tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9362036036747329242024-03-05T12:46:29.212+01:00Urban Adventure in RotterdamUrban exploration - Scientific observation - The invisible city - Psychogeography - Conceptual artuair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.comBlogger422125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-92221430519924637462024-02-17T15:35:00.007+01:002024-02-17T15:42:31.487+01:00Deleuze Guattari research<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">My pet peeve: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I can't make heads or tails of Deleuze-Guattari. But I also see that they're popular and influential. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I opened a request on Manifold Markets:</span></p><p><a href="https://manifold.markets/uair01/a-readable-clear-explanation-of-a-t"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A clear explanation of "A thousand plateaus" by Deleuze/Guattari with practical applied examples. | Manifold</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">But as yet I've not had very useful suggestions. </span>So I asked ChatGPT / Universal Primer, and this looked more clear.</p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>But my pet peeve stays up: Are their ideas any better than the more concrete ideas like complexity theory, and network theory? These look more useful. Aren't their ideas just cool metaphors, that sound good, but don't lead to better understanding?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>Technical Breakdown:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Desiring-Machines:</b> The most crucial aspect of their concept revolves around "desiring-machines." This notion is meant to challenge the psychoanalytic views of desire as a lack or deficiency. Instead, Deleuze and Guattari see desire as a productive force, an endless process of connecting, breaking, and reconnecting between entities. In this sense, everything can be considered a machine insofar as it is involved in these processes of production and exchange.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Assemblages:</b> Machines are components of larger entities that Deleuze and Guattari call "assemblages" or "arrangements." These assemblages are networks or conglomerates of interconnected machines that work together to produce something, be it tangible or intangible (like social systems, ecosystems, or even ideas).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Anti-Hierarchical:</b> Their concept also carries a fundamentally anti-hierarchical stance. Unlike traditional views that prioritize certain elements (e.g., the mind over the body, the individual over the environment), Deleuze and Guattari’s machines operate on a flat plane of consistency where everything is interconnected and of equal importance in the production of reality.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Socio-Political Critique:</b> They use this framework to critique capitalist societies, arguing that capitalism is a highly efficient "socius" that captures desires and channels them into its own reproductive machinery, turning social and individual desires into commodities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Analogies for Understanding:</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Network of Cities:</b> Imagine each city as a machine. Cities have inputs (resources, people, information) and outputs (products, waste, culture). They are interconnected through various means (roads, the internet, trade routes) forming a larger assemblage: the country or the global economy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>The Human Body:</b> Consider the human body as a complex of machines. Each organ (heart, lungs, stomach) is a machine with specific functions, inputs (oxygen, food), and outputs (carbon dioxide, energy). Together, they form an assemblage that is the individual, which, in turn, interacts with other "machines" (other people, society, the environment).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>Key Areas of Application:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Political Economy:</b> Scholars in political economy have used Deleuze and Guattari's ideas to analyze the nature of capitalism and neoliberalism. They focus on concepts like deterritorialization and reterritorialization to understand global financial flows, market dynamics, and the socio-political implications of economic policies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Organizational Theory:</b> In the field of organizational theory, researchers apply their concepts to understand the dynamics within organizations and the broader market. The idea of assemblages is particularly useful for analyzing how organizations adapt, evolve, and interact within complex economic ecosystems.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Marketing and Consumer Research:</b> Their concepts have also been applied to marketing and consumer research, offering a fresh perspective on consumer desires, brand communities, and the production of consumer culture. This approach views markets as assemblages of desires, goods, consumers, and cultural meanings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Innovation and Technology Studies:</b> Deleuze and Guattari's work on machines and assemblages has been influential in studies of technology and innovation, particularly in understanding how technological advancements and information flows reshape economic and social landscapes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Notable Economists and Scholars:</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">While specific economists who directly apply Deleuze and Guattari's theories might not be widely known in mainstream economic circles, interdisciplinary scholars like Brian Massumi, Manuel DeLanda, and others have extensively engaged with their ideas in ways that intersect with economic thought. Manuel DeLanda, for example, has applied Deleuzian theory to social complexity and materialist philosophy, offering insights that are valuable to economic analysis.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Challenges and Considerations:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Interdisciplinarity:</b> The application of Deleuze and Guattari's ideas in economics often requires an interdisciplinary approach, blending insights from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Critique of Mainstream Economics:</b> Utilizing their concepts in economic research often entails a critique of the reductionist, equilibrium-focused models of mainstream economics, advocating instead for a more dynamic, non-linear understanding of economic phenomena.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>Analogies for Understanding:</b></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Imagine the global economy as a vast, interwoven tapestry, where each thread represents different elements (businesses, consumers, policies, technologies). Deleuze and Guattari's concepts help us see not just the patterns on the surface but how each thread is connected, how they influence the shape and texture of the tapestry, and how changing one thread can alter the entire design.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>Application in Organizational Theory:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Application:</b> In organizational theory, Deleuze and Guattari's idea of assemblages can be applied to understand how organizations are complex systems composed of various interconnected elements (people, processes, technologies).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">This application reflects their theory of assemblages as heterogeneous networks where different components interact. It emphasizes the non-linear, dynamic relationships within organizations, challenging hierarchical, top-down management structures.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Analogy: </b></span><span style="font-family: courier;">Consider an ecosystem in a forest. Just as plants, animals, insects, and the environment interact in complex, unpredictable ways, organizational elements interact within the assemblage. Changes in one part of the ecosystem can have ripple effects, similar to changes within an organization.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Application in Political Economy:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Application: </b>Their concepts of deterritorialization and reterritorialization are used to analyze global financial flows and the impact of neoliberal policies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">These processes describe how capital, labor, and commodities move beyond traditional boundaries (deterritorialization) and then re-establish themselves within new contexts or systems (reterritorialization), reflecting Deleuze and Guattari's interest in the fluid, ever-changing nature of social and economic landscapes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Analogy: </b></span><span style="font-family: courier;">Imagine water flowing through various landscapes, constantly moving, shaping, and being shaped by the terrain (deterritorialization). It eventually settles in new areas, forming lakes or rivers (reterritorialization), analogous to the movement and reconfiguration of economic elements in new contexts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Application in Marketing and Consumer Research:</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Application: </b>The concept of desiring-machines is applied to understand consumer behavior, focusing on how desires are not just individual psychological phenomena but are shaped by and embedded within social and economic networks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">This reflects Deleuze and Guattari's broader theory that desires are productive forces within assemblages, challenging traditional views that see desire as lack or deficiency. It underscores the idea that consumer behavior is deeply intertwined with the social and material assemblages in which individuals are embedded.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Analogy: </b></span><span style="font-family: courier;">Think of a shopping mall as an assemblage where consumers, products, advertisements, and social interactions create a dynamic environment. Each element influences and is influenced by the others, much like desiring-machines in Deleuze and Guattari's theory, producing desires and actions in a complex web of relations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Reflections:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">By examining these applications, we see a common theme: Deleuze and Guattari's work focuses on the dynamic, interconnected nature of systems, whether they are social, economic, or psychological. Their theories challenge us to think beyond traditional categories and hierarchies, emphasizing fluidity, networks, and the production of reality through desire and interaction.</span></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-37774347996672981662023-10-23T11:17:00.003+02:002023-10-23T11:17:54.648+02:00From a strange planet - 62<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.vegvesen.no/trafikkinformasjon/reiseinformasjon/webkamera/#/vis/1900163_1" target="_blank">E6 Gratangsfjellet</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@68.6752597,17.9046827,3a,75y,20.12h,89.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEjZMAc_cuBwER58gqZL5Dg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Based on the text overlay in the image, which mentions "E6 Gratangsfjellet retning Bjerkvik (347moh)" and the scenic winter landscape, it suggests that this location might be in Norway. The E6 is a major road in Norway, and "Gratangsfjellet" and "Bjerkvik" are locations in the country. The term "moh" typically means "meters above sea level" in Norwegian. Therefore, it's likely that this picture is from Norway, specifically from the Troms og Finnmark county or its vicinity, given the locations mentioned. (OpenAI)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJxo8BC-7BQpbo8p6txxs8qjwY_-RiJ-HlTdHwo-IpBukWHtLkgxzJe_q_7lhOhWtR5mNVbdckgR0JpSCMESqIaslSH87Xb5twG06gTwhiZW3uNVqiyHyYKs543ykjssPN9PnI7KrXwK1rwba8rVAmCYUWUeVwXqpFCwWq4Mv1r-t1PLvxBieGJknluw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJxo8BC-7BQpbo8p6txxs8qjwY_-RiJ-HlTdHwo-IpBukWHtLkgxzJe_q_7lhOhWtR5mNVbdckgR0JpSCMESqIaslSH87Xb5twG06gTwhiZW3uNVqiyHyYKs543ykjssPN9PnI7KrXwK1rwba8rVAmCYUWUeVwXqpFCwWq4Mv1r-t1PLvxBieGJknluw=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The picture shows a scenic winter landscape showing a highway alongside a calm river, with snow-covered banks and mountains in the background. There's a single vehicle traveling on the road.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The building on the left appears to be a small structure, possibly a shed, cabin, or storage facility. Given its location near the road and river, it could also be a utility or maintenance building. However, without more specific context, it's hard to determine its exact purpose. (OpenAI)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are some beautiful spots around here: <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@68.6630177,17.7646761,3a,75y,3.1h,80.93t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sNkbJ7hM9WPoLQDhZH3yQPw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DNkbJ7hM9WPoLQDhZH3yQPw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D190.93661%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">the neighbourhood</a>, <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@68.661958,17.7229068,3a,75y,69.02h,103.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQ8RwA3L13YCnTo1E890U3A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">the neighbourhood</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS5P4VgvMovoS6bESYbpiexgpLzguZKuAD9wPNRlafr1Vq5DGIyjQ7sasy_GSBLNjVYUO3leY6fKLVEVVuzfOZGgd1L4ZYxvXfu0jcbJH7_QIdRicbKEqfZDGq-JG5U-5u2FOAmKvGZLnF_nDOOQnIXlcTrsof6JIKlV9SzgjMz11cf9shHLmEGnyoXyuB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS5P4VgvMovoS6bESYbpiexgpLzguZKuAD9wPNRlafr1Vq5DGIyjQ7sasy_GSBLNjVYUO3leY6fKLVEVVuzfOZGgd1L4ZYxvXfu0jcbJH7_QIdRicbKEqfZDGq-JG5U-5u2FOAmKvGZLnF_nDOOQnIXlcTrsof6JIKlV9SzgjMz11cf9shHLmEGnyoXyuB=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I asked OpenAI to generate similar landscapes. There OpenAI generated some predictions about the neighborhood. I searched for these scenes in this neighborhood. It works about 70%.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The AI predicted a small building by the side of the road. <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@68.6891301,17.9780882,3a,25.7y,235.5h,87.86t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sP6b6JLGQ6tXpuEd-1l-Ylw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i40?entry=ttu" target="_blank">There is one in the neighbourhood.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjV6iLBifBEcrEYThPy680mJKED_upyAcCXmcP8Dyn541AkGRpaP-ePpIs2XUgq4QrhJ3_w2hgBdpZ1Cul6XJ2XUPwjOZXOAYAkpvST8t3_oVMAhaA25nSVvM9-vHqamYgs-vVElLNVsdD5cbyfWtHIUuJd0V48roC-F68fqVarSKS_qWyzra9FPOhM3g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjV6iLBifBEcrEYThPy680mJKED_upyAcCXmcP8Dyn541AkGRpaP-ePpIs2XUgq4QrhJ3_w2hgBdpZ1Cul6XJ2XUPwjOZXOAYAkpvST8t3_oVMAhaA25nSVvM9-vHqamYgs-vVElLNVsdD5cbyfWtHIUuJd0V48roC-F68fqVarSKS_qWyzra9FPOhM3g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvb541Jfge2w2u1Zl4-LFj8efJYlpzmVD5GcUD2b1CMmvhve3R5RsX7v6dCBcKloZWWeVTRjiaeF_rGA5Z9zkJIN4OlGQ8GjshOUvMWEeD72lE2D3pXChSXO1XlvZo4JUQVFhdDkxoILrS_Ngbwb9iW31PAECGbe7DbrphNZCzsha2pCtqs2hgPi_zrnox" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="644" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvb541Jfge2w2u1Zl4-LFj8efJYlpzmVD5GcUD2b1CMmvhve3R5RsX7v6dCBcKloZWWeVTRjiaeF_rGA5Z9zkJIN4OlGQ8GjshOUvMWEeD72lE2D3pXChSXO1XlvZo4JUQVFhdDkxoILrS_Ngbwb9iW31PAECGbe7DbrphNZCzsha2pCtqs2hgPi_zrnox=w400-h283" width="400" /></a></div><br />The AI predicted a river crossing. <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@68.6892454,17.9767641,3a,75y,84.12h,84.53t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sRN-1wc7v-Ug8cZ1CkHdnRg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DRN-1wc7v-Ug8cZ1CkHdnRg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D34.134026%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i40?entry=ttu" target="_blank">There is one in the neighbourhood.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz7Vfmrr3lV05EXFJGVdoUxgbv7w6J6DFZNipu2onBjjGevmasM5cAO0AftD_9bJqzslTw7W5y3NeRsPBBHLfYXlX082_lCO0lEPe1Wi2o-9jCuYG0ypwFPKguf_T5auyY-3LUMhdO1QwHSa7zycInGNbk7pW_iMQ4xOGgu1pV1mvVoHljDc0ipyOIQQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz7Vfmrr3lV05EXFJGVdoUxgbv7w6J6DFZNipu2onBjjGevmasM5cAO0AftD_9bJqzslTw7W5y3NeRsPBBHLfYXlX082_lCO0lEPe1Wi2o-9jCuYG0ypwFPKguf_T5auyY-3LUMhdO1QwHSa7zycInGNbk7pW_iMQ4xOGgu1pV1mvVoHljDc0ipyOIQQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpFTY_ZodzfTj3UKceIwQZB3GL4J0bboio3k-LqM1yA14t8db_WmGlZsw3-JPSM9NjDdSG0zmKrlEj8w9HnmT-SsvTnGLQKJZmVky10Fb9ccu_fATg50Y6GB4lhbYhLqaZyvdu-3c0pot18Jc9qBUJK_g-bJH5Pa19G0ptiAA8fcVWdbIvaMncy16A-0qw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="578" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpFTY_ZodzfTj3UKceIwQZB3GL4J0bboio3k-LqM1yA14t8db_WmGlZsw3-JPSM9NjDdSG0zmKrlEj8w9HnmT-SsvTnGLQKJZmVky10Fb9ccu_fATg50Y6GB4lhbYhLqaZyvdu-3c0pot18Jc9qBUJK_g-bJH5Pa19G0ptiAA8fcVWdbIvaMncy16A-0qw=w400-h329" width="400" /></a></div><br />The AI predicted water on the right side of the road. It is there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxpH0zFvaz5X2T-efWkEI626K68IxEH82gC8I1EPUFyZRcNXJmcPHhMwfkj8e3WCLr-dcl5II4nTDspfDJBaUgqV3uC34VdvPAP7sInITbtksT6kHK5brTVLQ7qxeH2j0WBlsXNUullEpOFAtQx_5dfXzKZDJPpO4k_R6NpqA2VgRHlVGWkfMLgrNIJg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxpH0zFvaz5X2T-efWkEI626K68IxEH82gC8I1EPUFyZRcNXJmcPHhMwfkj8e3WCLr-dcl5II4nTDspfDJBaUgqV3uC34VdvPAP7sInITbtksT6kHK5brTVLQ7qxeH2j0WBlsXNUullEpOFAtQx_5dfXzKZDJPpO4k_R6NpqA2VgRHlVGWkfMLgrNIJg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd8yaKlKRpm9KJn_C09T0qgjJCz5ImdNTqo-2bGqkKB1HtIVNw_oYrHoVl3f596b1t6o80fnhggV1a7yAY-rJ-qA_J8P-xNF7CLoe2ihVIeTohajrmmAJowccbTau85bVEOAsi3xG1IZffM-SY2CeuenmAm0XCyvUmUdY0JwE1B2suroRlhCeBMlIr6-bf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="506" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd8yaKlKRpm9KJn_C09T0qgjJCz5ImdNTqo-2bGqkKB1HtIVNw_oYrHoVl3f596b1t6o80fnhggV1a7yAY-rJ-qA_J8P-xNF7CLoe2ihVIeTohajrmmAJowccbTau85bVEOAsi3xG1IZffM-SY2CeuenmAm0XCyvUmUdY0JwE1B2suroRlhCeBMlIr6-bf=w400-h374" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The AI predicted a side road. <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@68.6787032,17.9165543,3a,75y,240.11h,93.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBHUFcizOYUMNmFm3gyfMLA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu" target="_blank">It is there.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitcKoBXFTev41NRs1t7lWp60pijgzBCtdYOsOARbXId2cBlxCp5XnFE_xyOzRkKqLN0_D_i-tKUGst3-2ordGsAkHJTVoMnJ2MwMg7-th_2VtwK8cVLEp1sD3vFBTPXfptO9g0PAVw-xo9UN61VPIamgi7Gouuw_t4H7iO8bzTd4Nk9arTIIIwXgRKwQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitcKoBXFTev41NRs1t7lWp60pijgzBCtdYOsOARbXId2cBlxCp5XnFE_xyOzRkKqLN0_D_i-tKUGst3-2ordGsAkHJTVoMnJ2MwMg7-th_2VtwK8cVLEp1sD3vFBTPXfptO9g0PAVw-xo9UN61VPIamgi7Gouuw_t4H7iO8bzTd4Nk9arTIIIwXgRKwQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwELy-8Gecpxj-j1Z9-XhfZrD1OT2sgImb9VVXYe2spsujd_7QyCdd50Efm6aahIZntT8xKTaUdVyAea3ezMLaJ9iVfE-lxQ0tmQ1-w55zjY3AWNWyKheGtuNHAmI-MSYRt8aM-iG_Q_hWKR2oJD-zT-X3kmOTeLas-9NV1GTfdgXx0Q9zYj1bUSs-WnuJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="503" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwELy-8Gecpxj-j1Z9-XhfZrD1OT2sgImb9VVXYe2spsujd_7QyCdd50Efm6aahIZntT8xKTaUdVyAea3ezMLaJ9iVfE-lxQ0tmQ1-w55zjY3AWNWyKheGtuNHAmI-MSYRt8aM-iG_Q_hWKR2oJD-zT-X3kmOTeLas-9NV1GTfdgXx0Q9zYj1bUSs-WnuJ=w400-h271" width="400" /></a></div><br />The AI predicted a signpost and water.<a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@68.665519,17.8378999,3a,75y,49.51h,78.68t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1suHnh0k7iev4GqBxJVO7Oww!2e0!5s20220601T000000!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i40?entry=ttu" target="_blank"> It is there </a>(more or less).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="418" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiG1GV9BZUEydmfGrOmxmHQhIAWds_gxFrMtJaKFt7sbYsghYrTUXX2kks6H7yIW-T0J9QONbXQHaCgM2Avw-snPwzoRXhoJf9KSjf8jgkyI-9enBwfF00gKIu5fo6V165yCJywgEpgCvbOjJRq4o8clTQKXWuQJjwmRJaSjF-4CejQVM5q-UGH4epNJteD=w400-h372" width="400" /></a></div><br />The AI predicted some dark thing on the right side of the road. <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@68.6638035,17.7661918,3a,75y,198.59h,91.19t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1stcpP12EWbPLSanNdbqunQQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i40?entry=ttu" target="_blank">This looks a bit similar.</a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicXmncCIT0xHKlED1U1KbDEGSR-f_tpLGt75PythgXqh3baoDUqRsBFwvsMD8Iy15_RVjmyHoDm3NoHzgrpz8gzDILNE6rOsLdNslPoiFahrjZO4vOiGJNXvRE8i8khizSZWXgEWtD4h1g9Y5JRJ7WKPImE-9KiVh6wA-3iR1vkUa8Oo2QWc3suI3VVg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicXmncCIT0xHKlED1U1KbDEGSR-f_tpLGt75PythgXqh3baoDUqRsBFwvsMD8Iy15_RVjmyHoDm3NoHzgrpz8gzDILNE6rOsLdNslPoiFahrjZO4vOiGJNXvRE8i8khizSZWXgEWtD4h1g9Y5JRJ7WKPImE-9KiVh6wA-3iR1vkUa8Oo2QWc3suI3VVg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #222222;"> You can read, and see, the whole story here: </span></span></p><p><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 9</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html" style="background-color: white; color: #3778cd; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 10</a></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2670843272180556178" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 536px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0Ipxt0l7mebD_k7vK8X1gIqU4ZQwKuA2FYNqYMzWPObLDNf6yMcxVaXMqlv8OE6YyXW2O-8qYCfmr8PgJjD8KugADSxXZp7BqjcwPMxybhh0s-vVcAB2mAxZtJ4OpS58sJ-9dYmw9cPd5B8Nff9nQM9ALSzmF647X7vv1XlVgrbCSsn0--FXsAp7_Q/s512/ligotti6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0Ipxt0l7mebD_k7vK8X1gIqU4ZQwKuA2FYNqYMzWPObLDNf6yMcxVaXMqlv8OE6YyXW2O-8qYCfmr8PgJjD8KugADSxXZp7BqjcwPMxybhh0s-vVcAB2mAxZtJ4OpS58sJ-9dYmw9cPd5B8Nff9nQM9ALSzmF647X7vv1XlVgrbCSsn0--FXsAp7_Q/s320/ligotti6.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222;">But why is this story so fascinating? Let's ask Twitter and Facebook first. We'll search other sources in the next posts:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier;">Antígrafo - @AntigrafoGris - wrote a long and cogent analysis:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier;">TBH I never had an interpretation. I usually don't look for them, and more so in Ligotti, for whom <b>meaninglessness is so relevant</b>. I'm haunted by <b>the characters' relation, conspiratorial, paranoid, despondent and opaque</b>. It's impossible to say anything certain about them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">And even more by the painting's design. <b>The concept of a man-made void in which one can dissolve and "inhabit", waiting, empty of thought and even sight, for the stars to blink out, is perversely alluring to me.