the voices in my head
Posted a year agoare for entertainment purposes only.
if there is one thing i do not believe in,
it is for the unknown, to owe anything,
to the unwillingness of the human ego,
to accept that it is, unknown.
i prefer not to look at this from the negative side, only nor primarily,
but rather the goodness of the universal wonder of strangeness,
and of the reality of the diversity of the possible.
we live in what is, beyond our own internal censorship of it,
a universe of diversity wonderful beyond any singe perspective
even my own.
if there is one thing i do not believe in,
it is for the unknown, to owe anything,
to the unwillingness of the human ego,
to accept that it is, unknown.
i prefer not to look at this from the negative side, only nor primarily,
but rather the goodness of the universal wonder of strangeness,
and of the reality of the diversity of the possible.
we live in what is, beyond our own internal censorship of it,
a universe of diversity wonderful beyond any singe perspective
even my own.
some things
Posted a year agoi should probably never attempt to state explicitly.
none the less, to try this again.
if all my interests and all my emotional cravings,
could be reduced to a single two and a half word phrase
(the half word is that all important prefix: NON)
it would be: non-threatening strangeness.
none the less, to try this again.
if all my interests and all my emotional cravings,
could be reduced to a single two and a half word phrase
(the half word is that all important prefix: NON)
it would be: non-threatening strangeness.
i do not live in who ville
Posted a year agoi live in what land,
when i'm not wandering lost in the forests of how
where and when happen pretty much randomly in my dream universe
(but always from the perspective of what rather then how)
which is not to say there is anything wrong with the perspective of who landians
only if it wasn't obvious enough. and its not for lack of carring about their feelings,
its just that my first impressions of the physical world, those which left the most lasting impressions,
were of things in places, even landscapes of them, and both physical and those which took place partially in my mind.
and they were not hostile, but exibited instead, the impartiality of indifference.
a universe in which identities moved, but was not composed of them,
and did not dissapear when none were present.
i think wholandians make a big mistake wanting their universe to be about drama and about them.
with out that collective ego, there can be a universe of wonders at peace.
that is what i see in the universe i live when sleep releaves my of what has become of a physical world,
in which arbitary persuit of symbolic value imprinted its priorities on so much of our world.
when i'm not wandering lost in the forests of how
where and when happen pretty much randomly in my dream universe
(but always from the perspective of what rather then how)
which is not to say there is anything wrong with the perspective of who landians
only if it wasn't obvious enough. and its not for lack of carring about their feelings,
its just that my first impressions of the physical world, those which left the most lasting impressions,
were of things in places, even landscapes of them, and both physical and those which took place partially in my mind.
and they were not hostile, but exibited instead, the impartiality of indifference.
a universe in which identities moved, but was not composed of them,
and did not dissapear when none were present.
i think wholandians make a big mistake wanting their universe to be about drama and about them.
with out that collective ego, there can be a universe of wonders at peace.
that is what i see in the universe i live when sleep releaves my of what has become of a physical world,
in which arbitary persuit of symbolic value imprinted its priorities on so much of our world.
all of the nude deers are singing
Posted a year agoit'll be one in a few hours now.
riding little trains through mountains and forests to little villages of odd little houses.
cable boxes were changed over yesterday, looked like a change of tv server.
and its raining.
riding little trains through mountains and forests to little villages of odd little houses.
cable boxes were changed over yesterday, looked like a change of tv server.
and its raining.
well hopefully i'm back
Posted a year agowierdness with the server happened.
also suddenly winter. but i guess everyone in the northern hemisphere has felt that.
also suddenly winter. but i guess everyone in the northern hemisphere has felt that.
my landscapes are my characters
Posted 2 years agoMittlemarch, the location of Magnison's Live Glass, is nestled in Surial Nervana mountains, served by the Nervana County Narrow Gauge railway, and located on that line between the villages of Wakadok, and Graniteville.
Random things had been dissappearing there for years; and even more random things, appearing in their place.
Its an open secret amont the locals, that ever since the dance hall upstairs had been converted to transient housing, the village had become a favorite stopover for a band of dimention hopping space gypsies.
With them came an odd menagerie of other worldly pets, a few of whom would get loose from time to time, resaulting in all manor of mostly harmless chaos.
Once a year, Mittlemarch plays host to the Canned Corn Film Festival, accompanied by free public performances of ancient music, played on authentic replicas of ancient musical instruments.
All this within a healthy hike of where I grew up. Which is to say, far enough apart to maintian each thir own unique identity.
