Haemotoxic Jupiter

      I found this Collagetober 2024 prompt list online and I thought, since it is neither October nor 2024, it's a really good time to make some digital collage. The first prompt was "Portrait" and I immediately thought to use apricot seeds as eyes. And then it just fell into place from there. I thought using a plum for the chin was fun. Used PowerPoint and Paint. Prompt List Image sources: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/27/apricot-kernels-could-be-hidden-health-hazard#img-1 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pear-isolated-one-whole-green-pear-and-a-half-of-fruit-on-white-background-pear-gm1399396369-453275436 https://www.dessarts.com/how-to-cut-an-orange/ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/grape https://ninelife.uk/products/fresh-frozen-organic-black-currants-by-northwest-wild-foods-healthy-antioxidant-fruit-diet-for-smoothies-pies-jams-syrups-45-pounds https://www.jessicagavin.com/how-to-cut-an-apple/ https://www.veggipedia.nl/en/fruit...

     In my head, there is this little family of video games that aren't officially connected, but spiritually they are siblings. Well, Portal and Half-Life are officially connected. But Mirror's Edge is spiritually sisters with Portal, and Perfect Dark is spiritually siblings with Half-Life, and Metroid is part of that family. A year ago, I beat Metroid 1, and I liked it a lot! I drew my own map and everything! I decided not to take any hints from the internet, though I broke that rule on one part that I was stuck on. The game still has a really cool atmosphere!     I beat the game in around 13 hours total, which gave me the helmeted ending. There's this one room, right before Kraid's lair, that looks like his face.     Since beating the game I've grown an interest in looking up concept art and comics and commercials specifically about the first game. It's so interesting to me to see how Samus and this world were depicted so early in the history o...

    Do you ever struggle with folding your laundry? Or am I a uniquely dishevelled person? I reckon I'm not, because I've seen "relatable" memes about how people have their laundry washed and dried but when it comes to folding it they're like. I'm not going to do that. recreated from memory      So sometimes, I've got my clean and dry laundry in a bag in a big pile, and it sits there in my room. And it stays there for an hour, or a day, or a couple days. And except for when I actually need a shirt or a pair of socks or something, it's as though it does not exist. I completely forget about its existence. It's in my room, and within my vision. I walk past it and even look at it, but it doesn't register as something that needs to be done. Something's missing          In 1999, Simons and Chabris of Harvard University ran an experiment for a psychological study. They made a 75 seconds long video: Two teams of three players, one wearing ...

 I think I just found a new favorite art piece. Look at this: Just a bunch of sunflower seeds, right? Wrong. They are hand crafted replicas of sunflower seeds made out of porcelain. And there are ONE HUNDRED MILLION of them. And ALL of them were HAND CRAFTED . Every single individual one. HAND PAINTED . 1600 PEOPLE spent 2.5 YEARS hand crafting porcelain sunflower seeds. They take up 100 cubic metres and weigh 150 TONS . You used to be able to go into the pile and walk around: Absolutely insane. I love art. The installation is aptly named Sunflower Seeds, by Ai Weiwei. It's interesting to zoom in on the picture and look at what individual people are doing. Lots of people just lying or sitting on it, resting. One person seems to be reading a book. Another one has a handful of seeds cupped in their hand, inspecting and appreciating them. Another person seems to be doing the same, while their father watches on. Imagine being one of the workers and having that on your resume. Imagi...

      I got a microscope! It can zoom in at 120x! While on my way to pick it up from the post office, I picked up a fallen flower so that I could zoom in on it ! It was apparently a crocus flower. The inner part of it had a whole sea of pollens!     My phone camera can't do it justice, it looked very pretty through the lens; a very bright, golden color.     On one of the petals, there was also what I think is a seed or an egg of some sort. On the left is a drop of cherry jam. Look at that bubble pattern on it! And on the right, it's some shaving foam. It looks foamy, no real surprise here. I think I'll be looking at every household item and leaf and pebble I find under this microscope for the next few days.  

     A second new Mitski song has been released. It's called "I'll Change For You".      This one is a little more straightforward than the last one, which was more metaphorical (and I wrote about it here ). Since the release of that first song we got more information about the new album, including its title and cover art. It's called "Nothing Is About To Happen To Me," and the album art depicts a cat that has absolutely nothing about to happen to it.     When I first saw it, it kind of reminded me of this one comic by tumblr user catcrumb:     So, some of the lyrics from I'll Change For You called to my mind some lyrics from Mitski's Nobody. Here, we have the lines "Bars, such magic places.  You can be with other people without having anyone at all." It's like that meme of Al Pacino in Godfather 2.     And Nobody had the lines "My God, I'm so lonely, so I open the window to hear sounds of people" and "I don't...