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">If you forced me to torture out some sense, I could say that <b>R thinks that he has found a way out of existence free of any effort and suffering, but it is in itself a trap</b>. Rignolo exists reality two times betrayed. <b>First, it's painful and, second, it's a mockery of his design.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">And the unseen forces that observe and churn beneath it all is the same universe that R tries to cheat with his landscapes. <b>He even states that you can inhabit his paintings unobserved. A solution to the presence in the window that worries N so much, we don't know why.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The bottle at the end it's what N and G wanted before all of this started and their reward for understanding that there's no easy way out, no sense or design possible and particularly for ignoring all of it.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">And maybe that's the reason we all are so conspiratorial, paranoid, despondent and opaque, because we know that it's unavoidable, but we have to choose to ignore it to avoid the worst</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/serhiy.krykun" target="_blank">Serhiy Krykun</a> - made a very good illustration - it also fits my impressions of the story:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Rignolo made me doodle it <b>while on the verge of falling asleep</b>. A</span><span style="font-family: courier;">n illustration to "The Strange Design of Master Rignolo" by Thomas Ligotti.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAUeq3gm-19V7kNOZmx0pkXDAkXNyF7i8UkolhXO-QZiVZshXwweGEql6gGHzSmrs-V_E-mbmWdxi4RDT_dWfOmm1sFpix7TwD4pp3TG26TzdjSTX0VVYrgpqwOKnv-zoLg2THrlHv_FEyvsixdtZrLHeVg89O2debhBZpOmqNv3uv8Jd3jCrs06r-A/s700/944502_408488292599935_291507032_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAAUeq3gm-19V7kNOZmx0pkXDAkXNyF7i8UkolhXO-QZiVZshXwweGEql6gGHzSmrs-V_E-mbmWdxi4RDT_dWfOmm1sFpix7TwD4pp3TG26TzdjSTX0VVYrgpqwOKnv-zoLg2THrlHv_FEyvsixdtZrLHeVg89O2debhBZpOmqNv3uv8Jd3jCrs06r-A/w640-h320/944502_408488292599935_291507032_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #38761d;">Nicole Cushing - @NicoleCushing:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #38761d;">"...countless stars stared down like the dead eyes of sculptured faces."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #38761d;">"The Strange Design of Master Rignolo" by Thomas Ligotti in NOCTUARY, <b>magnificently dark</b>.</div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #222222;">And then I discovered that I myself had already made some illustrations for the story, based on real photographs of Rotterdam:</span></div></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnnwb8uE9qBAqonVXyDCnQ_5yJv0mq9mle8ZUkz_8XxmPoFR1uo_I8mhGvDMHSa0WEYlhpLE-1-zNdW9Z6zH5CymrpzSCoAD84oCPsTwleg4ViybKjl4faK1oWKSQFupYuHOVlXTHqmnz4IHNv5wfxSORWkOX5i0miAfUBOpN3CHmfLBXxabrWs9bl8w/s800/12188993_1053686804662305_5816203598585848179_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="800" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnnwb8uE9qBAqonVXyDCnQ_5yJv0mq9mle8ZUkz_8XxmPoFR1uo_I8mhGvDMHSa0WEYlhpLE-1-zNdW9Z6zH5CymrpzSCoAD84oCPsTwleg4ViybKjl4faK1oWKSQFupYuHOVlXTHqmnz4IHNv5wfxSORWkOX5i0miAfUBOpN3CHmfLBXxabrWs9bl8w/w400-h235/12188993_1053686804662305_5816203598585848179_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">It was well into evening and for some time Nolon had been been seated at a small table in a kind of park. This was a long, thin stretch of land - vaguely triangular in shape, like a piece of broken glass - bordered by three streets of varying breadth, varying evenness of surface, and of varying stages of disintegration as each thoroughfare succumbed in its own way and in its own time to the subtle but continuous movements of the slumbering earth below. ... There were other tables here and there, all of them unoccupied, but most of the park was unused ground covered with a plush, fuzzy kind of turf.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgNBBA4_CyZfeB8-RNJElhucy6bndPbolIHTJibaI6Jw1z7-0YeAkDmA059MgDqHTx6Y0eIof3vbV5DtP-g00uSu_NJn4Et8J8hTMyZoSRvKSbjFN0VXfr-1qoaL96hQRm_rZS2JyrJs1zBO0omJJo_I3PzV5P2UFbQJrf8qlHgE0upc28k_NebeQSvQ/s800/12227840_1053681991329453_747245244413443323_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="800" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgNBBA4_CyZfeB8-RNJElhucy6bndPbolIHTJibaI6Jw1z7-0YeAkDmA059MgDqHTx6Y0eIof3vbV5DtP-g00uSu_NJn4Et8J8hTMyZoSRvKSbjFN0VXfr-1qoaL96hQRm_rZS2JyrJs1zBO0omJJo_I3PzV5P2UFbQJrf8qlHgE0upc28k_NebeQSvQ/w400-h198/12227840_1053681991329453_747245244413443323_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">" ... I was out in that field, the one behind those empty buildings at the edge of town where everything just slides away and goes off in all directions. And there's a marsh by there, makes the ground a little, I don't know, stringy or something. No trees, though, only a lot of wild grass, reeds, you know where I mean?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWvjg3aVW_rzSh4agJpc3gXpZCbXZdHXnI2F-AqkDPgGvMeJKtJjBuK7agj4wHp9uMdfa1HK0RgoWfPU1WE099YB3bgMxkfoF-vc_y1srjAfWCh5uZeJbLef3ZoNcnSsFfjERu_yMMqQ2oKun-r2zZP9TQL94ALtduQ72RhXtF9xRIwKe-CZhdsn4ghw/s800/12122762_1053684227995896_6790268100671188946_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="800" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWvjg3aVW_rzSh4agJpc3gXpZCbXZdHXnI2F-AqkDPgGvMeJKtJjBuK7agj4wHp9uMdfa1HK0RgoWfPU1WE099YB3bgMxkfoF-vc_y1srjAfWCh5uZeJbLef3ZoNcnSsFfjERu_yMMqQ2oKun-r2zZP9TQL94ALtduQ72RhXtF9xRIwKe-CZhdsn4ghw/w400-h217/12122762_1053684227995896_6790268100671188946_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“The face,” he said, leaning back in his chair. “It was right there, about the size of, I don’t know, a window or a picture hanging on a wall, except that it was in the ground and it was a big oval, not rectangular in any way. Just as if someone had partly buried a giant, or better yet, a giant’s mask."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier;"><span>Ian Davey - </span><span>@unapersson:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier;">Two men visit a landscape artist <b>whose work has an otherworldly life of its own</b>, and <b>they help him reach its source</b>.</span></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-78669351448167553722023-06-04T15:37:00.004+02:002023-06-04T15:37:34.606+02:00Manifold prediction market - icosahedron made of wood<p> I bet NO on the Manifold prediction market, that an AI will not be able to handle the prompt:</p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">A regular icosahedron carved out of wood</span></p><p>by 2023-06-01</p><p>This is what OpenAI makes of it. It is disappointing:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQk8dlAw2n3Ece8sx4rTvD9X7dGgmlsY_R7npxz-CAhxJbVEzWckb8ePn3tzYM2ANNQkJnIlp5kQ1gSx4O8o-N2LqXuQ-vSgwNe5L_ZVpzkjN5BvzcZ0rNntYM_yfbBrOwE6vbZ4W8H9dxft1hIW_WDOEgorhrC8qfQMTbwc_0Ri-P8mr-cgPrE8H91A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQk8dlAw2n3Ece8sx4rTvD9X7dGgmlsY_R7npxz-CAhxJbVEzWckb8ePn3tzYM2ANNQkJnIlp5kQ1gSx4O8o-N2LqXuQ-vSgwNe5L_ZVpzkjN5BvzcZ0rNntYM_yfbBrOwE6vbZ4W8H9dxft1hIW_WDOEgorhrC8qfQMTbwc_0Ri-P8mr-cgPrE8H91A=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-39614847049823832162023-05-27T13:33:00.002+02:002023-05-29T09:57:10.190+02:00Thomas Ligotti - The strange designs of Master Rignolo 10<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Using OpenAI to illustrate my favorite Thomas Ligotti story, and to make my inner pictures visible for you. And for myself. First I fed the story text directly into the AI. Now I make my own description of what happens in the story. This works better.</span></span></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2670843272180556178" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 536px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the final part. You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Exactly. Now let's just take advantage of the situation and drink our drinks before moving on."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"I'm not sure I want to," said Grissul.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"I'm not sure we have any say in the matter," replied Nolon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjX3EBEjdZ74TGYasp60Q1V6mn4QmVLPayiB8vfPVIsn8nEw1q0VrnVBrY_pEAxQVPfTggtWBZw_fvwvRO7Q5yJxeHr9E3gwfhCJq7C1Y9Jso4r5HYDq-_nNiglMDdmqxEa-nV3ct-wVFCONBMfYmlox0E7q5VMP2h5hDZ5WRjrO0SGZgU_qil0VSMC9A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjX3EBEjdZ74TGYasp60Q1V6mn4QmVLPayiB8vfPVIsn8nEw1q0VrnVBrY_pEAxQVPfTggtWBZw_fvwvRO7Q5yJxeHr9E3gwfhCJq7C1Y9Jso4r5HYDq-_nNiglMDdmqxEa-nV3ct-wVFCONBMfYmlox0E7q5VMP2h5hDZ5WRjrO0SGZgU_qil0VSMC9A=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Yes, but — "</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Shhh. Tonight's our night."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgZkvDEyLFpjicS9i1NipMOmihTUo7gBfnFi0WOhjJ_ACRu0TNGL7M-bLT9-LMObrH93nmdalHFQC3QJoLq8D6LByq1Kh8P4Oaxv5icU4hqkQT72kapyl-CDpj2OigTdfuJU3oFoWntfv3FIh93c4E1danPqLAqNF-1O230gUsfQGVhwxHmha_t8frDg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgZkvDEyLFpjicS9i1NipMOmihTUo7gBfnFi0WOhjJ_ACRu0TNGL7M-bLT9-LMObrH93nmdalHFQC3QJoLq8D6LByq1Kh8P4Oaxv5icU4hqkQT72kapyl-CDpj2OigTdfuJU3oFoWntfv3FIh93c4E1danPqLAqNF-1O230gUsfQGVhwxHmha_t8frDg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Across the street a shadow fidgeted in the frame of a lighted window. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnv9CsODSt-Ww4CB2wA0-nC3dO2a9hm55p6hDCPMS9v0HMXoedEvH_3idkrui9ZMogWmT96mmw7f14EnA5g5LqdXWeZ943T0azr8GkTf-HdrbtKd1Jyh1Qk53J5pZU4YsM4kF7DcFsR51_KlYYE3q5Xv-vms9u3FTS5xir-t6bpXfU-Ku3HoPy2Lx4Gg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnv9CsODSt-Ww4CB2wA0-nC3dO2a9hm55p6hDCPMS9v0HMXoedEvH_3idkrui9ZMogWmT96mmw7f14EnA5g5LqdXWeZ943T0azr8GkTf-HdrbtKd1Jyh1Qk53J5pZU4YsM4kF7DcFsR51_KlYYE3q5Xv-vms9u3FTS5xir-t6bpXfU-Ku3HoPy2Lx4Gg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">An evening breeze moved through the little park, and the green glow of a candleflame flickered upon two silent faces.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg883DnNimLApYhsGynvEC-g8zDXABGFK61fxIKhhYC4Rj-KYllJYpC5Knz0ZZHRzcc_vuCbUKBF2iDGueWoBmTCvdxFuBNkW0U9CUbp4IgomciP8ZKNQKTnZM7J8z_Hw_Y5G1KmYPVQqTZNG_SBmoasrHZYhGVuKwwWGCTTYggAvv3WTd18iX9AX8MXw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg883DnNimLApYhsGynvEC-g8zDXABGFK61fxIKhhYC4Rj-KYllJYpC5Knz0ZZHRzcc_vuCbUKBF2iDGueWoBmTCvdxFuBNkW0U9CUbp4IgomciP8ZKNQKTnZM7J8z_Hw_Y5G1KmYPVQqTZNG_SBmoasrHZYhGVuKwwWGCTTYggAvv3WTd18iX9AX8MXw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-26708432721805561782023-05-20T21:07:00.001+02:002023-05-29T10:00:44.163+02:00Thomas Ligotti - The strange designs of Master Rignolo 9<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">Using OpenAI to illustrate my favorite Thomas Ligotti story, and to make my inner pictures visible for you. And for myself. First I fed the story text directly into the AI. Now I make my own description of what happens in the story. This works better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Something like that would have happened sooner or later," Nolon replied.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqQRlwBetDaPj1Ts6N_A3QH4oMkOmpGBVGk2ovADqqUEwvsXC-RUQUEEOx0z3pGgx6S_qORewHHWsTL8QNKAKaAMqYNyT001ArJFaBT5Z8xkKuIWHoGObmdU_t_qPZ8BfdW6dxFpJ5bTZ30yEN2fjOiBCZ9MrlOdut-SorZ1pOHgyc2cMlYypCeVaVTw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqQRlwBetDaPj1Ts6N_A3QH4oMkOmpGBVGk2ovADqqUEwvsXC-RUQUEEOx0z3pGgx6S_qORewHHWsTL8QNKAKaAMqYNyT001ArJFaBT5Z8xkKuIWHoGObmdU_t_qPZ8BfdW6dxFpJ5bTZ30yEN2fjOiBCZ9MrlOdut-SorZ1pOHgyc2cMlYypCeVaVTw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"He was too much the dreamer, let's be honest. Nothing he said made any sense to speak of, and he was always saying more than he should.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCqB3ea2YYc5N071049mTOwo41GVk8yxpuEhSLgPmNqA_SHZyLIM9GNP7hkK0A-yF-y9_BA2g8QE21-s8QqKWVwSR1PTZ5PSl8VSOVHxUHIc9qqIpxg2Py06fyFgVyPw8wigOop03aUGgwSpZmko7gMRbk2zQulz1XWgkmHyqFwKORncwCRcxp0l6C8w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCqB3ea2YYc5N071049mTOwo41GVk8yxpuEhSLgPmNqA_SHZyLIM9GNP7hkK0A-yF-y9_BA2g8QE21-s8QqKWVwSR1PTZ5PSl8VSOVHxUHIc9qqIpxg2Py06fyFgVyPw8wigOop03aUGgwSpZmko7gMRbk2zQulz1XWgkmHyqFwKORncwCRcxp0l6C8w=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Who knows who heard what."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUhzsYikb9GFC3f_MsJJFMJ1p_xa0BYAXtsHWDLG9GoY1alwUQUGuX1dt9_-YzbBUT1naIEKtH9nwgQAsjfkl8HKjI81aIGlZiuCRBijdT7BtKLuob7DfKJwWIROhKXtvq_ceoQsB19pZZ2DZTCSQ7nc_VKMCAmHqg1zBeDxJGtChOssZkktDwGyoEpw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUhzsYikb9GFC3f_MsJJFMJ1p_xa0BYAXtsHWDLG9GoY1alwUQUGuX1dt9_-YzbBUT1naIEKtH9nwgQAsjfkl8HKjI81aIGlZiuCRBijdT7BtKLuob7DfKJwWIROhKXtvq_ceoQsB19pZZ2DZTCSQ7nc_VKMCAmHqg1zBeDxJGtChOssZkktDwGyoEpw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"I've never heard screaming like that."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"It's over," said Nolon quietly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrPFJN5DjznUrLrtoONs0S4OHJXm9jXyZ9QltDFHAtzApNup81LoZTKS1SoXu25eV6YB36a8fqfcOvg0ShedUWdMO2MNHz01SJfasJZ3iepvzwkiuQJuksGNrFCczWyIK37v0QyayhNkMo_L9PCVPVloBziw8ant6Ohf9X75zcR9VXL3uWZbs68Cm9og" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrPFJN5DjznUrLrtoONs0S4OHJXm9jXyZ9QltDFHAtzApNup81LoZTKS1SoXu25eV6YB36a8fqfcOvg0ShedUWdMO2MNHz01SJfasJZ3iepvzwkiuQJuksGNrFCczWyIK37v0QyayhNkMo_L9PCVPVloBziw8ant6Ohf9X75zcR9VXL3uWZbs68Cm9og=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;">"But what could have happened to him?" asked Grissul, gripping the shallow glass before him, apparently without awareness of the move.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Only he could know that for certain," answered Nolon, who mirrored Grissul's move and seemingly with the same absence of conscious intent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh557Q64Smy1CL9d3O3fvjKo3z8s8DLqrlNS4bD61QGNEJh_YJK6SMyrFze6y7KX0OPj-GHxuB0UYe5ur9mS86CqF91DKgHtTHaX2mHzeG8OLrjwyo-So3p_vJ3X4cGbyCmDcmFhVmzaf3zR21Amin17MZz0_9cdiJXT1EWNDHoDfPXIpynYegvI_4rFQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh557Q64Smy1CL9d3O3fvjKo3z8s8DLqrlNS4bD61QGNEJh_YJK6SMyrFze6y7KX0OPj-GHxuB0UYe5ur9mS86CqF91DKgHtTHaX2mHzeG8OLrjwyo-So3p_vJ3X4cGbyCmDcmFhVmzaf3zR21Amin17MZz0_9cdiJXT1EWNDHoDfPXIpynYegvI_4rFQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;">"And why did he scream that way, why did he say it was all a trick, a mockery of his dreams, that 'filthy thing in the earth'?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Why did he scream not to be 'buried forever in that strange, horrible mask'?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsZsNXaXS5DPmZOFEGAxcSPCvm-Y01PslrijvL8GAdtXkb1we_ZgsUx3N3vDxDsNt3TTiKoi4DKMDx0RsedCZDGWuPEwatapxpq7wi1vtUP0ILHlciR87pLIs-XjJwoi0u04D6KvbdNCfr5aTVs-u3xjZRA2Ja3jdo81KcqAWAs22KuJg6mh-6EEJelQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsZsNXaXS5DPmZOFEGAxcSPCvm-Y01PslrijvL8GAdtXkb1we_ZgsUx3N3vDxDsNt3TTiKoi4DKMDx0RsedCZDGWuPEwatapxpq7wi1vtUP0ILHlciR87pLIs-XjJwoi0u04D6KvbdNCfr5aTVs-u3xjZRA2Ja3jdo81KcqAWAs22KuJg6mh-6EEJelQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Maybe he became confused," said Nolon. Nervously, he began pouring from the thin bottle into each of their glasses.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"And then he cried out for someone to kill him. But that's not what he wanted at all, just the opposite. He was afraid to you-know-what. So why would he — "</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMbQ2inINOraKYDkBOOFMeltLkDMf6UlWRlYWlDD-vy-QTxRlEqTKIMZ9UX6G4F6io6X7BFfnRowCQHT77rg5B_AM2X_gKSy9ezuxBFvCkP3oFO2UwS7tDjKLxvn_FTgsSyiYtJt05tiiTmgTQEq8J7qbbjt7PamGAM8Zc52qw8TuqpdNHvrRjLy33jg" style="font-family: courier; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMbQ2inINOraKYDkBOOFMeltLkDMf6UlWRlYWlDD-vy-QTxRlEqTKIMZ9UX6G4F6io6X7BFfnRowCQHT77rg5B_AM2X_gKSy9ezuxBFvCkP3oFO2UwS7tDjKLxvn_FTgsSyiYtJt05tiiTmgTQEq8J7qbbjt7PamGAM8Zc52qw8TuqpdNHvrRjLy33jg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Do I really have to explain it all, Mr Grissul?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"I suppose not," Grissul said very softly, looking ashamed. "He was trying to get away, to get away with something."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfeS_18h55Bkpben4smjpwdeZDqx3Pd0ZVlLx0oY7-Lh3d8dpTfCoU8SJQyLejfw41SboGboKT0ssGISfppjcmQ68CoLxKJlmB85LqM_9Z2CNeXg_f6pMoclPo2ZalRhEOwXRx7aXRKBj6vYkSDEXa6XKiJhqSO1-PpCSoxiQZkZzjMh9lYw-HuI39DQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfeS_18h55Bkpben4smjpwdeZDqx3Pd0ZVlLx0oY7-Lh3d8dpTfCoU8SJQyLejfw41SboGboKT0ssGISfppjcmQ68CoLxKJlmB85LqM_9Z2CNeXg_f6pMoclPo2ZalRhEOwXRx7aXRKBj6vYkSDEXa6XKiJhqSO1-PpCSoxiQZkZzjMh9lYw-HuI39DQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"That's right," said Nolon just as softly, looking around. "Because he wanted to escape from here without having to you-know-what. How would that look?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Set an example."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaqPfnDFxu5ujzjJ2YwYC4rbTyPj3rNe6ue0hlAj5EcayZSwslkJ13VQTBajbub2fT0h708JexZ_-JA9OMkDWCY88vDy8O2mK6QOqIWffVUOCkPbLPjPcDD4GA1sRO1zuW938aF-fzPOe_Oj3PBWarKWtklK9LDq1MoBatw7u6kUx3cmKvMziwX3hCig" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaqPfnDFxu5ujzjJ2YwYC4rbTyPj3rNe6ue0hlAj5EcayZSwslkJ13VQTBajbub2fT0h708JexZ_-JA9OMkDWCY88vDy8O2mK6QOqIWffVUOCkPbLPjPcDD4GA1sRO1zuW938aF-fzPOe_Oj3PBWarKWtklK9LDq1MoBatw7u6kUx3cmKvMziwX3hCig=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-1252991902034753822023-05-17T22:05:00.002+02:002023-05-29T10:00:33.307+02:00Thomas Ligotti - The strange designs of Master Rignolo 8<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">Using OpenAI to illustrate my favorite Thomas Ligotti story, and to make my inner pictures visible for you. And for myself. First I fed the story text directly into the AI. Now I make my own description of what happens in the story. This works better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEduNoSwITMlWYH4ve5iokto6eGDqhuomWyIeWbRZw9L82ZMCoGYjSZOgF7vRCZDX4UFwnzZ9QpUCWah4PKFPHMLjXKMvGFVQX8D8U7kxJKMi9vuAIHJrR-jnrmRGkMF4PzqbleXib98Q-_HPVVxvOOAMmRavIgjmX3sZpC6GpxDJzqhJ4vGmbaQk73Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEduNoSwITMlWYH4ve5iokto6eGDqhuomWyIeWbRZw9L82ZMCoGYjSZOgF7vRCZDX4UFwnzZ9QpUCWah4PKFPHMLjXKMvGFVQX8D8U7kxJKMi9vuAIHJrR-jnrmRGkMF4PzqbleXib98Q-_HPVVxvOOAMmRavIgjmX3sZpC6GpxDJzqhJ4vGmbaQk73Q=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">After their adventure, Nolon and Grissul returned to the same table in that place they had met earlier that evening. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-L7rhml9EyDAAORho19Qc5LlWGbd7NNoPNMdOyLKMy7ZIUB6gPrymNYTzPLMDe7z1sYAGLVbU4aTMl7JlUKbqSp6TIdnhrRU2mmOQcOu6SysiL5qC2p412k4NRuAeknRCv8tWVcWuI6c8ULQGDrz_vp2t7j5hGyjPXGcPZii5uQcPo5zmOgFO65Zp8A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-L7rhml9EyDAAORho19Qc5LlWGbd7NNoPNMdOyLKMy7ZIUB6gPrymNYTzPLMDe7z1sYAGLVbU4aTMl7JlUKbqSp6TIdnhrRU2mmOQcOu6SysiL5qC2p412k4NRuAeknRCv8tWVcWuI6c8ULQGDrz_vp2t7j5hGyjPXGcPZii5uQcPo5zmOgFO65Zp8A=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">But where they had left a bare table-top behind them, not considering the candleflame within its unshapely green bubble, there were at the moment two shallow glasses set out, along with a tall, if somewhat thin bottle placed between them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdyIrZ1hK_CoqI14kFplcTefSGpVoCOf-vTnjsRQ2k-ZZCOLqc0IPdA_k25B-9tdFunIEG_0gjMxQiLhEvyyi5Zq7cZ1MnaW2n_pTvzr82fIL8-1DyJPtyhkVo9619cGKFQ1taMnHUTDFx5WEKAD_XKn9f7liEJKRbYLFd-Rs5NnwY5jpHkcufHuXZbw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdyIrZ1hK_CoqI14kFplcTefSGpVoCOf-vTnjsRQ2k-ZZCOLqc0IPdA_k25B-9tdFunIEG_0gjMxQiLhEvyyi5Zq7cZ1MnaW2n_pTvzr82fIL8-1DyJPtyhkVo9619cGKFQ1taMnHUTDFx5WEKAD_XKn9f7liEJKRbYLFd-Rs5NnwY5jpHkcufHuXZbw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br />They looked at the bottle, the glasses, and each other methodically, as if they did not want to rush into anything.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAxzgoVwwCOOSsu-4hv1JIDhXHcTJXJp_QBCJA6eZNRgpDbhJriCdpkxXwruxxyfp4MjeoQPpEGjhQI-PnYot3u9nmupen8D3ajbRG8NY7puvdrB8gmaxr4y1LNe4tAQhcQx7qDJ4re3Fiyn8ij6fluEY4dCM4CVhNcNyJQ2iU2X_V2Ig2rWNT7rt21Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAxzgoVwwCOOSsu-4hv1JIDhXHcTJXJp_QBCJA6eZNRgpDbhJriCdpkxXwruxxyfp4MjeoQPpEGjhQI-PnYot3u9nmupen8D3ajbRG8NY7puvdrB8gmaxr4y1LNe4tAQhcQx7qDJ4re3Fiyn8ij6fluEY4dCM4CVhNcNyJQ2iU2X_V2Ig2rWNT7rt21Q=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Is there still, you know, someone in the window across the street?" Grissul asked.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEij39EQ7QH6u5grlL-sGotFO8QVLIQ4uGsKmnYSOvIbEcJ9cBkFiwpI00eHwDV93IvTTq7I0n0B43l7rP7jDyHHxlkef8TZTpkJ1AJoF8h6KSrxQ3YgWvnu8Fsd-_yd9xICqZqb1u3h4tzSZra1K7BOD0NamCjsqfE48TtRMqiQnkeX_qHaRXJ3YVqMFw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEij39EQ7QH6u5grlL-sGotFO8QVLIQ4uGsKmnYSOvIbEcJ9cBkFiwpI00eHwDV93IvTTq7I0n0B43l7rP7jDyHHxlkef8TZTpkJ1AJoF8h6KSrxQ3YgWvnu8Fsd-_yd9xICqZqb1u3h4tzSZra1K7BOD0NamCjsqfE48TtRMqiQnkeX_qHaRXJ3YVqMFw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Do you think I should look?" Nolon asked back.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTtHJPuxhbFxmBH9t0yNBZyA-fNDa5J7XsG3FMyssZ6myN8uJv4NCQ_scjnmL-q-RELi2UfAwyI8DUFDHDIZJDo-_Q_5CVc_8Iz7h7l2wZLZlnMZNImm5DGI3gAeQl4e7j4TWTik4O1dWQiXcefT3P3PR0uuALwSqPVhNl-BUEHD8-dXCk12LMWRZXFQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTtHJPuxhbFxmBH9t0yNBZyA-fNDa5J7XsG3FMyssZ6myN8uJv4NCQ_scjnmL-q-RELi2UfAwyI8DUFDHDIZJDo-_Q_5CVc_8Iz7h7l2wZLZlnMZNImm5DGI3gAeQl4e7j4TWTik4O1dWQiXcefT3P3PR0uuALwSqPVhNl-BUEHD8-dXCk12LMWRZXFQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Grissul stared at the table, allowing moments to accumulate, then said, "I don't care, Mr Nolon, I have to say that what happened tonight was very unpleasant."