Brick Panel With A Lion, From The Palace Of Darius I, Achaemenid Empire, 522-486 BC

Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

Afshar Sofreh textiles from South East and Central Persia.

Circa early 1900s

you are not the real khanos

I literally am… here’s a screenshot of some selfies dated 2016 :p

Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle

…we will have to do something quite extraordinary: We will have to go to great lengths. We cannot go on as usual. We cannot pivot the center. We cannot be moderate. We will have to be willing to stand up and say no with our combined spirits, our collective intellects, and our many bodies.

First sketch of this project I’m working on; animals endemic to the Philippines as chess pieces.

The King as the Philippine Eagle.

Frederick Judd Waud, Rum Row, 1922. Via Art Gallery X

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.”

Seoul Book Repository