorite driving sim because of its soft-body physics, but this is probably one of the better motorcycle sims available. Now I wish there was a game that could rival Wave Race in regards to water dynamics. I love when games get these things right (or as close as possible).
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I watched a Japanese documentary called "Out of the Cradle" about prehistorical hominids and their evolutionary path to neanderthals and eventually humans. It has some realistic CGI created from the Square Enix studio, so may be worth a watch if you want to see what our ancestors may have looked. It's a relatively recent documentary from 2018, so I believe it covers all the latest theories about our development back during that time, with several species of hominidae that would eventually become neanderthals as well as humans, of who we share some genetic inheritance. Other than the imagery, they also go through some practical experiments involving building a rudimentary boat to test the idea of human migration overseas back then. I also liked the revelation of sewing needles and had not thought of how sophisticated they were to use such relatively refined tools. It must have taken much patience and skill to be able to shape them from bone and then to create clothing for the first time from animal hide, it's simply fascinating.
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nice, love his music, I've heard Nathan Fake live, has a somewhat similar style
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A0 AI IO AT ALI AII
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The first two are DALL-E 2, the rest are Midjourney. It's fun feeding it my own artwork and seeing what it comes up with, or trying to get something in a particular artist's style, like Beksinski family photos. The AI can come up with some weird facial and anatomy distortions which can look interesting, I'm assuming this will improve with time.
All of this AI tech recently is really uncanny, I'm happy to be able to experience it in my life time but a bit uneasy if it starts competing even more with humanity.. our relationship with technology is becoming increasingly dependent and it would be really scary to lose control over that, sounds a bit sci-fi but who knows that can happen over the next century or so if things continue at this pace.
Anyway, despite being quick to generate impressive results, the critic in me sees it as a bit generic as well. It looks like a mix of existing artwork made into a convincing collage with some nice filtration. I don't think artists should be too intimidated by this stuff stealing the show completely as I think the human mind is still better at perceiving, digesting, and portraying an authentic, original distillation of their own experience, AI is a like a novel remix of what has already been recorded. Collaborating with it either for ideas and inspiration or directly should yield some great work though, so excited to see where it goes in the future.
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On 9/24/2022 at 2:53 PM, Squee said:
Having played ALL the LucasArts/LucasFilm I feel like such an idiot playing Return to Monkey Island. Got the forest map but whenever I follow it I end up leaving the forest instead. The fuck?!
I got lost on that puzzle too for a minute, pay attention to the flora.
The game is a nostalgia trip, a bit too easy peasy though. Also, I would have liked it to have been a pixel throwback, the irony of the first game with the life-like portraits and grotesque portrayals (ex. sacrificial bodies in front of monkey head alter) in juxtaposition to the goofy, meta, pirate computer game humor are what made that game special to me. The music also seems to just be a mash of the first few games. Humor is still good though and I genuinely lol'd a few times.
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I have an extra key for this because of the Bitwig promo with u-he. Excellent modular synth, offering it 50% off.
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Song of Myself, 51
Walt Whitman - 1819-1892The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
Who wishes to walk with me?Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
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"Scornful Man" (Grace Tumey 4/73) and "Stalagmitic Stagnation #1" (Grace Tumey 4/74)
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Lanark Artefax - Metallur
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OT (just discovering this guys music for myself, ty watmm), I think this is such a triumphant track. The 2 second hesitation around the 3:30 mark does it for me. Then that twang leading into the ending ambience..
He really works his delays well