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- YakuZoku4
The More You Know ★
Fun fact: the last time Denmark sold islands to the United States was in 1917, when it sold the Danish West Indies. One of the tiny islands in that package was Little Saint James, also known today as “Epstein Island.”
- zaq5
- mg3319
Show some recent work
In March 2024, when I was laid off from my job as a UX designer, I knew I’d have some time on my hands for a while. I excitedly got back to work on a long-running instrumental music project, and, needing a break from recording one evening, I started working on album cover art, which soon turned into something bigger.
Since I first used Photoshop in the late 90’s as an architecture-turned-advertising major focused on web and graphic design, I’ve been obsessed with layers and transparency, textures, and ways of making digital art look analog. Although my dreams of being an architect quickly faded—thanks to miserable math skills and the intimidation and complexity of physics—the inspiration of architecture and architecture-inspired art never went away. The interactions of shapes, colors, and textures I enjoy so much were born out of that inspiration.
I’ve also been intrigued by code-based art for years. In 2024, I bought a pen plotter and soon found my way into building JavaScript tools to create algorithmic pen-based art on paper. It was as much a spark as that night I worked on album graphics, and across the following months, I continued building tools that augmented what I was doing in digital applications. It’s been an unexpected and creatively rewarding combination of passions, to say the least. I shared a bunch of this many months ago in the generative thread, and if anyone is reading who encouraged me to keep pushing what i was doing, massive thanks to you.
Until May 2025, I thought this would only be images I’d post to Instagram and other sites. With the encouragement of numerous friends and strangers who asked if I planned on printing any of it, I wondered if it could be more than that - and now it is. I never imagined myself as someone with an art store, but I’m giving it a go, and I hope you enjoy it. Hundreds upon hundreds of hours, and late nights have gone into this. The printers I'm using (Artelo) only do fine art prints, and the quality is phenomenal. Everything is printed on Epson Somerset Velvet paper, with great texture that really bring out the textures in the images.
Thanks so much for checking this out. I'd be grateful for some follows and such. Lots more to come.
https://www.shapeandplace.com
https://www.instagram.com/shape_…
- good stuff, best of luck with it.hans_glib
- for the type of artwork you are creating, you should learn to screen print. there is a whole other level of satisfaction of laying down the ink.BonSeff
- Very nice. I'm your first Facebook follower.CyBrainX
- Followed!canoe
- Timeless workcanoe
- Nice @mg33; remind me lightly of https://www.jerrylee….
: )ideaist - ^^ Glorious squiggles.CyBrainX
- Love these.Chimp
- Thank you everyone, sincerely!
:)mg33 - Lovelydopepope
- ideaist4
- Just heard this in an Apple Music "club" mix; boy THAT takes me back.ideaist
- ...When the pitch shifts and it explodes.ideaist
- Great stuff. Now I have to look up more of his music. I haven't thought of that name in ages.CyBrainX
- Holy crap, Josh wink, that takes me backAkagiyama
- Mitsubishi timesKrassy
- Awesome.ideaist
- utopian7
- Next level shitmort_
- Only in RomaniaYakuZoku
- lol mortcanoe
- what is that absolute pestilence on the lid?jagara
- That shitter better come with a cape and a scepter.Akagiyama
- Clorox bleach is a nice thoughtful touchKrassy
- lol mortKrassy
- magazine rack is a bit of a reach thoSquiddy
- https://i.haasie.com…mort_
- Window well protected so noone can break into this palace!Krassy
- Gardener1
The More You Know ★
1867 – Andrew Johnson: explored buying Greenland & Iceland (right after Alaska).
WWII – FDR: U.S. took over Greenland’s defense while Denmark was occupied.
1946 – Truman: offered $100M in gold to buy it.
Cold War – Eisenhower → Kennedy: nonstop negotiations for bases, radar, missiles.
Post–Cold War – Clinton/Bush/Obama: expanded Arctic security & missile defense.
2019 – Trump: said publicly what presidents discussed privately for 150+ years.
The U.S. didn’t “suddenly” want Greenland.
It’s been defending it, negotiating it, and embedding there since the 1800s. Greenland = Arctic power, shipping lanes, missiles, minerals.
Trump didn’t invent it, he said the quiet part out loud.- Confusing map is confusinggrafician
- Also this is more about messing with NATOgrafician
- There is a difference that can't be ignored between offering to buy it and colonizing it.CyBrainX
- There's also the blackmail - if refused, he gonna take it how?grafician
- AND by his own dumb logic, then the vikings who discovered America should own it right?grafician
- if it's so integral why the perpetual stand down in US armed forces since the cold war?jonny_quest_lives
- TACOgrafician
- TACO is egging him on because you want the world to end because your life sucksYakuZoku
- You're such a simple minded peasant who thinks he's an intellectualYakuZoku
- A critic, nothing more.YakuZoku
- mg336
Generative Art
It's been a while! Haven't posted about my project in several months, but I'm finally "officially" launching it this week, and it's called Shape & Place - Art for Modern Spaces.
I can't even begin to tell you how much work has gone into this. 19 months approximately, hundreds and hundreds of hours of work and learning. I'd be a liar and a jerk if I didn't say that without the encouragement of several of you as far back as 2024 when I first started sharing the images I was making, I don't think at all that I would have pursued taking this as far as I have. It wasn't even until May 2025 that I started working on what this is now and decided to pursue making prints.
It's all been so incredibly rewarding, just staying focused, designing the identity for it, setting up a squarespace site, learning about Etsy, reviewing test prints, making the images, refining my tools, and spending so much time outside of work and family time focused on this. Sure, I hope to find some success with this, but I have to be honest, not once have I thought I'd be disappointed if I didn't. The whole process from start to now has just been so much fun.
Everything is printed on Epson Somerset Velvet paper, with great texture that really brings out the textures in the images. Sizes ranging from 12x12 / 12x16 to 40x40 / 36x48 (inches)
Thanks so much for checking this out. I'd be grateful for some follows and such. Lots more to come.
https://www.shapeandplace.com
https://www.instagram.com/shape_…
- utopian6
- Epstein files or WWW3...skinny_puppy
- We will have GTA6 before the Epstein filesYakuZoku
- CyBrainX5
The More You Know ★
I have a strong feeling everyone knows that you can use Control-Page Down / Control-Page Up to switch between adjacent tabs in Chrome but I just learned it.
- This will help me a lot.monospaced
- that's ok, this week I learned about the forward delete button on my Mac. derp._niko
- PhanLo4
- chips just arrived...
https://ichef.bbci.c…hans_glib - https://www.bbc.co.u…
derphans_glib - ^hehehe
Wife mentioned that was on the newsPhanLo
- chips just arrived...