Other surrounding villages not more then half a day's ride on the little trains included such distinguished municipalities as You Bet, Red Dog, Cammel's Hump, Pesky Deer road, Feather Falls, and Ham Bone.
Random things had been dissappearing there for years; and even more random things, appearing in their place.
Its an open secret amont the locals, that ever since the dance hall upstairs had been converted to transient housing, the village had become a favorite stopover for a band of dimention hopping space gypsies.
With them came an odd menagerie of other worldly pets, a few of whom would get loose from time to time, resaulting in all manor of mostly harmless chaos.
Once a year, Mittlemarch plays host to the Canned Corn Film Festival, accompanied by free public performances of ancient music, played on authentic replicas of ancient musical instruments.
All this within a healthy hike of where I grew up. Which is to say, far enough apart to maintian each thir own unique identity.
Other surrounding villages not more then half a day's ride on the little trains included such distinguished municipalities as You Bet, Red Dog, Cammel's Hump, Pesky Deer road, Feather Falls, and Ham Bone.
as i was walking along
Posted 2 years agoi forgot there was such a thing as money,
because i didn't see any.
i forgot there were such a thing as automobiles, or paved roads,
because i didn't see any.
i saw odd little houses, off in the distance beyond the trees.
i saw the trail i was walking on.
i saw a nice flat rock to sit on.
then i got hungry and went home.
but on my way i saw two worlds, superimposed on one another.
in one i saw paved roads i had to cross, and be careful not to get run over crossing them.
in the other, my trail crossed an odd narrow trail of iron and timber.
here there people, not all of them of familiar species,
sitting crosswise of long benches, beneath which there were wheels, mated to those narrow tracks,
and pulled by an engine, that was a box of solar panels with batteries inside,
that made only quiet electrical sounds.
you can guess in which i saw more of the creatures who were already home where they were,
a few of whom would stop and turn to see this strange creature who was myself, walking by.
because i didn't see any.
i forgot there were such a thing as automobiles, or paved roads,
because i didn't see any.
i saw odd little houses, off in the distance beyond the trees.
i saw the trail i was walking on.
i saw a nice flat rock to sit on.
then i got hungry and went home.
but on my way i saw two worlds, superimposed on one another.
in one i saw paved roads i had to cross, and be careful not to get run over crossing them.
in the other, my trail crossed an odd narrow trail of iron and timber.
here there people, not all of them of familiar species,
sitting crosswise of long benches, beneath which there were wheels, mated to those narrow tracks,
and pulled by an engine, that was a box of solar panels with batteries inside,
that made only quiet electrical sounds.
you can guess in which i saw more of the creatures who were already home where they were,
a few of whom would stop and turn to see this strange creature who was myself, walking by.
you can have the sex
Posted 2 years agoi'll take the computer.
and thus the die was cast,
as soon as my impoverished soul
was able to get its furry little paws on one
lo these many decades past
granted i was well past my teens
and even past my 20s.
art to me, is the visually communicating of concepts,
not limited by or to the familiar.
whatever art criticism might prefer it to be about the emo,
that is not the basis of its appeal to me,
nor are ostentatious games of economics.
ideas of a world or worlds that could be, is and are.
photography is closely related,
as a way of making place, independent of time.
there is still emotive content to a landscape,
or an enclosed or partially enclosed and sheltered space,
merely not its primacy of focus.
and thus the die was cast,
as soon as my impoverished soul
was able to get its furry little paws on one
lo these many decades past
granted i was well past my teens
and even past my 20s.
art to me, is the visually communicating of concepts,
not limited by or to the familiar.
whatever art criticism might prefer it to be about the emo,
that is not the basis of its appeal to me,
nor are ostentatious games of economics.
ideas of a world or worlds that could be, is and are.
photography is closely related,
as a way of making place, independent of time.
there is still emotive content to a landscape,
or an enclosed or partially enclosed and sheltered space,
merely not its primacy of focus.
i love all your characters
Posted 2 years agobut a character without a world is dead
whereas
a world without a character, i could live in that.
needs stuff that they make in it though.
whereas
a world without a character, i could live in that.
needs stuff that they make in it though.
beliefs and such
Posted 2 years agoi'm not specifically anti- any religion, christianity of any of the rest of them,
but i do believe the unknown is unknown, owes nothing to what anyone tells anyone else to pretend they know about it,
and that goodness and the desire to be feared, are absolute binary opposites.
