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miksimum

@miksimum@zirk.us

Your local dreamtime gamer ...

Doer and thinker in various flavors and concentrations :: #art // #poetry // theory // speculative fiction // pop culture // gaming // synth // punk // resistance

and a UX designer by trade.

Here to feed the hard gemlike flame of this interconnected life. Let's be kindred spirits 🤘

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miksimum, to random
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Hate the social media rat race, but I’m starting to post on Cara, hoping it finds a way to be independent for a little longer.

https://cara.app/hybridgesture

miksimum, to random
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One of my favorite things is when, in a state of distraction, I set down my phone to check my pockets for my phone.

miksimum, to drawing
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Three tiny landscapes. All inked and shaded at thumbnail size. A tribute to the shamelessly lost.

A thumbnail pen sketch with light shading, showing a forest scene with an old ruined arch in the foreground.
A thumbnail pen sketch with light shading, showing a ruined tower behind a line of trees, with a winding path in the foreground and the sun in the sky.

mcc, to random
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I did not think Asahi would be able to do this but they did it https://fosstodon.org/@vulkan/112564739202879160

miksimum,
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@mcc I feel this. I am so f’ing tired of being soft-coerced into subscribing, upgrading, and in the worst cases, flat-out purchasing hardware.

miksimum,
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@mcc For sure, I will gladly pay for stuff that brings value. It’s the coercion methods (like the things you have in parentheses) that are driving me nuts.

laescude, to random
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I know source-of-truth is an engineering term, but it always conjures religiously in my mind, with the consequent skepticism.

miksimum,
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@laescude i actually kind of like it as a philosophical idea — when you explicitly declare truth to have a source, you are affirming a relativistic universe without a single transcendental signifier

Though, in the spirit of fairness, I do see how declaring a “source of truth” correlates with a culture of assumed authority and gatekeeping

miksimum,
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@laescude glad to hear! ✌️🙂

miksimum, to surrealism
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“It’s been a long time since anyone lent an ear to the voice of the mountain…”

miksimum, to random
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A watercolor painting with some ink line work, from way back in February (as evidenced by the bare snowy ground).

I have totally neglected posting art here in the Fediverse, but I definitely want to get back to it

miksimum, to Aesthetics
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Is a “vibe” a bridging of the gap between (active) statement and (passive) way-of-being?

#aesthetics #questions

deerbard, to random
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Which one should I draw next? 1? 2? 3? 4?

#traditionalart #MaySketchADay

miksimum,
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@deerbard I vote number four. I am so intrigued by the flow and the framing in that one!

mcc, to random
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When I have some stuff to do on the computer but then my wife puts the Ryuichi Sakamoto / Alva Noto collaboration album on her speakers and suddenly I am Elsewhere

miksimum,
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@mcc I know very little about Sakamoto's body of work, but today I was walking the dog and wanted to separate myself from the banality of the task (feel more distant, I guess?) and for some reason I immediately thought of Sakamoto. (I put on async, it worked pretty well)

fsphil, to random
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Me with my hobby projects.

miksimum,
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@fsphil not sure I have ever felt so seen

miksimum, to random
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As I continue posting art to Insta, my art is demanding more of me. This one wants to be colored, this one wants to be traced in different ink media.

Is this sketch good enough? It wants me to do 5 more thumbnails to see where it goes!

I am always ALMOST good enough for the art

Is this a healthy relationship??? 🫣

miksimum,
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@jankhambrams yes, the negativity, I think, is just frequent, minor cases of creative paralysis, always feeling slightly squeezed for resources (especially time and energy). I am not in a dark place, I promise! (In my head, the toot has sort of a tongue in cheek energy)

Thanks for listening and responding - means a lot my friend 🙏

miksimum, to illustration
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“It was like the rain had disengaged the terrain from its colors, and now the saturated sunlight was the rigging, drawing it back together”

Really trying to honor the watercolor, rather than forcing it to do things

miksimum,
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@jake4480 I am so bad at responding sometimes. Thank you! That was actually the detail that inspired it… I was out right after a rain storm, and the street was reflecting the sky, making it look bright white against the dark colors on either side. I was like, “I should try to paint that maybe??”

Glad you liked it! 🙏

miksimum, to poetry
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Having gathered my recent poetry into a packet for editing, I am nearing the end of the sheaf, and I am getting burnt out on this editing process.

Each time I read a new one, I feel the little spark that I originally felt in writing it

And editing them feels strangely like I am doing some sort of violence to that lingering version of myself

miksimum,
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@jake4480 glad you sympathize! That is a LONG journey to take with a piece of your work!

I’ve found I’m better at this at certain times of day… in the late evening, I am out of emotional energy and just want to read each one, give it a pass, and move on. In the morning I can be much more clear-eyed and self-critical. 🤨

miksimum, to comics
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Apropos of nothing, I recently came to a conclusion about my dream DC Comics casting.

I never liked any of the choices for Batman/Bruce Wayne. Michael Keaton felt too nervous and squirrelly. Val Kilmer is more of a surfer than a playboy tycoon. Clooney looked rich enough, but didn’t have the physical presence or the shadowy demeanor. Christian Bale scanned too adolescent.

(1/2)

#comics #batman #superman #random

miksimum,
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I think they found the perfect actor… and his name is Henry Cavill. Unfortunately they cast him as Superman.

If I were to rewrite history, I’d make Henry Cavill Batman/Bruce Wayne, and for Superman I’d go back to Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), who really nailed the ageless Adonis quality you want for a paragon of idealism and virtue.

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miksimum,
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@FeralRobots Im pretty much right there with you on these actors as Superman. Both are great actors, and Man of Steel was cool, with Cavill bringing awesome screen presence. It’s more the Batman side that’s prompting this thread… like I said, I’ve never been fully convinced by any Batman casting (Keaton, my favorite, I’d give a B+\A-).

I admit I really liked Christian Bale in Batman Begins, but that’s because he works for me as “Bruce Wayne as a lad”

miksimum, to random
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Dune 2 was great. My 9:30 AM IMAX showing was full of sci-fi convention testosterone.

Epic line for the mens bathroom afterwards. Clear path into the women's.

In the lobby, somebody was providing tech support via cell phone, presumably to a parent. He said the password out loud, which I won't repeat, but it's probably your first guess.

I looked down and discovered I was covered in popcorn crumbs. 🤣

A great experience by all accounts. 13/10, would do again.

rephlex00, to random
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Is there some kind of ad-free tier of reality I can buy that removes all the political signs from the side of the road?

miksimum,
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@rephlex00 Yard signs might be most useful to reach folks who want to buck the norms in their area, but feel so much pressure that they just never speak up (or bother voting). A single contrarian call-out could make all the difference in disrupting the local normative field.

mcc, to random
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For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

miksimum,
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@mcc when I listened to Yoko Kanno in college, I felt like I couldn’t get a handle on her vibe, and at the time, I felt that was an impediment to appreciating her.

Little did I know that I would never get a handle on my OWN creative output, either! I now have a much healthier appreciation for artistic breadth and experimentation and eclecticism.

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