Nicole Z

✨ UX researcher in the gaming space, ex @discord @hulu 🌿 plant lady 🎨 sometimes cosplayer (mostly LoL) • I use this hellsite like tumblr

[Nicole Z @Zephye_]

I got my vibe assessed by @porterrobinson today and I think I blacked out for the past few hours

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: For the first time in internet history, agentic traffic has surpassed human traffic online, per Cloudflare Radar.

[lucy ✨💜 @lucynavt]

The Guild Wars 3 (https://t.co/rsa2zPffNo) domain has been updated just now. It now points to awsdns, which are web servers of Amazon Web Services

For comparision Guild Wars 2 domain is also parked on same name servers. WE ARE GETTING GUILD WARS 3

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

[😈 @turtlekiosk]

i'm reading a book on flower arrangements and i can't help but notice that the principles of it are the same as gunpla posing. im looking at this arrangement and all i can see is rx-78-2 vs char's zaku ii

[Mo @atmoio]

Anthropic is questioning whether AI may turn out to be altogether useless. This is the single most honest thing Anthropic has ever written.

“But achieving recursive improvement alone does not suggest an immediate change in how industrial production occurs, societies organize, or markets function. More intelligence can’t learn what a drug does over decades of use, can’t hold elections sooner than a constitution dictates, and can’t turn a stranger into an old friend in a weekend. For most people, the felt pace of this future will still be set by the bottlenecks, even if the laboratory upstream runs at the speed of compute. That collision, where recursive intelligence building itself ever faster meets the world of humans, relationships, and governance, is another part of this future we can’t predict.”

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[` @ymmayerr]

actually you know what
why the FUCK havent we made blenders quieter, we found a way to silence guns, SURELY someone can silence a blender
please
theyre so fucking loud

[⚭ gaby ✧ @bbatphone]

quite impressive that arctic monkeys is an indie rock band where 4/4 members are dating women their own age

[Murray Coombe @murraycoombe]

One of the bird shapes of all time

[the bird git @bird_gut]

birdoomfs do we like my yarn scissors I use for crochet

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

hyper-realistic bread-themed wrapping paper created by designer Ippei Tsujio.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

In the US, spending on data center construction now exceeds spending on public transportation infrastructure — including airports, marine terminals, and all mass transit.

[リポ・トウ @riposhima]

スケッチ 止まった

[björk @bjork]

i wanted to tell you how we made the visuals for nerve-bloom
i did it with Natalia Kleszczewska and Natalie Liu .

Natalia Kleszczewska is a painter , she painted the creatures and the backgrounds .
Natalie Liu is a computer graphics director , she shaped the digital dimension of the work .
my role in it was a creative director , bringing in the singer-songwriter tradition , where emotionally precise things happen inside the structure of a song . i guided colour pallettes , textures and the environments the music happens in .
to make this possible , during the process , natalia often had to paint many shapes and sizes , different textures and layers of colours . natalie then developed the visuals, designing and overseeing CGI elements , and finding ways for the digital to sit organically alongside Natalia’s world . and include my dramaturgy and creative direction.
we spent 7 months talking and working together , dedicated to relish in the craft of blending hand-made visuals with digital experimentation , 3D design and commit it to physical display technology . a lot of time was spent on researching different tools and techniques to find what worked best at each stage in the song .
like i’ve done before , i wanted to merge old things with tech , giving it soul & a meaning .
to paint a painting is an analog craft but computer programming is craftmanship too !! and both can co-exist ,
.....encouraging each other to bloom even further towards a mutual world .

there is a tradition in pop music for the mucisian to choose a video director . in the art world , this is called “curation” , but where we came from , it was natural that the musician would have strong opinions on what your song needed , which mood , colours , textures & storyline . today this is called “creative director” and it is something we didn’t credit ourselves with in the 90s , but i am starting to understand this better now .

i don´t think of me as a visual artist . because my heart is music . everything i do comes from a sonic point of view .
this is something i have called “sonic symbolism” , sound made visual , a reverse synesthesia .

when you listen to a song for the first time , it is like swallowing a whale , you need to feel the whole musical sculpture in one go .
the structure of a song has always been extremely important to me : what shape it is .
this is part of the craft of being a singer-songwriter

........... we are tune sculpturors .......

since i am talking about the visuals for nerve bloom it is impossible to not mention the avatars in my music videos .
they have replaced the storyteller with anattempt to connect to the more universal element of music , through animation, avatars , puppetry both digital and analog .
for me they are marionettes in a puppet-theatre , hopefully in a similar realm as the jungian archetypes
( which we all can act out the characteristics of ...)

.... i feel nerve-bloom is a natural continuation ....

an animated avatar archetype

singing you a song

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Avatars, animation and archetypes: Nerve Bloom (remix) – on display at Listasafn Íslands / National Gallery of Iceland until September 20th 2026.

The production of this film was made possible with the generous support of #bottegaveneta.

[ཐི𖥔ཋྀ @GenyaTheHag]

a knights dress by frieda lepold

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Embroidered foot steps in the snow by Narumi Takada.

[なで肩 @rennsyuu000]

罠
#初音ミク

[bella @swableu]

G JONES JUST DEBUTED HIS WANNACRY REMIX OH MY GAWDDDDDDDDD

[𝑜𝒹𝒾𝓁𝑒 🦢 @odile_xiv]

we moved on from these weapons way too fast. they look like tiffany lamps 🥹