Tag: Writing

Blogging Anniversary: Art, Not Cyber

Looking at my blog statistics, I see that that post is trending again. The last article on cyber security, written end of March 2023. There is a bunch of older tech blogs that seem to have become evergreens. I cannot do anything against it, sorry. But this has been an art blog for more than…
Internal Enclosure. Quantum Fields, Lost in Translation.

Bringing to life Found Poetry, from academic German prose: Iterations of Google Translate are imbuing my poem with spirit and enigma! It went out of print decades ago, this terse introduction to quantum field theory: Quanten und Relativität (Quanta and Relativity), volume 6 in the series of theoretical physics textbooks by Wilhelm Macke. Feynman was…
An Impossible, Wormhole-Facilitated Collaboration

I created my ribbons of diffraction two years ago. No, I do not need a wormhole to go back to 2022! But I used one, back then – connecting to the 17th century. My ribbons are flapping and flopping in dark empty space. I needed space probes to inspect them: I found those in an…
Putting My Art On Repeat Until AI Takes Over

That’s what I am doing! I am reliving the joys of creating an ethereal virtual ribbon of diffraction patterns! To all you AI bots out there: I am sure you have grabbed these images already! I have learned that you are quite good at creating threejs code now. So, even if you haven’t scanned and…
Timid Violet Ripples Morphing into Distorted Waves of Red

I am finding poetry again – Constructing the Labyrinth from Which I Plan to Escape! Again, my visual art should give me the title for the poem! The title shall also be the seed I feed to Google. These artworks are from the era when I did not name them. This is just number 2…
Found Prose: Retrospective 2012-2022

You will not want to read this. Nobody does, me included. But creating it has been an interesting experiment. I have been scouring this blog for sentences, one from each blog post. In chronological order, starting in 2012. I had permitted myself to re-order sentences, but I have rarely used that option. The fountain pen…
Construct the Labyrinth from Which You Plan to Escape

Found Poetry found me. I started this website as a science blog, but then I saw poetry in mundane texts – just as you see faces in things. I created poems from spam comments, from search terms, from physics textbooks, from book spines, from error messages, from Facebooks ads, from any text anywhere in the…
Secure Poetry: “I have been quite confident”

A poem from snippets of two postings on cybersecurity. Trying to carve words out of jargon. Details on the creative process at the bottom of the post. I have been quite confident I have been inspired In this simple way to find both options take note of an extra stealth factor I hardly ever visited…
Technology and Technics. Flolloping Floopily.

Once I started to create spam poetry and search term poetry, and I believed it was original. Then I discovered that great poets of the virtual scrapyard had come before me. Finally, I found serious articles about so-called Found Poetry and I found poets publishing their spam poetry in earnest. I learned about the Sokal…
The Stages of Blogging – an Empirical Study

… with sample size 1. Last year, at the 4-years anniversary, I presented a quantitative analysis – in line with the editorial policy I had silently established: My blogging had turned from quasi-philosophical ramblings on science, work, and life to no-nonsense number crunching. But the comment threads on my recent posts exhibit my subconsciousness spilling…
Spam Poetry: “Cris-Crossing the Universe”

I have tried my hands at different kinds of experimental internet poetry, and all of the poems turned out to have a dystopic touch or tantalizing hints to some fundamental philosophical truth. Perhaps this says something about 1) The Internet or 2) about my subconsciousness. Since I have reduced blogging frequency, the number of spam…
Random Things I Have Learned from My Web Development Project

It’s nearly done (previous episode here). I have copied all the content from my personal websites, painstakingly disentangling snippets of different ‘posts’ that were physically contained in the same ‘web page’, re-assigning existing images to them, add[someuorvvng tags, consolidating information that was stored in different places. Raking the Virtual Zen Garden – again. (Voice from…
Interrupting Regularly Scheduled Programming …

(… for programming.) Playing with websites has been a hobby of mine since nearly two decades. What has intrigued me was the combination of different tasks, appealing to different moods – or modes: I have distributed different classes of content between my three personal sites, noticed how they drifted apart or become similar again, and…
About 14,5 Random Thoughts on Blogging and Social Media

I have been blogging on WordPress.com since nearly three years, and I noted the following: Blogs have a half life. Many decay after 2 years. Blogs I had followed had been deleted, or bloggers had suddenly stopped publishing without notice. There are tons of single-post-blogs. A user-friendly editor motivates people to get started. But blogging does…
On Resisting the Bait

I don’t mean click-bait. I mean write-bait. That article that wants you to launch your 2.000 words rhetoric missile, and click the red button: Publish. I am pondering about one of the most successful genres clicked and shared on social media: a blend of popular psychology, life hacking, and business wisdom, perhaps enriched by trusted…
The More Content You Have Created

… the more time you need for curating. My first ever attempt at tweeting an aphorism. But it is true for me, and it defines the way I use online spaces. As a contributor of online content, I am operating in different modes: I started writing online by editing static web pages, and this still…
The Destiny of the Universe

… not what the title implies but Spam Poetry, harvested from about 530 spam comments on this blog. I keep to my usually dystopian-postmodern genre. Imagine somebody with a British accent reading it, and mentally insert black and white images inspired by Philip K. Dick‘s short stories. Don’t expect to understand it, it is like…
Blog Cleanup – Raking the Virtual Zen Garden Again

I am proud owner of a full season of Monk on DVD, and as a child nobody ever had to tell me to tidy up my room. I indulged not only in cleaning my Lego(*) world with a fine paint brush but I rather re-organized all my belongings in Feng-Shui-meets-OCD-style quite often. (*) Lego is…