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I asked my mom to rate some composers

disclaimer: she is a tiny Chinese lady and literally cannot tell a violin sound from a piano

Mozart: “So nice and simple. It makes my heart settled. 不慌张。”

Beethoven: “What is it you kids say? I am shook? Yes, I am very shaken.”

Bach: “There is a lot going on here.”

Chopin: “Wow, very nice! It sounds messy, but a lovely messy. I think it really is a Fantastic Impromptu!”

Liszt: “真的好厉害哦, I never knew the piano could be played in this way. I think I will have bad dreams tonight”

Bartók: “Originally, I thought what is this no-head-no-tail garbage. But now, I quite like it.”

Rachmaninoff: “Stop playing this, I don’t like it. Really, I don’t understand how you can listen to this while you study.”

Tchaikovsky: “Very nice very nice. Wow look, the violinist is so cute, he’s playing with his eyes closed!”

Schubert: “He picks all the right notes.”

Mahler: “Too loud, I can feel the trumpet ringing around in my ears. 吵死了, turn it off or I won’t be helping you with your math tonight.”

Debussy: “Mmm. I like this one. So relaxing, it just makes me want to go to a spa. That reminds me, I need to book a facial.”

I want to love you.

But I love myself, and you lie about your feelings.

Fly me to the Moon.

Illusions!

Clayton Shonkwiler:  Math Professor, Artist

Clayton Shonkwiler is a Math Professor at Colorado State University.  He has no art training, but his mom was an Art History major and his dad was an Architect, so he said that ‘there were always lots of art and architecture books and prints around’.  He started making gifs as a way to illustrate something in a research talk, became hooked on the possibilities and now, several years later, he has built a body of elegant and mesmerizing gif work.  He is part of a trend that I have been noticing of coder artists that I have written about more at length here 

Read a short interview with Clayton Shonkwiler here

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En este mundo hay personas de todo tipo, desde las que tienen corazones tan puros que nunca deberían ser todos hasta quienes merecen que les rompan no solo el corazón sino la cara, personas adictas a lo que no los llena, millones de seres humanos que viven vidas que no les pertenecen, que viven por complacer, por estar “a la moda”, una gran cantidad de soñadores en silencio, miles de pensadores que no han sido descubiertos, estrellas que se ocultan por miedo, amantes que temen a amar, personas que satanizan sus vidas, pero sobre todo esa cantidad de formas, de cualidades, sobre todo eso, cada una sigue siendo un ser humano, como tú y como yo.

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Bleak

Freshie😂

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Neil Gaiman  (via wordsnquotes)

This soothes my eyes

Timelapse view of lava moving on the plains near Pu’u O’o, Hawaii. The hill in the distance is called the “Pali”, it is the mark of a large normal fault created by part of the island sliding out towards the sea. Lava cascades over the Pali on its way to the ocean during the eruption. This is substantially sped up from how fast Pahoehoe lava typically flows.