Some Fragments on Writing 3 The third batch of these.

i have a new batch of fragments about writing and related matters up on Garden Scenery today. please do check it out

My new AI app is an old log lying by the side of the path. You sit on the log and you watch the creek flow.

a still from the film Centuries of June (1955)

i heard they're gonna be premiering a new type of wood soon that's actually more like a stone that lives in the ground

boohoo cracker

tbh it's probably for the best the great french impressionist filmmaker and theorist Jean Epstein died in 1953. imagine how much it would suck being a public figure with that name these days, what with the news, etc.

terrifying thought: The Scary Guy could be around

exercises A new book that I've made.

i have a new book out – read all about it here

extremely funny that someone is mirroring OSINTdefender's posts on here, out of all possible accounts

Fruit on the Table A story about some fruit on a table.

now in Garden Scenery, a story about some fruit on a table

in Keep Planning today, new fiction by Kyle Proehl, about a storm not like other storms. one of those expertly modulated, deeply unsettling stories in which the slow accumulation of peripheral details renders the structuring absence at their center ever starker. do check it out

people need to read between the lines here. what Justice Kagan is clearly actually concerned about is the very real possibility of a future in which the state mandates therapists must make all straight kids gay and all gay kids straight, creating a topsy-turvy world of mischief and mayhem

In our present situation, where the limits of music are, in practice, barely distinct from the limits of sound itself, "genre" becomes increasingly irrelevant as anything other than an index of known, historical idioms, a catalogue of frameworks which no longer possess any real proscriptive power, any say over how the forms and ideas developed through and within them might be deployed, or by whom.'

To be a good artist now demands a different sort of confidence now than it did when one could get fed up with the tastemakers, pen a manifesto, and go from there - everyone is a tastemaker now, and everyone is fed up with each other, and so none of it matters. You have to start by actually doing something now, by finding a way to make something that you can believe is better than nothing, that is not pointless, that is not just an empty repetition or regurgitation of what's come before. From there, if you

This essay by @davidcporter.net is the best thing I read all week; I'm going to be thinking about it from now on.
gardenscenery.net/p/the-discov...

whenever i see a monkey with its tail curled up in a spiral i am overtaken with an insane sort of jealousy

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The Discovered Country On why there are "no new music genres" anymore, and the situation of art today more generally.

wrote 3000 words about why art doesn't work like it did in the 20th century anymore

Different Furs (2017) by Michelle Lou YouTube video by Yarn Wire

good stuff here if you want to listen to some classical music 👇

i think immediacy has value. i think there is value in trying to understand something when no consensus has yet been established on it, when it's unfixed. most of the time you'll fail, which is why you still need to read books etc, but i feel like if "microblogging" is good for anything, it's this

i guess my issue with this is that a platform where you can look at reports and commentaries, but not primary documents, so to speak, is one that has made getting into arguments over these reports and commentaries very easy, and developing any useful insight into the event itself much more difficult

the next few months could easily be among the most consequential of the entire 21st century, but as far as i can tell, you'd never know it from scrolling on here – am i just following too many people that, like me, barely post here, or is it a problem of site culture, or what?

obviously it's distorted either way of course, it is the nature of war to distort the image of itself, but being able to log on each day and get concrete information on, say, how many operations hezbollah launched while i was asleep has done wonders for the strength of my resolve in these dark days

im asking this because for me, on here, the answer is zero, or occasionally one when "israel" carries out some especially vicious strike in lebanon, which disturbs me because if i wasn't on twitter, where this material is readily available, my perception of the conflict would be incredibly distorted

serious question: are people that use this place as their main social media timeline aware of what's happening in the middle east right now? not in a general "there's a war" sense i mean like, how many pictures of craters in the street are you seeing each day? how many videos of fire in the sky?

really pleased to have these poems from PJ Lombardo, co-editor of the excellent poetry journal GROTTO, in Keep Planning today. one is from his new book, two more are from a manuscript-in-progress, all of them are slippery and strange. check them out below

assorted debris and ephemera >>>>>

i've never met someone named Beep or Bleep or anything like that. but i'm always prepared for it. if it ever happens, i'll know exactly what i have to do

im a nice guy even though i listen to music with swears in it sometimes

new photography from returning contributor Rein Vilu in Keep Planning today. really pleased to get to share another set of Rein's wonderfully warm, generous images, do take a look at them

Realism Over Flattery A story about a painting from 1472.

now in Garden Scenery, a story about fine art