</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMF9vmVVAWQhvrO3qerYWQgc-YLJAW72Zsv_9-khiwmTTjMeHWCQn8WVmBrh5JJ9-KTAzwWEMd2G4H_7RMffPHlVmvjOFn_GFsxES22Pc9cXFgYxdNDC-7J2WBpuJXrvh5nTQbpbh4CKfe7qqFNZZWVGbXuHFNmv21jEf_SUHEblCCbjpnIQcI5jPmEw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMF9vmVVAWQhvrO3qerYWQgc-YLJAW72Zsv_9-khiwmTTjMeHWCQn8WVmBrh5JJ9-KTAzwWEMd2G4H_7RMffPHlVmvjOFn_GFsxES22Pc9cXFgYxdNDC-7J2WBpuJXrvh5nTQbpbh4CKfe7qqFNZZWVGbXuHFNmv21jEf_SUHEblCCbjpnIQcI5jPmEw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-38382519158604913682023-05-09T21:39:00.001+02:002023-05-29T10:00:20.452+02:00Thomas Ligotti - The strange designs of Master Rignolo 7<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">Using OpenAI to illustrate my favorite Thomas Ligotti story, and to make my inner pictures visible for you. And for myself. First I fed the story text directly into the AI. Now I make my own description of what happens in the story. This works better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Into a scene which makes no sound, three figures arrive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4lUzCR7DKKm_ZfqJomGKRBvdkaEu2cx16Auhy3Dl1vsZD831vjJWxHCzuXVzXrr2_r67bu7MRqn-xTkq1J-TNFbkJ5-tpflQtQj5edkAnEcnA1xSoTdz3_poLZ9FmeAtuZAAv59BIaDrJsOUBxsXJkVV-NHkfR_E0YbvbEVcme9c8FdZJ_gW2r2dDtQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4lUzCR7DKKm_ZfqJomGKRBvdkaEu2cx16Auhy3Dl1vsZD831vjJWxHCzuXVzXrr2_r67bu7MRqn-xTkq1J-TNFbkJ5-tpflQtQj5edkAnEcnA1xSoTdz3_poLZ9FmeAtuZAAv59BIaDrJsOUBxsXJkVV-NHkfR_E0YbvbEVcme9c8FdZJ_gW2r2dDtQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;">Their silhouettes move with distinct, cautious steps across an open field, progressing slowly, almost without noticeable motion.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijCEWuFaXh4E2E76lLRFNVRvaEV6mKbt67JCb9PZs5gFqAO5O7QzRbR6pTfeH7d92sHQF6i4uTztxVDRgSb161op1qd0YKm1UhChpSjEjMm_o5P4mx4ITFWb5KAcqvWBLu3nnyrP2OP_XrdE09gL98sXBZV4uElXjzuvbaIYyWG5XSlI-MqvlUGFKhuA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijCEWuFaXh4E2E76lLRFNVRvaEV6mKbt67JCb9PZs5gFqAO5O7QzRbR6pTfeH7d92sHQF6i4uTztxVDRgSb161op1qd0YKm1UhChpSjEjMm_o5P4mx4ITFWb5KAcqvWBLu3nnyrP2OP_XrdE09gL98sXBZV4uElXjzuvbaIYyWG5XSlI-MqvlUGFKhuA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Around them, crisscrossing shafts of tall grasses are entirely motionless, their pointed tips sharply outlined in the moonlight.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBs3Z-02VZDBQmCur4P2p9u-Q8H_AxcrmrvF9uAnvlzoV76HM-fO0wUgOMbonW_jjusqM1bKnbXK1q2JlHLG9GbjIHfZbttKumISw7qzgD0ffFx62rFPcLpYxn3HXpk5YnCTNRqMPcWCoGAb3kPbPzqTRP22pZab9-N6m7khLiMWDBw3qVaXy5MzGy-Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBs3Z-02VZDBQmCur4P2p9u-Q8H_AxcrmrvF9uAnvlzoV76HM-fO0wUgOMbonW_jjusqM1bKnbXK1q2JlHLG9GbjIHfZbttKumISw7qzgD0ffFx62rFPcLpYxn3HXpk5YnCTNRqMPcWCoGAb3kPbPzqTRP22pZab9-N6m7khLiMWDBw3qVaXy5MzGy-Q=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Above them, the moon is round and bright; but its brightness is of a dull sort, like the flat whiteness that appears in the spaces of complex designs embellishing the page of a book.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqHknz6qJcSP3lCiMSuqSDS3grRouWb113Zah_7oD1Y3KR3-IRuDPCOBjiFeSb84BRZRxoyTsrw80QeWQYPoQPfP0s4o5p6l6X6Qiqecu-VmludMk7-qwQgq_KeXP1Ji9HCKucJlX_1DGSFn2LwX5ao5-BNKbaJ7ctj9l3g6ZDCgpUaYCFhq-Lc6eCpQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqHknz6qJcSP3lCiMSuqSDS3grRouWb113Zah_7oD1Y3KR3-IRuDPCOBjiFeSb84BRZRxoyTsrw80QeWQYPoQPfP0s4o5p6l6X6Qiqecu-VmludMk7-qwQgq_KeXP1Ji9HCKucJlX_1DGSFn2LwX5ao5-BNKbaJ7ctj9l3g6ZDCgpUaYCFhq-Lc6eCpQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;">The three figures, one of which is much shorter than the other two, have stopped and are standing completely still before a particularly dense clump of oddly shaped stalks.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6JfSzvb4c-GY6njrmoXqPscCcg9-zkGmPXhd4OBWY6CUj3aDD1hxOBX1KkCR1MWfX7YhP2yw-loOX5FbWtL_mDyBbNtHQcAsTT0cbekn2m1ykGUkjvCs6JYa-lpVT4GEnQtjliUId74p1wRMworvKXVaKb7TrLdTe3c5SchTRbeV5vjQJ5roDWt71TQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6JfSzvb4c-GY6njrmoXqPscCcg9-zkGmPXhd4OBWY6CUj3aDD1hxOBX1KkCR1MWfX7YhP2yw-loOX5FbWtL_mDyBbNtHQcAsTT0cbekn2m1ykGUkjvCs6JYa-lpVT4GEnQtjliUId74p1wRMworvKXVaKb7TrLdTe3c5SchTRbeV5vjQJ5roDWt71TQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">Now one of the taller figures has raised his arm and is pointing toward this clump of stalks, while the shorter figure has taken a step in the direction indicated. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEim6K1Ao71UMe4z3sU2hR7q2QeQMX5trB1GW7oe0Qv7Z5H8e82Swho58S8jYRYa7dQMVeDMA_D0nn_h-UcjvsEewmzHw4XBBWTupeFWgThQ6Dxa5jUSoRwnRAFn83G3KqmS_KmxsyYgON4P30FE-tUTsXX9Jf4Iod_aG8rXG_nW2VSQ_Z4JG0Ip1CQ32Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEim6K1Ao71UMe4z3sU2hR7q2QeQMX5trB1GW7oe0Qv7Z5H8e82Swho58S8jYRYa7dQMVeDMA_D0nn_h-UcjvsEewmzHw4XBBWTupeFWgThQ6Dxa5jUSoRwnRAFn83G3KqmS_KmxsyYgON4P30FE-tUTsXX9Jf4Iod_aG8rXG_nW2VSQ_Z4JG0Ip1CQ32Q=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">The two tall figures are standing together as the short one has all but disappeared into the dark, dense overgrowth. Only a single shoe, its toe angled groundward, remains visible. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEQAzt0dRVZ3lmf_4dLA7H5mqSXDnnKD53I6Mm3qfO4akyFizXMSkvmMLkaUgJ4NSNUAd0j9I5isGpDPW0SmxzQJYj1D5ZIVI80xmag-OY_PE7iK5Z_2KiDILOKRtSyPDE_v-mOyWMxQTKpkmKVD-Q_b2q9u7njumfOs7KIO55JE7h1jlIIwDVAtNvww" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEQAzt0dRVZ3lmf_4dLA7H5mqSXDnnKD53I6Mm3qfO4akyFizXMSkvmMLkaUgJ4NSNUAd0j9I5isGpDPW0SmxzQJYj1D5ZIVI80xmag-OY_PE7iK5Z_2KiDILOKRtSyPDE_v-mOyWMxQTKpkmKVD-Q_b2q9u7njumfOs7KIO55JE7h1jlIIwDVAtNvww=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Then nothing at all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3WyhgIwSv0xg5jps3-9Jr_Tc-GlNbL0bbQ3J-hhJcwcyo4YR7kpFJ3U7dYFcSremSOTbl9ZbX5Ln2u1jOhdVeLp4y_PF17qZ5lYrpxWiqjjmd4yQ5pL9jh3bf4sgSnWGSjcpGKI97UCKzsl5yIcNQasTFoE-uDiNYmFkb17UCrxrHdqDWxO66eP1L8Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3WyhgIwSv0xg5jps3-9Jr_Tc-GlNbL0bbQ3J-hhJcwcyo4YR7kpFJ3U7dYFcSremSOTbl9ZbX5Ln2u1jOhdVeLp4y_PF17qZ5lYrpxWiqjjmd4yQ5pL9jh3bf4sgSnWGSjcpGKI97UCKzsl5yIcNQasTFoE-uDiNYmFkb17UCrxrHdqDWxO66eP1L8Q=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;">The two remaining figures continue to stand in their places, making no gestures, their hands in the pockets of their long overcoats. </span><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3OysVPyrPBs27b0PwTgcaPR5LlmnwKYcN7VHksndBqxpJt4UqUlnA7ZwCjHGwCtIuI2Wsu5_CWyywuiAgPEXkjpGEnfiX7AFUtsq8hEkkfj3kVweO14145wDKadYSsJggclFvrR1AY9hiB86T1KDYzNo63zapb10BbVRH3Ahl6_MYqRohPqr6KWXcPA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3OysVPyrPBs27b0PwTgcaPR5LlmnwKYcN7VHksndBqxpJt4UqUlnA7ZwCjHGwCtIuI2Wsu5_CWyywuiAgPEXkjpGEnfiX7AFUtsq8hEkkfj3kVweO14145wDKadYSsJggclFvrR1AY9hiB86T1KDYzNo63zapb10BbVRH3Ahl6_MYqRohPqr6KWXcPA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: courier;">They are staring into the blackness where the other one has disappeared. Around them, crisscrossing shafts of tall grasses; above them, the moon is round and bright.</span></div><div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3FXzM95CRgE5Sf4bRH6520aLOeks4zAUSNoBREKnhx4mh45kNQ4fPzT4ZzK4jEJ7AuJyY9gFb283nxzNlpu3MS3zmY31OCGrgJotrtammIsDKmLVsrfvr2AB3V7fWVo74nRJ_l2O7c9X_v1M4RT34RTYW8PWevLnrLdrhh1WOn7L9eEZE8yKuO5wlAg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3FXzM95CRgE5Sf4bRH6520aLOeks4zAUSNoBREKnhx4mh45kNQ4fPzT4ZzK4jEJ7AuJyY9gFb283nxzNlpu3MS3zmY31OCGrgJotrtammIsDKmLVsrfvr2AB3V7fWVo74nRJ_l2O7c9X_v1M4RT34RTYW8PWevLnrLdrhh1WOn7L9eEZE8yKuO5wlAg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Now the two figures have turned themselves away from the place where the other one disappeared. They are each slightly bent over and are holding their hands over their ears, as though to deafen themselves to something they could not bear. Then, slowly, almost without noticeable motion, they move out of the scene.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUYMHCVSObls6zOjDEDNDIgHpY8_t8iKyxnEFLI6FM_FPatTkvpzzW4UZpcvGFaqleMDY8ecUjaHAaass16P98nZ_hU7I9EVZadPcrNBlfdd2SUgDNNsZfuXw-fjyEtZ_K-siDo2FXCqROiKjhRIXu92XbaWtNftSv4l8eau5z-ZiGVANvpq78B8x5QA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUYMHCVSObls6zOjDEDNDIgHpY8_t8iKyxnEFLI6FM_FPatTkvpzzW4UZpcvGFaqleMDY8ecUjaHAaass16P98nZ_hU7I9EVZadPcrNBlfdd2SUgDNNsZfuXw-fjyEtZ_K-siDo2FXCqROiKjhRIXu92XbaWtNftSv4l8eau5z-ZiGVANvpq78B8x5QA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;">The field is empty once again. And now everything awakes with movement and sound.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4kO2B-EHZCNkBW4zNbq9NldBxxNikXoD7oqxMXHIVJPGl43QFJrTkTvf8kL8XFdOUS0DWnVS2dVCT2kX2WAz2UA5gkdje5FRvl-8YWC0Ylk-YsQTteYCFWPCFoRM8JIpsTMI_P4A1qQ-ijzF6vNOJ0Ula60k-KZclywWQIdTbmxBDDxT-Racjgra85A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4kO2B-EHZCNkBW4zNbq9NldBxxNikXoD7oqxMXHIVJPGl43QFJrTkTvf8kL8XFdOUS0DWnVS2dVCT2kX2WAz2UA5gkdje5FRvl-8YWC0Ylk-YsQTteYCFWPCFoRM8JIpsTMI_P4A1qQ-ijzF6vNOJ0Ula60k-KZclywWQIdTbmxBDDxT-Racjgra85A=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p></div></div>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-84056595456406574762023-05-07T13:25:00.002+02:002023-05-29T10:00:06.032+02:00Thomas Ligotti - The strange designs of Master Rignolo 6<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">Using OpenAI to illustrate my favorite Thomas Ligotti story, and to make my inner pictures visible for you. And for myself. First I fed the story text directly into the AI. Now I make my own description of what happens in the story. This works better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><span>"Mr Nolon, I recognized the place that that room is supposed to be."</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">"I'm sure you did."</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcuOHJiSEDqui-3JVPj4tU8-uJeAbX1GEW_A_s8_YUlqjhEslzCO8OjLGtrHBXCoEU2opN5895T-K3HL8oSy1he8kNcDLQwAGczAke2eNCcTvB4fT-H5nQmpKVbulaVPbM0acOuOgcDDJfPj299k5R4uhxUm7zq6OrLUD_lJhqvSk4wLJQOpzt0LGT2g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcuOHJiSEDqui-3JVPj4tU8-uJeAbX1GEW_A_s8_YUlqjhEslzCO8OjLGtrHBXCoEU2opN5895T-K3HL8oSy1he8kNcDLQwAGczAke2eNCcTvB4fT-H5nQmpKVbulaVPbM0acOuOgcDDJfPj299k5R4uhxUm7zq6OrLUD_lJhqvSk4wLJQOpzt0LGT2g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">"And I'm also sure I know whose face it was that I saw tonight in that field."</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">"I think we should be going."</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxb1ug6Wo7RB1qlj2HMkUy2JoloCGNGyE9KjWMpPschMAI6Jzo6OIqVIMVagdY3DfWGEQTOTU1k7TZODBiSCnUZjgqRsKshP6TfIma9Hk-BCWBK7zV9BTCTriuLXaODn0OpbUgwIF7D9Ffhc-zOda9UoaaoUqI0CzeOa2BqS7Q7ymauT5_1fSMrS7lwQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxb1ug6Wo7RB1qlj2HMkUy2JoloCGNGyE9KjWMpPschMAI6Jzo6OIqVIMVagdY3DfWGEQTOTU1k7TZODBiSCnUZjgqRsKshP6TfIma9Hk-BCWBK7zV9BTCTriuLXaODn0OpbUgwIF7D9Ffhc-zOda9UoaaoUqI0CzeOa2BqS7Q7ymauT5_1fSMrS7lwQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">"What are you saying?" demanded Rignolo.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">Nolon gestured toward a large clock high upon the wall and asked if that was the time.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirmT-5bnPIMisZrbzMRAC2SFt989O57NMvh0WveDyARJJQxlK6IixRr2JGtVupUt-7Sf4stY9myThA734yVcSiWnQdeH60DxyhCAatCq8AWeZVR4Y6pAP3tjk0kkiezxIyIEIyWvspmp-NvlALlTurf5y1nbYOI0mNpJagEsU7RO15d5CV34AgKJrpbA" style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirmT-5bnPIMisZrbzMRAC2SFt989O57NMvh0WveDyARJJQxlK6IixRr2JGtVupUt-7Sf4stY9myThA734yVcSiWnQdeH60DxyhCAatCq8AWeZVR4Y6pAP3tjk0kkiezxIyIEIyWvspmp-NvlALlTurf5y1nbYOI0mNpJagEsU7RO15d5CV34AgKJrpbA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">"Always," replied Rignolo, "since I've never yet seen its hands move."</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDJYPaJHxOIr0g2lnlCM3w0VedOR5LLvBZlgYOAmNjwkOfaksnA7AGv3rdmkMJS-sVh-xJ9p8dOTKkRxpV2JyVxQeHUplrm1KZWDb38P41ZmUcAi3oVEIVev-jv58NF7-TkfzMXw-A96qJ_ffQl1fK70cBJaFO2LDVztWs4x2_In73PaE2FOiS94uaXQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDJYPaJHxOIr0g2lnlCM3w0VedOR5LLvBZlgYOAmNjwkOfaksnA7AGv3rdmkMJS-sVh-xJ9p8dOTKkRxpV2JyVxQeHUplrm1KZWDb38P41ZmUcAi3oVEIVev-jv58NF7-TkfzMXw-A96qJ_ffQl1fK70cBJaFO2LDVztWs4x2_In73PaE2FOiS94uaXQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">"Well, then, thank you for everything," said Nolon.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">"We have to be leaving,' added Grissul.</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier; text-align: left;">"Just one moment," Rignolo shouted as they were making their way out. "I know where you're going now. Someone, I won't say who, told me what you found in that </span><span style="text-align: left;">field. </span></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj61T-tzTWnJFgLI9LcpnMfrYwbpAZTqXwy7z5WUFbEV75zMrASfMMwUDtj8eNRUsn7ymXefInOxLLb6y_ciYJ_owXkz9RyO3jhlKMqQU3MQMzTlhWUtIEX2rbvGai449dlbRajV4AH_lcGRJbcE_Oe-JR3-fWrdLw4mOCU7L_NQMgLiKerKbamd5texw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj61T-tzTWnJFgLI9LcpnMfrYwbpAZTqXwy7z5WUFbEV75zMrASfMMwUDtj8eNRUsn7ymXefInOxLLb6y_ciYJ_owXkz9RyO3jhlKMqQU3MQMzTlhWUtIEX2rbvGai449dlbRajV4AH_lcGRJbcE_Oe-JR3-fWrdLw4mOCU7L_NQMgLiKerKbamd5texw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">I've done it, haven't I? You can tell me all about it. No, it's not necessary. I've put myself into the scene at last. The abyss with a decor, the ultimate flight!</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie31ple2JdZaeguen9qlkmOjP28oP3G_ySQQyT-M-w7dpBnq6FQ8Dycf2kEscqRa4XuQy3HkZXiwMF_B_5lSu1so8K3KNyhREqKIFbe58EDIa3Gm_1-xUVnSIQh2hNCwVIuDGC0trtFcSAReAo5AZdzZya_oV4Q3zm4WlQjO8P2wBOt7WEOT5PGS-WzA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie31ple2JdZaeguen9qlkmOjP28oP3G_ySQQyT-M-w7dpBnq6FQ8Dycf2kEscqRa4XuQy3HkZXiwMF_B_5lSu1so8K3KNyhREqKIFbe58EDIa3Gm_1-xUVnSIQh2hNCwVIuDGC0trtFcSAReAo5AZdzZya_oV4Q3zm4WlQjO8P2wBOt7WEOT5PGS-WzA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">In short - survival in the very maw of oblivion. Oh, perhaps there's still some work to be done. But I've made a good start, haven't I? I've got my foot in the door, my face looking in the window. Little by little, then... forever. True?</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBS_Fsye4zbgB9o2KEnzHoy3LwhGh0Vm_iLgNta8eBGvLKCgGW-QkZK02DQ5EarlPg5bq80rMeCStoCPJJE_T7mMIHoQh2qibi5huWRj_E3ZnTl2Q8pXdurOE_djT1430k0aDm64Qn9_QrYB5L8AyN8o35U9ly0SC1x9f7KmoTW6wzOA6Y9Spxp4vupw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBS_Fsye4zbgB9o2KEnzHoy3LwhGh0Vm_iLgNta8eBGvLKCgGW-QkZK02DQ5EarlPg5bq80rMeCStoCPJJE_T7mMIHoQh2qibi5huWRj_E3ZnTl2Q8pXdurOE_djT1430k0aDm64Qn9_QrYB5L8AyN8o35U9ly0SC1x9f7KmoTW6wzOA6Y9Spxp4vupw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">No, don't say anything. Show me where it is, I need to go there. I have a right to go."</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeQVDC_GE6PtMaFasLN3-1V_Zkuko7H5NXx7geSJQUJZdrRaBGh-X6gscYuquu7YDMWGURpTZdGRRKF_TBrgY8ig4aQ5iAA51S7DnRQms-RJV87XFdsvhBTTqKJX18AOzBt-2QdHwwm_-RJMjImNyhzd_q6hkzCuQjofKhHWU9CzW7IxT_1y6jMgmrRQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeQVDC_GE6PtMaFasLN3-1V_Zkuko7H5NXx7geSJQUJZdrRaBGh-X6gscYuquu7YDMWGURpTZdGRRKF_TBrgY8ig4aQ5iAA51S7DnRQms-RJV87XFdsvhBTTqKJX18AOzBt-2QdHwwm_-RJMjImNyhzd_q6hkzCuQjofKhHWU9CzW7IxT_1y6jMgmrRQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><span>Having no idea what sort of behavior a refusal might inspire in the maniacal Rignolo, not to mention possible reprisals from unknown parts, Nolon and Grissul respected the artist's request.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHu5VNjqEK3sAkK6K3bEM2pvQjN_pM4saKOHSdYPE2CuiFTc3GZiXRTlmp4l6WNHLR-DK3G9N7JVzGd1CFpmpfbSW3xc5LmOjjSEzREsbSKxUkJanFFZVsx6hnCifnpOggqnGHbJyCG9UfmqQDSVb1CkIsz1dKbAszi5JPqJG367l58E8eTiidcZ6wVA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHu5VNjqEK3sAkK6K3bEM2pvQjN_pM4saKOHSdYPE2CuiFTc3GZiXRTlmp4l6WNHLR-DK3G9N7JVzGd1CFpmpfbSW3xc5LmOjjSEzREsbSKxUkJanFFZVsx6hnCifnpOggqnGHbJyCG9UfmqQDSVb1CkIsz1dKbAszi5JPqJG367l58E8eTiidcZ6wVA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-59053171565467171892023-05-05T10:46:00.003+02:002023-05-29T09:59:53.006+02:00Thomas Ligotti - The strange designs of Master Rignolo 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">Using OpenAI to illustrate my favorite Thomas Ligotti story, and to make my inner pictures visible for you. And for myself. First I fed the story text directly into the AI. Now I make my own description of what happens in the story. This works better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div><p>N<span style="font-family: courier;">olon and Grissul glanced blankly at each other and then followed the artist up to a narrow door.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjW6nWvogcF50A-lhpfWH7Haod46KkGiLS3O9bh4OhLyGrQklUgfcb2zNFJSVMxCvI5BRckMP28ByvwGmL0J-_oN_Uk0E6azV_jZvnSHfNyyQdBcURz3biL96HiH2ZC4kHoXcXs4tdQECx2gdha_xeJR8sT36A4UWPl9kskyq5ONb45mb7IyDCrjsuocQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjW6nWvogcF50A-lhpfWH7Haod46KkGiLS3O9bh4OhLyGrQklUgfcb2zNFJSVMxCvI5BRckMP28ByvwGmL0J-_oN_Uk0E6azV_jZvnSHfNyyQdBcURz3biL96HiH2ZC4kHoXcXs4tdQECx2gdha_xeJR8sT36A4UWPl9kskyq5ONb45mb7IyDCrjsuocQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Opening the door with a tiny key, Rignolo ushered his guests inside. It was a tight squeeze through the doorway.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit8tY0d2o3X-QK_8sLaPGpH1OTXwM_XhogslkZ064sj4F8OsSktyE2BhTz76Skit0mrDfTTeq4ELGYBoks8xKy8dNJQj1PcTvp1yiv8NgBBujxXwuPyPEMIcjkwbPVJTu8L9fpcmyFErcNVk8wHZyMFYYlo0i6kyyLTkjA34SYI8YM2HPyn71SGw9RuQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit8tY0d2o3X-QK_8sLaPGpH1OTXwM_XhogslkZ064sj4F8OsSktyE2BhTz76Skit0mrDfTTeq4ELGYBoks8xKy8dNJQj1PcTvp1yiv8NgBBujxXwuPyPEMIcjkwbPVJTu8L9fpcmyFErcNVk8wHZyMFYYlo0i6kyyLTkjA34SYI8YM2HPyn71SGw9RuQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Now this place really is a closet," Grissul whispered to Nolon. "I don't think I can turn around."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqbL2GT-_Dlfuv2GWDoFcY8DjtXGCuCDQIvhlq6DsX5nN39Hed_NbD-UYZ9EOmySRgzqLVSyOiS-ds1NFpEA_opxdTug2crn_FKn58V_Co8j-K-OssLZQg4v1-aRSk9Kyf6VQWq1XK_P-Rh5Ek6AW4gwSJ-9SBNvxWdys67nEGCi0sFyKWDfG7IeH95g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqbL2GT-_Dlfuv2GWDoFcY8DjtXGCuCDQIvhlq6DsX5nN39Hed_NbD-UYZ9EOmySRgzqLVSyOiS-ds1NFpEA_opxdTug2crn_FKn58V_Co8j-K-OssLZQg4v1-aRSk9Kyf6VQWq1XK_P-Rh5Ek6AW4gwSJ-9SBNvxWdys67nEGCi0sFyKWDfG7IeH95g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Then we'll just have to walk out of here backwards, as if there were something wrong with that."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5WwI_6lujRXPmKtvSEDHebnVn-wldwz7Q3AcJCff-CFpovdfHDrdbYcUGfzISxf2HFx4BDUdN9oHFhSpUoAad0t4obJzTJ1OJaQ0VlYdQ3HpthqGtmcY2CcIN6FzytHAXdi7wlzGZ-NVdAxNFXRN60wPEGniP2m7f9zuJ1Fs4JfC-yEX-C4nvfFtuAw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5WwI_6lujRXPmKtvSEDHebnVn-wldwz7Q3AcJCff-CFpovdfHDrdbYcUGfzISxf2HFx4BDUdN9oHFhSpUoAad0t4obJzTJ1OJaQ0VlYdQ3HpthqGtmcY2CcIN6FzytHAXdi7wlzGZ-NVdAxNFXRN60wPEGniP2m7f9zuJ1Fs4JfC-yEX-C4nvfFtuAw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">The door slammed closed and for a moment there was no place on earth darker than that little room.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUBr7-tItZat9Q_Jqx-nZxaiEByb0M5o6iU2b5gl1NlyWDjppVIICp_iUXPAgXc8FCvUy0EVDYJGOhn5WJaqtPJb9J_01QK31hO2mSId4F3sJXQWAe9UO7tZAxkCWkIjvZnmzAL-YmehV5NNYmThB3bm3E_XRAoiUIeNfhOv9EE3jk1b7YlxI9FONTpA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUBr7-tItZat9Q_Jqx-nZxaiEByb0M5o6iU2b5gl1NlyWDjppVIICp_iUXPAgXc8FCvUy0EVDYJGOhn5WJaqtPJb9J_01QK31hO2mSId4F3sJXQWAe9UO7tZAxkCWkIjvZnmzAL-YmehV5NNYmThB3bm3E_XRAoiUIeNfhOv9EE3jk1b7YlxI9FONTpA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Watch the walls," Rignolo called through the door.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxyRMlbXtuuzBDopQ8srLCA2a-Qxw0DbHfxPrEMUncRlYaLgt14t3ZF0w158eg_fToqLrBDJEraAR2U69-4QUM6zI4pPQqdPI3WuGjUt8zSan5H-way5ttNOn1Oiyy8a3nMWFb_rn4h_4z_qBVGyuOV7NuJxorw9pBv3TIYwZf4AoJ7jXKqH0iGrTxVQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxyRMlbXtuuzBDopQ8srLCA2a-Qxw0DbHfxPrEMUncRlYaLgt14t3ZF0w158eg_fToqLrBDJEraAR2U69-4QUM6zI4pPQqdPI3WuGjUt8zSan5H-way5ttNOn1Oiyy8a3nMWFb_rn4h_4z_qBVGyuOV7NuJxorw9pBv3TIYwZf4AoJ7jXKqH0iGrTxVQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Walls?" someone whispered.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiBdVGnPvZMEChf6KJrt-t4qjnySrGMD-WwyklYFZ8xJc1DVLDnKdqC-6pPHuni_u15fBuDKVV0AMpK5YYG3XylWZIlUw-GxyGEJoshavuhgBx-Y2Ht6ie3n7oSQA4DmS3yg3_wbAnPU_Sx9EhE6jy3AKlI5P5TvzoUPh-04oi7znlPub49ozjuJo2sA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiBdVGnPvZMEChf6KJrt-t4qjnySrGMD-WwyklYFZ8xJc1DVLDnKdqC-6pPHuni_u15fBuDKVV0AMpK5YYG3XylWZIlUw-GxyGEJoshavuhgBx-Y2Ht6ie3n7oSQA4DmS3yg3_wbAnPU_Sx9EhE6jy3AKlI5P5TvzoUPh-04oi7znlPub49ozjuJo2sA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">The first images to appear in the darkness were those crinkled wads of radiance Rignolo spoke of, except these were much larger, more numerous, and became more radiant than the others bound within their cramped little canvasses. And they emerged on all sides of the spectator, above and below as well, so that an irresistible conviction was instilled that the tiny gravelike room had expanded into a star-strewn corridor of night, the certainty created that one was suspended in space without practical means of remaining there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhg6--H6Neq-UU7HN0A7wFmOT1QIB5tLWHdXLEY8yHHUy45mUSmvLq7I9LvKsFwzMO9IjgEt_yIcJ2lPvYwdQvSKCwX5eD7A8ndf_N1farG8BY2cuwIJ_VqCeZztqeNauHR83cW-bTEcPjNHL-9u7JRwArEgb3DFP7Z3C03MfE4j1F0NZoPfgHsw9Qi5Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhg6--H6Neq-UU7HN0A7wFmOT1QIB5tLWHdXLEY8yHHUy45mUSmvLq7I9LvKsFwzMO9IjgEt_yIcJ2lPvYwdQvSKCwX5eD7A8ndf_N1farG8BY2cuwIJ_VqCeZztqeNauHR83cW-bTEcPjNHL-9u7JRwArEgb3DFP7Z3C03MfE4j1F0NZoPfgHsw9Qi5Q=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Reaching out for the solid walls, crouching on the floor, only brought confusion rather than relief from the sense of impossibility. The irregular daubs of brightness grew into great silver blotches, each of them ragged at its rim and glowing wildly. Then they stopped growing in the blackness, attaining some predesigned composition, and another kind of growing began: thin filaments of bluish light started sprouting in the spaces between those bulbous thistles of brilliance, running everywhere like cracks up and down a wall.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi13Tf3VZxvnzhpve0m91kqv3_KiQdHoZF82hxWb4GtR9Fr_e3ISUOGj12y947a_V_fFwB-cM750edFZKvMdwD_pDzrFvXIIS1QN--AMDJpjE9eBwte2KjknPRqHg_eEScPqbmP5riX3tU-jck9TtyCraZxV5kyQSPeuUF0qgo_x4nRsdA-6GMD4STrzQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi13Tf3VZxvnzhpve0m91kqv3_KiQdHoZF82hxWb4GtR9Fr_e3ISUOGj12y947a_V_fFwB-cM750edFZKvMdwD_pDzrFvXIIS1QN--AMDJpjE9eBwte2KjknPRqHg_eEScPqbmP5riX3tU-jck9TtyCraZxV5kyQSPeuUF0qgo_x4nRsdA-6GMD4STrzQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">And these threadlike, hairlike tendrils eventually spread across the blackness in an erratic fury of propagation, until all was webbed and stringy in the universal landscape.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4-nb6PbX6xtdpj6-OFkPFMeeJD2o9vdxzVj_bsSI_U7qftZKB0HnbHoHbZ9Z6iC2NbJop2jdqo9F11dhYkkh-gyu3C1owYJLKKvQ9yciPH7SaXeYHpS2DjspU9q5pTehb1M1L98Ne51XUJz3MYYNWtPMBbAIkTdzoyVol7-d17pEW81OoG0RqRf66rw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4-nb6PbX6xtdpj6-OFkPFMeeJD2o9vdxzVj_bsSI_U7qftZKB0HnbHoHbZ9Z6iC2NbJop2jdqo9F11dhYkkh-gyu3C1owYJLKKvQ9yciPH7SaXeYHpS2DjspU9q5pTehb1M1L98Ne51XUJz3MYYNWtPMBbAIkTdzoyVol7-d17pEW81OoG0RqRf66rw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Then the webbing began to fray and grow shaggy, cosmic moss hanging in luminous clumps, beards. But the scene was not muddled, no more so, that is, than the most natural marsh or fen-like field. Finally, enormous stalks shot out of nowhere, quickly crisscrossed to form interesting and well-balanced patterns, and suddenly froze. They were a strange shade of green and wore burry crowns of a pinkish color, like prickly brains.