Studio Karsika
@karsika.bsky.social
Some weird guy creating music, comics, and illustrations.
I like water and talk a lot at home. 🌊 No to A.I. Slop 🚫
All my links: https://karsika.carrd.co
I like water and talk a lot at home. 🌊 No to A.I. Slop 🚫
All my links: https://karsika.carrd.co
I hope some of these thoughts I have are useful to someone out there, make sure to question all I say though, I'm likely blind to much of my flaws and biases, but I try my best.
May 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I hope some of these thoughts I have are useful to someone out there, make sure to question all I say though, I'm likely blind to much of my flaws and biases, but I try my best.
Remember there are those who are kind only because they want or expect to get something from you.
May 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Remember there are those who are kind only because they want or expect to get something from you.
Sometimes life will be opening a pickle jar with lotion on your hands. Sometimes it'll be picking up change on the floor at a vending machine when your nails are short. You can get upset about it or you can laugh.
May 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Sometimes life will be opening a pickle jar with lotion on your hands. Sometimes it'll be picking up change on the floor at a vending machine when your nails are short. You can get upset about it or you can laugh.
Whatever you think of the world or anything else, you will see it, because you look for it. Things do not send qualities or thoughts to us, we send them to things. Our mind is like a bow that shoots an arrow towards everything, coloring it. Emotions influence the color heavily.
May 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Whatever you think of the world or anything else, you will see it, because you look for it. Things do not send qualities or thoughts to us, we send them to things. Our mind is like a bow that shoots an arrow towards everything, coloring it. Emotions influence the color heavily.
Of course you don't know how they'll receive it, but that isn't the point, the point is to have a directional target you can see, rather than a mirage that keeps receding as you walk towards it.
May 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Of course you don't know how they'll receive it, but that isn't the point, the point is to have a directional target you can see, rather than a mirage that keeps receding as you walk towards it.
The conditions you set and the mindset you use matter. Once you set your standards to ambiguities like 'perfect', you've already lost. Instead, ask yourself, what do I aim to accomplish with this? How do I want people to feel, think? What's my intention?
May 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The conditions you set and the mindset you use matter. Once you set your standards to ambiguities like 'perfect', you've already lost. Instead, ask yourself, what do I aim to accomplish with this? How do I want people to feel, think? What's my intention?
Group one has to make a perfect painting that's received well with no time limit.
While group two has to make three paintings in a month.
Group two will finish first, the difference in quality will be non justifiable. Group one obsesses over the perfect idea, reworking it.
While group two has to make three paintings in a month.
Group two will finish first, the difference in quality will be non justifiable. Group one obsesses over the perfect idea, reworking it.
May 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Group one has to make a perfect painting that's received well with no time limit.
While group two has to make three paintings in a month.
Group two will finish first, the difference in quality will be non justifiable. Group one obsesses over the perfect idea, reworking it.
While group two has to make three paintings in a month.
Group two will finish first, the difference in quality will be non justifiable. Group one obsesses over the perfect idea, reworking it.
When you watch a dog chase a bone or toy, they enjoy the chase, not just the arrival at the thing itself. In this way, you should learn how to enjoy the act of 'doing' things rather than 'arriving' at things.
May 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
When you watch a dog chase a bone or toy, they enjoy the chase, not just the arrival at the thing itself. In this way, you should learn how to enjoy the act of 'doing' things rather than 'arriving' at things.
Just as the seasons indicate time flow like a natural clock, so too does our choices of what we do each day.
May 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Just as the seasons indicate time flow like a natural clock, so too does our choices of what we do each day.
One thing you might notice is that novelty has a tendency to slow time perception. This is because we often gauge our life in a series of distinct moments and memories. Which is why routine can be disastrous to living well if too rigid.
May 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
One thing you might notice is that novelty has a tendency to slow time perception. This is because we often gauge our life in a series of distinct moments and memories. Which is why routine can be disastrous to living well if too rigid.
