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pr1nceshawn:

Stop Clickbait.

I feel increasingly embarrassed and stupid using the Internet. The world is big right now

A sober list of the essentials of success and other affirmations from the journal of Octavia Butler. Read them as the necessary juxtapositions they are: “specific goals” and “adaptability,” “cooperation” paired with “self-reliance.”

Hurry off for more on the life, work, and influence of science fiction writer Octavia Butler over at Radio Imagination.

h0odrich:

this looks like a man just got switched into a cats body and he’s having some self realization of the situation and he’s buggin

chuckdrawsthings:

GOSH THANKS

Every now and then there’s a visual exploration of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. It seems that each gets a bit more complex, so I appreciate the simplicity of these official maps from Chooseco, which shows the structure of each book. Atlas Obscura provides the details.

On the official maps, however, the endings aren’t coded in any way that reveals their nature. Instead, they operate according to a simple key: each arrow represents a page, each circle a choice, and each square an ending. Dotted lines show where branches link to one another.

The one above is for Journey Under the Sea. I need to dig up my CYOA collection.

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prostheticknowledge:

MAKIN’ MOVES

Motion Graphics short from Kouhei Nakama transforms various detailed human 3D scans with animated geometric surrealism:

Music: “ Hella” by Broke For Free (brokeforfree.com/) 

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Dr. Seuss meets Tim Burton is one of the many ways to describe the psychedelic artwork of Japanese artist Yoshi47. His signature motif is a deranged, smiling (but also sometimes frowning) sun with a mouthful of teeth that reminds you of the Cheshire Cat.

mural at Osaka Expo

After growing up in Japan, at the age of 20 Yoshi47 moved to California for several years where he studied break dancing and graffiti culture. It was in the Bay Area where his love for the outdoors also grew and he became an avid bicycler and surfer.

At one point in his career Yoshi47 got swept up in the world of bike-riding and almost lost interest in making art. It was a serious accident and a fractured shoulder that literally knocked him off his path. His long road to recovery eventually re-ignited his career as a productive artist. But his passion for exploration and the great outdoors is apparent in his work, which includes murals, acrylics, watercolors and installations. But whatever the format, Yoshi47’s paint brush seems to go on its own adventure, sometimes spiraling out of control.

Mural for “Forest For the Trees” in Portland

As an artist, Yoshi47 has collaborated with brands like Stussy, Kidrobot, Starbucks and Jansports. But this year he’s been preoccupied with his own work, and is preparing for an ambitious dual-exhibition. One of his primary muses is human greed and desire. To further explore that concept, from June 3 – June 18,2017 he’s staging one exhibition titled #無料欲望 (“Free Greed”). For the show he’s prepared 300 artworks drawn on USPS mailing supplies, which are free at any post office in the U.S. Visitors will be welcome to take the artwork for free.

In tandem with that show Yoshi47 is also staging “Internal Nature” (June 1 – June 30, 2017), an exhibition of 12 new watercolor paintings he’s made specifically for this show. The 12 works represent 12 months throughout the year and portray changes, both in season, but also internal changes within the artist as time progresses forward.

Internal Nature
6.1. – 6.30.2017 (opening reception 6.2)
Location: Space Orbit Gallery (map)

 #無料欲望 (“Free Greed”)
6.3. – 6.18.2017
Location: Manhood Gallery (map)

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2016 brought us the world’s blackest black, Vantablack, while 2017 has already introduced us to Harvard’s collection of the world’s rarest colours. We now have the first group of colours created by AI. Research Scientist, Janelle Shane, who took a neural network (for non-sciencey brains, that’s an artificial network made up of a number of computer systems), and tasked it with creating a unique set of colours with accompanying names. Janelle states, “for this experiment, I gave the neural network a list of about 7,700 paint colours along with their RGB values. (RGB = red, green, and blue colour values). Could the neural network learn to invent new paint colours and give them attractive names?”.

The answer was yes (well, almost!) Janelle created an algorithm for the network that completed two tasks: the creation of the RGB value of the colour and the selection of letters to form the colour name. The first results were promising, and the AI had managed to produce valid RGB values, however, the punchy and eye-catching names were lacking a little, and it seemed to be favouring brown, blue and grey hues.

Image: lewisandquark.tumblr.com

The network developed further and could soon spell green and grey and was expanding its palette of colours, however it was failing to place the green and grey terms alongside the relevant colour.

Image: lewisandquark.tumblr.com

Then the more creative (we’re not sure we’d be able to pronounce them!) names began.

Image: lewisandquark.tumblr.com

Finally, the network reached a level of intelligence where colours matched names (almost!). You could see some of the below being right at home alongside the likes of Farrow & Ball’s Elephant’s Breath!

Image: lewisandquark.tumblr.com

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unexplained-events:

Crab emerging from its old shell and straight into my nightmares.

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grossnational:

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timmanley:

I would be really honored if you checked out this show. And I’d love to hear what you think.

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“Scenius” is a term coined by musician and producer Brian Eno to counter “The Lone Genius Myth,” or the idea that innovation in art and culture comes from a few Great Chosen Ones. When Eno draws what the traditional model of genius looks like, he uses the example of the symphony orchestra, with God or the Muse at the very top of the triangle, and on descending levels, the composer, the conductor, the musicians, and, finally, the audience listening:

He then draws other organizations in our society that traditionally have hierarchical models:

When he gets to “scenius,” or what he calls the communal form of genius, he draws this:

Here’s what I wrote about it in my book, Show Your Work!:

There’s a healthier way of thinking about creativity that the musician Brian Eno refers to as “scenius.” Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals—artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers—who make up an “ecology of talent.” If you look back closely at history, many of the people who we think of as lone geniuses were actually part of “a whole scene of people who were supporting each other, looking at each other’s work, copying from each other, stealing ideas, and contributing ideas.” Scenius doesn’t take away from the achievements of those great individuals: it just acknowledges that good work isn’t created in a vacuum, and that creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration, the result of a mind connected to other minds.

What I love about the idea of scenius is that it makes room in the story of creativity for the rest of us: the people who don’t consider ourselves geniuses. Being a valuable part of a scenius is not necessarily about how smart or talented you are, but about what you have to contribute—the ideas you share, the quality of the connections you make, and the conversations you start. If we forget about genius and think more about how we can nurture and contribute to a scenius, we can adjust our own expectations and the expectations of the worlds we want to accept us. We can stop asking what others can do for us, and start asking what we can do for others.

To put it even more simply: Genius is an egosystem, scenius is an ecosystem.

Our world is an ecosystem in which our only real chance at survival as a species is cooperation, community, and care, but it’s being lead by people who believe in an egosystem, run on competition, power, and self-interest.

This was the message of the great feminist and pacifist Ursula Franklin, who said:

The dream of a peaceful society to me is still the dream of a potluck supper. The society in which all can contribute, and all can find friendship. Those who bring things, bring things that they do well. [We must] create conditions under which a potluck is possible.

When you think about your family, your friends, your neighborhood, your office, your city, your country, your world… are you operating as an ecosystem or an egosystem?

Which model we choose to operate under will determine the quality of our lives, and, arguably, our survival.

This month, we thought we’d make a comic for people who are just a little bit curious about birds. My dad grew up in a big city and he only knew these species as “the little brown ones” or “the big grey ones”. Here’s an intro to some of them!

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Henderson Island is a 14.4 square mile uninhabited landmass in the South Pacific Ocean. Recent studies have revealed that this area has the highest density of plastic that has washed up onshore of any area on the globe. It is estimated that the island’s shores now contain 37.7 million items of debris that weigh a total of 17.6 tonnes.
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