Of the author I yet have to read anything, except some of their blogposts. The embedded lesson on music from Bernstein and Gould is something otherworldly for clarity and passion.

Nice image corrupter. Works best with low-to-medium resolution JPEGs and GIFs.

via: https://findingvivianmaier.com/

via: https://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/

The images on this page are created using the standard iterative series of the Mandelbrot, that is, iterate the function zn+1 = zn2 + z0 where z0 is each point in the image plane (complex plane). However, instead of recording the behavior of the series at each point z0 we now consider only those points that escape to infinity and we create a density plot of the terms in the series. The result then is a 2D density plot of the trajectories that escape to infinity. The following shows the buddhabrot for that part of the complex plane that is interesting.

Beautiful illustrations.

One of my favorite youtube videos as of noting.

Didier William (Born 1983 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) creates fantastical figurative paintings on wooden panels that incorporate carving, collage, and traditional Haitian iconography to explore themes of personal belonging and transnationalism.

In Gwo Tet, a large, central figure hunches over a grainy wooden floor, their arms raised above their head in a defensive gesture. To the upper left, four hands extend menacingly from beyond the edges of the panel as if beckoning or casting a spell on the central figure. In Haitian Creole, gwo tét means “big head,” a phrase used pejoratively. William candidly notes that many of his works reconstruct memories of traumatic events. In this case, Gwo Tet depicts an episode where the artist was ridiculed on his walk home from school.

Queer Haitian artist!

From early breakthroughs to mature formal experiments, How High the Moon is the first retrospective to trace the evolution of Stanley Whitney’s wholly unique and powerful abstractions over the course of his 50-year career. The exhibition’s title is inspired by the 1940 song penned by Nancy Hamilton and Morgan Lewis, which became a jazz standard that has conveyed enchantment, longing, and, in some interpretations, has reached for the sublime.

Think most of it went over my head, but it was interesting to see his style seemingly settle into uniformity and his political and jazz influences.

In Doors (2022), Marclay stitches together hundreds of short film clips featuring the opening and closing of doors. More than a decade in the making, the moving image collage draws from nearly all genres of narrative cinema ranging from French New Wave to Hollywood blockbusters. Carefully edited by Marclay, the visual narrative follows actors entering new spaces, with each door marking an editing point and transitioning between films and soundscapes. The work suggests a labyrinthine journey where protagonists get lost and found again. Marclay describes the video as sculptural – a “mental architecture that the viewer might or might not follow and get lost in.”

Insane amount of cinematography and mindfuckery in one little thing. No reason to be as excellent as it is.

The Man is a portrait of the iconic American blues musician Pinetop Perkins (1913–2011). Born in Belzoni, Mississippi, Perkins began playing guitar and piano during the emergence of the Delta blues. Kjartansson’s portrait of Perkins participates in a century-long history of white people’s celebration, and exploitation, of the innovation and perceived authenticity of black musicians. Although the setting—an upright piano situated in a field occupied only by a vacant farmhouse—is contrived by the artist, the eccentric performance is spontaneous and unedited. Frail and perhaps experiencing dementia, Perkins repeats songs and statements in an unmediated loop. Kjartansson’s video is a dual portrait of an elderly man at the end of his life and a historically important musician who is the keeper of a disappearing tradition.

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