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Chris Pressey
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Chief Nonentity @ https://catseye.tc/ - Explorations in Programming Languages, (Techno-)Aesthetics & Advanced WTAF Studies. Opinions are my own.
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Eduardo Paolozzi
Jazz Panel Study for Tottenham Court Road
1982
#abstractart #geometricart #20thcenturyart
Colourful geometric abstract picture, a study for a wall mural titled Jazz to be installed in Tottenham Court Road tube station, done in what looks like ink and gouache on board, signed Eduardo Paolozzi 1982 (possibly "Munich May 1982")
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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The seat of government torn down and replaced by a gaudy tower, you say?

The alternate 1985 in "Back to the Future 2" looking prophetic af right about now.

(The character of Biff Tannen was, in fact, inspired by Donald Trump.)
A prop from the movie "Back to the Future 2": a sign saying "Welcome to the City of HILL VALLEY" which has fallen to the ground and has been defaced to read "HELL VALLEY"
October 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Portfolio Browsers, Parc George Brassens
felt tip pen on paper
2013
#lifedrawing
Life drawing of a man and a woman sitting on a bench, looking through a portfolio, at Parc George Brassens in Paris, in February or March of 2013, done in felt tip pen on paper.
October 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Wow, the meme wasn't kidding when it said "one size fits most". I mean, this *almost* fits perfectly.
A version of the "Conservative Guy Scared of Cities" Hallowe'en Costume meme where the text has been modified to be "Conservative Guy Scared of Antifa". Features "Saw that Thing on the News" unchanged, "Too Many of 'Those' People There" unchanged, "They Have No Appreciation for My Ford Super Duty" awkwardly changed, and "Not Scared, Bro" unchanged
September 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Project 2025.
ChatGPT-generated image, titled "Project 2025", of the Statue of Liberty with a facehugger from the movie "Alien" (1979) attached to it.
August 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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#ArtCompare

On the left:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
ca. 1983

On the right:
Unattributed (School of LinkedIn)
2025

#neoexpressionism #graffiti #slopart #aiglitch #generativeglitch
Painting by Basquiat with a chaotic composition a lot of individual figures (heads) and curiously repeated unusual words and phrases like "Ascent" and "Myrrh" Graphic for LinkedIn post generated by generative AI, with a chaotic composition, of a lot of individual figures and curiously repeated unusual words and phrases like "Fragworm" and "Exprections"
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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An Exchange of Novel Metaphysical Devices (2025)

#AIArt #GenerativeArt #AIGlitch #GlitchArt #GenerativeGlitch #SlopArt #RunwayML #Surrealism #MetaphysicalPainting
An image produced by generative AI in which objects of confused form and unclear purpose are being presented by a disembodied hand and a crow, perched on a concrete basin, in a foggy area, with a staircase visible in the distance
June 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Famous scene from "The Planet of the Apes" (1968) where one of the protagonists, finding the remains of the Statue of Liberty, realizes the planet they've landed on is post-holocaust Earth, and shouts "You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! Damn you all to hell!"
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I find your unique perspective very relatable
Ideogram of a person holding semaphore flags and signalling the code ERROR with them
June 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Niels Serup
Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic
2011

esolangs.org/wiki/Half-Br...

Proved Turing-complete by Eckankar@GitHub in 2020.

#esolang #esolangs #programminglanguages #randomness #nightmare #bloodyawful #turingcomplete
A program in the esoteric programming language Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic that increments the value stored in a memory cell. Excerpt from a "Hello, world!" program in the esoteric programming language Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic.
June 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Hedda Sterne
NY, NY No. X
1948
oil on canvas

#painting #oilpainting #abstractart #20thcentury #womensart
Oil on canvas painting of an abstract interpretation, in blues and greys with yellow and red highlights, of buildings in New York City.
June 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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I did say I was going to design another programming language, one with a simple proof language embedded in it.

Well, I have the start of the proof language now. Its working title is "Lome" (The programming language will have its own name, when it appears.)

codeberg.org/cpressey/Lome
A formal proof of a trivial theorem in a fragment of monoid theory, written in the new proof language Lome. The text of the theorem is as follows: rule right_id(mul(X, e)) => X rule left_id(mul(e, X)) => X proof mul(mul(a, e), mul(e, a)) mul(*right_id(mul(a, e)), *left_id(mul(e, a))) mul(a, a) qed
May 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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THE FEELING WHEN you see that you might have to do more than the bare minimum in order to hold the line.