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzuIH4mCW6P7hGu8eZVHNyRdQVhqDvugrdBjqVFOv4nEwIfgQCyRxWWUIw9Ndn_4R1DboJbPqd2tlzqgmuQfDKJbRXNiAbKI6f4o7tIgmnjNOSh33zRrzbIoMp9nFF9XiDi47AvzotIN0NMSZp1pqcEgxWxVQcnhsHcZdXPMYuPEpq8259_lfb68Md9g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzuIH4mCW6P7hGu8eZVHNyRdQVhqDvugrdBjqVFOv4nEwIfgQCyRxWWUIw9Ndn_4R1DboJbPqd2tlzqgmuQfDKJbRXNiAbKI6f4o7tIgmnjNOSh33zRrzbIoMp9nFF9XiDi47AvzotIN0NMSZp1pqcEgxWxVQcnhsHcZdXPMYuPEpq8259_lfb68Md9g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">The scene, it appeared, was now complete. All the actual effects were displayed: actual because the one further effect now being produced was most likely an illusion. For it seemed that deep within the shredded tapestry of webs and hairs and stalks, something else had been woven, something buried beneath the marshy morass but slowly rising to the surface.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Is that a face?" someone said. </span><span style="font-family: courier;">"I can begin to see one too," said the other, "but I don't know if I want to see it. I don't think I can feel where I am now. Let's try not to look at those faces."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1A95FrKBF91NQ5ATCoEeO08beAbojl8dgAW_jSf7JepXUtULvuZmOYZHeEvFuz4jJrG7QHr_La-rlSiXjOoHQfu_eNJ8PvS1rarY-b0U68352nwsNuIInpfYtpZPfiT5SEBwlHaViGxHtf4esyXfK8n-gnGayTV7hK_P_gBsLf0swu62Zi4TqqtUv4g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1A95FrKBF91NQ5ATCoEeO08beAbojl8dgAW_jSf7JepXUtULvuZmOYZHeEvFuz4jJrG7QHr_La-rlSiXjOoHQfu_eNJ8PvS1rarY-b0U68352nwsNuIInpfYtpZPfiT5SEBwlHaViGxHtf4esyXfK8n-gnGayTV7hK_P_gBsLf0swu62Zi4TqqtUv4g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">A series of cries from within the little room finally induced Rignolo to open the door, which sent Nolon and Grissul tumbling backwards into the artist's studio.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtPOjl7m-tYir0BUKy0JaMtQiVsLikVW47M3xv_7_u3smxMr36LQ3k-OH3nsS9fM6H55zRJ8eOS3-nSCoAdJC0bonbnTIMfwGZaAi1bcZbQtb8uavfIFQws0pW44N3uXQqSqxyN41RvI_1iMPCFTAKE1N_FOZEoJvx41HcG10ti2zXShuCDylugJMaPQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtPOjl7m-tYir0BUKy0JaMtQiVsLikVW47M3xv_7_u3smxMr36LQ3k-OH3nsS9fM6H55zRJ8eOS3-nSCoAdJC0bonbnTIMfwGZaAi1bcZbQtb8uavfIFQws0pW44N3uXQqSqxyN41RvI_1iMPCFTAKE1N_FOZEoJvx41HcG10ti2zXShuCDylugJMaPQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">They lay among the debris on the floor for some time. Rignolo swiftly secured the door, and then stood absolutely still beside it, his upturned eyes taking no interest in his visitors' predicament.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh17JmWJwhIH6yxmnlF97UrqB1Q7vMv1E0vZ7rCrqUg0l1ULpGYHmAnOY72unUZkh71cDDvdVmqfJzg2Ku1Rkhph3jsaAkeggPwq16Ox4patAaw2dZYR5Q1KC3sEG2s0LdMYf6dv-47dmMyxnanwy9ygiVz9DGUD96p7BDbad9worA9aKwcD_-yEyBx4g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh17JmWJwhIH6yxmnlF97UrqB1Q7vMv1E0vZ7rCrqUg0l1ULpGYHmAnOY72unUZkh71cDDvdVmqfJzg2Ku1Rkhph3jsaAkeggPwq16Ox4patAaw2dZYR5Q1KC3sEG2s0LdMYf6dv-47dmMyxnanwy9ygiVz9DGUD96p7BDbad9worA9aKwcD_-yEyBx4g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">As they regained their feet, a few things were quickly settled in low voices.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilALlNryaTk8WABHwdAP3uiChzYXnEKe3gD9iTwUA30JTc9tUHA5nlhhiCOaFuGSA7RVhJ-44OvkRgK7njn899ayZwOvRxqgqKNVQElHbk469161EZOnjIxUNJzwWd8yrtYw8OTLqpBXqeLZ5I6xACeXOepTjceHP7T7djp0VdRi7313VS6_7U4ETM8w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilALlNryaTk8WABHwdAP3uiChzYXnEKe3gD9iTwUA30JTc9tUHA5nlhhiCOaFuGSA7RVhJ-44OvkRgK7njn899ayZwOvRxqgqKNVQElHbk469161EZOnjIxUNJzwWd8yrtYw8OTLqpBXqeLZ5I6xACeXOepTjceHP7T7djp0VdRi7313VS6_7U4ETM8w=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-28211159334796400602023-05-04T20:45:00.001+02:002023-05-29T09:59:37.754+02:00Thomas Ligotti - The strange designs of Master Rignolo 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">Using OpenAI to illustrate my favorite Thomas Ligotti story, and to make my inner pictures visible for you. And for myself. First I fed the story text directly into the AI. Now I make my own description of what happens in the story. This works better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;">While Nolon was gazing at one of Rignolo's landscapes, Grissul seemed unable to shake off a preoccupation with the artist himself, though he was obviously making the effort. But the more he tried to turn his attention away from Rignolo, the more easily it was drawn back to the flabby skin, the faded complexion, the undisciplined shocks of hair. Finally, Grissul gave a little nudge to Nolon and began to whisper something. Nolon looked at Grissul in a way that might have said, "Yes, I know, but have some sense of decorum in any case," then resumed his contemplation of Rignolo's excellent landscapes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiDvWw6e9m281bFmW-7UaFHH86pURK3A5_dH58zW34gMxY3vvd-Hu2x1rTA-KTqwKc2nrtzZXnh6nPHPl2n86Ct1rNiw0ARxuBfH96MfWZ-BioRe6Ox8Hr0t3HrkyahJzjxAPzKjaNIjYMSM3obsksNfCJkRgwGk9921bANDKcj4CVtMIH8LcmNKvMMQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiDvWw6e9m281bFmW-7UaFHH86pURK3A5_dH58zW34gMxY3vvd-Hu2x1rTA-KTqwKc2nrtzZXnh6nPHPl2n86Ct1rNiw0ARxuBfH96MfWZ-BioRe6Ox8Hr0t3HrkyahJzjxAPzKjaNIjYMSM3obsksNfCJkRgwGk9921bANDKcj4CVtMIH8LcmNKvMMQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">They were all very similar to one another. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLUadHTkqxWUpBqOYuMb7a2Wyw6gUbBwMNQYLv7NZJxOgMLDziz2fwSLDpwwQlwAE_icEIKqMYDTmZzNyCdNIe8CK6TjhLFDnacazlC3-TYHCN7xxx8XUuJVfL318X0_4fm23swcKgRSGcHFtxdg_guVxrow6ssZaNLikU5vuV7HSvGY4KnodZoQonkQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLUadHTkqxWUpBqOYuMb7a2Wyw6gUbBwMNQYLv7NZJxOgMLDziz2fwSLDpwwQlwAE_icEIKqMYDTmZzNyCdNIe8CK6TjhLFDnacazlC3-TYHCN7xxx8XUuJVfL318X0_4fm23swcKgRSGcHFtxdg_guVxrow6ssZaNLikU5vuV7HSvGY4KnodZoQonkQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier;">Given such titles as "Glistening Marsh,” </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisaFFV9aTRFgxWjreh9BrepGgk1SGd3LBsgHO5DSGfhaAR0lOWSKODwcAvw9374rqoKZaBtTs6sglKbkTPtkp31oE0A9UOIpKggL0Y7quY64iQkqcqkroxjG0RBRi4jeEoOeaVySa6V9P74j4sq7yc_xXWErJjG1RjL8_NjPFJtKd2unFu9M8aY07nZA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisaFFV9aTRFgxWjreh9BrepGgk1SGd3LBsgHO5DSGfhaAR0lOWSKODwcAvw9374rqoKZaBtTs6sglKbkTPtkp31oE0A9UOIpKggL0Y7quY64iQkqcqkroxjG0RBRi4jeEoOeaVySa6V9P74j4sq7yc_xXWErJjG1RjL8_NjPFJtKd2unFu9M8aY07nZA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"The Tract of Three Shadows," </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-CIlOHHW7-zgNv--BIEwD4edbTebUQUur_UhcFFZlomyaF37_GtBcKt3sJguGVII_ywC88nwGbZfP8xJcy8QI2qGc71P4WOMvKurZVsRfKk-4mSNF5YdFIbYOLlSr83ogliYDDaRvywlxSaolNaItOtUaziQBQ14sXyLDTqdf7wFhzdNEsMI4IwHNRw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-CIlOHHW7-zgNv--BIEwD4edbTebUQUur_UhcFFZlomyaF37_GtBcKt3sJguGVII_ywC88nwGbZfP8xJcy8QI2qGc71P4WOMvKurZVsRfKk-4mSNF5YdFIbYOLlSr83ogliYDDaRvywlxSaolNaItOtUaziQBQ14sXyLDTqdf7wFhzdNEsMI4IwHNRw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">and "The Stars, the Hills," </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxg4l4rvTk69fcCChhVGaHiPO61sgZ7iWOvA-bwqFB-Yf9FoZIfr8QwT4vCVGI7-jHWJGu0lHOQwix5DANLuVPzn-ColCx2NJ_gLWtKC4S9QPJYrBXOY6GugMmTjf--kyuCKKf9MUEcBlecIOdsoExpcyOW9U5VCcxN_Vdq0qDM-YEpaX8_ItvqjbStA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxg4l4rvTk69fcCChhVGaHiPO61sgZ7iWOvA-bwqFB-Yf9FoZIfr8QwT4vCVGI7-jHWJGu0lHOQwix5DANLuVPzn-ColCx2NJ_gLWtKC4S9QPJYrBXOY6GugMmTjf--kyuCKKf9MUEcBlecIOdsoExpcyOW9U5VCcxN_Vdq0qDM-YEpaX8_ItvqjbStA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">they were not intended to resemble as much as suggest the promised scenes. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlKhzKOiJ885chjzy90pA75p9zrwysdo4RLPKRu6aIODB2M8k_wCdWLxIGG0h0dE_Gv2wVaRiJpEJc-yzVZasmIApYObpA2eVWOpyImAez05m6pabzFOiVMLFoY4qMAjFuCP0vjS3eyF4ZE7FA5imtIHQnn2FGASOsIHcH9_1m8N__JGZ06itpvJwMNw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlKhzKOiJ885chjzy90pA75p9zrwysdo4RLPKRu6aIODB2M8k_wCdWLxIGG0h0dE_Gv2wVaRiJpEJc-yzVZasmIApYObpA2eVWOpyImAez05m6pabzFOiVMLFoY4qMAjFuCP0vjS3eyF4ZE7FA5imtIHQnn2FGASOsIHcH9_1m8N__JGZ06itpvJwMNw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">A vague hint of material forms might emerge here and there, some familiar effect of color or outline, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhR1OxYCIa3-HRv-QPUhW0XjSaVWKquE-1a0_udFUB9T0y2C1XWcdEHFOCHK4176xBs8gRA28oGC0hSLe_GmxmQqXJwjOgKIQczvTMJCUvKVFkHdaFB7Q79F8eL8FAyWByakRmd-lA4_W_hK_EosFHYKzauA6-kmU3_0srNAfr9WpgM_7nGZg9QkrWe8A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhR1OxYCIa3-HRv-QPUhW0XjSaVWKquE-1a0_udFUB9T0y2C1XWcdEHFOCHK4176xBs8gRA28oGC0hSLe_GmxmQqXJwjOgKIQczvTMJCUvKVFkHdaFB7Q79F8eL8FAyWByakRmd-lA4_W_hK_EosFHYKzauA6-kmU3_0srNAfr9WpgM_7nGZg9QkrWe8A=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">but for the most part they could be described as extremely remote in their perspective on tangible reality. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLo7BfLXST985C4oa6Ia_T73FVXZYpAm2eMi2M3vCu_w6ZWWSsYC2T9Vq577Wxcdgaj8H5vyjnm9XUBdK6NrGrT3qJ8wv_ymeEFkNRTF2zW35ZDR-fUbQJSvPMN6HsiihUzlUhsgJodO-SUJ5-h3mUPn99tLdFRdY0k1L_TRXS_rJEBJ0w7TwBTZgk9w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLo7BfLXST985C4oa6Ia_T73FVXZYpAm2eMi2M3vCu_w6ZWWSsYC2T9Vq577Wxcdgaj8H5vyjnm9XUBdK6NrGrT3qJ8wv_ymeEFkNRTF2zW35ZDR-fUbQJSvPMN6HsiihUzlUhsgJodO-SUJ5-h3mUPn99tLdFRdY0k1L_TRXS_rJEBJ0w7TwBTZgk9w=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Grissul, who was no stranger to some of the locales purportedly depicted in these canvasses, could very well have expressed the objection that these conglomerations of fractured mass, these whirlpools of distorted light, simply did not achieve their purpose, did not in fact deserve connection with the geographical subjects from which they took their titles. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDPD3HBrhzr3-QMXPgBHdpMjERazxPeeNnNjyt-WACYEaSMgDeF4rC0Sf-3avKp3nUnVbnVU25OWxOQQnHpx-_0uKG6rvbqdJDv-QezlVD1c37PtM9cVEmxIxpCWXeOgHqXs_vLrUn3RPYCaQtHVxQBv7KcueFlM7VCRVWNtQV_GN3mZ03F-vVzN1QEw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDPD3HBrhzr3-QMXPgBHdpMjERazxPeeNnNjyt-WACYEaSMgDeF4rC0Sf-3avKp3nUnVbnVU25OWxOQQnHpx-_0uKG6rvbqdJDv-QezlVD1c37PtM9cVEmxIxpCWXeOgHqXs_vLrUn3RPYCaQtHVxQBv7KcueFlM7VCRVWNtQV_GN3mZ03F-vVzN1QEw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Perhaps it was Rignolo's intuition that just such a protest might be forthcoming that inspired - in the rapid, frantic voice of a startled sleeper - the following outburst.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhk4xI96oTKUQEt9-bfPLyE_GhQtxxMJ6JowMxm0nN1QMrdl7ZFJC0-K8a-GpMEb7ZQbNyW-n4K5afzGzdjUKpyyHSHZwjDTp7qo-yYd8_mupZ_2kKOOOwHVKlvyVVm90LUZTYDAZ_AUh6KT28CfdLI-ukFcDMpzL4w7Yh7lA1emoQQjGJ5bbvP2hxkaA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhk4xI96oTKUQEt9-bfPLyE_GhQtxxMJ6JowMxm0nN1QMrdl7ZFJC0-K8a-GpMEb7ZQbNyW-n4K5afzGzdjUKpyyHSHZwjDTp7qo-yYd8_mupZ_2kKOOOwHVKlvyVVm90LUZTYDAZ_AUh6KT28CfdLI-ukFcDMpzL4w7Yh7lA1emoQQjGJ5bbvP2hxkaA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Think anything you like about these scenes, it's all the same to me. Whisper to each other, my hearing is wonderfully bad. Say that my landscapes do not invite one's eyes to pass into them and wander, let alone linger for the briefest moment. Nevertheless, that is exactly their purpose, and as far as I am concerned they are quite adequate to it, meticulously efficient.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhZQpUwtGZhKpYrnMWmqweiBpasAiVG3cm4ohEz-ALxyzz8ce16bW26Uz4WnU7Q4EIDHKmfhrCYifPgsSppCsabyxTRTfx29zHUu85gtHzDbnHg-EzHqkNbUCaVA_RCWb1iGXkZi4JEJb_f6p_wb0qT3v1XVtkgv7DTfIZNEveGPUWXbgtiBn9GM7h-A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhZQpUwtGZhKpYrnMWmqweiBpasAiVG3cm4ohEz-ALxyzz8ce16bW26Uz4WnU7Q4EIDHKmfhrCYifPgsSppCsabyxTRTfx29zHUu85gtHzDbnHg-EzHqkNbUCaVA_RCWb1iGXkZi4JEJb_f6p_wb0qT3v1XVtkgv7DTfIZNEveGPUWXbgtiBn9GM7h-A=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">I have spent extraordinary lengths of time within the borders of each canvass, both as maker and as casual </span><span style="font-family: courier;">inhabitant, until the borders no longer exist for me and neither does... that other thing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpZn-z4yC36zy0OGz2-auXi8ROufqHxMI6-xCYPBfQhk50JB3h7Cw_U0h4OOqVyTKyLVAuJeeJ4AW8UvNsYQXCoBvOH_K9kvSvZ2KL0g7yMfMcHpeYK8j_fPUAB7KBK07VthRPSULqdKk--ClcKto2zdL87b2u1A1y0AUcHshIErr-9w5nW463AUVPug" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpZn-z4yC36zy0OGz2-auXi8ROufqHxMI6-xCYPBfQhk50JB3h7Cw_U0h4OOqVyTKyLVAuJeeJ4AW8UvNsYQXCoBvOH_K9kvSvZ2KL0g7yMfMcHpeYK8j_fPUAB7KBK07VthRPSULqdKk--ClcKto2zdL87b2u1A1y0AUcHshIErr-9w5nW463AUVPug=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Understand that when I say inhabitant, I do not in any way mean that I take my clumsy feet tromping up and down staircases of color, or that I stand this stunted body of mine upon some lofty ledge where I can play the master of all I see. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyD4MDnPj09GkHdpOMSt8BYYUmRWVx2iGPvR2pPBxGhUHlwBIkRNlWVNUe7TjQsecrj8SfSWMiJQO9mAd42MsFBpnioHiZU7MRxQ_CqbQS7g_D7vQm7Neq3nyzg-JWvPvLoVxHRMN9qQ4fyUiJReORWRGLIYKX16DHWJGfCdvO0dlv8ck8vbOaX74T1w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyD4MDnPj09GkHdpOMSt8BYYUmRWVx2iGPvR2pPBxGhUHlwBIkRNlWVNUe7TjQsecrj8SfSWMiJQO9mAd42MsFBpnioHiZU7MRxQ_CqbQS7g_D7vQm7Neq3nyzg-JWvPvLoVxHRMN9qQ4fyUiJReORWRGLIYKX16DHWJGfCdvO0dlv8ck8vbOaX74T1w=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">There are no masters of these scenes and no seers, because bodies and their organs cannot function there - no place for them to go, nothing to survey with ordinary eyes, no thoughts to think for the mighty brain.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjmCUbD1D-xsFAdtRBbi33aJw7rXetHZ859HB-jR9P3h2wG8W3hRyOpb5jDz1y0uWt4NYnEG15uNt8O6B-eWfXacoXQSOlXEr0iA_h3uz_Y57VlCmuaVU1pLaIgc-VJfwJc7UtYACHwCy6vMVlGHDdAMrvcjjr8ydXK9PaHgixfqu16479H6X_bNsgHg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjmCUbD1D-xsFAdtRBbi33aJw7rXetHZ859HB-jR9P3h2wG8W3hRyOpb5jDz1y0uWt4NYnEG15uNt8O6B-eWfXacoXQSOlXEr0iA_h3uz_Y57VlCmuaVU1pLaIgc-VJfwJc7UtYACHwCy6vMVlGHDdAMrvcjjr8ydXK9PaHgixfqu16479H6X_bNsgHg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">And my thoroughfares will not take you from the doorstep of one weariness to the backdoor of another, and they cannot crumble, because they are burdened with nothing to convey — their travelers are already there, continuously arriving at infinite sites of the perpetually astonishing. Yet these sites are also a homeland, and nothing there will ever threaten to become strange. What I mean to say is that to inhabit my landscapes one must, in no figurative sense, grow into them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcbP-_glwEeUKElTD1_cP7ENiL6-XpQ5R4TtZB2vqaGNRmiJFBm4gCgol9vEwgV4FQbSY86FoI0auyEQvqK8Bd5pTyGez4QYz08b-U5A5hRmmiROJIjFeX91pJMfCr0Thoau5zxuTxxsroa4b-8ng0jXSAqRfTknOoTQ0CqQL2LzsPOtEoNesSKd_fSw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcbP-_glwEeUKElTD1_cP7ENiL6-XpQ5R4TtZB2vqaGNRmiJFBm4gCgol9vEwgV4FQbSY86FoI0auyEQvqK8Bd5pTyGez4QYz08b-U5A5hRmmiROJIjFeX91pJMfCr0Thoau5zxuTxxsroa4b-8ng0jXSAqRfTknOoTQ0CqQL2LzsPOtEoNesSKd_fSw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: courier;">At best they are a paradise for sleepwalkers, but only those sleepwalkers who never rise to their feet, who forget their destination, and who may thus never reach that ultimate darkness beyond dreams, but may loiter in perpetuity in these lands of mine, which neighbor on nothingness and stand next door to endlessness. So you see, my critics, what we have in these little pictures is a living communion with the void, a vital annihilation and a thoroughly decorative eternity of — "</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPwnwKoKOAi-yG7_IG6JXlkXFkTwKkDF_irUcT5ozWTsj64vzJpGSBeLjBiCe6dwZ56RChLjfSOPd6nISUfkHVfn0EBUubqiFv9Us-wK4DotiVaFImvjnbPY-ybQKjbK9Yvbky2fN-fLoizWfnxn38C-_USex4WW4BOvF23S2_mV3sauRC5w79cUrs5g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPwnwKoKOAi-yG7_IG6JXlkXFkTwKkDF_irUcT5ozWTsj64vzJpGSBeLjBiCe6dwZ56RChLjfSOPd6nISUfkHVfn0EBUubqiFv9Us-wK4DotiVaFImvjnbPY-ybQKjbK9Yvbky2fN-fLoizWfnxn38C-_USex4WW4BOvF23S2_mV3sauRC5w79cUrs5g=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-91191137541690433672023-05-03T21:08:00.001+02:002023-05-29T09:59:21.319+02:00Thomas Ligotti - The strange designs of Master Rignolo 3<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">Using OpenAI to illustrate my favorite Thomas Ligotti story, and to make my inner pictures visible for you. And for myself. First I fed the story text directly into the AI. Now I make my own description of what happens in the story. This works better.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFP0SxQqyLLo283zfk0xGOQ_rNImQGrvJdzSKAwAFCOWIjyiaY-euz6pEnMK3_zMH43F3zo4e24GxpPZK8gdaIfeK2vWwz8dV5SLJTKphdZPFU2hBFBfMWmPHiQEySBybIEEW7T_t5X2NoauyvLAFOZK82UvRBKzPowr5FFGG2VC-bV972sd2jD1AaRQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFP0SxQqyLLo283zfk0xGOQ_rNImQGrvJdzSKAwAFCOWIjyiaY-euz6pEnMK3_zMH43F3zo4e24GxpPZK8gdaIfeK2vWwz8dV5SLJTKphdZPFU2hBFBfMWmPHiQEySBybIEEW7T_t5X2NoauyvLAFOZK82UvRBKzPowr5FFGG2VC-bV972sd2jD1AaRQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"Don't just walk stepping everywhere," Rignolo told his visitors as they all entered the studio.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7EqHaiIcGnHZAm6quRnXwO3hUmUa3zu32O12k0MW7bb2fnv0G-eDVQIsxpQwNPlVsLDoYSHxeCHMk5-6nsAneK7QUd7_OI38fDGHogvpwvSRZpDoSUNeHFgKkaD_NtPQVrZ-TaH-_Vc2mx6bI6CXiOTR0DPZME1NzT7d9kXXAVZ-QcGp3h-qPkYqz1Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7EqHaiIcGnHZAm6quRnXwO3hUmUa3zu32O12k0MW7bb2fnv0G-eDVQIsxpQwNPlVsLDoYSHxeCHMk5-6nsAneK7QUd7_OI38fDGHogvpwvSRZpDoSUNeHFgKkaD_NtPQVrZ-TaH-_Vc2mx6bI6CXiOTR0DPZME1NzT7d9kXXAVZ-QcGp3h-qPkYqz1Q=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">He was a little out of breath from the climb up the stairs, wheezing his words, quietly muttering to himself, "This place, oh, this place." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFUVSnGx6JHmEhmhfQYiC_Yg1wdY_RMtZm4mees4lLTiULuqUR3Jc4nVjDFLgZwTjyjNkYX-8-zNXawuWbrwqlf9Bv-Q0k5bLog_klj7Hmhy4m3Jee8XP2fUkWnCHZtJW-fT0I-YihRp06nZH8U7NXOjowPyLZkJg8ajVNz1Wk8rCxZrc7BBxP4EPYtA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFUVSnGx6JHmEhmhfQYiC_Yg1wdY_RMtZm4mees4lLTiULuqUR3Jc4nVjDFLgZwTjyjNkYX-8-zNXawuWbrwqlf9Bv-Q0k5bLog_klj7Hmhy4m3Jee8XP2fUkWnCHZtJW-fT0I-YihRp06nZH8U7NXOjowPyLZkJg8ajVNz1Wk8rCxZrc7BBxP4EPYtA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">There was hardly a patch of floor that was not in some way cluttered over, so he need not have warned Nolon, or even Grissul. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg94_QOp0_IroQXP8IyfDhDAfRVsZ-HGfVNxSYlcU7smYN1tY_98-TMZhnF07bEt2CD0hOwL4I7xjjlEX2Wm0VY3BU69LHzGzznOa48hmVWt5AzfgwXrhCNpE-weBRGevhmYLgcNBa6BQZW5WZWC_99yUn_bOQkMpLb-f5YfjhpUBZ3GWa_HZiefhhOHA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg94_QOp0_IroQXP8IyfDhDAfRVsZ-HGfVNxSYlcU7smYN1tY_98-TMZhnF07bEt2CD0hOwL4I7xjjlEX2Wm0VY3BU69LHzGzznOa48hmVWt5AzfgwXrhCNpE-weBRGevhmYLgcNBa6BQZW5WZWC_99yUn_bOQkMpLb-f5YfjhpUBZ3GWa_HZiefhhOHA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Rignolo was of lesser stature than his guests, virtually a dwarf, and so moved with greater freedom through that cramped space. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ3IumNdcV_cLIOZrHcurDLW7BojUlCvzRk928uZN1XppkVxl7ctwt1FbSet4fUbGwsRuL8do_OMgfu-vPTN3FICPSuYuIkoBjrKnRrsCkutLp1TgSg7nTSZ6azf_Z0Fqw6zp5ShvQDx6aqci59IdkYPGxyLpgsXjblT-6-mUUFPaJCsr0QoHSsv-BWQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ3IumNdcV_cLIOZrHcurDLW7BojUlCvzRk928uZN1XppkVxl7ctwt1FbSet4fUbGwsRuL8do_OMgfu-vPTN3FICPSuYuIkoBjrKnRrsCkutLp1TgSg7nTSZ6azf_Z0Fqw6zp5ShvQDx6aqci59IdkYPGxyLpgsXjblT-6-mUUFPaJCsr0QoHSsv-BWQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">"You see," he said, "how this isn't really a room up here, just a little closet that tried to grow into one, bulging out every which way and making all these odd niches and alcoves surrounding us, this shapeless gallery of nooks. There's a window around here, I suppose, under some of these canvasses. But those are what you're here for, not to look out some window that who knows where it is. Nothing to see out there, even so."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrcbZhtonC_x_9x5InSMOUqSRE3AIaTYDw-MebFzExb6ueQT0DSNgfcc0Z_-NgLmpzkr_r0Hpf7A7tzbFwZflHrDRk_58ELzZR8A1Ld3hVgrQ6SC8uC-xBNJ8P7BlrcShjRYsFHc9wzxgM7ITOtDTq0goMTP65po_lDtUdnGRPCIlqBomCJrtV7xJLmQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrcbZhtonC_x_9x5InSMOUqSRE3AIaTYDw-MebFzExb6ueQT0DSNgfcc0Z_-NgLmpzkr_r0Hpf7A7tzbFwZflHrDRk_58ELzZR8A1Ld3hVgrQ6SC8uC-xBNJ8P7BlrcShjRYsFHc9wzxgM7ITOtDTq0goMTP65po_lDtUdnGRPCIlqBomCJrtV7xJLmQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Rignolo then ushered his visitors through the shrunken maze composed of recesses of one sort or another, indicating to them a canvass here or there. Each somehow held itself to a wall or was leaning against one, as if with exhaustion. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin2VaGJh6da1DM2hRmA0jAYNo8_XanoipfrN-3FPBikx71Hemkb34Y5t2wZBW9OLpf9EbZpuMEMnb0o65rW31G6lTYoFVM9XRoMPOK-utACjLYxh827D5kI4HajqBsJtYSMDdwfsAEwKd90QO-jAi1-jQ54blSgvmOf0IeAu2ccBYB4MLFCOnn3p_GMw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin2VaGJh6da1DM2hRmA0jAYNo8_XanoipfrN-3FPBikx71Hemkb34Y5t2wZBW9OLpf9EbZpuMEMnb0o65rW31G6lTYoFVM9XRoMPOK-utACjLYxh827D5kI4HajqBsJtYSMDdwfsAEwKd90QO-jAi1-jQ54blSgvmOf0IeAu2ccBYB4MLFCOnn3p_GMw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Having brought their attention to this or that picture, he would step a little to the side and allow them to admire his work, standing there like a polite but slightly bored curator of some seldom-visited museum, a pathetic figure attired in over-sized clothes of woven... dust. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinbZrIDqSLCv4SILaUBIu_JlSlbwFDv8k-fF5KkQZbOJ21OyqbzGcUxpwsbT2nJY7W0ou3dkLlv_sVVU9XAmEQeC9hXAKXa-4WSq444oTFf9nIkoFWl3VGVxFyYdMgzuNuOstj_OijtQPaF5C3gY-VdMOKPYorVw3JdS_tbQzWdgSREhyifMOhJNSfrg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinbZrIDqSLCv4SILaUBIu_JlSlbwFDv8k-fF5KkQZbOJ21OyqbzGcUxpwsbT2nJY7W0ou3dkLlv_sVVU9XAmEQeC9hXAKXa-4WSq444oTFf9nIkoFWl3VGVxFyYdMgzuNuOstj_OijtQPaF5C3gY-VdMOKPYorVw3JdS_tbQzWdgSREhyifMOhJNSfrg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">His small ovoid face was as lifeless as a mask: his skin had the same faded complexion as his clothes and was just as slack, flabby; his lips were the same color as his skin but more full and taut; his hair shot out in tufts from his head, uncontrolled, weedy; and his eyes showed too much white, having to all appearances rolled up halfway into his forehead, as if they were trying to peek under it.