i also believe existence doesn't end with the phyisical, nor limited to what can logically be deduced by observing the physical,
but feel intuitively that what can, is that much more likely then claims of religious belief generally.
but again, that nothing has to be known in order to exist, which means every belief, even those yet to be imagined,
are at least possible, just not possessing of any sort of absolute authority, or at least none more then another.
politically i like to say i'm so far left marx and lenin were conservatives, but of course, reality is always much more nuanced then that.
and no ideology is my object of pursuit. if anything i regard every ideology as little more then excuses, poor ones at that,
for refusing to allow governments to do what would be logical, useful and considerate, for everyone, regardless of social or economic status.
and that while without some level of productivity we'd all starve and freeze, no amount of productivity can ever make up for any amount or form of inconsiderateness. though of course realizing neither myself nor anyone else are purrfect examples.
all that is stuff about people though, and will i wish everyone the greatest happiness, what i find more interesting then people, money or an infrastructure based on nothing but cars and airplanes, are trains, of all sizes, but especially smaller ones then what i'm sure most people associate with the term, computers, though i'm no guru about them, not even close, and of course, real little furry creatures with big sharp teeth, every bit as much as imaginary ones, or combinations of human traits with them.
and it is the landscape of a world, preferably forested and mountainous, and not overly urbanized, that for better or worse, is more the focus of my interest then that of individual characters.
i do believe there are spirit creatures, and that i may be sometimes companioned by them, and that they may be, in their own ways, as sapient as anything human.
and that the place of the human species in the universe, is no higher nor lower, then any other.
but i do believe the unknown is unknown, owes nothing to what anyone tells anyone else to pretend they know about it,
and that goodness and the desire to be feared, are absolute binary opposites.
i also believe existence doesn't end with the phyisical, nor limited to what can logically be deduced by observing the physical,
but feel intuitively that what can, is that much more likely then claims of religious belief generally.
but again, that nothing has to be known in order to exist, which means every belief, even those yet to be imagined,
are at least possible, just not possessing of any sort of absolute authority, or at least none more then another.
politically i like to say i'm so far left marx and lenin were conservatives, but of course, reality is always much more nuanced then that.
and no ideology is my object of pursuit. if anything i regard every ideology as little more then excuses, poor ones at that,
for refusing to allow governments to do what would be logical, useful and considerate, for everyone, regardless of social or economic status.
and that while without some level of productivity we'd all starve and freeze, no amount of productivity can ever make up for any amount or form of inconsiderateness. though of course realizing neither myself nor anyone else are purrfect examples.
all that is stuff about people though, and will i wish everyone the greatest happiness, what i find more interesting then people, money or an infrastructure based on nothing but cars and airplanes, are trains, of all sizes, but especially smaller ones then what i'm sure most people associate with the term, computers, though i'm no guru about them, not even close, and of course, real little furry creatures with big sharp teeth, every bit as much as imaginary ones, or combinations of human traits with them.
and it is the landscape of a world, preferably forested and mountainous, and not overly urbanized, that for better or worse, is more the focus of my interest then that of individual characters.
i do believe there are spirit creatures, and that i may be sometimes companioned by them, and that they may be, in their own ways, as sapient as anything human.
and that the place of the human species in the universe, is no higher nor lower, then any other.
No Subject
Posted 2 years agoi'm not dead. just distracted, if that's the word for it.
been making animations for my amusement which i lack the bandwidth to post anywhere.
i've been going through all my old ones, updating and improving them.
sorry i haven't been updating here as often as i have at other times.
i probably will be again, just not sure how soon.
my world is still the same. my people in it are too.
maybe some new ones will move in one of these days.
thinking about it. i just think about odd little houses and trains more often.
and those are what motivate me.
in the mean time, perpetual forest scented springtime,
with a light breeze on a perfect day for a walk.
been making animations for my amusement which i lack the bandwidth to post anywhere.
i've been going through all my old ones, updating and improving them.
sorry i haven't been updating here as often as i have at other times.
i probably will be again, just not sure how soon.
my world is still the same. my people in it are too.
maybe some new ones will move in one of these days.
thinking about it. i just think about odd little houses and trains more often.
and those are what motivate me.
in the mean time, perpetual forest scented springtime,
with a light breeze on a perfect day for a walk.
back too
Posted 2 years agocool breezes blowing through densely forested mountain sides.
