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reckoning: three scenes from the barn bound. forty foot ladder. you think you need to, but once getting that high you question why. it's impossible to move around. borrowed from a friend who says oh you hold onto it, because they don't want to move it eit…

universal question diagram. recreated drawing from the age of alchemy. possibilities and interconnectedness. screen from 2015.

"As they say, with the rising tide lifting; there’s no liberation in isolation.

[video] so we made a new thing but really an old thing from over a decade ago and so there was this impulse that we had to somehow make the new thing actually new with a fancy new application or something but i guess we decided not to do that this light p…

moondog - theme and variations (1953) james holden - in the end you'll know (2023) dead can dance - how fortunate the man with none (1993) mp3↘ - 18:16

we were in college, the father of a friend visiting, telling us that the world is covered in a fine layer of shit didn't really take this seriously despite him being a doctor, the delivery made it sound like a joke this remains one of the more profound tr…

returned from elsewhere lamenting that the city only had three birdkind and sensing disapproval of my using the term "streetbirds" reflexively way too loud "i fucking love seagulls!"

"Permacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of practice centred around design principles that embrace limits and constraints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativity with scarce computational resources."

"how'd your gig go???

apocalypse glow, borrowed studio preparing sounds and ways of being to share with those who might listen

seeing different light, with friends

attempting to improve my capability to identify and estimate distances of one hundred feet, which is evidently the standard unit of water tube and electrical extension cord, which we string across the fields in a suddenly-eternal-feeling drought mitigation

however, the spruce seem to think everything is fine

during the Q&A i congratulated myself on not having said the word 'capitalism' during the entire talk, and the audience suddenly applauded.

smoke travels two thousand miles, coloring moonlight no rain, fire warnings, freeze alerts, all together interspecies anxiety, dawn breaks again

"We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination.

woo - when you find your love (1990) laurie spiegel - the unquestioned answer (1980) jessy lanza - going somewhere (2016) mp3↘ - 14:48

"The claim that better technology will necessarily improve people’s standard of living is no longer credible."

ólöf arnalds - ævagömul orkuþula (2006) a silver mt. zion - 13 angels standing guard 'round the side of your bed (2000) broken social scene - anthems for a seventeen year-old girl (2003) mp3↘ - 13:30

enlisted an older drawing for our friend's music project tshirt.

for a long moment, kitten lost within interior structure of walls and interconnected betweens of old building, physically near but practically a different dimension, despite all previous attempts to close gates, and somehow there may always be yet another…

mushy boundaries. have tasks in two languages that differ in a way that has me questioning basic reality in somewhat boring ways (and i am here to tell you about it i am so sorry). zero-based numbering [web] is a certain way of thinking about arrays (tabl…

suse millemann - patterns (1988) jean-luc ponty - computer incantations for world peace (1983) eye to eye - nice girls (1982) mp3↘ - 13:51

"... how people become products themselves, deriving a reliable form of recognition when other kinds of social practice have been undermined.

peonies, barn swallows, japanese larch arrival of spring makes computers even less compelling

imagine, rather than accepting the doubling of processing speed, we celebrated the halving of power consumption as progress. that we understood "fast enough" and took great pride in optimized code. where we knew what came before and remembered and careful…

luke abbott - brazil (2011) boards of canada - dandelion (2002) roy and the ravers - emotinium (2015) mp3↘ - 17:38

how to bind a book: start a synth company, move to a farm house an intern to help figure out extremely random ambitions, make a friend wait at least ten years start an art store that hosts classes invite even-more-accomplished friend back to teach book bi…

april heatwave, pouring buckets of water on early shiitake in the night to help them overcome the dry dry air, and somehow the internet says snow in a couple days

didn't finish engineering school: switched to art after two years. then went to art grad school and did a lot of... engineering. maybe this is why every few years (remember, thirteenth redesign of the grid) i panic after not being confident that the LEDs…

wholesaler rejected our application because our website "looks fake, like spam or a scam" we're assuming this hilarious accusation was simply due to the (rather modern) monospaced font and stylistic lack of capitalization. we've since instituted Georgia a…

ursula le guin and todd barton - heron dance (1985) james holden - inter-city 125 (2013) enya - epona (1987) mp3↘ - 10:56

awash and drowning yet quantifying and accumulating despite what we learned the time before

"Inevitabilism is a cheap rhetorical trick.

know your woodchips: beginner woodcarver, expert carver, pole lathe, power lathe, dull chainsaw, sharp chainsaw, table saw, router, wood chipper, felling axe, beaver, squirrel, porcupine-- they are all different. these here are from a spoon blank, cut rap…

free as in beer free as in freedom free as in mattress free as in puppy (not new but new to me)

aphrodite's child - aegian sea (1971) jo johnson - orbit (2023) deerhoof - giga dance (2004) mp3↘ - 14:07

snow melt underwater meadow

my dear friends, wait no longer.

operating theatre - eighties rampwalk (fanning session) (1982) múm - the land between solar systems (2002) burial - forgive (2014) mp3↘ - 18:36

tape 230321 mp3↘ - 1:41 again visiting the church in the video game looking for clues. repetitive seven eight SQ-80 organ through BBD (thanks ezra!)

about a decade ago, visiting alpine lakes in the high sierras. eight thousand foot elevation, snow melt runoff, still the coldest body of water i swam. and a profound encounter with mosquitos. when overwhelmed, running as fast as possible hoping they could

n-so - count to ten (2022) björk - unravel (1997) arthur russell - home away from home (1993) mp3↘ - 14:16