</span></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-62444040481338802812023-05-01T22:03:00.004+02:002023-05-29T09:58:51.481+02:00Thomas Ligotti - The strange designs of Master Rignolo 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">Using OpenAI to illustrate my favorite Thomas Ligotti story, and to make my inner pictures visible for you. And for myself. First I fed the story text directly into the AI. Now I make my own description of what happens in the story. This works better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier;">It was well into evening and for some time Nolon had been been seated at a small table in a kind of park.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS5fM-n2kljMHlGxaEA4OmwkUaJ9sbg0Eon8vEoss6qbBHNgHJ5kQSJXfiWrkDN7rzVTapBOzjtMjlhUQ7Avs8gZnWEyU9SrUiqopDtPylyd42P4PcvmCu2nAYduxFu4XVMEvXyT6ZXol2Qt3EvPf3EBD_qVorqccKyza191156EghWrd0fLsFcfZfdQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS5fM-n2kljMHlGxaEA4OmwkUaJ9sbg0Eon8vEoss6qbBHNgHJ5kQSJXfiWrkDN7rzVTapBOzjtMjlhUQ7Avs8gZnWEyU9SrUiqopDtPylyd42P4PcvmCu2nAYduxFu4XVMEvXyT6ZXol2Qt3EvPf3EBD_qVorqccKyza191156EghWrd0fLsFcfZfdQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">This was a long, thin stretch of land - vaguely triangular in shape, like a piece of broken glass - </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRgnaApTeZJq0ts2lr7xzd4a74sql8iv_SweRZMsOm_2jVxJhHyiwCUbm8z9fFb3qdnaUyEyQUbaeVxb4uInAOecp0B4iAitqaUXlEH0BPlHlqoDG6ubKnxQy3o_6xQTZO6CwiUCPtCbBwzBYhCdvd7QJ3_5PVngwIchhl9DHHMP7mhbXBkhD5Qbsbaw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRgnaApTeZJq0ts2lr7xzd4a74sql8iv_SweRZMsOm_2jVxJhHyiwCUbm8z9fFb3qdnaUyEyQUbaeVxb4uInAOecp0B4iAitqaUXlEH0BPlHlqoDG6ubKnxQy3o_6xQTZO6CwiUCPtCbBwzBYhCdvd7QJ3_5PVngwIchhl9DHHMP7mhbXBkhD5Qbsbaw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">bordered by three streets of varying breadth, varying evenness of surface, and of varying stages of disintegration</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBpqvbVm1K3aaaQGQH-vHfiU2mEOLKLiHOJKgKBEd7_z7M3eBxDRtB-tGGpMr6ELo2dxAkdCWnAckC_2uAkEmXJ6jQNleYYFZR6P41DnzSj4uDT4o7JmBRXIWzXDHincSrsbVP2Jgx0BenMSKOTub2my8xRTKXSau4LBj5YOp4XH8fkWHQLaFN-hwYrw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBpqvbVm1K3aaaQGQH-vHfiU2mEOLKLiHOJKgKBEd7_z7M3eBxDRtB-tGGpMr6ELo2dxAkdCWnAckC_2uAkEmXJ6jQNleYYFZR6P41DnzSj4uDT4o7JmBRXIWzXDHincSrsbVP2Jgx0BenMSKOTub2my8xRTKXSau4LBj5YOp4XH8fkWHQLaFN-hwYrw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">as each thoroughfare succumbed in its own way and in its own time to the subtle but continuous movements of the slumbering earth below.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRu3UvCYJaUWvDwNoEnz6brLD10oLp0JP-SszaTzFjLN5eVtgpa4ZgkxVlN0fW_gimrDu3Qg78GlvpsVW0MyGBihczf_wbFwWnft2lNNbXk9Ge1qxvIhC0axlSj1hrXBBXl_ymqS0m_x0uoJDeZcOX79YHWk3r0jzeA0TC6w5N2pv0INbkelj6Rc6CSw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRu3UvCYJaUWvDwNoEnz6brLD10oLp0JP-SszaTzFjLN5eVtgpa4ZgkxVlN0fW_gimrDu3Qg78GlvpsVW0MyGBihczf_wbFwWnft2lNNbXk9Ge1qxvIhC0axlSj1hrXBBXl_ymqS0m_x0uoJDeZcOX79YHWk3r0jzeA0TC6w5N2pv0INbkelj6Rc6CSw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">From the far end of the park a figure in a dark overcoat was approaching Nolon's table, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghcQGIF5GjET2zK-brck8fp_dHI3YFr8-56n7LSz_VVtitAEPZk1iK9hZyWuArnQeyY-GshOyiKFkqkYeVDKfO3ZX2b6S8Y2jzrlGWTt8AEdgiaoOlY91DjT1N1Fyf2jrsO6a6CHAGA7gxfNNxevZo96H7vyo889dPZFJmGJwbmKqoUjwejHa_2DFjcA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghcQGIF5GjET2zK-brck8fp_dHI3YFr8-56n7LSz_VVtitAEPZk1iK9hZyWuArnQeyY-GshOyiKFkqkYeVDKfO3ZX2b6S8Y2jzrlGWTt8AEdgiaoOlY91DjT1N1Fyf2jrsO6a6CHAGA7gxfNNxevZo96H7vyo889dPZFJmGJwbmKqoUjwejHa_2DFjcA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">and it appeared there was going to be a meeting of some sort.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDrRIPpbDmfPaWe8wyXChKKd9n9wtg_CzDiYfqHxsf1W4IKBP6AQEwbNctx26YRfLdgTf1jpozer0RJR4Ns80lYAL8-EMg03U2VaP1iyLsOfrR6kS79d1PbqxxZbDLKdCFLAWAXnSOIzHNKUPbHm7XWLKi2-U5qxFcN47kdebpwwN2EbPVxE0ro0mmKg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDrRIPpbDmfPaWe8wyXChKKd9n9wtg_CzDiYfqHxsf1W4IKBP6AQEwbNctx26YRfLdgTf1jpozer0RJR4Ns80lYAL8-EMg03U2VaP1iyLsOfrR6kS79d1PbqxxZbDLKdCFLAWAXnSOIzHNKUPbHm7XWLKi2-U5qxFcN47kdebpwwN2EbPVxE0ro0mmKg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">There were other tables here and there, all of them unoccupied, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYzjB0tFvykM2PCdeku1JmY_clg-dYp1C_NqX5tYfR41A_Xq7dxRCDKZQhsOtQa8M1TjyJ0NGxKnSqMv8CiPpPhv7Ih-JL6pvqrW3a2ahviSrjAryY-aCy6J1iztIIB6Ooz-C9nFM7UkaEIWv3JQBxs1GUFxkF_qW3x8O5PxTcjlrIfxa5TznCbk27GA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYzjB0tFvykM2PCdeku1JmY_clg-dYp1C_NqX5tYfR41A_Xq7dxRCDKZQhsOtQa8M1TjyJ0NGxKnSqMv8CiPpPhv7Ih-JL6pvqrW3a2ahviSrjAryY-aCy6J1iztIIB6Ooz-C9nFM7UkaEIWv3JQBxs1GUFxkF_qW3x8O5PxTcjlrIfxa5TznCbk27GA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">but most of the park was unused ground covered with a plush, fuzzy kind of turf. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhqEBf4jTF-GWD00MlQaLWDYC01GvfnNx5rnd6WsRwVm0CIJVAG9mrjDKViwvgr2jdDOujlJfFtrtAD4mjIry10VwMnhTzAMz12HWHKJMy17Auffxxe5hpgb5tm3v16IXZSyxbHcGRsYXBpiaXuSHbGa4OBvgAeEGiErXFQ3Rb5B6Kw8gWIRToW7Ybng" style="font-family: courier; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhqEBf4jTF-GWD00MlQaLWDYC01GvfnNx5rnd6WsRwVm0CIJVAG9mrjDKViwvgr2jdDOujlJfFtrtAD4mjIry10VwMnhTzAMz12HWHKJMy17Auffxxe5hpgb5tm3v16IXZSyxbHcGRsYXBpiaXuSHbGa4OBvgAeEGiErXFQ3Rb5B6Kw8gWIRToW7Ybng=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">In the moonlight this densely woven pile of vegetation turned a soft shade of aquamarine, almost radiant. Beyond the thinning trees, stars were bright but without luster, as if they were made of luminous paper. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkK-vPL7tp437H4cDdwwtFqUK_Mik06SY3fgtAPyz6GXhPboZcMXehmd9I9fvAiq5Q9draKg6CeNjDyllMiH7E-vNFwLO6_RnFkWkULQu2mLtB4u05Ia-l5z_lJ2BHMKpsT1lPhrQPIi-242Obo2pe9TiPM98KZBMOOARS6Pe_yMhMgnULJdqQt8M5tw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkK-vPL7tp437H4cDdwwtFqUK_Mik06SY3fgtAPyz6GXhPboZcMXehmd9I9fvAiq5Q9draKg6CeNjDyllMiH7E-vNFwLO6_RnFkWkULQu2mLtB4u05Ia-l5z_lJ2BHMKpsT1lPhrQPIi-242Obo2pe9TiPM98KZBMOOARS6Pe_yMhMgnULJdqQt8M5tw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Around the park, a jagged line of high roofs, black and featureless, crossed the sky like the uneven teeth of an old saw.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFAsqL1gE4L5GSOWkte6L00puT_9VQZ57PqYYUJ2g4JbUa1zL8WP_haiW074VpB7HMdVOzjlUuWVJApxyvvXWMeC56apz8P7-Mjhsh_HT-aYQZVPl10L-ClCLJ2m7cjE37UFtOkL11AQDM_nyLSlq1MMNz9HxrS89TtRVcz3ycjBip_rVG6c3V2E_Rlw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFAsqL1gE4L5GSOWkte6L00puT_9VQZ57PqYYUJ2g4JbUa1zL8WP_haiW074VpB7HMdVOzjlUuWVJApxyvvXWMeC56apz8P7-Mjhsh_HT-aYQZVPl10L-ClCLJ2m7cjE37UFtOkL11AQDM_nyLSlq1MMNz9HxrS89TtRVcz3ycjBip_rVG6c3V2E_Rlw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Nolon was resting his hands at the edge of the small, nearly circular table. In the middle of the table a piece of candle flickered inside a misshapen bubble of green glass, and Nolon's face was bathed in a restless green glare. He too was wearing a dark overcoat, unbuttoned at the top to reveal a scarf of lighter shade stuffed inside it. The scarf was wrapped about Nolon's neck right to the base of his chin.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2TCGNgeTNFddQhndWWmAR_1nxcvpJbmjmpKVI_8DhAfdVaj5Tqkaeu_VCs4Ydr8PdzLJWfeGagv9K4tVjUswcrMm9cIsCfCavLnxD3rRHlXztCy_mqE-oIpFWpaPAplhZHnAeXAMhdhwdmExTuqatgEUWe3nPwjpkQeX-I87lrH8wa2hRgltbYgs_eA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2TCGNgeTNFddQhndWWmAR_1nxcvpJbmjmpKVI_8DhAfdVaj5Tqkaeu_VCs4Ydr8PdzLJWfeGagv9K4tVjUswcrMm9cIsCfCavLnxD3rRHlXztCy_mqE-oIpFWpaPAplhZHnAeXAMhdhwdmExTuqatgEUWe3nPwjpkQeX-I87lrH8wa2hRgltbYgs_eA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Every so often Nolon glanced up, not to look at Grissul as he proceeded across the park, but to try and catch sight of something in that lighted window across the street:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiH_B2MT-F-9DyrJFOXkZmYm8OpfZHgwZ6vT1h_cLJiWuvpZj3_RD6fhjGX7qoLrcXu30aQsTc8OAcZSjXTZDI9vHeDG5o3hmWosNOVyJG-Yl7VUcrfHG48v0kOi2klFtya-tHh7CwmNRAl-HkOfVQunnBAd_DxEFWI0XFjR1Hla6EpNa3uqFH9LGfCTA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiH_B2MT-F-9DyrJFOXkZmYm8OpfZHgwZ6vT1h_cLJiWuvpZj3_RD6fhjGX7qoLrcXu30aQsTc8OAcZSjXTZDI9vHeDG5o3hmWosNOVyJG-Yl7VUcrfHG48v0kOi2klFtya-tHh7CwmNRAl-HkOfVQunnBAd_DxEFWI0XFjR1Hla6EpNa3uqFH9LGfCTA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">a silhouette which at irregular intervals slipped in and out of view.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqL47JHJNssBeUs9O1ZfpO3MgSZyOEBgNd5hpcu_KJ8j_GvH_wM3cdOeFiKpuoFNais6O8NGtKjzQqZqeTsBBbi7B5mruzJBGOFaqsTGmsrwuHYdNVKvwyJzLezkVtb6Fd579wvtneD0p-KDCR8ai_GIAHSdpcaXBQm04Kf0pbDLG8hUOzl38rMMd8kg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1M2yMEUTsRjCuvbo14lAeTO77kLG9cKIa-3KzU78W5LHUefok4EIRGVMo-PnpLRqxnfDMHiPvjAkgBxCn4oyyfQLCGen8h8gp1HFdMc7XVhG9gU8CXKe3_R0xMCSJ7C2QKoQoX4m0s_p0iHd7n7G1Xpx7VnEnpRpLjSqRbHRx9OFS3KlNaA6OGY0qYA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1M2yMEUTsRjCuvbo14lAeTO77kLG9cKIa-3KzU78W5LHUefok4EIRGVMo-PnpLRqxnfDMHiPvjAkgBxCn4oyyfQLCGen8h8gp1HFdMc7XVhG9gU8CXKe3_R0xMCSJ7C2QKoQoX4m0s_p0iHd7n7G1Xpx7VnEnpRpLjSqRbHRx9OFS3KlNaA6OGY0qYA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">But the image of two tall, thin bottles could still be seen, their slender necks angled festively this way and that.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBeYTSFzB77c1D-PgxNqeQ94U3AM6UUuiCcthSboNMNhqpe_ptngHkG2SE1PlD2zjr2kZU0c248DwlWC0yf3a9bThENoGmMTJQVSfTMX_T1O48XEStpl5SCre1p5j8qLovR569e7OP9VeDYkLPo1vR7sM_a9P9yuG60dwgy_w0cBYV1_NaNz2jM6hMSw" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read, and see, the whole story here:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/04/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 1</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_3.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_4.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a> <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_5.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_7.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 6</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_9.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 7</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_17.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 8</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_20.html">Part 9</a>, <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2023/05/thomas-ligotti-strange-designs-of_27.html">Part 10</a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTLZp57TEatta2OQabRVAqNFppToKbHV7qrmtr-kpHKxqlup_ZLNXjFVQy3yT__BYneR-_LPKalHh7d4x0zhxzZ-xge1oDaPnq_rO8cGFghqvqyFLnrKklrRRhraZ1HzR7QOyakdTOO24s5kBtncdkztall_CB19IbSlivRswTjGa4CFBI2IN1WD1hw/s512/ligotti2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTLZp57TEatta2OQabRVAqNFppToKbHV7qrmtr-kpHKxqlup_ZLNXjFVQy3yT__BYneR-_LPKalHh7d4x0zhxzZ-xge1oDaPnq_rO8cGFghqvqyFLnrKklrRRhraZ1HzR7QOyakdTOO24s5kBtncdkztall_CB19IbSlivRswTjGa4CFBI2IN1WD1hw/w400-h400/ligotti2.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">“So I was going to tell you,” Grissul began, “that I was out in that field, the one behind those empty buildings at the edge of town where everything just slides away and goes off in all directions. And there’s a marsh by there, makes the ground a little, I don’t know, stringy or something. No trees, though, only a lot of wild grass, reeds, you know where I mean?”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQhilee4iBzwCT8rjG4vj8Yr-P682SkRFAeIBQInmebO31nMdevAb55a3mO9BD1ftwIzAz3D4UOHLvg7YcTr76DSINpsVUYn60kUtFmeHFs4V6zWfuRzSdYKazqtwIfJHhSdO587zJUJvXOCVBMpgjAPYCnleuZG0K4Zh8EiQwgm-8-wjoybtGza8MVA/s512/ligotti1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQhilee4iBzwCT8rjG4vj8Yr-P682SkRFAeIBQInmebO31nMdevAb55a3mO9BD1ftwIzAz3D4UOHLvg7YcTr76DSINpsVUYn60kUtFmeHFs4V6zWfuRzSdYKazqtwIfJHhSdO587zJUJvXOCVBMpgjAPYCnleuZG0K4Zh8EiQwgm-8-wjoybtGza8MVA/w400-h400/ligotti1.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm9pBM6-6ge236vugDon18jnLjvwSGHYAYbF8hAZonJpKDhKsYs9dkX2txz6QxFw2Gg-vxt1muwkbSNNid6mjoAw4wIhZ7dz6322sVlkQ1TcSQCg-qQEdTNnaHOQhJ-T_gl2kIDHfE0H_y9KLTkNiLa_OzTQHD41cKkxsL9xb2SHOroP9ZX07RFW63zg/s512/ligotti3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm9pBM6-6ge236vugDon18jnLjvwSGHYAYbF8hAZonJpKDhKsYs9dkX2txz6QxFw2Gg-vxt1muwkbSNNid6mjoAw4wIhZ7dz6322sVlkQ1TcSQCg-qQEdTNnaHOQhJ-T_gl2kIDHfE0H_y9KLTkNiLa_OzTQHD41cKkxsL9xb2SHOroP9ZX07RFW63zg/w400-h400/ligotti3.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">“This was a little before dark that I was there. A little before the stars began to come out. I really wasn’t planning to do anything, let me say that. I just walked some ways out onto the field, changed direction a few times, walked a ways more. Then I saw something through a blind of huge stalks of some kind, skinny as your finger but with these great spiky heads on top. And really very stiff, not bending at all, just sort of wobbling in the breeze. They might well have creaked, I don’t know, when I pushed my way through to see beyond them. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXAeR-hffpzXvixrCf-Ji-KeB_UxQnP9HnhM16fa-Vz67m9UL-b7ISBrnYRXH3imr-6qqKdagmgkLxLIiltdlURVmtytKGCl-lF0P8GyfmklShwTvKiD-FVlSxdxnSC7ozwCDBkbM4bKa9j5Yn1d6JBjMNo0bJ_VhePALjQS6IXE93SsZeQPMj2DvGxQ/s512/ligotti5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXAeR-hffpzXvixrCf-Ji-KeB_UxQnP9HnhM16fa-Vz67m9UL-b7ISBrnYRXH3imr-6qqKdagmgkLxLIiltdlURVmtytKGCl-lF0P8GyfmklShwTvKiD-FVlSxdxnSC7ozwCDBkbM4bKa9j5Yn1d6JBjMNo0bJ_VhePALjQS6IXE93SsZeQPMj2DvGxQ/w400-h400/ligotti5.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Then I knelt down to get a better look at what was there on the ground. I’m telling you, Mr. Nolon, it was right in the ground. It appeared to be a part of it, like—”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghRDSMzSXIubT-8OYk6t5H2vkZPhEnEYrG7d-3ZkWwYAgW3Vw8ZZxbYk3BSCDOsm-fxQhpT6GuGNzkgu60ERC2jxeE4B1D8vzCN2xQq1PZ0cdN3qIouk_RXe8IHukq9mI_d4_JcNTpzRqr3Uzb2_6rN7xu1u2POKDkjPRmhkiT2LwmSmd7H4BuzhELYg/s512/ligotti7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghRDSMzSXIubT-8OYk6t5H2vkZPhEnEYrG7d-3ZkWwYAgW3Vw8ZZxbYk3BSCDOsm-fxQhpT6GuGNzkgu60ERC2jxeE4B1D8vzCN2xQq1PZ0cdN3qIouk_RXe8IHukq9mI_d4_JcNTpzRqr3Uzb2_6rN7xu1u2POKDkjPRmhkiT2LwmSmd7H4BuzhELYg/w400-h400/ligotti7.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">“The face,” he said, leaning back in his chair. “It was right there, about the size of, I don’t know, a window or a picture hanging on a wall, except that it was in the ground and it was a big oval, not rectangular in any way. Just as if someone had partly buried a giant, or better yet, a giant’s mask. Only the edges of the face seemed not so much buried as, well, woven I guess you would say, right into the ground. The eyes were closed, not shut closed—it didn’t seem to be dead—but relaxed. The same with the lips, very heavy lips rubbing up against each other. Even complexion, ashy gray, and soft cheeks. They looked soft, I mean, because I didn’t actually touch them in any way. I think it was asleep.”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCRpF6js3kOCiXnvTfi3iLT0kDSKNQq3jAxKKW0q6XIU3rFVDIAr9zwUz0XAsGzD-LdmmFsBmlVOKa6V533SxcB2nmRYkF7f750nVsNP1_0iXvM3BZevARs---4b1CzJfjETv-Hw2YT2TKz_MxnMCHFOq0SxzgzX7UaoSzmueWsnve0cGLBL3jEAQrpA/s512/ligotti6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCRpF6js3kOCiXnvTfi3iLT0kDSKNQq3jAxKKW0q6XIU3rFVDIAr9zwUz0XAsGzD-LdmmFsBmlVOKa6V533SxcB2nmRYkF7f750nVsNP1_0iXvM3BZevARs---4b1CzJfjETv-Hw2YT2TKz_MxnMCHFOq0SxzgzX7UaoSzmueWsnve0cGLBL3jEAQrpA/w400-h400/ligotti6.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-75615281055543625532023-04-15T21:17:00.009+02:002023-04-15T21:19:38.812+02:00Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPCY0IKHNGkE3BuTTbGrs4TAIqP-G4u2El-uI8v4m4QLJZaB7h_mbNtDGUqc_OCM4Ol97YF0e8UJ9puN7Q28h9RE73ckDtAKdNbRHsr0JZK8asjhMNvprIUxKCsefmWWLjDnTWy5guvGBxfNq9dAXurDnDadUr5UnaiXRA6Vll-V5WCk0sp0yVKRBZxQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="311" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPCY0IKHNGkE3BuTTbGrs4TAIqP-G4u2El-uI8v4m4QLJZaB7h_mbNtDGUqc_OCM4Ol97YF0e8UJ9puN7Q28h9RE73ckDtAKdNbRHsr0JZK8asjhMNvprIUxKCsefmWWLjDnTWy5guvGBxfNq9dAXurDnDadUr5UnaiXRA6Vll-V5WCk0sp0yVKRBZxQ=w262-h400" width="262" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I had a chat about Cyclonopedia with ChatGPT. We agree on a lot of things. It's a difficult but fascinating book:<br /><br />The book is an ambitious attempt to use philosophy and literature to challenge conventional wisdom about the role of oil in contemporary society and to offer a new way of understanding the relationship between politics, economy, and the environment.<br /><br />To fully understand the philosophical ideas presented in "Cyclonopedia," some background in continental philosophy, particularly the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, may be helpful. However, one can still engage with the book's ideas without a deep knowledge of philosophy, as long as they are willing to approach the text with an open mind and a willingness to grapple with complex ideas.<br /><br />There are at least three layers of narrative in "Cyclonopedia." The first layer involves the narrator's search for the writings of the archaeologist, which serves as the overarching framework for the book. The second layer is the narrative of the archaeologist himself and his research on the connections between oil, culture, and history. And the third layer is the presentation of the archaeologist's ideas, which are interspersed throughout the book in the form of theoretical reflections, philosophical speculations, and allegorical fictions.<br /><br />In addition to these three layers, there are also other narrative threads that run throughout the book, including the themes of horror and science fiction, the use of metaphor and allegory, and the exploration of Middle Eastern politics and culture. These threads are intertwined with the main layers of the narrative, adding depth and complexity to the book's overall structure.<br /><br />The book presents a vision of the Middle East as a place where the lines between the past and the present, the natural and the supernatural, and the human and the non-human are blurred. The author argues that this "haunting" is not simply a metaphor, but is a real and tangible phenomenon that has shaped the region's history and politics.<p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-81273632119387407072023-04-10T11:00:00.002+02:002023-04-10T18:52:58.683+02:00From a strange planet - 61<h2 style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.vegvesen.no/trafikkinformasjon/reiseinformasjon/webkamera/#/vis/1129006_1" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">E134 Vats</a></h2><div style="text-align: center;">Do you see the white cube in the background?</div><div style="text-align: center;">We will search for it.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9aWp7zkgVtKJ6rmYJq_GQj0GpaqzRIaC-mEdOCh9H6AyKpFbSRXSOA0_ABZDJ7SptYweLC3Pr1PFImsa0_FEWaNtZO51fNMfdE7_jjjVyekCxNXbt62pMWLKDlF5XPJ8Fe3F_AudSf3OtNzYP9wp8yMqdmD0h5gG1300hhi1UY5H6xNaBdHtH1YqAUQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9aWp7zkgVtKJ6rmYJq_GQj0GpaqzRIaC-mEdOCh9H6AyKpFbSRXSOA0_ABZDJ7SptYweLC3Pr1PFImsa0_FEWaNtZO51fNMfdE7_jjjVyekCxNXbt62pMWLKDlF5XPJ8Fe3F_AudSf3OtNzYP9wp8yMqdmD0h5gG1300hhi1UY5H6xNaBdHtH1YqAUQ=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The woods are magical. They hint at hidden things behind them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And then there is the white unnatural object.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0LHFR8H9p2RB3VJH7L83JGIiaQXda3G6AeSHHur6x5c1GCUij8KHM74N9dbM12JnY25O5O-88DzBAaFmXIY2LrYCsAa4tEGSdIPMHK5rg5t6A0R5hPZTKbYjc1fPHA_pnjAqJz_jWtcqPYgxWiqfTcgIr9NT9cDXvyxCN0ZGbSwMrySCHi1hCedoV8w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="236" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0LHFR8H9p2RB3VJH7L83JGIiaQXda3G6AeSHHur6x5c1GCUij8KHM74N9dbM12JnY25O5O-88DzBAaFmXIY2LrYCsAa4tEGSdIPMHK5rg5t6A0R5hPZTKbYjc1fPHA_pnjAqJz_jWtcqPYgxWiqfTcgIr9NT9cDXvyxCN0ZGbSwMrySCHi1hCedoV8w=w400-h310" width="400" /></a></div><br />What could it be?<p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>It's most probable that the cube is a plastic water container. Plastic containers can sometimes be mistaken for cubes or rectangular shapes, and they can be used to store water or other liquids in outdoor environments.</li></ul><p></p><p>It could also be:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>A small bridge or culvert used to cross the stream</li><li>An old, abandoned concrete block or pillar</li><li>A survey marker or boundary stone</li><li>A discarded piece of construction or roadwork material</li><li>An outdoor artwork or sculpture</li><li>A naturally occurring white rock or mineral formation</li><li>An optical illusion caused by the lighting or camera angle</li><li>A small garden gnome or other decoration</li><li>A leftover prop or set piece from a movie or TV shoot</li><li>A piece of debris from a nearby aircraft or satellite.</li></ul><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Maybe we can <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@59.5700494,5.7027292,3a,40.6y,192.42h,92.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKMp034GnF9d6bnRJfIyOSA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">look on streetview</a>.</h2><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL_lIYFxxw1GUscyKHlNwDgoimk3jyB68G282hwuzb8OKAbd2fpKMU2FCnZQ81jBGmyE5lQP97bN0tF6DsMsCfbvnQwmplMqeZx_QA1Hh77C4mz-YRo9l3TQtwkMRVsbNMHFk_hl7k6KifmVIhforQy_m7LFy4YEdJSTtC4qcATjS07hnHG3D7NghxFw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="840" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL_lIYFxxw1GUscyKHlNwDgoimk3jyB68G282hwuzb8OKAbd2fpKMU2FCnZQ81jBGmyE5lQP97bN0tF6DsMsCfbvnQwmplMqeZx_QA1Hh77C4mz-YRo9l3TQtwkMRVsbNMHFk_hl7k6KifmVIhforQy_m7LFy4YEdJSTtC4qcATjS07hnHG3D7NghxFw=w400-h245" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's the cube again.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's not along stream, but along a gravel road.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5km2dgmseFw9iAxljE94h5PIgDU6b59r2HZdskUIXLMi12Qy7MVQ3DVVuidSQMyeWFTDTb-4_gWVoKhFf9xZZc-qDozvAN5b_Z7bQLa6P9na1xJ7zzy_007AVpISnus6nDL6OwRqd7IMvfIZ-q90jcNhP_aKprwTb1BMu1ClJPeSus9a9K7FsrjkXAw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="654" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5km2dgmseFw9iAxljE94h5PIgDU6b59r2HZdskUIXLMi12Qy7MVQ3DVVuidSQMyeWFTDTb-4_gWVoKhFf9xZZc-qDozvAN5b_Z7bQLa6P9na1xJ7zzy_007AVpISnus6nDL6OwRqd7IMvfIZ-q90jcNhP_aKprwTb1BMu1ClJPeSus9a9K7FsrjkXAw=w400-h296" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And indeed, it looks very much like a water container.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Those plastic ones with a mesh of tubing around them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJCwCBXs_grua7oPSmrjYPG0AMy_DjFIABs8zNk3QZ0vfEBWeddkAYFPHo58U-LEv4g4a_KdtM_a44a8LGC6F9fTNkWbpkcykUod1QVq5SHJGzuKMpDtk_So_4Xdr8TGgQmIpqh6HaiPkIrTWmFKOO_FiKKmF6apkp0TqZ92Ag1gHBygVMcAtXi_Nawg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="725" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJCwCBXs_grua7oPSmrjYPG0AMy_DjFIABs8zNk3QZ0vfEBWeddkAYFPHo58U-LEv4g4a_KdtM_a44a8LGC6F9fTNkWbpkcykUod1QVq5SHJGzuKMpDtk_So_4Xdr8TGgQmIpqh6HaiPkIrTWmFKOO_FiKKmF6apkp0TqZ92Ag1gHBygVMcAtXi_Nawg=w400-h278" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@59.5702642,5.7027386,3a,15y,36.27h,85.68t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s8LgsAGLBbHOrD3eiC-uq9Q!2e0!5s20181101T000000!