Dear @doctormo@doctormo, I’m a great admirer of your work in general and hopefully I won’t creep you out by telling everyone I’m your fan!

As a creator of digital vector-based art I find the color management stuff (trying to figure how to generate things to print “in CMYK”) mind boggling. I slowly try to read and acquire the concepts and vocabulary to understand more about this. I’m grateful for your work in this area. Thank you!

#FLOSS #CMYK #ColorManagement #inkscape

@thecanine@twtxt.net My daughter (who is pretty good already at art and only 10 :D) says this looks like a “blob” 🤣 I tried to explain to her that this is pixel art, but I’m not quite sure she has the same appreciation (yet) 😅

Since Fastly acquired and recently shut down glitch.com, some of my ancient webapps are no longer available, nor do I have any plans to make them available again - all had either zero, or very few monthly visits, used outdated libraries and would be a waste of money, to continue hosting and updating elsewhere.

All art archives remain unaffected and all projects shut down before 2025, were already permanently deleted, but if there’s someone out there, still relying on the recently discontinued projects, somehow - you can reach out and request their source code.

These requests will only be honoured, until the end of this year, when we plan to permanently delete, all of this data (both webapps and files only hosted on Amazons CDN).

Canine out °_°

Pessoas da comunidade brasileira de #ProgramaçãoCriativa por muitos anos fizeram encontros sob o nome promovido pela Fundação Processing, os chamados #ProcessingCommunityDay, fizemos encontros em várias cidades e então depois de 2020, com a pandemia do COVID-19, fizemos três eventos nacionais muito inspiradores em 2021, 2022 e 2023 (vide https://compoetica.github.io/links/)

Ano passado não conseguimos fazer e este ano pretendemos retomar, só que usando outro nome: #Compoética. Vamos aos poucos divulgar mais sobre o encontro brasileiro de programação criativa em https://compoetica.github.io/CP2025/

Meus agradecimentos profundos ao @guilhermesv@guilhermesv que dedica generosamente um enorme esforço para organizar esses eventos da comunidade e cria o design e peças de comunicação sempre emocionantes de lindos.

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org dmenu is a great example.

There have been several attempts at porting dmenu from X11 to Wayland. Well, not exactly “porting” it, more like rewriting it from scratch. Turns out: It’s not that easy.

dmenu is super fast and reliable. None of the Wayland rewrites are (at least none of the popular ones that I know of). They are either bloated and/or slow.

It takes a lot of discipline and restraint to write simple software and not blow up the codebase. This is much harder than people think. It’s a form of art, really.

Felt the need to make this stupid reference - nobody will get, most likely. Feel free to guess (the file name and todays date, are both a hint), any other notes and opinions appreciated too, idk if I ever drew a standing one, from the front, before.

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This is so good…

https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto

by Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@inthehands)

#Education #Curiosity #Liberation

FRIENDS I GOT A PHYSICAL COPY OF A TUX GAME LOOK AT ITTTTTTTTTT

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I sent you my QR code, please respond!

*for context: long ago, there were some complaints, about some of my sitting drawings, where the legs are apart, not using dithering/more shading and one of my favourite artists, made a video, exploring the use of QR codes, in art
P.S.: the code just redirects to my websites

My vision with this newsletter is to have a slower medium for communicating about my art as well as ideas and projects I’m working on regarding how we can use digital technology to our own benefits instead of being exploited by big tech.

Twtxt not sloe enough for you? 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t even think the premise of this makes much sense. If an artist is convinced they cannot compete, with the “AI” learning models, we already have today, they must have some self esteem issues, strange opinion on what the purpose of art is, or just be someone mindlessly redrawing already established things and not be all that good at it.

It might be connected to some typically non-artists assumption, that the more time and effort the artwork took to accomplish, the more artistic it is - this can be further twisted in these peoples minds, into the “more pointless detail = more artistic art” meme. AI often ads pointless and illogical details everywhere, “so it’s obviously better, than the human artist, who drew the original”.

