chiarascuro
polymathic creative
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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…
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Glitch Lab as a cure for boredom
A few years ago, I found this super cool app called Glitch Lab that uses AI to power its distortion and special effects features. As an open-minded explorer, I played with it a lot.
