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made another #4panel !! >> I’ve been trying to start with keeping it simple and balancing values in greyscale but this time I tried messing with some color >> ended up with an unintentionally primary palette >> this one is titled “just checking in”

My goodness, the last line.

already having fun

Effects of ant mounds construction on the carbon cycle in a drained peatland, Northeast China Acting as ecosystem engineers, ant activities are significantly crucial in altering carbon (C) cycles by modifying the energy flows and nutrient cycle…

dove into this today >> the role of ants and ant hills in carbon cycles >> this research is so cool and makes me a little less frustrated at them for invading my sugar this summer… www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cover of the book Readings in American Folklore, Edited by Jan Harold Brunvand

current read !! >> really excited to get into this one as a little bit of research for a project I’m starting to put together

some more procreate practice and character experiments >> used a reference that was a photo with a harsh flash >> made the shadows interesting

practicing without a reference

more Feigenbaum anecdotes

4 panel 2!! I’ve been really having a jpop summer >> some of these songs are wayyyy too catchy >> this 4 panel is called earworm >> the song plugged into my brain at the end is Ai No Seide by ZOMBIE-CHANG

Picture of quote reading “Sometime in his last year of college, it struck him that he had missed his adolescence, and he made a deliberate project out of regaining touch with humanity. He would sit silently in the cafeteria, listening to students chatting about shaving or food, and gradually he relearned much of the science of talking to people.”

anecdote about Mitchell Feigenbaum in chaos >> very mathematician core

something about this is so funny to me + relevant to framing conversations of ai >> a computer cannot experience a sunset, it can only see what you translate into bits

pen and paper practice

Close up of a telescope fish who looks like something adorable from outer space: wide mouth with lots of little teeth, eyes that look like pearls, and irregular tendrils of 'hair' that make him resemble a balding man who's grown his remaining hair ready for a combover. (Smithsonian image by Dave Johnson of Harvard MCZ specimen 60585)

Morning, Bluesky. #Friday

I decided I want to start practicing drawing and comic storytelling so I’m challenging myself to do a little 4 panel every week >> this is my first one >> Catching Frogs

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.

Cover of Chaos by James Gleick on green background

current read !! taking me back to my applied math days

working on getting better with procreate while playing around with some simple character designs.. her name is charlie and she can turn into a frog

Fireflies flitting around a forest

Fireflies “have been doing computer science well before we even existed.” — Andrew Moiseff, a biologist at the University of Connecticut quantamagazine.org/how-do-firef...

Look, we all have our coping mechanisms. Mine happens to be reading and kdrama.

cartoon white coffee mug with eyes, mouth, arm and legs with comic bubble saying “I don’t care what you say” “I have a head full of coffee and a will to live!” “I’m not going anywhere near that human’s grubby mouth”. Red text in the bottom left corner says Muggsy.

update: seagull with teeth was “too disturbing” so I tried again with something more normal >> I’m normally a pen and paper person but having a lot more fun drawing on my ipad than I thought I would

a cartoon drawing of a seagull with teeth and human arms and legs

my little sister asked me to sketch a character so I drew Frank >> she asked me what I was thinking when drawing and I said “seagull with teeth” >> currently can’t decide if he’s seagull size or human size

Happy Pride! #DidYouKnow that the first gay relationship in Transformers was accidental? When the Japanese Beast Wars dub changed Airazor’s gender to male, they were unaware of the upcoming romance between her and Tigatron.. when it came, they just had to run with it!

tfwiki.net/wiki/Airazor...

I used to be so intimidated by drawing straight in pen >> feeling like I had to think more about each stroke >> but its quickly becoming the opposite

One of the most beautiful pictures of Jupiter ever taken.

Credits: NASA

+ fishing in the weeds
+ the blue heron shies from me
+ I see it has passed

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree," Martin Luther King Jr.

another day >> another tree haiku

if you ever want to create something beautiful you have to go experience it >> I’m always thinking about this Hayao Miyazaki quote from an essay he wrote in 1979