Some people just enjoy having the picture they wanted or having the status of an artist to brag about and don’t actually enjoy the artistic process of discovery and small decisions, made while drawing, that shape the outcome into something, only you could have created.

new icon! art is by rian gonzales, one of my fave comic artists :)

@prologic@twtxt.net Absolutely! It is essential to practice and deepen every art 😄

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Programming is art. You become good at art by practising your art. You learn artistic patterns by being inspired by and reading others art works. The most importance however is that you practise your art.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org You’re realling pushing it with those distances. 😅 I went for a quick 2km walk today, saw two deer, that’s it. 😅

What the heck is going on in 86.jpg? An art installation, apparently, but, uh, I wouldn’t trust that. 😂

@thecanine@twtxt.net contribution mine:

“Any art I posted here, can be found through my (now almost—thanks to @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org—entirely HTML 5 complient) website.”

@prologic@twtxt.net it’s fine, I never expected my yeets, to be preserved for future generations. Any art I posted here, can be found through my (now almost entirely HTML 5 complient) website.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de :-D

In the meantime, I tried to add English subtitles, so the international audience has a chance of enjoying some of them, too. There are a bunch of puns, so translations don’t work at that great.

I went to an exhibition of my fine arts teacher who passed away last year. He was a pretty cool dude and good teacher. I reckon I had him in 7th and probably also 8th grade. His Schelme (imps) were very famous here in this county and presumably well beyond.

Unfortunately, picture frame glas doesn’t mix all that great with a fairly dark light and my camera. So, sorry in adavance for the poor quality. Anyway, I photographed a few funny paintings. Watch out, it may contain saucy contents: https://lyse.isobeef.org/siegfried-wagner-farrenstall-2025-03-15/.

We went up our backyard mountain again right after lunch. The sun peaked through the clouds sometimes. The 6°C felt much, much cooler with the northeast wind. We got lucky, though, it was dead calm at the summit. At least on the southwestern side, which is a few meters lower than the very top to the east. That was shielded absolutely perfectly from the wind (we were extremely surprised), so we sat down on a bench and could really enjoy the sun heating us up. Apart from the haze, the view was really nice.

There were even patches of snow left up top, that was unexpected. Also, somebody created a cool rock art piece on a tree stump. That one rock absolutely looked like a face. Crazy!

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Enjoy: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-01/

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Just before the pandemic, we watched Uncle Bob videos once a week in the lunch break. While almost all of my old teammates agreed with his views, I partially found them to be very odd and even counterproductive.

I didn’t come across John Ousterhout or any of his work before, at least not deliberately. So, this document is my first contact.

I only finished the chapter on comments and I totally agree with John so far. This document just manifests to me how weird Bob’s view is on certain subjects.

I always disagreed with the concept of a maximum method length. Sure, generally, shorter functions are probably better, but it always depends. And I’ve certainly seen super short methods that just made the code flow even worse to follow. While “one function should only do one thing” is a nice general rule, I’m 100% in team John with the shown examples. There are cases, where this doesn’t help readability at all. Not even close.

To me, a function always has to justify its existence. Either by reusing it at least at another place or by coming up with dedicated tests for it. But if it is just called once and there are no tests, I almost always decide against it. Personally, I don’t mind longer methods. We just recently had a discussion about that and I lost against two other workmates who are more in Uncle Bob’s camp, they refactored one medium sized method into three very short ones. Luckily, we agree on most other topics.

Lol, what!? The shorter the method, the longer the variables inside? I first thought I misread or the writeup mixed it up. I’ll always do it the other way around.

I’ve been also bitten badly by outdated comments in the past, but Bob must have worked on really terrible projects to end up with such an attitude to dislike comments. Oh well. No doubt, I’ve come across by several orders of magnitude more useless comments, in my experience (autogenerated) JavaDocs fall in the category more frequently than not. So, I know that there are different types of comments. A comment doesn’t automatically mean that it is good and justified.

But I also partially agree with Bob and John and think that a good name has a proper chance to save a comment. Though, when in doubt, I go John’s route and use a shorter name with a comment rather than use a kilometer long identifier. Writing good comments typically takes some time, sometimes much longer than writing the code. It regularly takes me several minutes. It’s a hard art.