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">2018 streetview</a> confirms this hypothesis.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5_U8KS2hQaX56XkAJMefaEW5Twqonxf-5swtSGwiXbEqYF6F3aRVcj92mJ5uuXhGudWP4of4y4P4urIySvYgvBuel1ClQ_eNgIUHIJNRS77XRpHy9vDDzb4vIh0NX7xjC0SwY_cil51QOxsy0908K1OpmzzMcyFUshn2_vRTrxxlzn4sJ6L0KNfBc_w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="453" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5_U8KS2hQaX56XkAJMefaEW5Twqonxf-5swtSGwiXbEqYF6F3aRVcj92mJ5uuXhGudWP4of4y4P4urIySvYgvBuel1ClQ_eNgIUHIJNRS77XRpHy9vDDzb4vIh0NX7xjC0SwY_cil51QOxsy0908K1OpmzzMcyFUshn2_vRTrxxlzn4sJ6L0KNfBc_w=w400-h329" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cube is visible on Google satellite view.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPtyYyHS2DDBQ1NGQwQjurtjgZSrxO8H8BUIJJtwTFWV-pumqRBHhZfM0SU5cwTyeAdbqomvItRmaVhQd7D_LjX6vm2zBlQPjChyGggyU1eCLh1VdGSVNDuX87wxvYT844FnX7d3sOaPgf80K2Vsx5tG11YtZn9xid2erRXMlmgpRnxbP2qZ6VYOdsIg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="452" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPtyYyHS2DDBQ1NGQwQjurtjgZSrxO8H8BUIJJtwTFWV-pumqRBHhZfM0SU5cwTyeAdbqomvItRmaVhQd7D_LjX6vm2zBlQPjChyGggyU1eCLh1VdGSVNDuX87wxvYT844FnX7d3sOaPgf80K2Vsx5tG11YtZn9xid2erRXMlmgpRnxbP2qZ6VYOdsIg=w400-h278" width="400" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe there is a suggestion of it on Microsoft satellite view.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv-PhymNUZHegy9v62Bsf6gIt857RVC2gemAeDF04SmwreIoUn1c7Qkm0s9FqElUiSAmF1vOIMvi7TpB_Gr1ujanFuUa-idvBaRiPq2KITQTbXO8U-rJnp9rleurV5e4ucgRGaV7_8fBgKIJnLNYti4cUu5VuuLatBJvv_3vYAZ5Wf0GpttwpNnA61Hg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="258" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv-PhymNUZHegy9v62Bsf6gIt857RVC2gemAeDF04SmwreIoUn1c7Qkm0s9FqElUiSAmF1vOIMvi7TpB_Gr1ujanFuUa-idvBaRiPq2KITQTbXO8U-rJnp9rleurV5e4ucgRGaV7_8fBgKIJnLNYti4cUu5VuuLatBJvv_3vYAZ5Wf0GpttwpNnA61Hg=w400-h360" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There's a trace of the gravel road on the topographic map.</div></div></div></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-25428058904834729242023-03-26T13:56:00.000+02:002023-03-26T13:56:11.433+02:00From a strange planet - 58<div style="text-align: center;">Here we discover two trees in the darkness.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Birch trees are very northern, Siberian and shamanic.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then we look at the water and the the hills shaping the the horizon.</div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=3000462_1&t=1679132820406" target="_blank">E39 Sokn 1</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@59.0556547,5.6738879,3a,90y,23.9h,92.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNfikml_-laIQvNtCS5_sHg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVNIFpMhSdlMLq1wO_GgmkV3BZ8BhkZgstEtko_BTjkRoK4Azz9PbR0QjfajBd1hlYw7NmGjRE51he_RjZaWJCm_zgY6Ru2LHNbygdoNaZjQLN0f6p0J9GQbbZqROAk-Abipk0wpimoePFIIoabfNw9u-s_HYeJPbnT0DQMt1zqqv4AC9pXUar9gaGIg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVNIFpMhSdlMLq1wO_GgmkV3BZ8BhkZgstEtko_BTjkRoK4Azz9PbR0QjfajBd1hlYw7NmGjRE51he_RjZaWJCm_zgY6Ru2LHNbygdoNaZjQLN0f6p0J9GQbbZqROAk-Abipk0wpimoePFIIoabfNw9u-s_HYeJPbnT0DQMt1zqqv4AC9pXUar9gaGIg=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Two ragged birch trees at a parking lot. A beautiful landscape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd5xpdEi_5daknGK6emtNhCM-_js3WBsbD5Y5MX6I4QXML4OLTT3Zrcj--E3MM8TZzd25XWeI5CxcTJYiXphvidcx6gFjAO0qfg7mfS3C1AgjTTZCsH1lT-rXdgxrXiECIXD6ePLvmHCjACugbBnts2CqqxSvWph0UNzLJ30_an8h0csWPWqq6QAok4g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="665" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd5xpdEi_5daknGK6emtNhCM-_js3WBsbD5Y5MX6I4QXML4OLTT3Zrcj--E3MM8TZzd25XWeI5CxcTJYiXphvidcx6gFjAO0qfg7mfS3C1AgjTTZCsH1lT-rXdgxrXiECIXD6ePLvmHCjACugbBnts2CqqxSvWph0UNzLJ30_an8h0csWPWqq6QAok4g=w400-h322" width="400" /></a></div>The same trees on streetview. From another direction.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8Gt-vzJsV6knNnSgBW4cmM_IqH1Hn7mEbnzpzxyOWUVB-gsxHKYtg53uRC7KFumN_QjP1weJWnu8E8G7S01SlS8CshmUG0Flbkq3pu_5pYHf4EyrSXs_b4HCPoSnIf5ZwvcoiWrzxNzao5DBzWcVuXQPRGw6uHxjAtwPIthaLrzrjuaAubaGdfloqUA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="875" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8Gt-vzJsV6knNnSgBW4cmM_IqH1Hn7mEbnzpzxyOWUVB-gsxHKYtg53uRC7KFumN_QjP1weJWnu8E8G7S01SlS8CshmUG0Flbkq3pu_5pYHf4EyrSXs_b4HCPoSnIf5ZwvcoiWrzxNzao5DBzWcVuXQPRGw6uHxjAtwPIthaLrzrjuaAubaGdfloqUA=w400-h269" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Similar trees can be seen on a Munch drawing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Edvard Munch - Norwegian Landscape</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee; text-decoration-line: underline;">Freeman's: Art and Design</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKU_meTh22pD6bx8PfuVZbtGmS0I6P1Dyy2bv3NTutlPiWhOQpWaJJPz7Suh0Lcr1KDstTnctC1wDQqTAUunTUbtK8Ugo0WEOWaZvn-RoFT9iuAhnJVCTyYSuFJ2wU3mf8SAhCeIBXFns1_BWGQ55YWW1Nsf_Wu5E6K_Qo2qEneIBaQP37QH8m6jbA3w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="152" data-original-width="221" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKU_meTh22pD6bx8PfuVZbtGmS0I6P1Dyy2bv3NTutlPiWhOQpWaJJPz7Suh0Lcr1KDstTnctC1wDQqTAUunTUbtK8Ugo0WEOWaZvn-RoFT9iuAhnJVCTyYSuFJ2wU3mf8SAhCeIBXFns1_BWGQ55YWW1Nsf_Wu5E6K_Qo2qEneIBaQP37QH8m6jbA3w=w400-h275" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Water, hills and mountains. And a buoy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMqqSiXV1lV752XzWuJBKpuKaWxudoIZtdLjYBC6-fwcCpHnYqr-0BrWkHQcHAhDeTCZwETPeXz90M3bzUNWeckXUtZauRDmgQQzhaz4jDJzzZb3ojbKKPqsd-v_8zpWHLWogZ98CMlfDz0HmMv9QbsD-kVASeK_dHSHKsnpa4snjcIlM6Mg37jYffBA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="832" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMqqSiXV1lV752XzWuJBKpuKaWxudoIZtdLjYBC6-fwcCpHnYqr-0BrWkHQcHAhDeTCZwETPeXz90M3bzUNWeckXUtZauRDmgQQzhaz4jDJzzZb3ojbKKPqsd-v_8zpWHLWogZ98CMlfDz0HmMv9QbsD-kVASeK_dHSHKsnpa4snjcIlM6Mg37jYffBA=w400-h148" width="400" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Buoys are always mysterious.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But they have so many literal meanings, that their symbolic meanings vanish into the noise.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;">A 1,200-pound Soviet buoy kicked up along the shores of Dania Beach after Hurricane Irma swept through town.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;">A mysterious iron sphere that washed up on a Japanese beach has baffled authorities and sent social-media users into a frenzy.</span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3GLpgYaYhwyxczsZDknNQY_MyW_n-3T4a8cm-4aEFiXZ83SIzDev7LD_6C3a1WZ58sGSPebuFTCe0AWnE1d3x3qXcTElTQhX5hvfy6UQ1AJSTGnQPtDSArd86ZtsKGFuZ4LPqIK0mIV5txIBbjCnT6mMKn0s7iJK8xB4BBoxgGqQCAqQhamza1ZJVVw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="385" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3GLpgYaYhwyxczsZDknNQY_MyW_n-3T4a8cm-4aEFiXZ83SIzDev7LD_6C3a1WZ58sGSPebuFTCe0AWnE1d3x3qXcTElTQhX5hvfy6UQ1AJSTGnQPtDSArd86ZtsKGFuZ4LPqIK0mIV5txIBbjCnT6mMKn0s7iJK8xB4BBoxgGqQCAqQhamza1ZJVVw=w400-h138" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are hills or mountains on the horizon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But they are far away. They are not on the island of Sokn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They are on the island of Åmøy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@59.0451245,5.7352584,3a,31.8y,264.37h,90.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s1ZaRjhh2_8oA68eKWUeIlw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D1ZaRjhh2_8oA68eKWUeIlw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D79.90421%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">A very old glacial landscape.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB9CoM4wZgXXZ-THhIzMbKK3B11BCaIvPyeW1jTbVt2ZnYo60RapItgPPy27z8SgOwEO0WTwfzcf_G1mgOQberJ3gJ8QBd8r6wLNMKowvkClgceH-Lyvyv--gM9C39mSJZOnlavvS_ETn04-BfrOk1K3fCLX4oTe9BDyRSY-Lt8_v5B9StyQDvXle67A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="689" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB9CoM4wZgXXZ-THhIzMbKK3B11BCaIvPyeW1jTbVt2ZnYo60RapItgPPy27z8SgOwEO0WTwfzcf_G1mgOQberJ3gJ8QBd8r6wLNMKowvkClgceH-Lyvyv--gM9C39mSJZOnlavvS_ETn04-BfrOk1K3fCLX4oTe9BDyRSY-Lt8_v5B9StyQDvXle67A=w400-h276" width="400" /></a></div></div></div></div></div>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-54332669015496389982023-01-01T14:11:00.002+01:002023-01-01T14:11:15.027+01:00From a strange planet - 57<p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote><blockquote>We still follow the E39. We look at night phenomena on the webcams and at people on streetview. We select from the first persons we see. We try to find matching pairs. We try to guess the story.</blockquote></blockquote><p></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=751511" target="_blank">Rv. 509 Sømmevågen</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.8957747,5.6424211,3a,89.8y,204.04h,110.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGA4cW-nbZBDsZDSWd0t0FA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipHZKVav0Kx7YGcJK0OCEWQiJm21-nlN4kKDkpl7vbB8dhURZqqFkPraegt_RVUu7ZoIgijc8N6l8pSNire-lFcDbvlzDkyOx_m1kTyh2MDXeaPIXakBEDn85CXuWH5bFnKefpbmOSxEykHUTr46BtWSbZ5deI7EtRT4DMpkOCtWuEX8Oms-Eoe-PI7A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="226" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipHZKVav0Kx7YGcJK0OCEWQiJm21-nlN4kKDkpl7vbB8dhURZqqFkPraegt_RVUu7ZoIgijc8N6l8pSNire-lFcDbvlzDkyOx_m1kTyh2MDXeaPIXakBEDn85CXuWH5bFnKefpbmOSxEykHUTr46BtWSbZ5deI7EtRT4DMpkOCtWuEX8Oms-Eoe-PI7A=w400-h350" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Talk to the UFO.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg76XgQM7jjwYXArf_X4KiifsJl2SvZGRruzh0JG-_hF3RPo6fwS8xBV4P4QhMcDX0UOSV3UzjQ0cPk9e9j9dLLwXNXjURNCXxKT7KCId7Y5Pici90jUIWtbqV89o0YXSodplg2SXsgeGYdUew_AkOat_zFRTa-qzMaKV48s0XyBlykpv4kRgFR5yEAKg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="567" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg76XgQM7jjwYXArf_X4KiifsJl2SvZGRruzh0JG-_hF3RPo6fwS8xBV4P4QhMcDX0UOSV3UzjQ0cPk9e9j9dLLwXNXjURNCXxKT7KCId7Y5Pici90jUIWtbqV89o0YXSodplg2SXsgeGYdUew_AkOat_zFRTa-qzMaKV48s0XyBlykpv4kRgFR5yEAKg=w400-h269" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=3135084" target="_blank">E39 Kiellandsmyra 1</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.9597411,5.7224605,3a,90y,4.34h,96.38t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sx_EBJ7h7PXQ3soav4STRgw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i39" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMrbUtke7kaIqssxmCLSSVleN2SeFdGKl8Y1x8mp0Ip9j97yOB-HQsQFcGJJl0IcQS_e8hIc87rk26CevCphirUshRUUf5C1vPsGo8mKTKqgUzp7UWL0yvjisFG5IRMONLl8QF6PXz3vomK0C6Oua2YrGacG7um--nJQXxYiDy54jbNoFjM77Zd18y3Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="309" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMrbUtke7kaIqssxmCLSSVleN2SeFdGKl8Y1x8mp0Ip9j97yOB-HQsQFcGJJl0IcQS_e8hIc87rk26CevCphirUshRUUf5C1vPsGo8mKTKqgUzp7UWL0yvjisFG5IRMONLl8QF6PXz3vomK0C6Oua2YrGacG7um--nJQXxYiDy54jbNoFjM77Zd18y3Q=w400-h364" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ignore the explosion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgdWqy1uxCl_I1y64U6A45lJtz7BpB5qavBOE7iLt3At4q07ABgVd4WAGdSDe19am-7H1nGCzox05k80GTzwtQ6xi9-m9mDclxqY_YcMClPyp25Aw964nTX4P8_q4xHC2tmXQkXeJJecyTXnZRddkZg6m0jBF3a6_j6BNtC7TfXNNsBJyXwDujQsvAkQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="614" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgdWqy1uxCl_I1y64U6A45lJtz7BpB5qavBOE7iLt3At4q07ABgVd4WAGdSDe19am-7H1nGCzox05k80GTzwtQ6xi9-m9mDclxqY_YcMClPyp25Aw964nTX4P8_q4xHC2tmXQkXeJJecyTXnZRddkZg6m0jBF3a6_j6BNtC7TfXNNsBJyXwDujQsvAkQ=w400-h233" width="400" /></a></div></div><h2><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=3135032" target="_blank">Rv. 509 Sundekrossen 2</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.9621237,5.6148054,3a,88.5y,197.36h,104.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMVJfMWfj2_gU_WyyCop4CQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmwuLIlhkSgyriri3jZj2LV0B1GAcUFLyKh7j28mgjdurBlT_nPMFPiiEtYJQZXVgbOJHEgarZ1RvebletWTwYDGdkhs7bZuAMiQFPWdagstftNNpswYv_NHIozieRoIGlEJXjItbKNrcWn-Xm6HaC4Z_XmlYz6KgN3Ry_XoZ5LJHXlLQv4dwRaO7dCg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="368" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmwuLIlhkSgyriri3jZj2LV0B1GAcUFLyKh7j28mgjdurBlT_nPMFPiiEtYJQZXVgbOJHEgarZ1RvebletWTwYDGdkhs7bZuAMiQFPWdagstftNNpswYv_NHIozieRoIGlEJXjItbKNrcWn-Xm6HaC4Z_XmlYz6KgN3Ry_XoZ5LJHXlLQv4dwRaO7dCg=w400-h319" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did not expect to be enlightened.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguvJzcUX_eN4xOHtH1JBky_LMeOGiC5e2yUHmnZFWQu2v9wEbQsaH6EFejLgrmWukw1y3_smNyM2ZkdoHxoPZtQbvEjSrOyk4gu_p0PtGPJqoW4JpSVmDsOOJMHz2raxlFhWUxrQoBQnGihWOpDJWthfTVotSyGMnNXA3zHF8qitxJ_w6raIwvDw6STg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="619" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguvJzcUX_eN4xOHtH1JBky_LMeOGiC5e2yUHmnZFWQu2v9wEbQsaH6EFejLgrmWukw1y3_smNyM2ZkdoHxoPZtQbvEjSrOyk4gu_p0PtGPJqoW4JpSVmDsOOJMHz2raxlFhWUxrQoBQnGihWOpDJWthfTVotSyGMnNXA3zHF8qitxJ_w6raIwvDw6STg=w400-h261" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">We will light some fireworks tonight.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYcfWxaPxvkK70iOFE0d8PiMt7WJ7KuHfhrG5JFCMy4WOcCJimLDdvDMZUY4cyMmMMd3vjUuUsEhGOHMWD8H47ay_SRDfcW9D1n8HiDAli8R2YlpYf6H6XfZVK3mqr2bRXLAV_XGgXJPVYFJ7o6OlFZiUZB_cUXwkqD0vkZTAp2OPBKHxTfISC5yDGNw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="749" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYcfWxaPxvkK70iOFE0d8PiMt7WJ7KuHfhrG5JFCMy4WOcCJimLDdvDMZUY4cyMmMMd3vjUuUsEhGOHMWD8H47ay_SRDfcW9D1n8HiDAli8R2YlpYf6H6XfZVK3mqr2bRXLAV_XGgXJPVYFJ7o6OlFZiUZB_cUXwkqD0vkZTAp2OPBKHxTfISC5yDGNw=w400-h264" width="400" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=444685" target="_blank">E39 Rennesøy</a> - <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2020/12/from-strange-planet-26.html" target="_blank">We were here before</a></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirRxEx2s-Ed4hoyteR__AKAt1LQKPmiqDmOZRG85S1AGRbGb-ZDX_-rwJ4DqFtsfpXxnBNeDnTDXFP42-4bQKsqMYGIgbuap_JXwK3veP6lsuIGSHyM3nNzAluWZW1ab_EoVZPPnybmjQQtga6rlTSsOZQfDZYKu4HIDjEj7eNYHbsNoPWS-_46nh7tQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="659" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirRxEx2s-Ed4hoyteR__AKAt1LQKPmiqDmOZRG85S1AGRbGb-ZDX_-rwJ4DqFtsfpXxnBNeDnTDXFP42-4bQKsqMYGIgbuap_JXwK3veP6lsuIGSHyM3nNzAluWZW1ab_EoVZPPnybmjQQtga6rlTSsOZQfDZYKu4HIDjEj7eNYHbsNoPWS-_46nh7tQ=w400-h260" width="400" /></a></div></div><h2><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=935906" target="_blank">E39 Mortavika ferjekai 2</a> - <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2020/12/from-strange-planet-26.html" target="_blank">We were here before</a></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXbZ2uIPCPQAGC1tuih8DUeq8i08YPtRYvvGdy2jQ11BISVoqJLXn_0rdGszYnu2F9LWDAb5QipPcM9XmjPsaYPySuKxg13y6PwkuF-XGy5L5qWhhqOjWR8Ia2Tbi7lzPsjOhlKK0ZlPqP2E9zNndwVfjTl9WZD5kmHgQaMoHWJnUFcT390vDhMhGnYA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="277" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXbZ2uIPCPQAGC1tuih8DUeq8i08YPtRYvvGdy2jQ11BISVoqJLXn_0rdGszYnu2F9LWDAb5QipPcM9XmjPsaYPySuKxg13y6PwkuF-XGy5L5qWhhqOjWR8Ia2Tbi7lzPsjOhlKK0ZlPqP2E9zNndwVfjTl9WZD5kmHgQaMoHWJnUFcT390vDhMhGnYA=w400-h305" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This direction is blocked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQ-Y1DBReUIeK-KCCZ1cAB8ciNVJSAFsdMN9eRCKEvv0aq4XnlV4ztu6I-Vj4L-bZiXrRYEGtVCdVEX4eO3SH5r7-oT9LSY4JLIuokGlGr_s5tTnrTQCKrHjzKYDYTOMJK7jdejwpoH4oKyMXE7ac8i1krt4wf8W4LzDUVeViUslDfelruo56VUTp0sg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="700" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlMGe13-XtHMlh157fVWx5FKFoMsmkPgeSJJgYNpBp8u9RJH4BnCn9vsKFqX8z2jJdzP80pnLLjW4Kki4dwS9EduBrtsEw23wGAU0Cz4KVrbdPTrguETuNGYIkRoqEamDPQKujbB1CHCx71tbscaVl8E99X8x8YowGiia7gDbXDUUdG8uMl8AMMSVe0w=w400-h274" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2 style="clear: both;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=178258" target="_blank">E39 Forus 1</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.8842673,5.7182703,3a,90y,126.29h,99.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1D8HnW9FXkoIU2Gv6ptVAg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div>From a standard bridge to a screensaver landscape:</div><div>Notice the bird!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwL3fqqAN26m7rJjBD8xlXPYodLuzgaO0rLgni1Gb18GyTg79Nx-rq7lD-aE6guqZWQeNBmv7bSOPsZXRb47rSQDxJhmTnoXc8KR39ny5gaSMbNW5IOGgiUCjMH4LbRMOKW23aV5XoMwLRuxN1_koGtsZbfoD2VX5dWTKCpRLaeAOfb39q-GrKwsWrVA" style="margin-left: 1em; 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A powerful symbol!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZRANiP9UWSGwUV5GHHP_aKXSNmN2KsnacbHBU6Fe0RgC1EARH7ueXePPDbBScpoh7DBRnVLfANlVEuKov-8w4Kg-1_AmjEyB5I9hNYstWx3OUFYVX8ZRvI8mmSmRy760sSWkdsgLXOVVKyz-BjCNtu6ThyqCXbMLB6Jk2SNTfpeweuANL3APpELAcEg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="1254" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZRANiP9UWSGwUV5GHHP_aKXSNmN2KsnacbHBU6Fe0RgC1EARH7ueXePPDbBScpoh7DBRnVLfANlVEuKov-8w4Kg-1_AmjEyB5I9hNYstWx3OUFYVX8ZRvI8mmSmRy760sSWkdsgLXOVVKyz-BjCNtu6ThyqCXbMLB6Jk2SNTfpeweuANL3APpELAcEg=w400-h185" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Approach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNDPSUVzfc-kT3gcUGXfUJw3OeQGUYUrbPQ3kyC9n5MTi7FhjJoZ0zHKeOu9v7F5QI95zVM8CHpukpasz94vn2B0T9qCn5ikOKqLqjsz4tqWFShTQ-j6RS8C52GlxV7KBv9pb6mur4XUQWf4AGRLlDJGKZjLqAZFidxIowwSMwjxPM6zYDWUG_mTJnDw" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Approach.</div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_RiRKo0VyXkkYXSGxJvfeL8TRaNQrsUdjFSi-m37WIgzGjcuyXe_PGpdykcSBXf1ywR3uYPppz85tBxNNVb5qHgvDyAyv9m56xTOaEbcRHmRPx1AQSsBlanDBesttjRCV01X6zwp0arOaVLlhTuGrlLH6opsXfw4yINMH2bFci6T4GyWek2Q03hGKhQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1031" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_RiRKo0VyXkkYXSGxJvfeL8TRaNQrsUdjFSi-m37WIgzGjcuyXe_PGpdykcSBXf1ywR3uYPppz85tBxNNVb5qHgvDyAyv9m56xTOaEbcRHmRPx1AQSsBlanDBesttjRCV01X6zwp0arOaVLlhTuGrlLH6opsXfw4yINMH2bFci6T4GyWek2Q03hGKhQ=w400-h251" width="400" /></a></div></div></div></div><h2 style="clear: both;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=3135046" target="_blank">Fv. 441 Madlaveien 1</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.9545087,5.693911,3a,50.3y,209.07h,97.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxYGi88I-VzYc6P3pSyHInA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div>From the tree to the art museum:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHhKgS5nDcXiwQ6Y-KuqUWidcmYvs9oCyYZ315GYZTwkoTfGHxvLG3Mrggt5QgxP25zs44Wf9tqTAX4vTYYX9nv9LIOuT4Z351iuCB3X9EYXCE6ZsoUw4qjMBMgfP2q8TQxA0yQWSgtzEiM78VhHMjqA2OguFAJrQ6qneoKAbOUKwp9Nf_UYUihQIGIA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHhKgS5nDcXiwQ6Y-KuqUWidcmYvs9oCyYZ315GYZTwkoTfGHxvLG3Mrggt5QgxP25zs44Wf9tqTAX4vTYYX9nv9LIOuT4Z351iuCB3X9EYXCE6ZsoUw4qjMBMgfP2q8TQxA0yQWSgtzEiM78VhHMjqA2OguFAJrQ6qneoKAbOUKwp9Nf_UYUihQIGIA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The camera points into a tree. Nice!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhde1Bwa53988C_ZgLRTd7su0z9eUZenUwKcgBT2cELgstCopzZMOBBC_S0wMYPKsJ3uFmN3e7OUCmAwndOaIXOLziIxoA3iOV4mpRQ20lTKtBDJOyJJi0iMXz2tBO60X6nXN_VHmEio-AqTIRJDhqqoA5Nyn5OPGI8YiOGlTnpOgTNrFqZ0IX8TBCBEA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhde1Bwa53988C_ZgLRTd7su0z9eUZenUwKcgBT2cELgstCopzZMOBBC_S0wMYPKsJ3uFmN3e7OUCmAwndOaIXOLziIxoA3iOV4mpRQ20lTKtBDJOyJJi0iMXz2tBO60X6nXN_VHmEio-AqTIRJDhqqoA5Nyn5OPGI8YiOGlTnpOgTNrFqZ0IX8TBCBEA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div>In winter you can see through the tree, of course.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5cwFmgCJt2vbha6znqSw_9HuJuLIQkyP6OROB0ah9hqHCIc8bt3OzrbtuahLUw2lFmSxK0wePxfXq4OjkyZk4D2p3ifTkwJhgJgYQQE9_rLUOXFYhzDPSWb7LAEuxRNU2J8OB8LulemubpywUrPSIY2taVTEOBYLG5RRjGw4IHqw0jvUahd7pgOHPuQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="460" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5cwFmgCJt2vbha6znqSw_9HuJuLIQkyP6OROB0ah9hqHCIc8bt3OzrbtuahLUw2lFmSxK0wePxfXq4OjkyZk4D2p3ifTkwJhgJgYQQE9_rLUOXFYhzDPSWb7LAEuxRNU2J8OB8LulemubpywUrPSIY2taVTEOBYLG5RRjGw4IHqw0jvUahd7pgOHPuQ=w400-h340" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Near the Stavanger art museum. A living hyper-realist sculpture.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjayCupXjO8lw4F6tGSLmqxiZlUP_h3TNoGLoy23ht1I8yrPOSrHAqastA4_9GDH8bsH9h2ksWEgcPHrK7apkCnm8aGPqMlkpal8ISmBqpdV18bYamNkZ415Q-H417O0Iiqajs9POBf_lBYARAmG6B4GJiIwTEwZmO4NSxL91xsPdy8U-fQ7z4BSULv1w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="572" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjayCupXjO8lw4F6tGSLmqxiZlUP_h3TNoGLoy23ht1I8yrPOSrHAqastA4_9GDH8bsH9h2ksWEgcPHrK7apkCnm8aGPqMlkpal8ISmBqpdV18bYamNkZ415Q-H417O0Iiqajs9POBf_lBYARAmG6B4GJiIwTEwZmO4NSxL91xsPdy8U-fQ7z4BSULv1w=w400-h219" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Art in front of the museum coffee shop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://stavangerkunstmuseum.no/events/ruth-asawa-citizen-of-the-universe" target="_blank">At this moment</a>, the museum has an exhibit of the art of <a href="https://ruthasawa.com/" target="_blank">Ruth Asawa</a>.</div></div></div></div></div>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-3080065865593501672022-12-25T12:11:00.005+01:002022-12-25T12:11:42.367+01:00From a strange planet - 52<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.opentopia.com/webcam/16026?viewmode=savedstill">Young Circle Park - a webcam in Hollywood</a></h2><p style="text-align: center;">This is a dead webcam. From the comments I conclude it stopped working in 2017:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Rain Shadow 09/09/17 23:15 - </span><span style="font-family: courier;">Just to add to the Irma misery, </span><span style="font-family: courier;">there are now tornadoes being reported in some areas. </span><span style="font-family: courier;">MD 09/09/17 23:27 - </span><span style="font-family: courier;">What a position to be in - Irma to the south and tornadoes to the north.