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just described the deutscher memorial prize to bf as 'the Fields Medal of Marxism'

(this is notably not something i would ever associate with growing up in western washington state for 18 years. this is specifically portlandia type shit)

it happened: I've finally lived in oregon long enough that i've become a "nutritional yeast on popcorn" kind of person

Now that i’ve blocked twitter and reddit on my laptop and deleted the apps (plus ig/bsky) (haven't blocked bsky on my computer since i still find the culture here pretty bleh) i'm at the point where i'm opening the Financial Times app every time i want to scroll a 'feed' of 'content'

chartposting season😗

i bought a couple old nylon magazines in a fit of mid-2000s-nostalgia (dare i say ‘indie sleaze’) pique and flipped open to this fan letter on the feb 2004 issue

oil painting on aluminum, 5 x 7”, of the stanford bunny

stanford bunny

some of my recent oil paintings, which you can look at on my freshly updated portfolio website:

zhanpeifang.com

sorry to all my haters and losers

i booked a work flight to leave 12:40am from pdx next week, which i plan to drive to immediately after the autechre set ends earlier that night.. diva behavior i fear

just ate a shockingly competent bowl of 螺蛳粉 in Kampala, Uganda

w6$$up peasants, I finally got off the Rancho Gordo Bean Club waitlist

one of my worst housemates in college (had the most blatant case of yellow fever/weaponized male meekness ive seen) left his phd to work here lol. i will say there was something cathartic about my old coop nemesis (in a group photo of xAI employees) being called ‘evil’ on a QT with >200k likes🤭

virgin tikz vs chad whatever this is

going to be in nyc from 8/24-27 and 9/18-28ish, for those who'd like to drop by👋

figs from the tree in my housing co-op’s garden

I'm going to sub-Saharan Africa in a month for fieldwork lol

in the past 7 days i’ve taken vaccines for: rabies (2 shots), meningococcal ACWY, yellow fever and cholera (last 2 are live virus). basically, what i’m saying is that i’m currently a walking gu jar

i see that purity ring are also cashing in on the 'low-poly rpg video game y2k nostalgia' trend

weirdly sophistiqué chart this week

which volume(s)?

Scientific diagram of two birds looking at seeds from different directions, showing their blind spots and extent of binocular vision.

RIP Landsat Next, we hardly knew ye

is it just me or is it that contemporary painting is extremely boring right now lol. last show that left an impression on me was dana lok at miguel abreu around the new year

is it good that i feel like i'm slowly dying while i've been debugging code for months and while i'm not painting lol. thank god it's almost summer

thinking about getting into baking panettone purely as a flex

just described the deutscher memorial prize to bf as 'the Fields Medal of Marxism'

but of course

i watched the handmaiden and was kind of surprised at how girlbossy/feel-good it was?

excerpt from Frank Nielsen's poster for "Taxonomy of principal distances and divergences", seemingly written with pure uncut PGF/TikZ

just discovered some very impressive tikz gore franknielsen.github.io/Divergence/P...