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The Meaning of Melancholy
An Interview with Hans Maes
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How to Write a Proper Haiku
A Starter's Guide to the Deceptively Simple Poetic Form
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October 2023
Do biographies need to start at the beginning?
Alternatives to the predictably linear narratives of most biographies.
What is the Demoscene?
An Interview with Filipe Cruz on the Influential but Obscure Art Form
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Link List: 20 Articles + Websites About the Arts
A wide-ranging collection of links on ballet, ugly architecture, Soviet Control rooms, Hokusai, and nifty CSS tools.
The Vertical Beauty of Hong Kong
An Interview with Photographer Romain Jacquet Lagrèze
September 2023
How do you actually create AI art?
A Walkthrough of Using Midjourney, a Popular AI Art Creation App
What are Liminal Spaces? And why are they so popular?
“Liminal spaces” have become trendy in recent years, especially on TikTok, Tumblr, and YouTube. But what makes a space liminal? And why are they so…
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On the Arts: A Three Month Review
And a Thank You to Subscribers
August 2023
Plastic palm trees and inflatable pineapples
An Interview with Max Ryynänen on the Tropical Kitsch
Gore Vidal Was Everywhere and Now He Is Nowhere
The literary afterlife of "...an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right."
Modern Culture is Too Escapist, Part 1: Isolated vs. Integrated Arts
Too much creative energy is focused on escaping the world, not on enhancing it.
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