small trains connecting tiny villages
and a nice day for a walk with a lot of nice places to stop and rest,
and even somethings you know you can eat along the trail
small creatures stop and look as you go by,
just far enough away to keep their own space to retreat.
greens are the dominant colors, along with browns of the earth,
and gray granit of nice rocks to sit on.
trains and some small creatures my have other bright and contrasting colors.
and you have plenty with you to eat and drink until you get back,
its only a day walk after all.
small trains connecting tiny villages
and a nice day for a walk with a lot of nice places to stop and rest,
and even somethings you know you can eat along the trail
small creatures stop and look as you go by,
just far enough away to keep their own space to retreat.
greens are the dominant colors, along with browns of the earth,
and gray granit of nice rocks to sit on.
trains and some small creatures my have other bright and contrasting colors.
and you have plenty with you to eat and drink until you get back,
its only a day walk after all.
here's an odd one
Posted 3 years agoi got a name from a dream. "adam yang cho"
missing member of a trio of musicians,
the two known members were a dragon and a cat,
and the picture looked like the style of digital 2d we often see on here.
i also happen to know a dragon named adam, but i'm pretty sure this is not him
no idea what the two scaly and furry musicians who were looking for him were named.
or for sure what they played. i think the cat played a sax and i'm not sure what the dragon in the picture played,
but i think the missing other dragon may have been their keybordist.
not often i'm able to retain anything from my dreams when i awake.
missing member of a trio of musicians,
the two known members were a dragon and a cat,
and the picture looked like the style of digital 2d we often see on here.
i also happen to know a dragon named adam, but i'm pretty sure this is not him
no idea what the two scaly and furry musicians who were looking for him were named.
or for sure what they played. i think the cat played a sax and i'm not sure what the dragon in the picture played,
but i think the missing other dragon may have been their keybordist.
not often i'm able to retain anything from my dreams when i awake.
well birthdays come and go
Posted 3 years agobut the air and the earth and the water,
are there all year, even when no one sees,
or when we do.
are there all year, even when no one sees,
or when we do.
happy birthday to me
Posted 3 years agohappy birthday to me
in another three hours
i'll be sev en de three.
in another three hours
i'll be sev en de three.
oddly enough
Posted 3 years agoi'm still alive and "in love" with small green mechanical things.
nice weather outside. i need to get out more often before it gets too hot.
thinkin about taken a bus ride today. maybe heading for a small discount book store.
nice weather outside. i need to get out more often before it gets too hot.
thinkin about taken a bus ride today. maybe heading for a small discount book store.
well it seems to be holding pretty good
Posted 3 years agostill aprehensive about that data cap i'm used to being there.
no other news particularly.
springtime green happy thoughts.
no other news particularly.
springtime green happy thoughts.
well today i'm back
Posted 3 years agoi'll stop holding my breath in a couple of days if i'm still here.
sorry i haven't been here
Posted 3 years agoseems like we've lost internet wi-fi where i live for a couple of weeks. no idea why this happens.
well some idea, but i don't wish to be unkind, to the parties involved.
just as a wild guess landlords are not always millionairs, and service providers do overcharge.
i just wish i could have no data caps, and would rather have that then the tv cable at all.
well some idea, but i don't wish to be unkind, to the parties involved.
just as a wild guess landlords are not always millionairs, and service providers do overcharge.
i just wish i could have no data caps, and would rather have that then the tv cable at all.
still trying to illustrate the concepts
Posted 3 years agoso clear in the vision of my mind,
that corporate media (and rp gaming)
disappoint me so much,
to almost never see them there.
freedom from being robbed of freedom by drama, is more then peace.
peace is good too of course. but to be able to participate in,
and not merely observe as a passive spectator,
the creative process, that is the true freedom.
to not hate the imagination for the sake of drama.
ultimately, to look out upon a world, freed from the blinders,
hatred of logic for the sake of drama, has imposed upon us.
that corporate media (and rp gaming)
disappoint me so much,
to almost never see them there.
freedom from being robbed of freedom by drama, is more then peace.
peace is good too of course. but to be able to participate in,
and not merely observe as a passive spectator,
the creative process, that is the true freedom.
to not hate the imagination for the sake of drama.
ultimately, to look out upon a world, freed from the blinders,
hatred of logic for the sake of drama, has imposed upon us.
i know its been too long
Posted 3 years agoi just want to say hugs and thank you, to everyone who has commented or favored.
to all of you i consider old friends who have been following me for so long,
and all of those recently discovering what i attempt to share as visualizations of concepts the pass through me.
