chiarascuro
polymathic creative
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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist who wrote several scientific works, including the controversial On the Origin of Species. Many people who have never read the book denounce it categorically, on the basis of erroneous assumptions that…
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the best from Revival, part 2
More from old work I digitally revived crappy old photos of. The camera was from an LG NV3.
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light paintings 12-20
The second set of light paintings, made by a camera on a low shutter speed and a kinetic hand.
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happy Pride month! the poems of sappho pod
Sappho was a prolific poet from a Greek island called Lesbos, and wrote a lot about her affection for women. Her work was banned and burned by the church, but some of it has survived. And it’s beautiful.
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the best from Revival, part 1
Revival was a collection of older work that I had poor quality photos of. Phone cameras were really crappy back then. So I’ve had to blow up the old photos and use a blending rake to de-pixelate the images. They…
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light paintings 1-11
I made these by waving a camera around while taking photos using the lowest shutter speed possible. (Where is number 10? I don’t know. I was wondering about that, too.)
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the frankenstein pod: turning a public domain novel into a downloadable webnovel
I used to make these crazy things called pods — self-contained webnovels that were downloadable and worked offline. I don’t make them anymore because they were cumbersome and ePub3 format allows the HTML and CSS features I wanted my books…
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love machine shorts #2
The robot from my first series of shorts has a best friend called Stanislav. He’s a chef. His recipes are all carefully crafted around ingredients humans used in their food. Potassium sorbate, monosodium glutamate, and carrageenan — it’s all right…