So you got this kind of long jump game where people jump huge gaps of their life because they aren't fully present each day, but constantly ruminating on past or future.
May 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
So you got this kind of long jump game where people jump huge gaps of their life because they aren't fully present each day, but constantly ruminating on past or future.
When you say things to yourself like, "I'll be happy when I get here." You've given away your joy until you get to a destination. You are not here, you are in the future, an illusion. It's akin to being temporarily dead.
May 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
When you say things to yourself like, "I'll be happy when I get here." You've given away your joy until you get to a destination. You are not here, you are in the future, an illusion. It's akin to being temporarily dead.
Would you play a song only to get to its end as quickly as possible? No. The point is to enjoy it all the way through. Yet this is the way many live, chasing something without enjoying the ride along the way.
May 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Would you play a song only to get to its end as quickly as possible? No. The point is to enjoy it all the way through. Yet this is the way many live, chasing something without enjoying the ride along the way.
If you want to see how trustworthy someone is, play as dumb as possible, enough to be taken advantage of, then see if they try to manipulate you.
May 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If you want to see how trustworthy someone is, play as dumb as possible, enough to be taken advantage of, then see if they try to manipulate you.
They say success is determined by how much you can bear being uncomfortable, so I've been wearing nothing but wool clothing for three weeks straight.
May 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
They say success is determined by how much you can bear being uncomfortable, so I've been wearing nothing but wool clothing for three weeks straight.
Apparently you can't be down to earth unless your famous, interesting.
May 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Apparently you can't be down to earth unless your famous, interesting.
How information is presented affects how it's perceived heavily.
May 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
How information is presented affects how it's perceived heavily.
If I say some random rock was owned by the King of France hundreds of years ago, nobody would believe me (I hope). But if I throw the thing in a glass display case with a lock on red velvet and a fake certification, they'll be more inclined to. This is why you can't trust anyone you don't know!
May 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If I say some random rock was owned by the King of France hundreds of years ago, nobody would believe me (I hope). But if I throw the thing in a glass display case with a lock on red velvet and a fake certification, they'll be more inclined to. This is why you can't trust anyone you don't know!
Consider the placement of the shoe, in many stores they're hanging on a rack together out of a box versus another store with them on display. Many will assume cheap without thinking just because of this alone.
May 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Consider the placement of the shoe, in many stores they're hanging on a rack together out of a box versus another store with them on display. Many will assume cheap without thinking just because of this alone.
It's why art in a gallery will always look more expensive than one in your house even if it's the same thing. The environment shapes the art, the art shapes the environment.
May 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It's why art in a gallery will always look more expensive than one in your house even if it's the same thing. The environment shapes the art, the art shapes the environment.
Go into a common shoe store, then a luxury one, and you'll see the differences in quality are rarely justifiable given the price. People usually assume unconsciously it's better because they're fooled by the environment, smells, aesthetics, and how it's 'presented'.
May 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Go into a common shoe store, then a luxury one, and you'll see the differences in quality are rarely justifiable given the price. People usually assume unconsciously it's better because they're fooled by the environment, smells, aesthetics, and how it's 'presented'.
A funny bias happens, if you like America, you tend to look for the positives in the thing you see. If you don't like China or some other country, you look for the bad things about it. Check for problems and positives in everything regardless of the source!
May 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A funny bias happens, if you like America, you tend to look for the positives in the thing you see. If you don't like China or some other country, you look for the bad things about it. Check for problems and positives in everything regardless of the source!
Many in the United States see 'Made in the USA' and assume its good, without actually thinking and observing the quality at all. They look at made in (insert country) and assume it's bad. This is blind trust in labels, identity, or opinions, not observation.
May 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Many in the United States see 'Made in the USA' and assume its good, without actually thinking and observing the quality at all. They look at made in (insert country) and assume it's bad. This is blind trust in labels, identity, or opinions, not observation.