sorry i haven't posted more lately. i'm in a bit of a lul for inspiration of things that interest me that i haven't already done.
so i'm always open to suggestions too.
the intersection of infrastructure, shelter and environment is my thing, and i'm no genius, ("stable" or otherwise, lol),
just a little old guy who makes little old pictures of odd little houses and odd little trains and the furry people who live in them.
to all of you i consider old friends who have been following me for so long,
and all of those recently discovering what i attempt to share as visualizations of concepts the pass through me.
sorry i haven't posted more lately. i'm in a bit of a lul for inspiration of things that interest me that i haven't already done.
so i'm always open to suggestions too.
the intersection of infrastructure, shelter and environment is my thing, and i'm no genius, ("stable" or otherwise, lol),
just a little old guy who makes little old pictures of odd little houses and odd little trains and the furry people who live in them.
if all life forms were sapient
Posted 3 years agowould they really create a world very much like our own?
would the mass produce cars and guns, or build rectangular houses?
or buy and sell the places we all must walk upon?
or would they find other ways.
i suspect, sapience begins with a fascination with unnatural things,
with expressing, communicating and archiving ideas.
while this leads to technologies, would they be perceived from such perspectives as are familiar to our world?
diversity is the nature of our perspectives.
familiar assumptions may not be all that universally familiar.
nor do good and harm, map to what is and is not.
and whatever we thing we know, we can, and almost certainly will, encounter something that contradicts it.
would the mass produce cars and guns, or build rectangular houses?
or buy and sell the places we all must walk upon?
or would they find other ways.
i suspect, sapience begins with a fascination with unnatural things,
with expressing, communicating and archiving ideas.
while this leads to technologies, would they be perceived from such perspectives as are familiar to our world?
diversity is the nature of our perspectives.
familiar assumptions may not be all that universally familiar.
nor do good and harm, map to what is and is not.
and whatever we thing we know, we can, and almost certainly will, encounter something that contradicts it.
i still think nature
Posted 4 years agois trying to tell us we seriously need to rethink what kind of world we want to go back to,
instead of continuing to assume what we're familiar with is the best we can come up with.
instead of continuing to assume what we're familiar with is the best we can come up with.
whatever happens to our humans
Posted 4 years agospring is green.
new life is green in the tips of leaves.
new life is green in the tips of leaves.
i know i'm probably not the one to say this
Posted 4 years agoand i hope i don't sound too facetious saying it,
but the seventh fire has been lit,
and we will either learn how to walk in beauty,
or forget entirely how to walk.
(for those who don't immediately grasp what all that 'poetry' is talking about,
by walking in beauty, is intended, my perception anyway, is using our science, our engineering, our art, and yes our spirit and metaphysics too,
to live in greater harmony and respect, of nature's diversity and our true dependence on it,
and by forgetting how to walk, again just me, i don't have a direct channel to anything other then 'the vibe' i personally feel,
augmented by real sources of knowledge and probability, is the very real possibility, in less then a hundred years,
possibly much less, of the near or complete extinction of the human species)
i'm pretty sure we've nearly all felt, or expected, something pretty drastic, was sooner or later going to come along.
unsustainable means just what it says on the label.
but drastic doesn't have to be a tragic ending, if we take it for the wake up call that it is.
and this pandemic thing, i just suspect, isn't a one shot deal, but nature's warning shot across our bow, to be fallowed by many others,
each at ever decreasing intervals following on the heals of the one before.
but the seventh fire has been lit,
and we will either learn how to walk in beauty,
or forget entirely how to walk.
(for those who don't immediately grasp what all that 'poetry' is talking about,
by walking in beauty, is intended, my perception anyway, is using our science, our engineering, our art, and yes our spirit and metaphysics too,
to live in greater harmony and respect, of nature's diversity and our true dependence on it,
and by forgetting how to walk, again just me, i don't have a direct channel to anything other then 'the vibe' i personally feel,
augmented by real sources of knowledge and probability, is the very real possibility, in less then a hundred years,
possibly much less, of the near or complete extinction of the human species)
i'm pretty sure we've nearly all felt, or expected, something pretty drastic, was sooner or later going to come along.
unsustainable means just what it says on the label.
but drastic doesn't have to be a tragic ending, if we take it for the wake up call that it is.
and this pandemic thing, i just suspect, isn't a one shot deal, but nature's warning shot across our bow, to be fallowed by many others,
each at ever decreasing intervals following on the heals of the one before.