</span></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqA97higms4myGlYV95NqLdsWQJESNr5vMI1Gyh6OPaOyha6xB92WhNjQ6olQhvD4bpIaQBRpCP3D2FDPBmlMc1PRWUyhVUHdFHWhZshb5W7PsOi36Yu-Ce73xcYrOIeSXV7bnTJUp7PSGhUGuTYq3I2bHbn5LXP5g5BBYTrFTkIJu_edrsM-fBrsrqQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="704" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqA97higms4myGlYV95NqLdsWQJESNr5vMI1Gyh6OPaOyha6xB92WhNjQ6olQhvD4bpIaQBRpCP3D2FDPBmlMc1PRWUyhVUHdFHWhZshb5W7PsOi36Yu-Ce73xcYrOIeSXV7bnTJUp7PSGhUGuTYq3I2bHbn5LXP5g5BBYTrFTkIJu_edrsM-fBrsrqQ=w400-h272" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The indeterminacy of the picture<a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2018/03/from-strange-planet-13.html" target="_blank"> reminds me of Ed Ruscha</a>, once again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCV3vYHgHaXHxu4PMJwOgFIZjQ0R-FzOHfUA2vEnEbhsJ55M2o-kCMhjlFYYZYeWRngsw3vDkj8eJfzV6v2FYvHvOiLOWZniyINn3fuEtIAqosSLwz34dgzJT2bEt77PjaogpvDGMdGG9N-FjK3dIppPROsrzeMjnTqSV8noBAvglzaR4J3VjA5ciegw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="704" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCV3vYHgHaXHxu4PMJwOgFIZjQ0R-FzOHfUA2vEnEbhsJ55M2o-kCMhjlFYYZYeWRngsw3vDkj8eJfzV6v2FYvHvOiLOWZniyINn3fuEtIAqosSLwz34dgzJT2bEt77PjaogpvDGMdGG9N-FjK3dIppPROsrzeMjnTqSV8noBAvglzaR4J3VjA5ciegw=w400-h272" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And imagine, somewhere on a server is a file, containing a five year old, forgotten picture from a dead webcam. The webcam is gone, but its memories remain visible.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPOxa3QH_sGbS9rOe_yIyO-5ClXY9t1OWJF9-Zmejxt1wHj5f3rKI3qgAk15uSOsqIuwUUaObm5VFGmhtbJOx_xSRI6qH-S1k52aOjLixy3mgP62_LkxRF6bUfwFn04k9flQ8Xl9bZPpf8qb2-Of2_Pi9K8REulkJk9zxv9rqhA1kUtWb0q9YUE_Ywgg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="367" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPOxa3QH_sGbS9rOe_yIyO-5ClXY9t1OWJF9-Zmejxt1wHj5f3rKI3qgAk15uSOsqIuwUUaObm5VFGmhtbJOx_xSRI6qH-S1k52aOjLixy3mgP62_LkxRF6bUfwFn04k9flQ8Xl9bZPpf8qb2-Of2_Pi9K8REulkJk9zxv9rqhA1kUtWb0q9YUE_Ywgg=w400-h175" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK1SrlSfdvLfSrJ1LAsFhgB4ulpeNZtVb10VGZqDoH7tNqsMScR8Fzzy0_Z2WMvEZkePya91BGWTSLSx6mtF5nAN1jg1Hq8skyZEpav4sGlhH--U9KnwG1rcoUhGIYtIqpQabXvDHfASUUibMF_zhnBE3NCKtJBGOSJbOhtuAV_B0T8DLANdgFU4-VSw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="362" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK1SrlSfdvLfSrJ1LAsFhgB4ulpeNZtVb10VGZqDoH7tNqsMScR8Fzzy0_Z2WMvEZkePya91BGWTSLSx6mtF5nAN1jg1Hq8skyZEpav4sGlhH--U9KnwG1rcoUhGIYtIqpQabXvDHfASUUibMF_zhnBE3NCKtJBGOSJbOhtuAV_B0T8DLANdgFU4-VSw=w400-h178" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are the coordinates - Facility:Young Circle Park, City:Hollywood, State/Region:Florida, Country:United States, Coordinates:25.736300 / -80.404400, Local time:05:46</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But entering the coordinates in Google <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@25.7366533,-80.403752,3a,75y,241.19h,96.19t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sL51x0k_7hwU0Sif-ZKkaEA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DL51x0k_7hwU0Sif-ZKkaEA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D88.61595%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">points us to a wrong place</a>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1rYbbTcxsszOxj5sC9FCQPrdx5tsZzuMuZrSurTBxX5KNTBTMx3sj7cn2rzMcEl0M4NK--y_tbdUr-u5RA2Uj8CCqX1g6yFQJ097Aj69Tlg15RyRIlRnd7XkVHFWZRu3-Q8rSCL9UeL8RBgaXWXMx43XiQuYrlpnVdcsBuL4_8DDv2BbfLbDPz5yg0g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="818" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1rYbbTcxsszOxj5sC9FCQPrdx5tsZzuMuZrSurTBxX5KNTBTMx3sj7cn2rzMcEl0M4NK--y_tbdUr-u5RA2Uj8CCqX1g6yFQJ097Aj69Tlg15RyRIlRnd7XkVHFWZRu3-Q8rSCL9UeL8RBgaXWXMx43XiQuYrlpnVdcsBuL4_8DDv2BbfLbDPz5yg0g=w400-h215" width="400" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-74572815581753040112022-12-16T14:37:00.001+01:002022-12-16T14:42:23.733+01:00From a strange planet - 53<p><b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;">Irish webcam churches viewed as a focus of the landscape</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"> Since my discovery of the Irish church webcams I've been inspired to look at these churches from two viewpoints:</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">The first one is the traditional Catholic viewpoint of the the Real Presence of Christ, which I tend to feel most intensely in the empty church at night, when the only light in the church shines from the altar lamp. For me this is a deeply significant, almost mystical experience. And I feel it even through the medium of the webcam, in the night.</li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">The second one is inspired by an experience during an Irish bus ride. When we drove past a church one of the older men on the bus made the sign of the Cross. This made me aware that the Real Presence was not only felt and acknowledged in the vicinity of the Tabernacle, but maybe from all places where the church was visible.</li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">So, in the investigations below, I present the view of the church at night, and then I explore the visibility of the in the surrounding landscape. I try to find the furthest places that are influenced by the presence of the church as their focal point. I hope you enjoy this exploration as much as I do.</li></ul><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.churchmedia.tv/knockbridge" target="_blank">Knockbridge, Dundalk</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@53.9722232,-6.4846805,3a,75y,10.98h,92.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sht-vz6g3Yq4NMoj2IZXE0Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXWjsa2wpYJF5P9VVNwjClye7cQ51TB6Fputr6qLDP95LKUlVWhuN1UK7mlOMNaIz9yvbm4FcFA_jrWip3nwgvOXFoqM2JOyXjwA4QfdhGXsMfdJj8uBPcP7y4w8eFjEk1BRuFZ4e1trTvOsEtIrCbpRegzByGTRYB-ihNKwvjn5_ydiGrKKU8gt9X0Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="1050" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXWjsa2wpYJF5P9VVNwjClye7cQ51TB6Fputr6qLDP95LKUlVWhuN1UK7mlOMNaIz9yvbm4FcFA_jrWip3nwgvOXFoqM2JOyXjwA4QfdhGXsMfdJj8uBPcP7y4w8eFjEk1BRuFZ4e1trTvOsEtIrCbpRegzByGTRYB-ihNKwvjn5_ydiGrKKU8gt9X0Q=w400-h233" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpBxxQY_2PZhWaXeqRB16JQV8rbBM_L4lyV-Nex_mgiZlFaVk4RtQTgOIYFtSSm3sh6ssIgQ532LZX_eDl6QNHuYmkc__2m_IaFnLgkmeKna9jGU28HTqBYeebfnuFj9AzcTTmllfgU77/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="1359" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpBxxQY_2PZhWaXeqRB16JQV8rbBM_L4lyV-Nex_mgiZlFaVk4RtQTgOIYFtSSm3sh6ssIgQ532LZX_eDl6QNHuYmkc__2m_IaFnLgkmeKna9jGU28HTqBYeebfnuFj9AzcTTmllfgU77/w400-h205/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The church (Parochial House) by day and by night.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizF37TW71PCaeiOUxm-ofkL5PTB1K_Ma029cVISaP1q-Wvyto5GR2UzDMvBOfyvLINO5icQ8qB6qD7n3QrJdWXtEGhszQqkvGgOxRisObKPc-PzIf5-z3uTL8_G-ygatle0FxZVemrJLYnQ4hHsN_XHS9mL3q9_gUkp41hoSttRoj7GIQ_O5KwQgB0wA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="846" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizF37TW71PCaeiOUxm-ofkL5PTB1K_Ma029cVISaP1q-Wvyto5GR2UzDMvBOfyvLINO5icQ8qB6qD7n3QrJdWXtEGhszQqkvGgOxRisObKPc-PzIf5-z3uTL8_G-ygatle0FxZVemrJLYnQ4hHsN_XHS9mL3q9_gUkp41hoSttRoj7GIQ_O5KwQgB0wA=w400-h249" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The church from close by.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-4l8K72Edtr1XK0zCC9B-mojwBMlCHi5zDWVPK2z4nRk85JngHO2HQpFPK-6ezkwB8XuoRIAiVO3J_WU0PiVEDH3dKwmvt9kYTi0t7D3yX2TaPdbcTCbhz-eqg_9RM1SxmBk7W_kz4ccNtGLh0jVikkLdTCWBEP2KCctrXWME1Gc-f93uTqhdOf_2lg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="992" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-4l8K72Edtr1XK0zCC9B-mojwBMlCHi5zDWVPK2z4nRk85JngHO2HQpFPK-6ezkwB8XuoRIAiVO3J_WU0PiVEDH3dKwmvt9kYTi0t7D3yX2TaPdbcTCbhz-eqg_9RM1SxmBk7W_kz4ccNtGLh0jVikkLdTCWBEP2KCctrXWME1Gc-f93uTqhdOf_2lg=w400-h206" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From the back entrance.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRlA6sUgY4msx84vyUwGkZwEt7IYk5NjBGnc-Xqs2n2FgGLXwOBHFHaEf8BP9iIl70FEU10Wqq8h7P6TS_CzQhXVZ40R8yYlCYVL8C2h9VMFWAsdbFAiSnViIziV60IgOH-nXwFkrkl-S_cYe9kdJvGEnvTgCb5jw-UAXDoN-cMGAV4-C5MFDkL1zGvQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="604" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRlA6sUgY4msx84vyUwGkZwEt7IYk5NjBGnc-Xqs2n2FgGLXwOBHFHaEf8BP9iIl70FEU10Wqq8h7P6TS_CzQhXVZ40R8yYlCYVL8C2h9VMFWAsdbFAiSnViIziV60IgOH-nXwFkrkl-S_cYe9kdJvGEnvTgCb5jw-UAXDoN-cMGAV4-C5MFDkL1zGvQ=w400-h241" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From a nearby street.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibWxE5ZJ5h17k29GGEUVwEciUqq1vcwuuz81_r52c-hl2XG0hIjZO-tYjBqZ09wD5FEJWJ82Ysx4s6lXtIENn5niI30Qu80Z2tcZ1UkIa6hPzNRECeVkPYfGQHsJP5_HbNJOzpW2jtZeo2srYEbnHDXibTyhCgs7eTDSrcpLFEOT7YV_udeA6vrpgQkA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="1145" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibWxE5ZJ5h17k29GGEUVwEciUqq1vcwuuz81_r52c-hl2XG0hIjZO-tYjBqZ09wD5FEJWJ82Ysx4s6lXtIENn5niI30Qu80Z2tcZ1UkIa6hPzNRECeVkPYfGQHsJP5_HbNJOzpW2jtZeo2srYEbnHDXibTyhCgs7eTDSrcpLFEOT7YV_udeA6vrpgQkA=w400-h189" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From another nearby street.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSHXMU5wAqFiuakY8kLI0eErqVGy_Z3158ipbFfmUSOCYYjy8qHuPCQhyTUiUalOOv_f9iQTkVL8sgDTB6Sdv0JNxGxIcXiDzjkddq9yNMVgo5lrWnrUrGcJXWOWgnmwPBkvtF4CopV8Fz-QhjNry_Y8lnazL8eG1EcEuT7HAT--Y2HTNxsQOhJHPT7Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="842" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSHXMU5wAqFiuakY8kLI0eErqVGy_Z3158ipbFfmUSOCYYjy8qHuPCQhyTUiUalOOv_f9iQTkVL8sgDTB6Sdv0JNxGxIcXiDzjkddq9yNMVgo5lrWnrUrGcJXWOWgnmwPBkvtF4CopV8Fz-QhjNry_Y8lnazL8eG1EcEuT7HAT--Y2HTNxsQOhJHPT7Q=w400-h228" width="400" /></a></div>Invisible on the horizon.</div></div></div></div><h2 style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.churchmedia.tv/church-of-the-immaculate-conception-kilkerley" target="_blank">Immaculate Conception, Kilkerley</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@54.0067524,-6.468329,3a,75y,312.11h,88.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKwkd8_YD3wxbclzOoqBM2w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwioQpoEivd6CS0q7uPx2vmUB_6AfBkJdbvULorO0LzDJtSOaDKlA_ioONjRaJGxSH5JxNaNx5jzuJndiShsCtv1V9q_tj0QTuGy_WVUTE43-_p2da30yziIOrLdYBOQWRoNDwcH8HRBr1/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">The church by night and by day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSfUzTbTVMNy-cSXVQevoW8vSBqj3dsVgBjirto3wIEg6A4V2k5dmZ5oco-hRmnJYJPBL6jY5tTAhXs2Qqbv7Rx99MvrclSkjbQokRQF59YGlQ22lMipk2pJ7UZKfma8HB9m_HzQAhxStn4z_939mBrxn8q-M8-UL9j0xSNleF4g03eKy8Kmq1YZKiYA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="1009" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSfUzTbTVMNy-cSXVQevoW8vSBqj3dsVgBjirto3wIEg6A4V2k5dmZ5oco-hRmnJYJPBL6jY5tTAhXs2Qqbv7Rx99MvrclSkjbQokRQF59YGlQ22lMipk2pJ7UZKfma8HB9m_HzQAhxStn4z_939mBrxn8q-M8-UL9j0xSNleF4g03eKy8Kmq1YZKiYA=w400-h210" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From near by.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOBC6gsJFekPc1KPneeZW63mRDMYfj0VCxv5_mrJVkEHvlD5MfYleq9jy0QLEnQwBvcHQeYi05uKbrlvYlYHZMkPqqvS5rRhKbrpY7PqTkVbfgZlOYQQ0BLc4iIJBeNgQvgFBhdSYFArxwwvHHaM_mIPOQ3W7BFM9W5s0x-naAwGeS9ngM4IuxJSHr0A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="1195" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOBC6gsJFekPc1KPneeZW63mRDMYfj0VCxv5_mrJVkEHvlD5MfYleq9jy0QLEnQwBvcHQeYi05uKbrlvYlYHZMkPqqvS5rRhKbrpY7PqTkVbfgZlOYQQ0BLc4iIJBeNgQvgFBhdSYFArxwwvHHaM_mIPOQ3W7BFM9W5s0x-naAwGeS9ngM4IuxJSHr0A=w400-h136" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From further away along the road.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoX7Jofv0QmfYLyUbMA0_p9WvOs96VStqmYu9cFf55yDNIjbz8anpbNjkupgroPGvNOaVTLMilfnUGweI6ZpZUPpoHgWJTB_J_dZ1kOS018ReCCjqri6b6vMgl18zw_HLZKx0mmuQXVi0q7ENlNvwdru_5JeC9y7og0TFymWhEsdewnuGvzX7DZw-GmA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="1141" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoX7Jofv0QmfYLyUbMA0_p9WvOs96VStqmYu9cFf55yDNIjbz8anpbNjkupgroPGvNOaVTLMilfnUGweI6ZpZUPpoHgWJTB_J_dZ1kOS018ReCCjqri6b6vMgl18zw_HLZKx0mmuQXVi0q7ENlNvwdru_5JeC9y7og0TFymWhEsdewnuGvzX7DZw-GmA=w400-h203" width="400" /></a></div>From further away along another road.<br /></div></div><h2 style="clear: both;"><a href="https://christchurchcathedral.ie/worship/live-video-stream/" target="_blank">Christ Church Cathedral Dublin</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@53.3428309,-6.2715713,3a,75y,12.23h,99.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9vRnVxiPVwaYHME7r4eWQw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Uc57tJyrZB6ok0CYDxaSCv4HQXGPHasaeqQr9a7OHn6mpkx7PmbHebLcMK1D-paxdnzMPHYMGyaf_aj_1LbmarJuAE1AGMmipiU6V8zbr0G_A-ilzX8y7gFgoeX0PtrkeI4RM4fBJFm4/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">The cathedral by night and by day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3QlaHaS8sz6VsGaOb8w6z2cu0NB06H-UZzFIQ88KzcAuQj1zMCdszT2FpZfAeKmoF4n-Mo24c0Ts75Ockjv7KksSSPQNBH5vklJmr7uzOAYK6yP6vZWphmvVHTHBG2Co7kC89uor0NPmYhV-vaXivhIQeMuwQkUQl-4cvy31-uD7vrHnvmax99Pl89g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="1174" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3QlaHaS8sz6VsGaOb8w6z2cu0NB06H-UZzFIQ88KzcAuQj1zMCdszT2FpZfAeKmoF4n-Mo24c0Ts75Ockjv7KksSSPQNBH5vklJmr7uzOAYK6yP6vZWphmvVHTHBG2Co7kC89uor0NPmYhV-vaXivhIQeMuwQkUQl-4cvy31-uD7vrHnvmax99Pl89g=w400-h150" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From near by.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisOugz3vcCBef8iMJAHi0NGMIJ5oLcDIG7hdCh7ozz-X6TeOkE5ZJ9UmxbHFNMg35Io6M1rE6n9MGA3ojD2RG5vMGdmVcNq24Po_DCriI8tC3mAyY92U3oTwOdzXBLw6qnPnOxmJq5Q9G7ize0iZnC7Gn6lBj9IJ2zcfpOlisGM0tgPWyeQcbWXuXYRQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="740" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisOugz3vcCBef8iMJAHi0NGMIJ5oLcDIG7hdCh7ozz-X6TeOkE5ZJ9UmxbHFNMg35Io6M1rE6n9MGA3ojD2RG5vMGdmVcNq24Po_DCriI8tC3mAyY92U3oTwOdzXBLw6qnPnOxmJq5Q9G7ize0iZnC7Gn6lBj9IJ2zcfpOlisGM0tgPWyeQcbWXuXYRQ=w400-h217" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The only view from far away.</div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-77676497827431744472022-12-02T13:35:00.008+01:002022-12-02T16:07:12.965+01:00From a strange planet - 55<p> I play around with AI:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpGxpEjfOZvkof01a-WlTElQRUL4UM31DU-Jco8E2iB2gYFvAbG2mc37iQkmDEo9eB8mzCzBgNr8oow0dOEh5r8UNwUoqOy5-5iqskZoKPINuFR-oise9VmSniUWQmy6GsgLRnRldUx01onuVv8grUljXGwQu8eeYbg7H6ljmFcuD5gViSyyfY7tPhAg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="826" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpGxpEjfOZvkof01a-WlTElQRUL4UM31DU-Jco8E2iB2gYFvAbG2mc37iQkmDEo9eB8mzCzBgNr8oow0dOEh5r8UNwUoqOy5-5iqskZoKPINuFR-oise9VmSniUWQmy6GsgLRnRldUx01onuVv8grUljXGwQu8eeYbg7H6ljmFcuD5gViSyyfY7tPhAg=w400-h154" width="400" /></a></div><br />The view from the traffic webcam at E39 Vaulekrossen in Norway shows a busy stretch of highway with cars and trucks moving in both directions. The road is surrounded by lush green trees and hills in the distance. There are also several buildings and structures visible along the roadside, including a gas station and a few houses. The sky is clear and blue, with a few scattered clouds. Overall, the scene is peaceful and picturesque, with a steady flow of traffic moving along the highway.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSzmZfPR6pfThR5VM-wBXrmXwc6YSlitnqzTwwJCzg4vFoG5vv6FTXFieJtMsGnkBSpR1Upsm-_CoYSfcOKytmi-Uf1DSrf6qehhwUawa8DdQxo7xP-M7q9nMhdT_ytHcOq7_Xsyez82eQv8hohRjZFRx7J22yYoxGoST-lBQvMPLpoSlKekfMS5-kOQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSzmZfPR6pfThR5VM-wBXrmXwc6YSlitnqzTwwJCzg4vFoG5vv6FTXFieJtMsGnkBSpR1Upsm-_CoYSfcOKytmi-Uf1DSrf6qehhwUawa8DdQxo7xP-M7q9nMhdT_ytHcOq7_Xsyez82eQv8hohRjZFRx7J22yYoxGoST-lBQvMPLpoSlKekfMS5-kOQ=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I will describe a scene: A road, behind that a small lake, behind that a hill. I see a small house near the lake and a huge farmhouse higher up the hill. The hill is grassy and stony. It is winter and the trees along the road are bare. The sun is shining and the sky is blue. Please guess what story could be placed here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Based on the description of the scene, it seems like a peaceful and serene setting. The presence of a small house near the lake and a large farmhouse higher up on the hill suggests that there may be people living in the area. The fact that it is winter and the trees are bare could indicate that the story takes place during the colder months of the year. The blue sky and shining sun also add to the sense of calmness and beauty in the environment.</div></div><br />One potential story that could be placed in this scene is a tale of a young family who has recently moved to the small house near the lake. The father works on the huge farmhouse higher up the hill, while the mother stays at home with their young children. As the winter progresses, the family faces challenges and struggles, but ultimately they come together to overcome their obstacles and find happiness in their new home.<p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-72602941020953291642022-10-19T11:45:00.005+02:002022-12-02T16:14:12.688+01:00From a strange planet - 48<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We still follow the E39. That's one way to not get lost in the myriad landscapes that the cameras reveal to us. We will see how far we get. There are many sights to discover. The most spectacular is the brooding house. But we also have silent lakes, dark woods and the ball in the hills.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The quotes are from this book:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518086/lacan-at-the-scene/">Lacan at the Scene (mit.edu)</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6862286-lacan-at-the-scene">Lacan at the Scene by Henry Bond | Goodreads</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=803045" target="_blank">E39 Vaulekrossen 1</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.7657114,5.8812852,3a,75y,166.84h,90.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCChHFTC9RjKTkqe2Wu3-7w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div><b style="font-size: large;">The staring house. The gaze of the Other</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">And this detail of a darkened window, or <b>a house that looks on</b>, has been elaborated in turn by a sequence of influential philosophers including Sartre, Merleau- Ponty, Lacan, and Žižek, each of whom has invoked it in relation to the notion of the Other’s gaze - for Žižek it is Norman Bates’s home in Hitchcock’s Psycho, while for Sartre it is an - inexplicably poignant - <b>white farmhouse at night during war- time</b>.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYKRJIDr-sGsFzma3NAYq9vDgbgO7btMo2sX7bwpj8ky9ri5fYKLTlPh6iRVwVCuLZXsxtEt4V7KnAwRCgnxmSJZC6XYjO_bbjEcfqFL8Wql9dgo13MN-BE7r4YLQWweN5XW9KH2lhdfyTQLgAAisleQD4nT9WrxRhtKoLNBWV68imrzssI9a7coBlLQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYKRJIDr-sGsFzma3NAYq9vDgbgO7btMo2sX7bwpj8ky9ri5fYKLTlPh6iRVwVCuLZXsxtEt4V7KnAwRCgnxmSJZC6XYjO_bbjEcfqFL8Wql9dgo13MN-BE7r4YLQWweN5XW9KH2lhdfyTQLgAAisleQD4nT9WrxRhtKoLNBWV68imrzssI9a7coBlLQ=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">In his chief commentary on the theme of the Other ... Sartre offers several <b>examples of objects that can come to embody the Other’s look</b>. He notes how the Other’s gaze will be given just as well on occasion when there is <b>a rustling of branches, or the sound of a footstep followed by silence, or the slight opening of a shutter, or a light movement of a curtain</b>. </span><span style="font-family: courier;">... </span><b style="font-family: courier;">the actual eye of the watcher, hidden behind the curtain, behind a window in the farmhouse</b><span style="font-family: courier;">. </span><span style="font-family: courier;">[Source: Lacan at the Scene by Henry Bond]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR6QzetRgoW0H44AInfwECLyKPzL9-X2yP7Nq5k-H9kSaU84_WAYB8sYfNfpy4Ja7fmdu6hB4xLl7IF5hDxouDlIaKAmDtQugKr2pG_N1M7mi5MIhnBhlO-MlAGUV8kQEfXLA5Dv_X2XhwSzg1TJAg0I8wquZXyzoIrA4wVyxgW0t-eaZrhFFW1jSsBg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="960" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR6QzetRgoW0H44AInfwECLyKPzL9-X2yP7Nq5k-H9kSaU84_WAYB8sYfNfpy4Ja7fmdu6hB4xLl7IF5hDxouDlIaKAmDtQugKr2pG_N1M7mi5MIhnBhlO-MlAGUV8kQEfXLA5Dv_X2XhwSzg1TJAg0I8wquZXyzoIrA4wVyxgW0t-eaZrhFFW1jSsBg=w400-h219" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Lacan comments: <i>“all that is necessary is for something </i></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>to signify to me that <b>there may be others there</b> ... <b>[A] window if it gets a bit </b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>dark, and if I have reasons for thinking that there is someone behind it, is </b></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>straightaway a gaze</b>. From the moment this gaze exists, I am already something other, in that <b>I feel myself becoming an object for the gaze of others</b>.</span></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDk70oVIBC8B5z4gjE4cKjWAuZ0yKIV_8eY_VQyXdtHhHb8DXF5us1EC-bTjTVwCCNHg6cYpJPftVqL5dhS-HbuQLZjDND8FOxPHFOGt3NdVQ3gee7C2xgqe_pfXXuD2umRI2hMrsCNSY_2Z0yR88MpcsVnf3CXDyLx21XRsIV_0qjOOkoZyMs3wCvlQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="835" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDk70oVIBC8B5z4gjE4cKjWAuZ0yKIV_8eY_VQyXdtHhHb8DXF5us1EC-bTjTVwCCNHg6cYpJPftVqL5dhS-HbuQLZjDND8FOxPHFOGt3NdVQ3gee7C2xgqe_pfXXuD2umRI2hMrsCNSY_2Z0yR88MpcsVnf3CXDyLx21XRsIV_0qjOOkoZyMs3wCvlQ=w400-h313" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Slavoj Žižek has also </span><span style="font-family: courier;">isolated the motif of a house that looks on, asking: <i>Is this notion of the gaze </i></span><i><span style="font-family: courier;">not perfectly rendered by the exemplary Hitchcockian scene in which <b>the </b></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>subject is approaching some uncanny threatening object, usually a house</b>? </span><span style="font-family: courier;">There we encounter the antimony between the eye and the gaze at its purest: </span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>the subject’s eye sees the house, but the house - the object - seems somehow to return the gaze</b> ... this gaze is effectively missing, its status is purely </span></i><i style="font-family: courier;">fantasmatic.</i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB1SjksnNatrsDSA03CFT1r3K83SDLqKnvGhH5JLnR4ecXR7rEzn9Mf_LxKQJbyhVMPmPzjBY9Pzc33kenqGdP-Ey6B8iRNut0OpuhaivZcofaMMn-BkHNbrCMVYjgANbfxB-o2CtJOF300q6NWEE-PXvnmf6FaXmCxuhBQwzjbxGjC7iRhsye1qNWSw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="113" data-original-width="167" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB1SjksnNatrsDSA03CFT1r3K83SDLqKnvGhH5JLnR4ecXR7rEzn9Mf_LxKQJbyhVMPmPzjBY9Pzc33kenqGdP-Ey6B8iRNut0OpuhaivZcofaMMn-BkHNbrCMVYjgANbfxB-o2CtJOF300q6NWEE-PXvnmf6FaXmCxuhBQwzjbxGjC7iRhsye1qNWSw=w400-h271" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">This image of “house” also has the quality of a Jungian archetype - a communal (society-wide) unconscious foreknowledge. For example, when young
