Latest Posts by khnos - Page 3

If you think having uncomfortable conversations is hard - wait until you see the result of not having them.

your only job on this earth is to be so intrinsically yourself that the right people gravitate toward you and the wrong people move out of your way

Awet Aleu by Ashley Chappell for Elle Hungary Magazine September 2024

Old town of Tsumago, Japan in the rain.  Photography by Bernard Languillier on Flickr

Creative writing is way closer to engineering than I think a lot of people expect. It takes creativity and imagination to decide what to write about. It takes a lot of honed dedication to craft to really make the word-to-word prose sparkle. But all the stuff in between? Knowing how long an idea should be, what medium it should be, how many characters, and how their motivations need to interact, all that shit is basically engineering.

My muse

The Columbia Musical Treasuries Orchestra And Chorus – Summer Wind (1967)

The Art Nouveau style revisited with laser-cut marble, mosaic columns, and ceiling frescoes imagined by Jessica Mille, architect in her project for the Central Hotel in Annecy., France 

 jessicamillearchitecte.com

“Veil of Smoke” by Unknown Photographer ◇ Cigarette smoke caught between transparency and touch

boxwood comb carved from a single piece of wood, france c. 1400s.

Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939, Swedish) ~ Sparrows in a Cherry Tree - Five studies in one frame, 1885

[Source: it.artprinta.com]

Arka Patra

Cranberry harvest on Terschelling, the Netherlands

my homegirl wrote a really salient essay on substack about how reliance on algorithms ultimately stifles modern day listener’s curiosity and the livelihood of music artists themselves.

open.substack.com

Your Algorithm Hates the B-Sides

Notes About Streaming from a Music Listener

i def recommend giving it a read and reflecting on your own music listening practices and habits. a favorite paragraph of mine that speaks further to the evidence that we living in a dystopia today:

“Algorithmic curation has consumed every facet of people’s lives —they search for information on AI run search engines, they exclusively buy products on social media platforms that push hundreds of ads based on the posts they engage with, they build virtual communities amongst like-minded, aesthetically aligned and desirable online users. A revival of pre-streaming label street teams and independent CD pushers would fail for many reasons, one being that they’d find the streets desolate and empty.”

Stamps of brides of Yemen, February 27, 1986

“Nature & Technology” by morganetenoux ◆ Same circles, different purposes

hecate

Clouds. Unkashū. v.2. 1903.

Internet Archive

A jaguar (Panthera onca) patrols the riverbanks of Cuiaba in Matto Grosso, Brazil

by Nedko Nedkov

Amaldus Nielsen - Aftenstemning [detail]

palestinian civilians pictured in 'the spirit of palestine,' taken during a full scale uprising against the israeli occupation, c. 1987.

romance is everywhere if you’re really looking

Yoshitaka Amano: ‘Amon Saga’ Artworks from Anime V Magazine (1991)

“Spine Corset” by Shaun Leane for Alexander McQueen, SS ‘98.