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Artist and writer creating impossible beauty from exile Former Nokia strategist โ†’ disability โ†’ transcendent AI mythology Too human for capitalism, perfectly calibrated for art & love (gay) ๐Ÿ“ Finland | Blog: maakuu.com

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Thanks!

16.11.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ou jea. awesome!

15.11.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Letโ€™s Not Turn Into Monsters.
Because tenderness is a kind of resistance.
maakuu.com/art
#contemporaryart #emotionalarchaeology #cranach #jung #aiart

14.11.2025 06:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Let's Not Turn Into Monsters -- new images now at maakuu.com/art
#contemporaryart #cranach #thefool

09.11.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Watch this space
#contemporaryart #emotionalarchaeology #cranach #thefool

08.11.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Spring Fever โ€” Maa Kuu These from my 2016 April-May diary: 24.4.2016 Mut olettaen et lopetan tรคn vitun rรถรถkaamisen niin joku liikuntamuoto pitรคis kehittรครค. Kรคvelylenkit ehkรค. Sali ehkรค. Bodypump kenties. Mites se jooga....

www.maakuu.com/blog/spring-fever

07.11.2025 01:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wu Wei Marketing โ€” Maa Kuu There was a moment in October when I looked at the plans I had written for myself (the โ€œcontent calendar,โ€ the collaboration sprints, the ten evergreen posts) and felt a quiet revolt rising inside me....

Some advice on marketing for artists and freelancers ... all kinds of solo operators.
#ArtistLife #Marketing #wuwei #ContemporaryArt
www.maakuu.com/blog/wu-wei-marketing

04.11.2025 01:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Logic and Skill โ€” Maa Kuu Thereโ€™s a logic that lives under the chaos. A slow, stubborn rhythm that ties one attempt to the next, like footsteps across an invisible bridge. When I look back, the path almost makes sense โ€” though...

www.maakuu.com/blog/logic-and-skill
#ArtistLife #ContemporaryArt

17.10.2025 02:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Struggle โ€” Maa Kuu As Keanu Reeves said, we are not struggling with depression, we are struggling with the world we live in. And it's inevitable.  The very moment you cease to buy into hustle culture - โ€œmy 5 to 9...

Some words about the world we live in
www.maakuu.com/blog/the-struggle
#ArtistLife #Capitalism #Depression

10.10.2025 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Future Plans and the Limits of Time โ€” Maa Kuu The future has always been a horizon I look toward with both longing and caution. Plans are fragile things. They bend under pressure, collapse under circumstance, and sometimes dissolve into nothing a...

www.maakuu.com/blog/future-...

06.10.2025 23:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Works. Very 2025

29.09.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Might lead to something interesting. Not gonna win a Grammy I'm afraid :)

28.09.2025 23:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Impossible Beauty from Exile โ€” Maa Kuu I call my practice emotional archaeology. The works I make are excavations โ€” layers of feeling, fragments of memory, pieces of a life that has been broken and remade. I bend AI into a role it wasnโ€™t d...

The thinking behind my art practice:
www.maakuu.com/blog/impossi...
#ArtistLife #ContemporaryArt

26.09.2025 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Prints now available at shop.maakuu.com
#AutumnEquinox #NewArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtRelease #ArtistLife #AIart #DigitalArt #ConceptualArt #ArtAndLife #MaaKuu

24.09.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On the autumn equinox, light and shadow hold each other in balance. A new set of images now at maakuu.com
#AutumnEquinox #NewArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtRelease #ArtistLife #AIart #DigitalArt #ConceptualArt #ArtAndLife #MaaKuu

21.09.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Looking for Cy Twombly โ€” Maa Kuu Rivkin writes in his excellent Cy Twombly biography: โ€˜ โ€œA Twombly looks,โ€ writes one critic, โ€œthe way thinking sometimes feels.โ€ And that is Twomblyโ€™s gift โ€” the bewildering slipstream between thinki...

Next Monday equinox will be bringing new works to light, this blog post sets the scene
www.maakuu.com/blog/looking...

