Jesse Josua Benjamin

@entoptic.media

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Research\Design~Philosophy of Technology Making https://entoptic.media/ Currently thinking about architecture, symbolic representation, and systems

Reedlands clouded over in Leighton Moss, Lancashire
screenshot of the same post on the other place, with "nUdeS iN biO" spam as only comments
Screenshot of a presentation slide quoting @bildoperationen with examples fo what he refers to as Platform Realism
Mr Milchick about to serve up the ‘Defiant Jazz’ Experience
Picture of Gerald fucking Stratford holding a huge…gourd? Zucchini?
Towel rack with old-timey green grocer illustration, his board being used by me to count how much I, sigh, vape.
The Lumon Macrodata Refinement staff from ‘Severance’
250gr bag of coffee from the Yemeni Haraz Collective, roasted & ground by Atkinsons Lancaster
TU/e Atlas building from the outside
Add for Lois Vuitton with Mikael Gorbachev sitting in the back of a limo, driving past the Berlin Wall with a LV bag next to him, left armed poised similar to Michelangelo's Creation of Adam
Picture of the Blackthorn Salt Tower, a large brutalist-organic, chapel-like structure with narrow wooden front and horizontally inserted blackthorn branches for collecting salt from the Scottish seawind
Space Marine Santa Clause for some reason
Sliding a little pod out of the nothing ear (stick) packaging
Image of the Disco Elysium Thought Cabinet tie, pocketsquare, tie-pin/brooch combo; idiosyncratic design that’s hard to describe. Tie & pocketsquare have the same print, the phantamagoric, Goya x Hieronymus Bosch-like overview of Thoughts you can collect in DE. The brooch (by Claudia Lepik) is a pin bar below which too little circles of oxidized brass are suspended from either end of a semicircle, it looks really nice.
Yikes! I wouldnt touch it with a ten foot pole. Weird google’d image of a cartoon dad (?) holding one next to a tag saying that
Example configuration of the Braun Lectron kit
Picture of a drawing by Julia Gfrörer (@thorazos) of St Ursula
Harold Smith, Twin Peaks agoraphobic, post-cracking. (I’m isolating…)
Miles Teller
Ted Levine
Justin Theroux
Opening section from R Banham’s “Theory and Design in the first machine Age”: “Our accession to almost unlimited supplies of energy is balanced against the possibility of making our planet uninhabitable, but this again is balanced, as we stand at the threshold of space, by the growing possibility of quitting our island earth and letting down roots elsewhere. Again, our explorations into the nature of information have made it possible, on the one hand, to set electronics to work to take the drudgery out of routine thought, and on the other hand to tailor human thinking to suit the needs of some narrow-minded power-élite.
Mural in Carlisle of a giant, bearded, tribal-painted Scotsman with an axe and st-elmo-fire eyes crumbling hadrians wall with a puny legionnaire looking
Left three: “Life destroying diagrams” (E Brinkema); “Code” (B D Geoghegan); “Assembly Codes” (eds Hockenberry, Starosielski, Zieger) Right top to bottom: “Theory and design for the first machine age” (R Bantham); “Konrad Wachsmann’s Television” (M Wigley), “Server Manifesto” (Maak & Spengler)
One of the 125 daguerreotypes in the collection, dating from the mid 19th century.
Stephen Wildman giving a lunchtime talk at Furness College/Lancaster Uni on Ruskin & Daguerrotypes
Browsing for better images of AI, turns out Unsplash probably does automated alt-text. Here, an image of an arrangement of letters into a 3D sculpture is cursed in the URL-slug as "a-pile-of-purple-legos-sitting-on-top-of-a-table"
Moon halo above council flats; Freehold, Lancaster. Photo is a bit edited 🎛️
Photo of an MtG card of Tom Bombadil, a print of Martin Heidegger scowling, and a receipt from Piggly Wiggly with the pig doing some radical surfing, all held together by an ugly magnet
Snapshots by Benjamin during the development phase of the Entoptic Field Camera. The two images on the top depict the Automatic, the two on the bottom the Manual mode, respectively.
The Mars Volta ‘de-loused in the comatorium’
Jesse to PS1 graphics img2img from https://huggingface.co/spaces/editing-images/ai-halloween-photobooth
uh oh i reinstalled morrowind. 3rd person screenshot of character at lvl 1 with chitin armor running through the ashlands region
Manual to assemble the ‘Entoptic Field Camera’ via https://huggingface.co/ostris/ikea-instructions-lora-sdxl
Input: ↑ + "A German HCI Professor"