I perhaps should read up on John’s work. He seems to be more reasonable and likeminded. :-) Let me continue to complete this document.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz franz von stuck is one of my fave artists and i was so delighted to see one of his pieces displayed in person but i got separated from my family when i saw it and just barely got a pic before my sister dragged me back to follow them away T__T next time i will see if the met has more of his art… https://remix.girlonthemoon.xyz/u/accendio/m/franz-von-stuck-inferno-1908/

Auf arte läuft heute Abend “The Cure”. Erst eine Doku über die Band und jetzt das Jubiläumskonzert von 2018. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/120866-000-A/the-cure-anniversary-1978-2018/

changing my video site’s logo to this silly no thoughts head empty tux clip art. because i can. https://openclipart.org/detail/103855/tux-the-penguin

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz just spent like an hour playing with this and adding newjeans ASCII art this is the cutest shit ever

A Nokia Art Jam organizada pelo @Polyducks@Polyducks é até 30 de maio!

https://itch.io/jam/nokiaartjam-2

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@prologic@twtxt.net Haha, that sh!t is pure (net)art!

Surpresa do mês 😭🧡💜❤️🧡💜❤️ obrigadobrigadobrigado @villares 🥹

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Precisamos de outros visionários, já que os que lá estão vão em qualquer tecno-cantiga

“Last year, some staggering names such as Zaha Hadid Architects, Grimshaw, Farshid Moussavi, and, of course, the Bjarke Ingels Group pledged to create “virtual cities,” virtual “offices,” and equally vague sounding “social spaces” to be funded with cryptocurrency and supplied with art (NFTs).
(…)
There was only one problem: The whole thing was bullshit. Far from being worth trillions of dollars, the Metaverse turned out to be worth absolutely bupkus. It’s not even that the platform lagged behind expectations or was slow to become popular. There wasn’t anyone visiting the Metaverse at all.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/metaverse-zuckerberg-pr-hype/

I do arte me https://oh.mg/b/3R5

Art is not the medium.

The medium can be material or conceptual, permanent or fleating, truthful or fictional, of human, animal, or artificial origin.

Art is the reconveyance of human emotion or experience to another via some medium.

A machine-executable plan to install a self-supervised reinforcement learning system on all instances of the spot robot from boston dynamics, described step by step | posted on art station

#event Upcomming Meetup in Copennhagen: algolab(the_art_of_live_coding) @ Støberiet / Computer Klub

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I had this notion yesterday of ignoring whitespace completely in !txtvm. this could allow for some ascii-art patterns in the output (similar to what some IOCC entries do). #halfbaked

Today felt productive as I did some art and planted a couple of seeds in my digital garden

beautifully rendered 3d vector-art animations of old electronic items: https://guillaumekurkdjian.com/electronic-items/ #links #vector #graphics #art

generative bad handwriting: [[https://avinayak.github.io/programming/art/2020/09/18/p5-strokes.html]] #links #generative #asemic #graphics

The lospec palette list is a database of palettes for pixel art: [[https://lospec.com/palette-list]] #links #pixelart #color

a WIP video codec for pixel art: [[https://twitter.com/yip_pe/status/1296978100522115073?s=21]] #links #pixelart

postcard sized art is such a lovely scale for the visual medium. attempting to imagine the sound/temporal version of that

Band name of the day: the new art for cancelling fear

The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart – The Art of Research https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/

Psychedelic art of the 1930s: Mescaline and psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum – Museum Crush https://museumcrush.org/how-mescaline-made-art-in-the-1930s-at-the-bethlem-museum-of-the-mind/

Art in the Electric Age - Pulsa : John Chandler : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/ChandlerArtElectricAge/page/n1

Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world/

Animal Photo Art References Search https://x6ud.github.io/

Bad idea of the day: vending machine art project that takes bills & sets them on fire as you watch through a little window

How to self-publish your novel as an ebook - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18285875/self-publishing-ebook-amazon-kindle-epub-book-how-to-editing-art-sales-strategy

Why Is AI Art Copyright So Complicated? — Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/3/27/why-is-ai-art-copyright-so-complicated

“You like horror movies, huh? What are your favorite genres?” “Well, mostly gothic & art deco, but Burnt Offerings was a fantastic greek revival flick”

People love to talk about the potential security impact of exotic state-of-the-art shit like GPT-2 and deepfakes, but they’re neither convincing nor the lowest-effort effective way to create disinfo. Spinners scale better than GPT-2.

