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Decided to say fuck it to my congestion. Closed myself in the guest bathroom, blocked out all ventilation, turned my massive humidifier on full blast and ran myself the hottest bath i can stand.

This is my enclosure. I live here now. I have recreated the water cycle in a matter of minutes and can finally breathe.

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Would love to show y'all but yeah

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I got this sick once but it was 4:30 am when I woke up with a throat too sore to swallow anything, so I dragged my ass into the kitchen where the electric kettle is and built a tent/nest out of blankets on the floor. I boiled water and poured it into a bowl in my tent and breathed until I could stand to swallow tylenol and I kept repeating the boil/breathe cycle until I fell asleep.

And that's why a few hours later when my husband stumbled into the kitchen to get coffee he found his wife in a heap on the floor, unconscious. He sounded alarmed.

#i do not make good decisions at 4:30 am

The newsletter is taking a turn this year. Definitely for the longer, hopefully for the better. If you have friends who enjoy this type of l

"Scale is its own power source, and increasingly, it's one that individual humans can't compete on when going up against compute power. This is a fundamental reality that will only get more true and more pervasive in the future. And so I find myself wondering if we need to set guardrails around scale in order to maintain humanity. Because when things get big, the human factor drops out. And I don't want that to be the case.

My issue with scale is humanity. It's personhood. Whatever else happens in the universe, I'm still a person, and my existence still happens at human scale, and I don't want all of humanity to turn into a rounding error, because what's the point?

The flip side of humans being ignored as rounding error means that we can achieve a lot in those "rounding error" margins that have a great deal of impact for those people that get stuck there."

#big ideas #art #happy little nightmares #big ideas good stories great art

The "I Used To Work Retail" Holiday Playlist For People Who Want to Feel Festive But Will Take Psychic Damage If They Hear Mariah One More Time

I feel your pain. Enjoy this festive background noise. I like to think of it as what would happen if some of my favorite musicians got together around a fire pit in the snow and played a game of "Pass The Guitar"

It's like if a whole bunch of music legends passed a guitar around a fire in the snow. For the people that want to feel festive around the h

#holiday music #holiday playlist #festive playlist #acoustic guitar

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White Knight by Hou China

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oh snap

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"The Stoppables"

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Elon is half the team

The way this works is I fire up the ipad, stream it to a monitor, and then the audience starts yelling suggestions about what the monster should be. It's a good time, and if you'll be in Oakland next weekend, it's worth a stop.

C'mon, you know you want to.

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A lesson in why artists get weird when you ask them what's in their sketchbooks. It could be anything.

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It's Blog Time

This week, I make a mess in the studio.

Plants. So many plants. I'm working on a series based on plants in my yard and to that end, I've got things in specimen jars all over my kit

#art #happy little nightmares #art blog #gardening #garden #invasive plants #specimen jars #that potato stamp trick is horseshit

Pity my husband, he lives with an artist.

Many plants, if left in water long enough, will "root", or grow new roots from the cut stems in order to absorb more water. Some will also s

#art #art reference #happy little nightmares #brambles #lovecraftian horror #I swear I was going to throw it out and then I saw the new growth #houseplants #indoor plants #thorns

"It wasn't the prospect of a whole new job that had me defeated, it was the sheer enormity of the high-effort tedium I would have to go through to get yet another "temporary" day job "while I got my art career off the ground". It felt like failure."

I'd love to tell you all that I've always wanted nothing more than to be a professional artist and I was willing to sacrifice everything to

#wedrawmonstershere #happy little nightmares #art blog #origin story #backstory #why i do what i do

For reasons too absurd to explain at the moment, I have a bunch of dead blackberry stems in vases in my kitchen. So here's a happy little blackberry branch.