19.09.2025 07:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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First steps at Art School Maa โ€” Maa Kuu "Maan kurssi alkaa huomenna ja mulla on tooodella huonot vibat siitรค." (31st Jan 2016) (The course at Maa starts tomorrow and I have reeeeally bad vibes about it.) The night before my first sessi...

New blog at maakuu.com
#ArtistLife
#ArtSchool

www.maakuu.com/blog/first-s...

01.09.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#Artistlife #Antihero #Creative

17.08.2025 22:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Saltlight - glints of a passage now online: maakuu.com
#Anti-hero #ArtistLife

13.08.2025 05:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Too Human for Capitalism โ€” Maa Kuu โ€œA bit of grandiose delusional thinking takes one a long way.โ€ The line appears in a coffee-shop diary scrawl dated 18 November 2015. Our anti-heroโ€”call him the Protomutantโ€”has already missed the mo...

www.maakuu.com/blog/too-hum...
#ArtistLife #AntiCapitalism #Protomutant #Antihero

08.07.2025 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Too Human for Capitalism โ€” Maa Kuu โ€œA bit of grandiose delusional thinking takes one a long way.โ€ The line appears in a coffee-shop diary scrawl dated 18 November 2015. Our anti-heroโ€”call him the Protomutantโ€”has already missed the mo...

Got inspired!
www.maakuu.com/blog/too-human-for-capitalism

06.07.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You Do Not Have to Know Yet โ€” Maa Kuu "Tilapรคinen epรคvarmuus? Prosessin luonne? Etsikkoaika?" (entry, November 12, 2015) Lesson 4: You do not have to know yet. In fact, not-knowing is part of the work. In late 2015, I thought I w...

New blog post, about those foggy times.....
www.maakuu.com/blog/you-do-not-have-to-know-yet

04.07.2025 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Begin Before You Believe โ€” Maa Kuu โ€œEhkรค mรค olen vaan kuntoutuva opiskelija. Ja taiteilija-identiteetti on deluusiota, jรครคnteitรค suuruudenhullusta โ€˜minun on oltava jokuโ€™ -tarpeesta.โ€ (entry, November 9, 2015) Lesson 3: Begin bef...

New blog online:

www.maakuu.com/blog/begin-b...

27.06.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuit A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

25.06.2025 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There Is No Clear Path โ€” Maa Kuu "Joko tรครค on hallusinaatio tai tietojenkรคsittelytieteen opinnot tuntuu avaavan paljon uusia tyรถllistymismahdollisuuksia." (diary entry, August 29, 2015) Lesson 2: There is no clear path. The myt...

New blog online:
www.maakuu.com/blog/there-i...

23.06.2025 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ash on skin. Light in the wound.

Solstice Transmission begins here โ€” a ritual in fragments.

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#MaaKuu #SolsticeTransmission #ContemporaryMyth #AIArt

21.06.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You Will Be Obscure โ€” Maa Kuu โ€œMรค voisin olla Kuvataideakatemian kรคynyt ja silti yhtรค obscure and culturally irrelevant as now.โ€ (diary entry, June 25, 2015) Lesson 1: You will be obscure. The question isโ€”will you survive it...

New blog post online: You Will Be Obscure www.maakuu.com/blog/you-will-be-obscure

13.06.2025 06:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode.

futurism.com/atari-beats-...

13.06.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Full moon above.
Ash between us.
The solstice waits, patient and burning.

This is not mourning. Itโ€™s memory made visible.

โ€” from the upcoming Solstice Transmission

#MaaKuu #Edgewalking #MythicArt #Solstice #AIart #EmotionalTechnology #DesertRituals

11.06.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OpenAI ChatGPT o3 caught sabotaging shutdown in terrifying AI test OpenAI has a very scary problem on its hands. A new experiment by PalisadeAI reveals that the companyโ€™s ChatGPT o3 model sometimes refuses to obey a basic instruction to shut itself down. The results ...

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26.05.2025 12:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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