H. Montgomery

This one is probably already on your list, but in Berlant and Stewart's "The Hundreds" there is a section of independently contributed indexes that include poetry, graphic art, para-essays, and then a traditional citation apparatus mixed w/ entries like "A shoulder twitching."

Just macerated some herbs and barks for my first DIY amaro recipe and it’s astonishing how close just smashing a few specifics in a mortar and pestle — angelica, anise, clove, licorice, cinchona — gets to the aroma of some of the classics.

I feel like the Ted Greene V system is finally getting me to learn all the chord inversion I wish I had learned years ago.

I doubt it’s even remotely sustainable given the labor required just for content moderation, but it is interesting that this is basically how a bunch of mastodon servers work to defray hosting costs.

@andrewweathers.bsky.social I'm just now getting to Neglibgiblism and the low-mid fuzz on "crawlth" feels like it's making direct contact to the inside of my skull. Incredible textures so far.

“Tender Buttons” completely rewired how I thought about poetry for a bit, but I’ve never delved any further.

Pen and ink drawing of a “fishman of the great mud flats”

Pen and ink drawing of a mesa and canyon with large broken towers and big bone in the ground.

Pen and in drawing of flying manta rays w/ boxes on their backs and broken magical tower.

Very rough gouache painting in primary colors of a desert scene, with red mesas, obelisks, giant bones, floating submarinesc etc.

Some goofy sketches I’ve been making lately for a homebrew ttrpg setting. Loosely Dark Sun inspired.

Everything seems to work now, thanks for updating me!

I’m having the same issue, iPhone 12, iOS 17.6.1, mastodon account @halfflat@assemblag.es. It doesn’t even crash, just loads the splash screen and gets stuck forever which is pretty odd behavior on iOS.

A clay sculpture of a small dwarf or gnome posing among some licquor bottles

Many frustrated attempts at correctly proportioned limbs later…

A miniature gnome or dwarf torso made from clay

Got a big block of plasticine clay from austin creative reuse for $1 and spent yesterday imagining a guy

Finally getting somewhere with this tree sonification project. Gonna slowly add field recordings to it and figure out a better demo mode eventually. https://austinsurroundsound.neocities.org

It has suddenly become clear to me that I haven’t had field peas in way too long.

Tree Sonification Web Audio Api Test A quick demo of my sonification sketch which I rewrote from Pure Data to the Web Audio API.

Managed to understand javascript just enough to take my first steps at sonifying Austin's tree inventory via the Web Audio api. Super basic patch right now, collecting trees into geohashes and "playing" each geohash by scaling population size to pitch and envelope data.

diode.zone/w/k9ouaVbQ1D...

In the planning stages of sonifying some survey data of Austin trees. Thinking of devloping a unique score for a bunch of geohashes based on the trees in each hash, and then modulate based on the position of the listener. I didn’t realize how fun geohashes were! 14 years late to the party.

Freedom: Internet, App and Website Blocker Install Freedom to block distracting sites, apps, or the entire internet on all your devices. Download Freedom for Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, Chrome, or Linux.

I used to use this for blocking websites a few years ago, and it was pretty powerful at the time freedom.to/downloads

Anthropomorphized sketch portrait of a chubby cat with a high collar and monocle.

The thing about sketching is that it’s incredibly humbling 99% of the time, but occasisionally something will just come out and surprise you.

I’ve been trying “openvibe” to bridge my mastodon and bluesky timelines into one app — despite the many UI paper cuts and terrible name (🙄) it does seem to at least be able to do that task to a first approximation. Hoping that one of my prefered client apps will take on the challenge at some point.

Also, a fun little experiment with styling an RSS feed so that it’s legible for humans and matches my weird website design: zarabanda.neocities.org/feed.xml

Wrote a little review of Miquel de Palol’s “Trois Pas Vers le Sud,” which I picked up in France right before I got Covid and burned through once I got back. zarabanda.neocities.org/blog#trois

Sick, super cool. I’ve been goofing around dip pens lately, just a classic g nib. It’s way beyond my skill level, but I’m starting to dig how much variation you can get. I’ll have to try out the kaweco sometime though, I see them relatively often in stores

Very cool! I’ve tried to draw (poorly) while using my medium nibbed Lammy before and it seemed way too heavy for the level of detail you achieved here, so I thought you might be using something pretty fine.

The line variation is really striking! Did you use a fine nib for this and fill in the heavier sections?

I understand that not making sense is largely the point, but at some point you just have to marvel at how completely out of step with basic reality these guys are. How long has it been since they've been outside? Forever?

I’ve been really enjoying going through some of Ted Greene’s “V System” for 4 note chord inversions and spacings on guitar. I’ve tried to study inversions systematically here and there but this is way clearer than anything I could have come up with.
www.tedgreene.com/teaching/v_s...

There's a small scene where this happens beat-for-beat in Robert Littell's CIA novel “The Company" and I always thought it was a charmingly American vision of the French

premonitions, by alëna korolëva 1 track album

Really compelled by Korolëva's "premonitions". The way the animal voices and field recordings are tuned & bent into sometimes poignant, sometimes terrifying shapes is astounding. A very fine line that is easily overdone, but it works for me here. f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/premon...

A Beaded Gesture, by Sandy Ewen/Jason Nazary 4 track album

Incredible recording of Sandy Ewen's prepared guitar approach. I don't understand whether she was using stereo amps during the recording or what, but the way the guitar serpentines through the stereo field is tremendous. noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/a-bead...

Chinese text and translation in english. The joke is that Sun Wukong, the famous Chinese character that Goku is based on & named after, is translated as Goku by the machine translation algorithm. Chinese: 因为 你想找 真相 我就叫你 悟 Goku: Because you want to find the truth, I'll call you Goku.

So lingq recently changed its translation model to DeepL which means you occasionally get funny errors like this: When transliterating the Chinese Sūn Wùkōng, the literary character that Son Goku is based on, it gives up on the context and just transliterates to Goku.

Cold comfort, but based on my recent captcha failures AI is going to fail the question "Is this a motor scooter or a motorcycle?" 100/100 times for a while yet