children draw, they often begin with a depiction of a face or a house - in front
elevation—and these two images seem to coincide, with the mouth and eyes
in the same formation as the windows and door.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=412953" target="_blank">E39 Søyland</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.6832438,5.9876862,3a,70.4y,333.95h,94.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZESI6BJea4e8Mu4IrUiK-g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrECmuC_EuNVhzv4vkVWJHRIV2GwQVYmyD-9TX9GCiyV7ex_Zn9aEbOB1uyz34v8PxXicw6ELL1I7hCMnumTHrnTbtZB7CLWvQY2xHowTB53FgJOAIOrg17roqwiEDSa7PFAPpQVZxqlKeIzUWKwZD_fJ2WHmHINJXrBViIwoNG38tX4DwYK-6Md17eQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrECmuC_EuNVhzv4vkVWJHRIV2GwQVYmyD-9TX9GCiyV7ex_Zn9aEbOB1uyz34v8PxXicw6ELL1I7hCMnumTHrnTbtZB7CLWvQY2xHowTB53FgJOAIOrg17roqwiEDSa7PFAPpQVZxqlKeIzUWKwZD_fJ2WHmHINJXrBViIwoNG38tX4DwYK-6Md17eQ=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No that's not a side road into the hills. It just looks like that. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There are just flat fields on the right.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkPdVb_Dkv02uiCLnUx3pGPEXA4cEev35ZkkoWuNJ0ab3dG6txQnsZVpswJ43OPsI9rPEis_ZZxWwFl_FSsPmNbSBZQRmOBbXSSGQzSZ3YCxSte-rqzf5HMd2qv1lYuSGnKSsXwDs8oWYlJnAPH3_BdTgnwKA1JN5vdH_0ZyoeJAbi9OIfSRjiFun2lA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="780" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkPdVb_Dkv02uiCLnUx3pGPEXA4cEev35ZkkoWuNJ0ab3dG6txQnsZVpswJ43OPsI9rPEis_ZZxWwFl_FSsPmNbSBZQRmOBbXSSGQzSZ3YCxSte-rqzf5HMd2qv1lYuSGnKSsXwDs8oWYlJnAPH3_BdTgnwKA1JN5vdH_0ZyoeJAbi9OIfSRjiFun2lA=w400-h299" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And that's like me, trying to understand the surroundings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtcT6dFanZL7HGcfQZk_ZdAf-GIA1qh32vxqo_9Q47ZoEGVKQuwdfeGgLUrOG914f_-OebNDJsfglvSMSQopdHQ3b31cJ-fbsYuAD_ZspqxpT6BkLNAx7JyC3sr8YrrncrtRNrDKswrzbWKqZLNVTyPZD0siEPFJXBGjyepXObZQO9bIv13WhRJgr_1w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="1130" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtcT6dFanZL7HGcfQZk_ZdAf-GIA1qh32vxqo_9Q47ZoEGVKQuwdfeGgLUrOG914f_-OebNDJsfglvSMSQopdHQ3b31cJ-fbsYuAD_ZspqxpT6BkLNAx7JyC3sr8YrrncrtRNrDKswrzbWKqZLNVTyPZD0siEPFJXBGjyepXObZQO9bIv13WhRJgr_1w=w400-h194" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Looking for mysterious surroundings, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">like this mysterious lake, just around the corner.</div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=3135048" target="_blank">Rv. 444 Torger Carlsensgate 1</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.8308927,5.7055233,3a,30.9y,53.02h,102.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCdqXWsB9rwf1l5sGL0uGQQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsnPrzOsvB0GrMU25I7Oz2CXLfDIA8FlmHSxfhEOx8MGda0LhvWSV6ENghWwXuAXtuX953BU00r7Ocid9p0Qb4KElT7P_SSDrAXnY0Kao5kkScTIue9pCS-IMeXXHDyy6NhuhE-bYCTzLup0Z6ZXa6OEadmCRdDW88gHcd602BRBaR_1eHeoqwMv6zZw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsnPrzOsvB0GrMU25I7Oz2CXLfDIA8FlmHSxfhEOx8MGda0LhvWSV6ENghWwXuAXtuX953BU00r7Ocid9p0Qb4KElT7P_SSDrAXnY0Kao5kkScTIue9pCS-IMeXXHDyy6NhuhE-bYCTzLup0Z6ZXa6OEadmCRdDW88gHcd602BRBaR_1eHeoqwMv6zZw=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At first this landscape does not look to promising.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8tEevDeKY5f9atBxtjCwrmOhgb14qBot1bzedgN3ITkaDHIxx8qcBdmSI-490EkcKCPmfzqzBCTwtaqSLY9zXpSk28jkrgobDAKF3IDfZ3yT-ydF9bRBBgFIiiAuIAtkp07oaiMQddl8y0t7FwiENoFbxDk_5mgtAsayLEdWhkrdFz_oVAMgUsy-Qaw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="1219" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8tEevDeKY5f9atBxtjCwrmOhgb14qBot1bzedgN3ITkaDHIxx8qcBdmSI-490EkcKCPmfzqzBCTwtaqSLY9zXpSk28jkrgobDAKF3IDfZ3yT-ydF9bRBBgFIiiAuIAtkp07oaiMQddl8y0t7FwiENoFbxDk_5mgtAsayLEdWhkrdFz_oVAMgUsy-Qaw=w400-h135" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But there are beautiful wide landscapes with many scales of depth.</div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2GAUnV0rt5Wt9g8GYSY28Y9Q8nOzJ8uWyXmHV4yX6OKnn8LrdmAH9QiAN9h789SD1fC9i_0BzZI1qcdtwQpdMdoiTl6qBNSGsZ0jnM5bKdZPPcQ1SzFRmjgPIBZAPO_BKpyZrn4LpKyQhfGRbLaz3jPfl8swn8YXi1BUB3_N1dFN0G-6g87j6Z6Qu-w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="935" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2GAUnV0rt5Wt9g8GYSY28Y9Q8nOzJ8uWyXmHV4yX6OKnn8LrdmAH9QiAN9h789SD1fC9i_0BzZI1qcdtwQpdMdoiTl6qBNSGsZ0jnM5bKdZPPcQ1SzFRmjgPIBZAPO_BKpyZrn4LpKyQhfGRbLaz3jPfl8swn8YXi1BUB3_N1dFN0G-6g87j6Z6Qu-w=w400-h272" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And dark woord at the end of the road.</div></div></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=298256" target="_blank">Fv. 510 Rege</a> - <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2020/03/from-strange-planet-21.html" target="_blank">Much more details in an earlier post</a></h2><div>There is a sphere in the hills. And a church.</div><div>You can see them in detail by following the link above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0FnTy2uWYnL9Ico-0QHf6npHE2IJ2bKcFjyTT24C3Zq9nPLFyxWhaSEs1yS8lVPs5udZXGp7imtBBTVISI083JU6tF0Mhl4sue2B5rZMLYs7-HgTnh4RzZiXyWps6zYLIwHIx5KQJpeNNSBo0Fpljb0hJ54lYsUNkEIXMfvE41X5xP0vl2G3ijGpu3A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0FnTy2uWYnL9Ico-0QHf6npHE2IJ2bKcFjyTT24C3Zq9nPLFyxWhaSEs1yS8lVPs5udZXGp7imtBBTVISI083JU6tF0Mhl4sue2B5rZMLYs7-HgTnh4RzZiXyWps6zYLIwHIx5KQJpeNNSBo0Fpljb0hJ54lYsUNkEIXMfvE41X5xP0vl2G3ijGpu3A=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The hills at sunset.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR3l5U4FkQySXJ3cCx_U_3pY-x4jo5yHtQXKvhQkKii4S761Q-PuBka3FIqGIa6lG7KrYP9m_EiGlP7iJEb9ncOWXnrKdmigeqWKQAoNBqHPd-KUEoUlTrHdi4Fs-p-BRutVfR_4dsfqSiymd4OdAhKQCJnyvELhjw7kTDR9-4KXkqxocogJ4zp23FAg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR3l5U4FkQySXJ3cCx_U_3pY-x4jo5yHtQXKvhQkKii4S761Q-PuBka3FIqGIa6lG7KrYP9m_EiGlP7iJEb9ncOWXnrKdmigeqWKQAoNBqHPd-KUEoUlTrHdi4Fs-p-BRutVfR_4dsfqSiymd4OdAhKQCJnyvELhjw7kTDR9-4KXkqxocogJ4zp23FAg=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The hills at midday.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-41722715905890529382022-09-25T13:18:00.000+02:002022-09-25T13:18:02.186+02:00From a strange planet - 50<p>Here we follow the E39 South. We try to connect two of our earlier posts. The one starting at <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2022/02/from-strange-planet-49.html" target="_blank">Saglandsbakken</a> and the one ending at <a href="https://uair01.blogspot.com/2021/12/from-strange-planet-44.html" target="_blank">Rekevik</a>.</p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=3135068" target="_blank">E39 Ualand</a> retning Krossmoen - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.5385432,6.3041384,3a,90y,263.19h,89.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sENPP6apuo7fEMRDeDojBoA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf-uLjUAQm6NNsFDpw0Aw_lt5OmIn20tdRBb8we0RpdRfhvULpN79n_SNCAlNG8ZVVixbPCl3RKRlPT9Krcbfonz-gzQrSri1XNPTjZXUO4D405FH9SVuBGAisg0GqC-k4_azKkQ37K-DNZ7BtsWDLZYPGa7wZz1Y4V_jlE_dRcl_ljjQ-wceji3JAhA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf-uLjUAQm6NNsFDpw0Aw_lt5OmIn20tdRBb8we0RpdRfhvULpN79n_SNCAlNG8ZVVixbPCl3RKRlPT9Krcbfonz-gzQrSri1XNPTjZXUO4D405FH9SVuBGAisg0GqC-k4_azKkQ37K-DNZ7BtsWDLZYPGa7wZz1Y4V_jlE_dRcl_ljjQ-wceji3JAhA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snowy panorama.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzh5eDFvFrSGYzsYG2IuiD5pwebCteH-hvUzhUq1OObuF7yr3K_Aa4yMadG9hJbnB3IQqrfPj8mtLzg0KGCVwajeXM-7WMc-pOdzf0m2mr5MYCae0AMNSLBPDkTCt6A6WLOTtfTc0z2oTCWg1G4IHgy7hqWKUlhI-aNx4sHCAEgAW97KhHFK6J0hXI9w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="998" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzh5eDFvFrSGYzsYG2IuiD5pwebCteH-hvUzhUq1OObuF7yr3K_Aa4yMadG9hJbnB3IQqrfPj8mtLzg0KGCVwajeXM-7WMc-pOdzf0m2mr5MYCae0AMNSLBPDkTCt6A6WLOTtfTc0z2oTCWg1G4IHgy7hqWKUlhI-aNx4sHCAEgAW97KhHFK6J0hXI9w=w400-h234" width="400" /></a></div><a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.5445403,6.3091296,3a,75y,278.24h,97.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWIor3SYS9ho0voZTz4r6bA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" target="_blank">River crossing.</a> Small version.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="602" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvf4zaftcdmifQ9H7eFs2MXfausdbR7A7JJi15c_hU5nZtiqdtY6lqvlYs8jRWJYDO5YsyHSqaNdn1so1y46qshaEA9o7MwXIJSpDOZjSGZiYWP3C82eCgyej_yZmIGvGvm0I5dOem-pHf/w400-h248/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The block once more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnBYf1_ao-f4mmVxoNocxRFgLiVs67uXCqjGkYE8sw0qiYTx1gjAKbGnPnPkw1oahP-I5TW4WHHcyAYIOks-WaLw1BF5J4sMMUqb_2EJv2YEYxqzdgUwz3S3t1fcZ0XAPyNeJsIprnxbkL/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="881" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnBYf1_ao-f4mmVxoNocxRFgLiVs67uXCqjGkYE8sw0qiYTx1gjAKbGnPnPkw1oahP-I5TW4WHHcyAYIOks-WaLw1BF5J4sMMUqb_2EJv2YEYxqzdgUwz3S3t1fcZ0XAPyNeJsIprnxbkL/w400-h321/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Another block. Smaller this time.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=112521" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">E39 Drangsdalen Retning Flekkefjord</a><span style="text-align: left;"> - </span><a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.4728469,6.4064067,3a,75y,206.25h,89.5t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1son0Wgxxcb3Brs3Tyg8-1aQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Don0Wgxxcb3Brs3Tyg8-1aQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D248.35301%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhovk6VA0kpu_DveVeGX4m6-NS7ose_eO9L5BrKoRFbCe-UxhgMbOfd0amRhYV5C4tLmrAfHrTDm8iGyC6Ll4HWpj9jbHuvFR1Zv5fEOM32qj6-9Lwn1ve9itoTyEHzewXSoaJPNyQUoNhvtK3ODoDt7OcqKYvDFFBhTWyaeAZY0zil2t7xlErxuU1aHg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhovk6VA0kpu_DveVeGX4m6-NS7ose_eO9L5BrKoRFbCe-UxhgMbOfd0amRhYV5C4tLmrAfHrTDm8iGyC6Ll4HWpj9jbHuvFR1Zv5fEOM32qj6-9Lwn1ve9itoTyEHzewXSoaJPNyQUoNhvtK3ODoDt7OcqKYvDFFBhTWyaeAZY0zil2t7xlErxuU1aHg=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snow road. From here to the <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.4741931,6.4091055,3a,90y,73.01h,90.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZygAzDI5HmlGDcBhKf5e0g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" target="_blank">end of the local side road</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5AMpORyuHOCBD3Qzqi7GADGHyJydCT1isI99Ci1850Dus6C4ldsf0dMc1J3GE8jaqamBYGRrHJd1QbGH5rKIWvv6UxMPZDmQo3gl8p6jws2wlsX8LQorkRzCz3S3K_Q7LYI9CXDvU7BrG0G4WeITqZ9BdDrlGyXPNrUyA_3BIIJP0DjkZSsvfapNLlw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="850" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5AMpORyuHOCBD3Qzqi7GADGHyJydCT1isI99Ci1850Dus6C4ldsf0dMc1J3GE8jaqamBYGRrHJd1QbGH5rKIWvv6UxMPZDmQo3gl8p6jws2wlsX8LQorkRzCz3S3K_Q7LYI9CXDvU7BrG0G4WeITqZ9BdDrlGyXPNrUyA_3BIIJP0DjkZSsvfapNLlw=w400-h290" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here we stop. And look. And think.</div></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=559854" target="_blank">E39 Hamrebakkane Retning Flekkefjord</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.4452858,6.5813997,3a,75y,104.6h,88.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAvph0PAECsmb2UCJyOabVg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pIZ9l7GdEuwLoFP85Z8mclbLKWmrNw6nStmyUgzQu0HpQ5fhxMOP5YwpE0nnTw52ac7LmXMQsEfG6QlHm1xJhvobvozFE0_DXGaYuBdmKbHR8h_adM3TTmhrqMW9DIj_RFC_ihj4aoQj/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pIZ9l7GdEuwLoFP85Z8mclbLKWmrNw6nStmyUgzQu0HpQ5fhxMOP5YwpE0nnTw52ac7LmXMQsEfG6QlHm1xJhvobvozFE0_DXGaYuBdmKbHR8h_adM3TTmhrqMW9DIj_RFC_ihj4aoQj/w400-h300/image.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Snow road. From here through the landscape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0ezEVlEAC3Q9yV_z2TbfKYqDUmOFiDpu5ht_c-O4eWue1Gl5Gk-1Mra7AF7eNnpDLXBO8iYNVkNIg9yRcAFwu_caPAeZMCM_wNh39KMrsCPx_fUh876TOPAOOrYiHslqRTQTYO5e7jGI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="994" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0ezEVlEAC3Q9yV_z2TbfKYqDUmOFiDpu5ht_c-O4eWue1Gl5Gk-1Mra7AF7eNnpDLXBO8iYNVkNIg9yRcAFwu_caPAeZMCM_wNh39KMrsCPx_fUh876TOPAOOrYiHslqRTQTYO5e7jGI/w400-h244/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">To the hut. Moss on the roof.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhva5tlt3XGOEZuaSWA-PlRXEz-C1oh_5udLIJb5pV9kwYVM59-RxWZW9nTli6dVGcuSUG8y6A5ka3e3jIsvgImgFSGR3pOCBRNq829KnwU2ZDH3pVLSiBnycQJFee1MGz_Abnm4N0a3SiT/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="917" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhva5tlt3XGOEZuaSWA-PlRXEz-C1oh_5udLIJb5pV9kwYVM59-RxWZW9nTli6dVGcuSUG8y6A5ka3e3jIsvgImgFSGR3pOCBRNq829KnwU2ZDH3pVLSiBnycQJFee1MGz_Abnm4N0a3SiT/w400-h295/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Silence. End of winter.</div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://webkamera.atlas.vegvesen.no/public/kamera?id=155325" target="_blank">Fv. 42 Tverrå Retning Tonstad</a> - <a href="https://www.google.nl/maps/@58.6265103,6.4867252,3a,75y,8.53h,91.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s52bDhBtTx86P09EST1UxJA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicgcLjWTzDb34yQ_3ckq4_YG69_9nR0tcTFY1yFOwL0dsWlT9qms3gdronpX2m8RaEz3V7LNMSIx43LGk20mq7R2UDXHDpN-defUDI_Xm4qxk5fkAzWDwWu8O3-YkDFZ7x9pRcK-A1MsTqUp1QIch8gYvPIjmJXcNmlz6dR6pHAxLnLfb1u_JV02xiFQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicgcLjWTzDb34yQ_3ckq4_YG69_9nR0tcTFY1yFOwL0dsWlT9qms3gdronpX2m8RaEz3V7LNMSIx43LGk20mq7R2UDXHDpN-defUDI_Xm4qxk5fkAzWDwWu8O3-YkDFZ7x9pRcK-A1MsTqUp1QIch8gYvPIjmJXcNmlz6dR6pHAxLnLfb1u_JV02xiFQ=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snowy road. From here through the landscape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6rKgoOAs17HM2mcgrbld3FwXVe6hS3xe6PmGV6YxSD-Wqr2zyji7uUthSPiHevLZ6QQXnxQWkRRaKeCpTuCjTWS7cloAeB9IBdYTk2P3xy5qw0bn4-skV0_33ghIPeO270Jz6E0h2-Nb4iVxkGXljDG7wIKq-OsGEF6b1tVpktskgsIkyNgRujJZOdg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="1018" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6rKgoOAs17HM2mcgrbld3FwXVe6hS3xe6PmGV6YxSD-Wqr2zyji7uUthSPiHevLZ6QQXnxQWkRRaKeCpTuCjTWS7cloAeB9IBdYTk2P3xy5qw0bn4-skV0_33ghIPeO270Jz6E0h2-Nb4iVxkGXljDG7wIKq-OsGEF6b1tVpktskgsIkyNgRujJZOdg=w400-h238" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To the house. Transparent trees.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQkJ7pb9zx0eO8lFRkXSnyUe2HGke9ueF-mUXE6AYk62yp4thZMldDtYKwBVrUMvqhXOvK0o33cWkZww0Mgp6eWNXKuaK7eH_2nXVofJ-GmLvz_R39bLkGWI5BfV6BUNg_uvwrSCoha1poM3PfyaAoq3MG7ScA_d6oh5HqR09uXaKaDA6PiV3NAKVZtg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="901" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQkJ7pb9zx0eO8lFRkXSnyUe2HGke9ueF-mUXE6AYk62yp4thZMldDtYKwBVrUMvqhXOvK0o33cWkZww0Mgp6eWNXKuaK7eH_2nXVofJ-GmLvz_R39bLkGWI5BfV6BUNg_uvwrSCoha1poM3PfyaAoq3MG7ScA_d6oh5HqR09uXaKaDA6PiV3NAKVZtg=w400-h245" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sunlight. Distance. End of winter.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>uair01http://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936203603674732924.post-83490858000601026262022-07-20T16:01:00.001+02:002022-07-20T19:23:31.848+02:00From a strange planet - 47<h2 style="text-align: left;"> Irish webcam churches viewed as a focus of the landscape</h2><p> Since my discovery of the Irish church webcams I've been inspired to look at these churches from two viewpoints:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The first one is the traditional Catholic viewpoint of the the Real Presence of Christ, which I tend to feel most intensely in the empty church at night, when the only light in the church shines from the altar lamp. For me this is a deeply significant, almost mystical experience. And I feel it even through the medium of the webcam, in the night.</li><li>The second one is inspired by an experience during an Irish bus ride. When we drove past a church one of the older men on the bus made the sign of the Cross. This made me aware that the Real Presence was not only felt and acknowledged in the vicinity of the Tabernacle, but maybe from all places where the church was visible.</li><li>So, in the investigations below, I present the view of the church at night, and then I explore the visibility of the in the surrounding landscape. I try try to find the furthest places that are influenced by the presence of the church as their focal point. I hope you enjoy this exploration as much as I do.</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2 style="clear: both;"><a href="https://churchmedia.tv/st-joesphs-church-banagher">St Joseph's Church, Fincairn</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@54.8862662,-7.0113078,3a,75y,82.43h,99.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sUm85Ztw4A04_gOFzBb0UBA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DUm85Ztw4A04_gOFzBb0UBA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D43.85937%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghLKRMLw1KFh6W_8GkGzd29kP4r1B2LMFXgNfhjxbFI4AJIKi-fFZPzWbEnESz8NlwhknSDZ1pWI7tc-zTVBVXFCIC-XH1hX9hWISx3e950YXWL-1iQiR1oY_oLV9iL88CscoJjuAupLm/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="932" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghLKRMLw1KFh6W_8GkGzd29kP4r1B2LMFXgNfhjxbFI4AJIKi-fFZPzWbEnESz8NlwhknSDZ1pWI7tc-zTVBVXFCIC-XH1hX9hWISx3e950YXWL-1iQiR1oY_oLV9iL88CscoJjuAupLm/w400-h260/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We explore the church surroundings on streetview. We start at the church door and see how far we can go before we lose sight of it. In this hilly landscape it's surprisingly easy to go far.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4S9S61tLuR4D3C850WuhibD5Se2ixBD9xGIrtkqEarDlNfzt9f2dcxGaOf0cDsbbgLz-LkN6s5jLyVPFx8OLzrDuB2iJUiDeKWF7aQPbVCsTHdCM1gXEdvtDzCoKijY1kHh_9ED_TBAn-1ToG-LUAnJ3oLLdEYNS8-91bJiBru-oBGaS1f4YTZSHGKg/s680/ch1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="680" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4S9S61tLuR4D3C850WuhibD5Se2ixBD9xGIrtkqEarDlNfzt9f2dcxGaOf0cDsbbgLz-LkN6s5jLyVPFx8OLzrDuB2iJUiDeKWF7aQPbVCsTHdCM1gXEdvtDzCoKijY1kHh_9ED_TBAn-1ToG-LUAnJ3oLLdEYNS8-91bJiBru-oBGaS1f4YTZSHGKg/w400-h291/ch1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@54.8902891,-7.0189187,3a,42.3y,123.86h,89.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDA46ERwsYLma2ezPbc5uyw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en" target="_blank">Seen from here:</a> an Irish still life.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0mN4FH7UoxQFh-abR0OJqcI9GowyHlE1IRpc-y_9EoTfIZC_zSeAszUXMNoiW-Hn4VvxE8lT6YB6b0ExEUaXWWif9ndpDTFGFYfMVYi9a0Z4qurEbKiCA7tsmPr2659lm36-qoORPDEvt-1wzpwdVMaKEiYcpP5ENezt-NsOD9fpqSqMM0kyOrZYCJA/s752/ch2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="752" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0mN4FH7UoxQFh-abR0OJqcI9GowyHlE1IRpc-y_9EoTfIZC_zSeAszUXMNoiW-Hn4VvxE8lT6YB6b0ExEUaXWWif9ndpDTFGFYfMVYi9a0Z4qurEbKiCA7tsmPr2659lm36-qoORPDEvt-1wzpwdVMaKEiYcpP5ENezt-NsOD9fpqSqMM0kyOrZYCJA/w400-h288/ch2.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@54.877392,-7.034471,3a,15y,56.54h,86.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7xvaQH9VgsPxDW3YTCV79A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en" target="_blank">Seen from here:</a> a wide hilly landscape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKR0rFgi_nH7FeJ1f8wSclN2yjADGAN49ovwr8rwo3a7lfQ4Dax8atcTavUibLyHPbv4NC_9wbY1RPdA7K5Yq5VDPR0aM4zNZvc6ihGuHth-ZdN6eYp8akWKLXjYU68muLZGFSNuLL3gF4u_Dxf3QZc_WJBIgT8RU4GVgRn-ZOkriweaDsU8isRtMQtw/s814/ch3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="814" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKR0rFgi_nH7FeJ1f8wSclN2yjADGAN49ovwr8rwo3a7lfQ4Dax8atcTavUibLyHPbv4NC_9wbY1RPdA7K5Yq5VDPR0aM4zNZvc6ihGuHth-ZdN6eYp8akWKLXjYU68muLZGFSNuLL3gF4u_Dxf3QZc_WJBIgT8RU4GVgRn-ZOkriweaDsU8isRtMQtw/w400-h255/ch3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><h2 style="clear: both;"><a href="https://celstra.ie/st-patricks-webcam/">St Patrick’s Church, Celbridge</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3396031,-6.5387326,3a,75y,293.61h,92.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1CP359WOuy8cx7V9BW_OOA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_NNh6ib_f4FnlO1NMv7b2kVLPvQBVG3HnaHHP3ol3wPxYefaFJwGyqdvw30jnUB1Msr4iAjN5_FLSYaxEGmDjQuz_zKR8MxUlG6gsqFrkY3es5JYLp58Xf5IX5fC0twcCe7TTYhW1mkX/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="937" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp_NNh6ib_f4FnlO1NMv7b2kVLPvQBVG3HnaHHP3ol3wPxYefaFJwGyqdvw30jnUB1Msr4iAjN5_FLSYaxEGmDjQuz_zKR8MxUlG6gsqFrkY3es5JYLp58Xf5IX5fC0twcCe7TTYhW1mkX/w400-h260/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This church is situated in a place with high building density. It's impossible to find a nice far view.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO4yS8A6BIrmWf-ChXGowwZb1l0UIRsft1WDgRuQsRkR59WSHxESgBa2Lsf0phERmOGFy7lQBh7uiFmbF5Y4YverpaHqjom0Z33xRNqIoz42_k0lyN8i6LemyNLl5QcR8RwgC5AbkPsST_/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="887" data-original-width="1461" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO4yS8A6BIrmWf-ChXGowwZb1l0UIRsft1WDgRuQsRkR59WSHxESgBa2Lsf0phERmOGFy7lQBh7uiFmbF5Y4YverpaHqjom0Z33xRNqIoz42_k0lyN8i6LemyNLl5QcR8RwgC5AbkPsST_/w400-h243/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From an industrial parking lot:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_OgPcNCzxmLzYDkU-8HBwQ6FWHaQEH_sIxE6O7eyIkqUuEylV7q5d3S7xmIJQbQpCQWGjwUliHjyQmykS_MLp444y70IF7FnMF7oA4A_B3t2_bIpSMt7qlFSJkyx9nW526ADf7FFXdaU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1211" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_OgPcNCzxmLzYDkU-8HBwQ6FWHaQEH_sIxE6O7eyIkqUuEylV7q5d3S7xmIJQbQpCQWGjwUliHjyQmykS_MLp444y70IF7FnMF7oA4A_B3t2_bIpSMt7qlFSJkyx9nW526ADf7FFXdaU/w400-h254/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From a bungalow area:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxmVT3Ta8C_kR-qbIh6mpUeRvLa5v5CqQ_H_lL07KxJfeGGGxpthbpk9smnYemI3SJ978iMTJAqGWj1JtEXy-M2tn8av80UNSD_qSTFOpGkDTCVWsLU2TXzYV7UNgqR1NZf6pbjnSoRpM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1288" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxmVT3Ta8C_kR-qbIh6mpUeRvLa5v5CqQ_H_lL07KxJfeGGGxpthbpk9smnYemI3SJ978iMTJAqGWj1JtEXy-M2tn8av80UNSD_qSTFOpGkDTCVWsLU2TXzYV7UNgqR1NZf6pbjnSoRpM/w400-h286/image.png" width="400" /></a></div></div></div></div><h2 style="clear: both;"><a href="https://celstra.ie/live-feeds/">St Brigids Church</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3125472,-6.608087,3a,58.4y,272.84h,94.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBLg-aDA5S1zsGWuaxi5Xwg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en" target="_blank">Streetview</a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNZRT6v0_PoGtqBrFPFlIV0MtPNaKghZzbRR3pCzCqIFLwY4jh2fvscPkrz_XIauknZH_1rLZWZk-DkZuR3t22iaJ_3cW8NNudsAT9a5G3ZL7jzMlKpjAF0zGS8t2qpGXY7N7_UcwSboLG/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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