weirdly geometric abstract art in a black/red/yellow palette. all the object parts are a mix of sharp edges and smooth curves. feels haunted

haunted #rstats artwork

incredible

trying to recall when i last felt like a somewhat competent and almost professional person. probably 2012, or thereabouts? i'd just made associate prof, the stats textbook was taking shape, and i was still successfully repressing my transness into a manageable ball of depression. good times :/

one day i hope to remember what self-confidence feels like. siiiiiiiiiiigh

abstract generative art in a white on deep red palette. in the middle of the image there are a few irregular vertical stripes (one off-white, the other two shades of red that are low-contrast against the red background). edges are irregular with streaks that look a little like paint splatter

this system doesn't throw up minimalist pieces very often, but when it does... some of them really are lovely

stripy abstract art in green yellow and black

good night

My personal theory of procedural art is that the best systems are the moderately unreliable ones. No more than 30% of the pieces should be good. If it goes much higher it's usually a sign that you have a system that doesn't take any risks. The art feels bland and samey even after curation

i made it unreliable again. feeling much better

Not to be a huge bitch but in my experience people who are able to go fully "fuck gender expectations" have a lifestyle where their support system shields them from having to interface with things like "having a job" or "being taken seriously in any situation"

new life policy. anyone who pops up on my feed with a screenshot of the mad king or his social media posts and doesn't use alt text is instantly blocked. if you don't use alt text i can't use keywords to filter that shit out, and i have enough anxiety in my life already

might have been this one? but yeah, also not quite the same topic

blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2023-1...

i keep thinking about the period a from a few years ago where "long form generative art" was so popular among procedural artists, and god i hated that. still do, actually. just not my thing at all

yeah yeah it's a bunch of stripes in orange and black and white, and the edges all feel very organic almost as if paint were dripping on the canvas, and there are streaks and protrusions everywhere. and it's legitimately lovely, and i love that i wrote the code for this myself from scratch. but i've got another 200 of these just like it on my laptop and so, like, now what?

it's wild how quickly i lose interest with systems when they "just work" and require no further action from me as the artist. yay, after days of tinkering with the code i can now generate an arbitrary number of these things with only the seed as input, and it works every time. i am immediately bored

vertical stripes in bright pink, blue, and yellow. against a black background, with hundreds of splotchy streaks running through it

starting to like where this is going

Today is the anniversary of the Box-Cox power transform. #OTD 1964 George Box & David R Cox read their paper “An Analysis of Transformations” at the RSS meeting. It describes methods for reducing nonnormality of errors in a linear model. The paper began with their names then found the topic. 1/3

look, if i am going to let someone stab me with a needle thousands of times and mark my skin permanently with the pain of the moment, then yeah they had better be at least as fucked up as i am

my tattoo artist is a fucking genius, and is exactly as unhinged a person as you'd expect from her work. i love her

the palette is designed so that when my arms are at my side the colours on my arm blend smoothly into my leg tat. it makes me happy

thank you

wait.. 2019 was 7 years ago. shit

very serious comment on generative art, actually. I've been doing this for 5 years now, writing code by hand to design systems that make art i enjoy. in all that time, there only a handful of lineages of systems that have made it onto my art site, and only 3 that make repeat appearances. art is work

it is a very death in the woods even though i had a cellphone vibe yeah

blah blah, colours, stripes, streaks. look, the emperor is threatening us all with imminent death for no reason and i am not coping. so yes, i sincerely apologise for not being able to properly articulate what i like about the image or why i think of it as art

the 85th output of the 17th iteration of the 4th attempt at designing a system around an idea i nicked off another generative artist, and at last i don't hate it

❤️‍🩹. sympathy from australia. this isn't on you

photo of me in a better place. (the beach)

okay i admit i am struggling today. i'm good at a lot of things, but i'm not great at coping with the kind of external stressors crashing into my life and the world right now. so, a weird affirmation: a photo of a moment that mattered to me, when someone in my life helped me with something difficult

i just want to cry

yeah i get it. i am exhausted and miserable all the time now. grinding existential dread isn't a sustainable way to live but here we are doing it anyway. tinkering with old art code is one of the few things helping me hold it together at the moment :(

abstract procedural art in a pink/peach/black palette. the image is constructed from many vertical stripes with irregular ragged edges, and dozens of semi-transparent streaks and protrusions running through the image in random directions

the world is depressing beyond my ability to describe. so, yeah, making art to distract myself from the horrors

*sobbing* all i wanted was a simple package to reduce 100 lines of boilerplate ggplot2 code that i rewrite every two weeks to a few lines of plot-specific code that i don't have to think about. and, yes it works, but at what cost to my sanity?????

learning a very brutal lesson, as i attempt to write a compositional mini language for a specific class of pharmacometric plots. no matter how small the scope, every composable plotting language eventually reinvents the core principles of ggplot2 😖