Extremely hungover in Czech Republic 2013. Desperate for blow, the local sketch ball told me "here no cocaine, only speed paste" didn't know you were supposed to hot plate the paste into a powder to snort, and just took tootsie roll sized bites off it all night.
Christian Smalls has been tortured in an Israeli dungeon and the only reason Jacobin is calling him out is because he tried to hold AOCIA accountable. Nasty work here.
Today, New York’s governer, attorney general, police commissioner, and senior senator marched alongside an ICC-wanted war criminal in a parade celebrating an apartheid ethnostate that stands accused (by every major human rights org in the world) of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Genuinely in shock that Smotrich is being allowed to just parade down the street, let alone be in NYC. Had to triple check it was actually him.
Unfathomable. I am willing to bet there is not even a tweet of light condemnation from Mr. Mamdani
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.
today marks 6 years since a cop shot me in the eye with a beanbag round at a blm protest on I-35 in atx. after 5 years of constant distorted double vision, my 10th surgery was removing the eye. its so much better now its hard to fathom sometimes, but i still mourn my past life 🥀
Reading How To Sell A Genocide, the NYT called every major population centre in the Gaza Strip a "Hamas stronghold" at some point.
They actively worked to militarise civilians in Gaza to justify genocide
grieving damita jo for the rest of my life this was divinely ordained to be a number one album i’m so sick i hate you justin timberlake i fucking hate you girl
Instead these fake socialist political influencer electeds use entertainment & theatrical flourishes to make a positive spin of ultimately limited-impact, incremental neoliberal policies bc they fundamentally refuse to make structural changes that undermine capital & policing.
So glad New Jersey voted blue no matter who so their zio governor can preside over a militarized assault by ICE while hundreds of detainees are on a hunger strike. GIRLBOSS
I am really struggling to understand the ethical framework in which someone who voluntarily travels halfway around the world to commit race violence for thrills is the aggrieved party. But maybe I need to study the contradictions more diligently
We need to dispel this notion that the US military is largely composed of low-income mercenaries who join out of desperation. The army is mostly composed of middle-class white ppl who are looking to climb the socioeconomic ladder; they were not “forced” into these circumstances