The Night Sea

Photography, animation, glitch, and manipulation. Things I've made.

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Antifascist Manifesto

This will definitely become muddy in the entrails of our conflicting needs and what fear and desperation make us do, but these things will be true for as long as we live as social beings:

A fight makes a fight makes a fight makes a fight.

We make what we fear and we fear what we make.

If we deny our territorial psyche it still acts upon us.

No matter how effective fighting can be, it will never stop unless we can also accept each other.

Our enemies are not fundamentally different from ourselves. We are capable of being everything we fear in them.

Being good can make us do the worst things.

The only perfect territory is one where everyone is dead.

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Testing midi to golgi notation conversion and basic polyphasic functions with golgi.

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I've been working on a text based music sequencer and notation system for a while now and it finally works well enough that I can write music with it. It's not done yet, but it will be open sourced when ready. The OSC protocol has never really had a file format in the same way midi has midi files, and that has always been frustrating to me. I'm not going to replace midi with this by any means, but it's very helpful to me personally.

It's very inspired by music trackers, but it can do a lot of stuff trackers can't do like microtonality, fine retuning, polyphasic timing, etc. etc. I'll be doing studies on these features whenever I get time.

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Balinese millipedes are chill and cool and red.

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Saba beach has a strong vibe.

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Mt Agung

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Statue on the rocks at a beach in Bali.

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Bruh.

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Not a bad sunset.

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Chickens in Bali.

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Happy trash chickens.

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Control Bias

Our drive to over-attribute the significance of small mistakes as the causal source of painful or traumatic outcomes when they may have played either a small role or no role at all. Attribution vortex: The state of prolonged grief and shock where we try to regain a sense of safety by over-attributing the power we can attain by avoiding small mistakes, which we now inaccurately see as big mistakes. I made up these phrases, but I wasn't able to find pre-existing analogues that expressed this specific experience and its dangers. I'd love to know if there's prior vocabulary in common use for this.

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Just two guys having an interaction.

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Oberon.

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Photo I found on trove while looking for reference images. Domestic interior site of a crime scene around 1930.