Jack Rusher
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Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
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One of the tragedies of the Aralqum is how cool it looks in photos…
October 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
One of the tragedies of the Aralqum is how cool it looks in photos…
We made a pilgrimage to the Aral Desert, which was still the world’s fourth largest inland sea in 1970. They say the future is here but unevenly distributed, and this is the best proxy I’ve seen for the future we are currently making.
October 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
We made a pilgrimage to the Aral Desert, which was still the world’s fourth largest inland sea in 1970. They say the future is here but unevenly distributed, and this is the best proxy I’ve seen for the future we are currently making.
Staying in the Ichan-Qаl’а of Khiva, the historical capital of the Khorazm region.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchan_...
This is where (by most accounts) Al-Khwarizmi (“algorithm”, “algebra”, numerals) originated before settling at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwa...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchan_...
This is where (by most accounts) Al-Khwarizmi (“algorithm”, “algebra”, numerals) originated before settling at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwa...
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Staying in the Ichan-Qаl’а of Khiva, the historical capital of the Khorazm region.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchan_...
This is where (by most accounts) Al-Khwarizmi (“algorithm”, “algebra”, numerals) originated before settling at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwa...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchan_...
This is where (by most accounts) Al-Khwarizmi (“algorithm”, “algebra”, numerals) originated before settling at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwa...
Last day in Bukhara…
September 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Last day in Bukhara…
Collecting patterns from the past for future generative art projects…
September 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Collecting patterns from the past for future generative art projects…
Tiles and antiquity in Samarkand yesterday…
September 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Tiles and antiquity in Samarkand yesterday…
I wonder from time to time whether the popularity of Bratz dolls in the early 2000s led directly to the highly synthetic aesthetic preferred by many young women today 🤔
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratz
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratz
September 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I wonder from time to time whether the popularity of Bratz dolls in the early 2000s led directly to the highly synthetic aesthetic preferred by many young women today 🤔
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratz
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratz
Anything trying this hard to convince you that it’s food is definitely not food.
September 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Anything trying this hard to convince you that it’s food is definitely not food.
Proof of Life from the festival 😊
August 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Proof of Life from the festival 😊
Saw ‘How a Spiral Works’ at the Berlin Circus Festival last night. It was a superb, deeply emotional performance, and the first time a dance piece has made me spontaneously weep.
www.berlin-circus-festival.de/howaspiralwo...
www.berlin-circus-festival.de/howaspiralwo...
August 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Saw ‘How a Spiral Works’ at the Berlin Circus Festival last night. It was a superb, deeply emotional performance, and the first time a dance piece has made me spontaneously weep.
www.berlin-circus-festival.de/howaspiralwo...
www.berlin-circus-festival.de/howaspiralwo...
Played a set of completely improved music for two loopstations and strings last night 😊
August 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Played a set of completely improved music for two loopstations and strings last night 😊
Flawless performance from Morcheeba at the Opera Leśna (“Forest Opera”) in Sopot last night. I last saw them around 25 years ago, but Skye Edwards hasn’t aged a day and Ross Godfrey remains an exceptional and highly underrated guitarist.
July 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Flawless performance from Morcheeba at the Opera Leśna (“Forest Opera”) in Sopot last night. I last saw them around 25 years ago, but Skye Edwards hasn’t aged a day and Ross Godfrey remains an exceptional and highly underrated guitarist.
Flowers are amazing. I wonder how many generations of selective breeding it took to produce Dahlias this beautiful…
July 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Flowers are amazing. I wonder how many generations of selective breeding it took to produce Dahlias this beautiful…
The impression of a pine bough in sandcasted glass!
July 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The impression of a pine bough in sandcasted glass!
One can generate nice patterns using only XOR, like the 2D pattern on the left:
(doseq [x (range w)]
(doseq [y (range h)]
(when (not (zero? (mod (bit-xor x y) 7)))
(draw-mark x y))))
… but it's also possible to add another dimension to carve a 3D shape, like the render on the right.
(doseq [x (range w)]
(doseq [y (range h)]
(when (not (zero? (mod (bit-xor x y) 7)))
(draw-mark x y))))
… but it's also possible to add another dimension to carve a 3D shape, like the render on the right.
July 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
One can generate nice patterns using only XOR, like the 2D pattern on the left:
(doseq [x (range w)]
(doseq [y (range h)]
(when (not (zero? (mod (bit-xor x y) 7)))
(draw-mark x y))))
… but it's also possible to add another dimension to carve a 3D shape, like the render on the right.
(doseq [x (range w)]
(doseq [y (range h)]
(when (not (zero? (mod (bit-xor x y) 7)))
(draw-mark x y))))
… but it's also possible to add another dimension to carve a 3D shape, like the render on the right.
I pass through Dublin every time I visit my mother, but this is the first time I’ve made the pilgrimage to see the new plaque on Broom Bridge…
July 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I pass through Dublin every time I visit my mother, but this is the first time I’ve made the pilgrimage to see the new plaque on Broom Bridge…
Wegetacja (“Vegetation”), Zdzisław Beksiński, c. 1957.
Beksiński is famous for his surrealist paintings, but he also had a creative photographic practice off to the side. Sadly, his abstract period only lasted a few years, but it’s always a pleasure to see some reaction-diffusion in the wild.
Beksiński is famous for his surrealist paintings, but he also had a creative photographic practice off to the side. Sadly, his abstract period only lasted a few years, but it’s always a pleasure to see some reaction-diffusion in the wild.
June 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Wegetacja (“Vegetation”), Zdzisław Beksiński, c. 1957.
Beksiński is famous for his surrealist paintings, but he also had a creative photographic practice off to the side. Sadly, his abstract period only lasted a few years, but it’s always a pleasure to see some reaction-diffusion in the wild.
Beksiński is famous for his surrealist paintings, but he also had a creative photographic practice off to the side. Sadly, his abstract period only lasted a few years, but it’s always a pleasure to see some reaction-diffusion in the wild.
My first time sand casting glass. I won’t know how it turned out until Tuesday…
June 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
My first time sand casting glass. I won’t know how it turned out until Tuesday…
Some impressions from the first day of the High Temperature Festival in Wroclaw today. This is an open university day run every two years by the local Academy of Fine Arts, which specializes in art made through high temperature processes in glass, ceramic, and metal.
June 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Some impressions from the first day of the High Temperature Festival in Wroclaw today. This is an open university day run every two years by the local Academy of Fine Arts, which specializes in art made through high temperature processes in glass, ceramic, and metal.
After decades of searching for the source, I finally found it in the reception of a German campground…
June 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
After decades of searching for the source, I finally found it in the reception of a German campground…