miksimum

Ben_HK, 4 months ago to random

Played Prince of Persia on Apple IIe for the first time last Friday, in Hong Kong, so amazing 🤩 Still super beautiful, extraordinary ambiance, fantastic game! (Finished it at the time on the excellent SNES Konami version around 92-93)
Merci encore à @jmechner !

miksimum, 4 months ago to scifi

Hello Fediverse, I'm updating my #introduction 💜 👍

INPUT: I'm an arts + humanities nerd with one foot squarely in the junk drawer: #SciFi, #fantasy, #CultFilm, horror, anime, video games, #punk. I ride with Nabokov and Tolkien and Marshall McLuhan and Evangelion and Stephen King.

OUTPUT: I am doing #poetry and exploring #VisualArt, always maintaining lots of notebooks and #sketchbook -s.

Attached: my best representative sample of my aesthetic at work 🤘

A photograph of a small window in a stone wall, looking out on a grassy expanse. There is a full moon overlaid transparently over the grass, centered in the window.
An ink drawing with digital coloring of a male figure standing in waist-high liquid, facing away from the viewer, toward a demon in the form of a head with arms and a fierce expression. The human figure has arms outstretched, as if engaging, or perhaps welcoming, the demon.
An ink drawing in a sketchbook, portraying a circular stairway in a vertical shaft made from stone blocks, leading down into darkness. At the top is a silhouette of a character in a long robe, holding up a lantern.

miksimum, 4 months ago to poetry

Hello FediFriends -

This a secondary #introduction to state, for the record, that besides shadings and inkings and washes, I also write #poetry 😛

Here are a couple links to what I'd consider "signature pieces" published in online outlets:

http://www.liminalitypoetry.com/issues/year-five/issue-18-winter-2019-19/take-good-care-of-the-car-please/

https://moistpoetryjournal.com/2022/08/24/earthlight-dispositions/

For any deep-divers, here is my full publication list, or CV, or whatever:

https://miksimum.com/publications/

For anyone who wants to talk about the scene or the craft, get in touch!

miksimum, 7 months ago to surrealism

Inktober day 29
MASSIVE

“We waited for it to come this way. We waited generations. We built this town for this waiting. And it has finally arrived.”

#inktober #sketchbook #penAndInk #fantasyArt #inktober2023 #inktober2023day29 #massive #narrativeArt #surrealism #traditionalArt #drawing #MastoArt

mcc, 8 days ago to random

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

miksimum, 7 months ago to drawing

Inktober day 16
ANGEL

“In the church there was an altar, and at the altar there was an unfathomable white bird.”

#inktober #inktober2023 #inktober2023day16 #angel #sketchbook #penAndInk #drawing #illustration #traditionalArt #surrealism #visPo #poetry

miksimum, 9 months ago to photography

📸 End of summer adventures

Spent the last week of summer in Nova Scotia, CA, absorbing the grandeur, and the feeling that human civilization is more a dusting than a crust

#photography #landscapePhotography #seascape #NovaScotia

A wide-angle, deep focus photograph from the west shores of Nova Scotia, CA, showing a series of islands with two isolated trees, looking hazy in the bright sunlight.
A photograph of a rocky shore in Nova Scotia, CA. The rocks lean away from the water, and the bright sunlight shines off their surface, making them appear silvery.
A photograph of a cliff stretching out into the ocean in The Ovens Natural Park in Nova Scotia, CA. Two trees are perched at the edge of the cliff, and a stream cuts back into the land.

miksimum, 9 months ago to random

Learnings from today:

1. For iPhone photography, portrait mode can do a pretty good impression of a short focal length

2. The Orb Weaver spider in Delaware is, like, Nightmare size (from a person who’s never seen a huntsman or birdeater or whatever)

miksimum, 9 months ago to random

The tech ecosystem is a perfect case study for how unmanaged vulture capitalism can turn a rough but highly functional, flexible wilderness (the early Internet) into a total wasteland (the current interconnected shitshow).

miksimum, 4 months ago to art

The Secret Keeper, v2

“Just as he kept secrets, he himself became secret -- his location, his very existence, jealously guarded. He became a secret keeping itself.”

#art #sketchbook #fantasyArt #MastoArt #penAndInk #dndArt #illustration #traditionalArt #drawing #dungeonSynth

miksimum, 8 months ago to illustration

Inktober day 6
GOLDEN

“That is no ordinary chalice.”

#inktober #inktober2023 #inktober2023golden #illustration #sketchbook #inkWork #drawing #traditionalArt #fantasyArt

miksimum, 7 months ago to drawing

Inktober day 27
BEAST

“Long have we traveled together. Vast and subtle is the language he has taught me, soundlessly, speaklessly.”

#inktober #inktober2023 #inktober2023day27 #beast #monster #sketchbook #penAndInk #drawing #illustration #traditionalArt #fantasyArt #MastoArt

miksimum, 8 months ago to illustration

Inktober day 11 (yesterday)
WANDER

“It’s the road that’s gone astray, not me. I’m just along for the ride.”

#inktober #inktober2023 #inktober2023wander #penAndInk #illustration #MastoArt #traditionalArt #sketchbook #fantasyArt

miksimum, 7 months ago to illustration

Inktober day 23
CELESTIAL

“We don’t know what they saw when they looked at the sky… nor their reasons for following it.”

#inktober #inktober2023 #inktober2023day23 #celestial #fantasyArt #sketchbook #penAndInk #traditionalArt #illustration #drawingOfTheDay

miksimum, 10 months ago to UXDesign

OK, this hashtag sounds interesting! and it's surfaced lots of people I'll consider following.

So as for me, #AskMeAbout ...

• #UXdesign

• #poetry and #art and #drawing especially in terms of creative practice, inspiration, experimentation, etc

• #punk and #cyberpunk and #hyperculture and #retrofuturism

• #philosophy + #theory especially as intersecting with the above... Marshall McLuhan and Gregory Bateson and Guy Debord

I am a generalist, but these are things that give me good feels

miksimum, 10 months ago to philosophy

We are interpretive artifacts. We produce a world with the raw material of our experiences -- sensory and intellectual, emotional and imaginative, in valences both simple and complex.

#philosophy

miksimum, 1 year ago to photography

The Mill Wheel
Peddler’s Village, Lahaska, PA

More a motif than a machine, but still a nice gesture toward the raw materiality to which we are beholden

#photography #bwphotography
#BlackAndWhitePhotography

miksimum, 9 months ago to random

The digital/economic ecosystem is dominated by social media, mining our brains for the most primitive, self-destructive forms of attention (the last scarce resource). The glut of cognitive and economic productivity that's wasted on brain-numbing, infantilizing YouTube content right now is... unimaginable.

(1/???)

miksimum, 7 days ago to drawing

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

#MastoArt #penAndInk #drawing #landscape #drawing #fantasyArt

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.

miksimum, 3 months ago to random

A little shout out to my awesome 8-year old daughter who thinks kissing is gross and doesn’t want anything to do with lovey dovey stuff

Valentine’s Day happens to be her favorite holiday. 💕💕

#ValentinesDay

mcc, 5 months ago to random

Been spending a lot of time this week in the hole where starting over from the beginning with a different approach would be much faster than debugging my current approach, but also it is very obvious that debugging the new approach, after having written it, would possibly take longer than anything

miksimum, 2 months ago to illustration

“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

#watercolor #painting #landscape #path #rainyDay #traditionalArt #illustration #MastoArt

miksimum, 5 days ago to random

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, 4 days ago to random

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

#caraapp #MastoArt #fantasyArt