Explaining Code using ASCII Art – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653

The Art of the Bot « B.J. Best, Poet. https://bjbestpoet.wordpress.com/the-art-of-the-bot/

Normalization of Deviance | Art is Art and Water is Water https://foone.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/normalization-of-deviance/

Space Colony Art from the 1970s – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/

Code Director - Daily Nutmeg http://dailynutmeg.com/2019/02/08/dan-gries-art-code-director/

CBC Arts https://www.cbc.ca/arts/this-canadian-dial-up-art-is-older-than-the-internet-and-was-long-thought-to-be-lost-until-now-1.4662086

The Art of PNG Glitch http://ucnv.github.io/pnglitch/

Band name of the day: the gentle art of making enemies

Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode

How experimental psychology can help us understand art | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-experimental-psychology-can-help-us-understand-art

Band name of the day: chamber of arts and wonders

The Art of Decision-Making | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making

Donald Knuth: “The Art of Computer Programming: Satisfiability and Combinatorics” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lhrVPDUG0

Band name of the day: high concept art terrorist

Paris Review - Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135 https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1887/don-delillo-the-art-of-fiction-no-135-don-delillo

Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-nearly-indestructible-and-universally-lethal-seed-the-eyes-of-victims/

YouTube: Art or Reality? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVav1ri65Ws

Band name of the day: land art in space

How We Frame the Value of “Experimental” Art Badly – Carcinisation https://carcinisation.com/2014/07/20/how-we-frame-the-value-of-experimental-art-badly/

Beating hash tables with trees? The ART-ful radix trie https://www.the-paper-trail.org/post/art-paper-notes/

Luigi Russolo: How The Art of Noise Revolutionized 20th Century Music | hydramag https://hydramag.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/luigi-russolo-how-the-art-of-noise-revolutionized-20th-century-music/

Code Art, Code Poetry, and Esolangs - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/code-art-code-poetry-and-esolangs

Service Unavailable https://esoteric.codes/blog/stack-trace-art

Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein https://puzzlemontage.crevado.com/

Every computer program is also a persuasive essay & a work of interactive performance art, and if you don’t consider it through those lenses when writing it you run the risk of persuading people of something you don’t agree with.

Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) “ ~ajroach42.com ” I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. … http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

HyperLook (aka HyperNeWS (aka GoodNeWS)) http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/

KolibriOS - The art of small https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kolibrios.html

Nothing in Capitalism is Clean: On Making Art in Empire http://www.thorncoyle.com/nothing-in-capitalism-is-clean-on-making-art-in-empire/

Band name of the day: art crimes unit

“Machine learning failures - for art!” by Janelle Shane - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yneJIxOdMX4

Can algorithms create true art, or do they only imitate? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/can-algorithms-create-true-art-or-do-they-only-imitate

Intro to Generative Art - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/aspittel/intro-to-generative-art-2hi7

Bad idea of the day: surreal and disturbing powerpoint presentations as public performance art

A Symposium on The Point of Art - Believer Magazine https://believermag.com/the-point-of-art/

Film Composition: The Subtle Art of Cinematic Scores https://tedium.co/2018/09/06/film-composition-subtle-art/

Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/generative-art-finds-its-prodigy

The Art of Good Ecchi - How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC6wit4Epeo

Bad idea of the day: Batman (1968) vs Doctor Phibes: two rich geniuses who love gadgets and labelling things fight each other in an art-deco city with a comically incompetent police force

Clip Art History https://tedium.co/2018/08/30/clip-art-history/

The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that EA canceled - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/24/17770668/jack-the-ripper-visceral-games-electronic-arts-canceled

Why Love Generative Art? “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art

PoundArt – about Random Computer Comics http://www.poundart.com/art/randcomix/about.html

What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet

The Dying Art of Anime Music Videos - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qcuJM1H_lQ

Art by Subtraction. Eat, Consume and Devour: An Essay on How & Why I Wrote Lonely Men Club http://thefanzine.com/art-by-subtraction-eat-consume-and-devour-an-essay-on-how-why-i-wrote-lonely-men-club/

Arnemancy : Giordano Bruno’s Art of Memory https://arnemancy.com/articles/art-of-memory/giordano-brunos-art-of-memory/

The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/15/17564588/datamosh-youtubeartifacts-glitch-art-kraftsow

Hot take: the big problem in generative art is not that computers aren’t creative but that computers don’t have taste. We’ve solved that problem by building taste into the mechanisms of generation instead of building filters.

The Golden Calf Vol. 2 | Is Art a Commodity? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5AxnNbC-oM