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light of my life. i get to see shapes when i hear sounds - music is rarely ever boring even if i don't like it. sometimes it can be a bit distracting but i am blessed with the power to sit down with a pen and paper and some tunes and the universe just gives me an endless stream of things to draw.
its more common than you'd think, so if your brain produces 'something else' when a sense is stimulated, take notice because it might be more than just your imagination - huge life enhancement
Feb 27, 2024
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i was laying in my bed listening to music when it hit me how important music is to me. it’s a very good reason not to end my life, all the sounds that everyone has made and will make. i started to think of other reasons not to die; trees, flowers, the animals, nature, colors, forms, shapes, the visual world. i got out of bed, opened photoshop and spent the next hour designing this :)
Jan 15, 2025
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Sometimes it’s scales or arpeggios, sometimes it’s whatever music I like and have listened to recently or in the past, sometimes it’s whatever pop song of the moment I’ve been unfortunate enough to be exposed to like a disease. When I started writing this it was part of Cheap Thrills by Sia and as I continued that stopped and now it’s a scale in thirds (don’t ask me in what key it’s been a while since I played music).
My inner monologue also rarely shuts up and can be repetitive so it could be a list of things I need to do, observations, recurrent anxieties or fixations, or thinking about some kind of a problem I’m working on as some examples, and those can all be concurrent in kind of a jumbled layered mess depending on how good I’ve been at practicing mindfulness and containment lol. The more I externalize those running thoughts into notes, the less clutter they take up in my brain…
Oct 30, 2024
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I know it’s a fairly common thing but I’ve recently come so fond of listening to two or three songs before I go to bed. In a way that I kind of just stare at the wall and think of the day and contemplate but I can’t help but feel (I know this sounds dumb) that it’s these like end credits to a really lovely movie. Except it’s my day?!!
I dunno very dumb. I sometimes try to fall asleep with this music playing in my ears or behind my head tucked beneath the pillow so I can prolong this like climactic emotional expression to capstone the day. It always frustrates me when I eventually do have to sleep, turn the music off, and go off to dream in the quiet ambience of my room. My brain does sometimes keep the music blasting even without my earphones though which is very kind.
Music I feel justifies all these things happening in my life. As if it doesn’t hold value if the songs I listen to aren’t played. It’s like you watch a movie that you just love and sorta sit in awe as the credits roll and the music swells. That’s how I feel about my day most nights! At least lately that is. Really lovely music squeezing my brain into an appreciative analysing ritual of the day.
I’m just yapping at this point but I can definitely attribute this to always having this deep urge for my life to amount to something worth telling a story about. I watch so many amazing movies and I think it would be such a waste to have the only amazing experiences I witness come from outside my life. Soooooooooo #romanticiseyourownlife I guess??
Just felt the need to express it. I had a good wall watching session just then listening to Broken Social Scenes album ‘You Forgot It In People’ (too many bangers) and I couldn’t help but speak my mind about it :)
Feb 17, 2025
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if you start zooming in on a pattern, and the pattern doesn't seem to get more simple as you close in, there's a very good chance you're looking at a fractal shape. my new computer hobby is going on google earth (clean setting - no borders or labels) and zooming into random places to see if i can find these patterns. and they are everywhere. in rivers, mountains, deserts, forests, coastlines and on and on. its genuinely stunning, and a little bit frightening, how the same shapes appear over and over again. the beating heart of iterative processes is plastered all over the globe at every scale. from above, the shape of a forest can look like a leaf, or a neuron, or a blood vessel.
great place to have a zoom is at the bottom of tibet, where theres a sharp cutoff between the icy mountain range and the grassy forests of nepal and bhutan. pic below is of the nile river in southern egypt. happy travels everyone
Mar 25, 2024
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