It's not lost yet. Keep it up!

#elbowsup #holdtheline #democracy
A "hype commentator" meme with the title "Democracy: an owners' manual", showing four stages of civic involvement corresponding to the 4 levels of interest of the commentator: 1. Turning out to vote, 2. Calling and writing your elected representatives, 3. Organizing and attending peaceful demonstrations, and 4. Civil disobedience as and when necessary
May 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The Museum of Unworkable Devices
(2002-present)

"diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature"

dsimanek.vialattea.net/museum/unwor... #perpetualmotion #impossible #entropy #thermodynamics #crackpot #kook
A whimsical picture of a perpetual motion machine in the form of a water mill powered by a waterfall from a canal that appears to drain into itself by illusionistic violation of perspective
May 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Perfect illustration of "form follows function". The container bin looks the way it does because of its purpose, what it's built to do. The Cybertruck otoh has no fucking reason to look the way it does, which is why it's so ugly. #aesthetics #technoaesthetics #technology #design
Two photos shown for comparison purposes emphasizing the similarity. Above, a wheeled container bin in India 1968; below a Cybertruck in America in 2023.
May 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Jacques Lagrange
Septembre à Arcueil
ca. 1945

#abstractart #painting
A colourful, blocky abstract oil painting on canvas.
May 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Looping (Video Games GmbH, 1982)

Released as #freeware in 2011: www.mamedev.org/roms/looping...

One of those rare games where you can bounce off of the sky to point your plane straight down.

#videogame #arcade #retrogame
Screenshot of the title screen of the video game "Looping". Screenshot of gameplay of Looping, showing the player's plane diving and shooting while enemy balloons surround it, above a cityscape
May 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Megan Watts Hughes
Tree Form
1891

An image produced, from the sound of the artist's voice, by a visualization device invented by the artist.

#eidophone #cymatics #resonance #voicefigures #technoaesthetics #womensart

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_W...
An abstract black and white image of a tree-like form bracketed by wave-like forms and a multiple horizon-like background, produced by an eidophone from the sound of Megan Watts Hughes' voice.
May 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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It's difficult to do anything artistic during a civilizational crisis, have you noticed?

It's weird enough just seeing the leader of the USA (late of the Free World) go around the globe demanding tribute, while back in the Homeland everything is being utterly razed.

This won't end well.
Giant gold Homer, from the Simpsons episode "Dog of Death" (Season 3 Episode 19, March 12 1992).
May 14, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Another thing I think about a lot is this quote by JK Rowling.

Partly because I'm not sure I believe her.

Partly because it makes me think about why I do the things that I do as well.
JK Rowling being quoted by BBC, in https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64729304 (February 22, 2023): "I do not walk around my house thinking about my legacy," she continued. "What a pompous way to live your life, walking around thinking, what will my legacy be? Whatever, I'll be dead. I care about now. I care about the living."
May 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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More "useful" software - I've put together a Python script to create a set of bookmarklets for copying special characters to the clipboard. Because I'm too lazy to learn how to key them in.

git.catseye.tc/The-Dipple/b...

#python #publicdomain #bookmarklet #unicode
Screenshot of dropdown menu of bookmarks in web browser showing bookmarklets for copying special characters to the clipboard.
May 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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More progress on UampirNexol. Programs can now call routines, even externally-defined routines such as the KERNAL routines in the VIC-20 ROM.

#functionalprogramming #lowlevel #retrocomputing #mos6502 #c64 #vic20
(UampirNexol source code for a small example program) let chrout = extern @0xffd2 : State[A/] -> State[A/] in LDA# 40 ; (call chrout) ; LDA# 41 ; (call chrout) ; LDA# 42 ; (call chrout) Screenshot of a VIC-20 which has just loaded and run the accompanying UampirNexol program, with the result of printing a few characters (namely "()*") on the screen.
May 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Milestone: the UampirNexol implementation can now produce executable 6502 programs. The screenshot shows running this:

LDA# 0x41 ; STA &0x0400

What makes this interesting to me is that the above line of code is an expression that evaluates to a function that maps machine states to machine states.
Screenshot of a Commodore 64 emulator running a trivial example program file produced by the UampirNexol code extractor.
May 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM