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#0917: A Tiny Little Call Of The Wild

  • poetry
  • nature
  • vacation
  • sea
  • lakes

The narrator begins by recalling how “Mother Nature” invited him into her woodland world, only to return home after days of solitude, reading books and reflecting on his own appearance; he then recounts vivid memories of watching the Hel Peninsula from the Baltic Sea, strolling along the Great Lakes and Nordhouse Dunes, and enjoying nights with seagull companions—his “sea cats” that made the moonlit evenings feel blessed—and concludes that this journey through nature has brought him wisdom, a sense of belonging, and a feeling of graduation as he re-enters civilization.

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#0916: Is Computer Programming Fun; Or, Should I Learn Programming?

  • programming
  • javascript
  • web-development
  • gulp
  • parallel-processing
  • series-functions

I started my coding journey with simple visual tools that felt like a board‑game, then moved through a stack of languages—Visual Basic, ASP, Perl, PHP and finally JavaScript—learning each from scratch projects such as a “FormMail” clone and later building drag‑and‑drop workflows reminiscent of Blender’s Geometry Nodes. Along the way I discovered how powerful Gulp’s `parallel()` and `series()` functions are for automating tasks (e.g., resizing images in parallel, compressing and publishing sequentially), and I even practiced with the WarriorJs game where you program a character’s moves via simple method calls. All of this shows that programming can be both playful and practical, turning any task into an automated, often over‑engineered masterpiece.

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#0915: Easy Peasy Education

  • software development
  • in memory db
  • distributed hash tables
  • mind map
  • portfolio
  • side project
  • startup accelerator
  • interview
  • self learning
  • curiosity

The post argues that learning is most effective when tailored to an individual’s own pace and interests; formal schooling often fails because it imposes fixed sequences and generic knowledge. To succeed in interviews and real work, one must build functional, exceptional knowledge—especially in software development—by creating personal projects such as in‑memory databases with distributed hash tables, documenting them, writing tutorials, and sharing plugins online. Starting early, a learner should map their curiosities into a mind‑map, iteratively exploring new topics and building side projects that evolve into businesses; this cycle of self‑education yields true expertise beyond rote diplomas.

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#0914: Cultural Divisions Are Imaginary

  • culture
  • education
  • children
  • generations
  • climate
  • war
  • poverty

Each child is a unique creation, and humanity must craft a culture that inspires, nurtures, and educates—an architecture of art where wisdom, not manipulation, guides life. The post argues that wars, borders, and cults are arbitrary tricks that waste time and cause poverty; the remedy lies in simple yet profound ideas: clear, dignified schooling that builds abilities for future generations to fix climate and end war, while abandoning bad ideas, hate, and endless taking.

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#0913: Nature And Nurture And Unity Of The World

  • poetry
  • culture
  • unity
  • humanity

The poem celebrates humanity’s inherent beauty and freedom, arguing that broken cultures lose their nurturing power while compromises erode wisdom. It calls for unity, growth, and education that enlightens the young without stagnation; poverty is seen as a source of terror and war merely a temporary ceasefire. Schools should be free from cruelty, and the world belongs to future generations—so we must become far‑seeing wise beings.

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#0912: Independent Inventions; Or, Care And Maintenance Of Mighty Ideas

  • idea
  • curiosity
  • 3d printing
  • wallet design
  • lowbrow art
  • portrait
  • painting

The post explains that curiosity is simply noticing something new—like learning to use a 3‑D printer—while an idea is what emerges from that curiosity and can be developed into something useful or creative; the author illustrates this with examples such as building a multi‑layer 3‑D printed wallet, telling a “yo mama” joke he claims to have invented, and finally describing his new Lowbrow‑art technique of using kitten head proportions to guide adult portrait drawings. He stresses that ideas are worth recording, nurturing, and never underestimating, because they can bring joy, laughter, and personal fulfillment when turned into tangible projects or artworks.

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#0911: The First Master Of Art

  • story
  • myth
  • art
  • invention
  • drawing tools
  • camera obscura
  • lightbox
  • gridmethod
  • graphitepaper
  • viewingframe
  • krita

A young woman from an ancient city, inspired by a beautiful kitten, sought to master art and journeyed to a renowned artistic village where she consulted its wisest man. He instructed her to meditate, but after each meditation the woman returned with newly invented tools—sight‑size, proportional divider, grid method, graphite paper, viewing frame, light box, camera obscura—that gradually shaped modern drawing techniques; yet each invention prompted the wise man to send her back, insisting on simplicity. After many experiments and days of practice, she finally understood that only a simple thumb measurement was needed, defeated the wise man in front of the village, and thus proved her mastery. The tale concludes with the moral that those who impede art—whether by belittling, profiting, or claiming wisdom—will be remembered as fools.

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#0910: Art Self Education: A Super Tiny Little Step Towards Freehand Drawing

  • reference-images
  • krita
  • freehand
  • hyperrealistic

The post explains that starting an art practice by using reference images directly—often called “tracing”—lets you learn quickly and build a personal style through shortcuts and visual pleasure. It recommends beginning with affordable tools like a $50 pen, tablet, and free software such as Krita to access its reference‑image tool and create your own compositions. Once you master laying out scenes from references, you can shift to freehand drawing while still grounding yourself in realistic physics, but also bending reality to invent colors and light. The author illustrates this with an example of painting a politician’s face: study the eyes and laughter from references, then compose the final piece freehand, ensuring harmony and purpose behind each sketch.

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#0909: Making The World Beautiful; Or, The Idea To Unite The World Will Never Get Old

  • poetry
  • education
  • globalpoverty
  • universalbasicincome
  • art
  • culture

The author reflects on reshaping our world by uniting cultures through education, arguing that only by ending global poverty—via universal income banks and free schooling—can people rise from low levels of learning. He stresses the need for a top‑down design that brings all cultures together, uses art to show students what a classroom should be, and believes this educational revolution will lift minds and dissolve borders.

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#0908: Easy Peasy Practice, And Mastery Of Art

  • hyper-realist
  • reference-image
  • eye-drawing
  • painting
  • art-technique
  • stylization
  • full-body-painting

By applying a reference image directly onto the canvas, an artist can create a faithful hyper‑realistic reproduction that serves both as a master study of the subject and proof of their skill. Once this stage is mastered, the artist gains a solid launchpad from which to explore eye, lip, nose, cheek, and hand details through targeted tutorials; these lessons refine positioning and deepen artistic control. As the process continues, the artist learns to simplify shadows and stylize features, transforming detailed studies into memorized faces that can be reproduced spontaneously. This progression—from precise hyper‑realism through simplification to full‑body poses—builds a memory bank of facial features and postures, enabling the sketching of complete scenes and ultimately producing uniquely personal works.

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#0907: How To Draw And Paint

  • art
  • drawing
  • pencils
  • grids
  • tracing-paper
  • color-picking
  • krita
  • projector
  • tutorials

The post explains that art is an innate skill that needs structured practice—much like learning to write or ride a bike—and that tools such as ruled paper, grids, and proportional dividers help beginners stay on track; it also encourages using free open‑source programs (e.g., Krita) for color picking and image references so you can learn to mix colors effectively; the writer suggests inexpensive yet effective supplies—pencils, canvas or graphite paper, a small projector for tracing images, and eventually a pen tablet—to build confidence before moving into more advanced techniques like 3‑D shading; ultimately, mastering these basics will let you create art that transforms lives and invites others to join your creative journey.

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#0906: Digital Art, Is Evolution Of Art

  • digital art
  • freehand drawing
  • photo-bashing
  • color picking
  • 3d modeling
  • tools
  • gadgets
  • painting
  • virtual oils

The post argues that many “mentor” artists underestimate newcomers, guiding them on a long journey rather than letting them become equally skilled, and that true art must be free of manipulation, self‑delusion, and lies. The author declares everyone a natural artist and invites those who use art merely to showcase themselves to switch to magic, whose code is clear and unviolated. Digital art, the writer says, should not simply copy life but elevate it by using its full range of tools—3‑D modeling, perspective, shadows—and techniques such as photo‑bashing, color‑picking, and tracing; freehand sketches are just one style. Finally, the post stresses that hand‑eye coordination develops naturally when aided by gadgets, that young people already possess the intelligence to learn art, and that artists should not take the medium away from them.

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#0905: Capturing Portraits; Or, A Person's Appearance Is Sacred

  • portrait
  • photogrammetry
  • 3d-modeling
  • photo-selection
  • painting

The author explains why choosing the right reference photo is key for any portrait: a model must pick an image that truly shows her face under good lighting, from the proper angles, and in a way she feels it represents her. He argues that even with 3‑D rigs or many photos, the final choice still needs the model’s approval, otherwise the finished painting will feel wrong to the subject. The post contrasts simple photo selection with more complex photogrammetry, notes how stylized changes can be added after a solid base, and stresses that an artist’s responsibility is to capture the model’s real appearance before adding any idealisations. Links to a title‑image contest and a time‑lapse video are included as examples.

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#0904: Don’t Let Crazy Make You Crazy; Or, Health Advice For Nutjobs

  • poetry
  • freeform
  • essay
  • selfhelp
  • art
  • music
  • film
  • narrative

The post is a stream‑of‑consciousness meditation on the human condition, arguing that true learning comes from stepping outside of pain and recognizing how our own missteps become the root of suffering. The author uses art as an illustration: good work fails if it only paints misery, just as war propaganda masks truth. He tells us to “crawl through a tunnel of shit” – i

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#0903: Beginning Art

  • art
  • digital-art
  • reference-images
  • tracing-paper
  • grid-method
  • color-picking
  • artist-development

The author explains that creating art is not magic but a systematic process of navigation through techniques—using reference images, tracing paper, grid methods or digital tools—to learn composition, color sampling, and mixing; practice turns these steps into habits, just as learning to navigate a city. He sees the first “lobby” of art as a place where beginners become perfect artists by mastering fundamentals, then expanding beyond them, and he frames art as a test of worthiness that rewards teachers who bring others into this starting circle so they too can grow. Ultimately, good art is defined not by subjective feeling but by its power to change lives, and new schools of art will emerge to free humanity from poverty and darkness.

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#0902: The Case Of The Cat In A Suit

  • poetry
  • painting
  • art
  • inspiration

The post argues that a painting should “speak”—not with misery, but with meaning—and that its message can be either inspirational or humorous. It suggests blending images with text, stories etched on stone walls, still‑life scenes of books and objects, or punchlines framed by a funny setup (like a cat in a suit) to bring both mood and laughter into the viewer’s day. By using familiar quotes or personal joy as sources of inspiration, an artist can create works that lift spirits and help people balance their lives, even though not everyone will laugh or be inspired. The author ends with links to a “Title Image” contest and time‑lapse video for further reference.

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#0901: The Instant Keepsakes Of Lowbrow Art

  • art
  • digital art
  • lowbrow
  • painting
  • tools
  • education

The post outlines three main approaches to art—Quasimodo, Digital Art, and Lowbrow—each with its own flavor. Quasimodo represents traditional classroom learning that can feel formulaic, yet some teachers are revisiting it to make it more innovative. The Digital Art method highlights how modern tools empower artists by bringing Renaissance techniques into contemporary practice, with light projection seen as a fundamental teaching aid. Finally, Lowbrow art embraces preset proportions and simple equipment to create charming, accessible works that resonate with viewers; the author shares a personal anecdote illustrating how this style can delight both artist and audience alike.

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#0900: To Paint Freehand, Just Memorize By Simple Repetition

  • painting
  • portrait
  • face
  • technique
  • practice
  • repetition
  • digital art
  • tracing paper
  • projector
  • airbrush
  • proportions
  • layers

This post explains a simple, repeat‑based method for drawing faces quickly and accurately. It suggests using tracing paper, a projector or transparent digital layers to get proportions right at first glance, then skipping an initial sketch and painting shadows immediately. By repeatedly copying portraits with similar lighting, the artist learns to map key features—eyes, nose, mouth—into their correct positions before adding details, so that later compositions feel natural and consistent. In short, memorizing a face through repetition builds a mental “map” of light, shadow and feature placement, enabling an artist to produce at least one finished portrait per day with minimal extra steps.

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#0899: Notes About Real Education And Small But Healthy Career Paths

  • education
  • programming
  • perl
  • regex
  • learning
  • career
  • art
  • hacker

The post argues that true learning comes from following your curiosity—combining art and programming, mastering tools like regular expressions through hands‑on practice—and that fun is essential to retain knowledge. It contrasts the hacker’s self‑learning style with traditional college experience, claiming graduates often lack deep retention and can be re‑tested to separate what they learned independently from classroom teaching. The author suggests this could improve schools (and even bring prizes). Finally he links a career built on knowledge to larger goals—ending poverty, advancing humanity, and achieving global consensus on issues like the ozone hole—concluding that real education and wealth creation are intertwined for becoming a great being.

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#0898: You Are Not A C Student

  • education
  • teachers
  • students
  • school
  • learning
  • essay

The post argues that the current education system is deliberately designed to make students feel inadequate, relying on memorization and standardized tests rather than true learning. It claims teachers, principals, and politicians work together in a “group‑think” scheme to keep students dependent on money‑driven grades, while free libraries and self‑education are presented as the only real way to acquire knowledge and escape poverty. The author urges readers to take charge of their own learning—through books, videos, art, design or programming—to become competent thinkers and ultimately “great beings” who can contribute meaningfully to society.

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#0897: Do Better: A Friendly Reminder For Busy Parents, Teachers, Politicians, And All The Rascals

  • poetry
  • education
  • teachers
  • students
  • youtube
  • audio-books

In this post the author reflects on how children remember and expose their teachers’ lies, thanks to their growing connectivity and knowledge. The writer argues that as people age they tend to underestimate the power of modern information, yet the younger generation can quickly catch up with any misstep, especially when a teacher fails to deliver real learning. By recalling their own school days—where students tested instructors for worthiness—the author stresses that teachers must show genuine learning and care if they want children’s respect. Proper education, audio books, healthy habits, and sincere effort will extend life expectancy and help parents/teachers learn from their own mistakes.

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#0896: The Filaments, The Core, And Great Many Great Roads; Or, The Definition Of Good Art

  • poetry
  • art
  • writing
  • imagecontest

The author contends that true art is life‑changing and sees truth as lofty mountain peaks guiding the creative spirit; by traveling many roads, cultivating knowledge, wisdom, and greatness, one ignites an inner core whose “coronal ejection” reaches those peaks, while continuous learning keeps liars at bay. The post urges us to add fire through our works, not merely follow directions, and to light that fire in order to counter lies, hunger, and wrongness so that everything can be made right.

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#0895: From College To Wilderness

  • college
  • philosophy
  • art
  • painting
  • education
  • students
  • teachers
  • learning
  • selfreflection
  • technique

I spent my college years oscillating between philosophy and art, first struggling through a dull Descartes‑centric course that left me craving deeper insight into Žižek’s ideas and the distinction between Ayn Rand’s philosophy and politics, then finding creative fulfillment in an art class where I learned practical techniques like layering paint to avoid bleeding under tape; meanwhile my teacher’s informal style—calling me “pig” behind my back yet later teaching me projector tricks—illustrated how professors can both insult and inspire. After making the dean’s list, I ventured into Michigan’s Nordhouse Wilderness with a group of friends, where I met a traveling philosopher who shared his own adventures on a bicycle, and together we reflected on human complexity, self‑care, and the joy of learning, concluding that our lives are not about perfection but about growth and becoming great beings.

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#0894: There Is An Easy On-Ramp For Every Talent

  • poetry
  • school
  • education
  • books
  • self-learning

The post argues that conventional schooling—studying hard, cramming, and attending unsequenced lectures—fails to give meaning to tests or true knowledge; it portrays education as essentially a mechanism for income, retirement, hedges, and profit maximization, with college loans engineered to extract maximum value through automatic deductions. The author uses the example of an art teacher who lets students trace repeatedly, claiming that mastery comes from countless repetitions (100th trace making one amazing, 1 000th revolutionary) rather than guidance, and concludes by urging self‑education: start with highly regarded books and keep learning until you become a “Great Being” like the world’s brilliant intellectuals.