Secret Lives of Vulcans 012 - Tiv and Nak wind down after a day at Starfleet

Do you really believe that Vulcans are logic-driven alien beings without passion or desire?  You do realize that is just Star Fleet propaganda meant to tamp down xenophobia, right? Right?! Oh, come on! Don't believe me? Take a look at these candid Polaroids and snapshots. See if you don't change your mind.

Secret Lives of Vulcans 012 - Tiv and Nak wind down after a day at Starfleet

Wabi-Sabi Women 012

Pop culture elevates perfection. But we all have natural flaws. Wabi-Sabi celebrates the flaws. What happens to beauty when it is intentionally degraded or "glitched". Can this improve upon the aesthetic? What implications does this have IRL?

Wabi-Sabi Women 012

Gorgeous ⓖŁ!+₡ħ3⒮  004

What is gorgeous? What happens when an image created by a skilled professional artist is messed with (or "glitched") by an amateur artist? Can the resulting art add to the original or only debase it? Who decides? Will it be you?

This art was originally created by Lucinda Lyons @ArtLucinda and glitched by @Absurdeity

Gorgeous ⓖŁ!+₡ħ3⒮  004

NFTs need LEDs. But most LEDs are cold. Not so with neon. Even a solitary straight neon tube, when electrified, literally glows with figurative personality. This collection explores how neon may imbue LED screens with its borrowed personality.

Midjourney (raw)

Nights in Neon 009

Horse Art for Horsetrading 007

#HorseArt for #Horsetrading with #horsetraders
Created for the #Neighvember Horsetrading season 2023

Horse Art for Horsetrading 007

"NOT A WINNER"

I am incredibly fortunate to be the father of the most amazing, compassionate, intelligent, and beautiful daughter I could possibly imagine. Yes, I'm a proud dad and my daughter often wonders whether I am just a cast member from the opening scene of "Matilda" singing "Miracle" while she rolls her eyes and wonders if she really is anything special. 

She is.

I worry though, about her, and about her generation. For all the parenting skills I may or may not have, what am I (what are we) offering her generation? Increasing gun violence? The risk of dying from accidental fentanyl overdose? Exponentially rising income disparity (separation of haves and have nots)? Hyper partisanship? The end of the American/democractic experiment? "Forever chemicals"? Global warming with all of the hardship and death that seems so inevitable as we reach the eventual point of no return? 

I could, of course, go on.

The other day I checked my lotto ticket at the corner drug store. The ticket reading machine displayed, "NOT A WINNER"

Is this how my daughter and her generation (and the generations beyond) will feel about their future? 

Will my generation do anything to change their odds of winning, or will we just keep blindly hoping that somehow they will beat the odds that our generation and those generations before us have stacked against them?

I wonder.

Not a Winner 007

Secret Lives of Vulcans 022 - T'pleraal, Mok, and Fainvin meet at the Romulan Tea Room to spill some tea

Exchanging information (impartially, of course) is a logical method of gaining awareness of one's surroundings, both geographically and socially. Thus, there is nothing "un-Vulcan" about gossiping (uh,...keeping up to date). It is for this quite unemotional and objective reason that T'pleraal, Mok, and Fainvin meet on a weekly basis at the upscale Romulan Tea Room. Of course, it is logical as well to meet at an "upscale" location as, well, you know, hygienic reasons, right?

Secret Lives of Vulcans 022 - T'pleraal, Mok, and Fainvin meet at the Romulan Tea Room to spill some tea

Do you really believe that Vulcans are logic-driven alien beings without passion or desire?  You do realize that is Star Fleet propaganda meant to address xenophobia, right? Take a look at these candid Polaroids and see if you don't change your mind.

Secret Lives of Vulcans

Wabi-Sabi Women 018

Pop culture elevates perfection. But we all have natural flaws. Wabi-Sabi celebrates the flaws. What happens to beauty when it is intentionally degraded or "glitched". Can this improve upon the aesthetic? What implications does this have IRL?

Wabi-Sabi Women 018

Pop culture elevates perfection. But we all have natural flaws. Wabi-Sabi celebrates the flaws. What happens to beauty when it is intentionally degraded or "glitched". Can this improve upon the aesthetic? What implications does this have IRL?

Wabi-Sabi Women

Gorgeous ⓖŁ!+₡ħ3⒮ 

What is gorgeous? What happens when an image created by a skilled professional artist is messed with (or "glitched") by an amateur artist? Can the resulting art add to the original or only debase it? Who decides? Will it be you?

This art was originally created by Lucinda Lyons @ArtLucinda and glitched by @Absurdeity

Gorgeous ⓖŁ!+₡ħ3⒮ 002

What is gorgeous? How can messing with or "glitching" an image make it even more aesthetically compelling? Can the resulting art add to the original or only debase it? Who decides? Will it be you?

Gorgeous ⓖŁ!+₡ħ3⒮

Nights in Neon 007

NFTs need LEDs. But LEDs can be cold. Not so with neon. Even a solitary straight neon tube, when electrified, literally glows with figurative personality. This collection explores how neon may imbue LED screens with its borrowed glow.

Nights in Neon

#HorseArt for #Horsetrading with #horsetraders
Created for Horsetrading season 2023

Midjourney (raw) plus Gifski

Horse Art for Horsetrading 002

Can't offer you a Bored Ape. Sorry. What you'll find here are AI sketches grown from the fertile valley of boredom during the in-between times as I wait for my daughter to finish her homework so that we can collaborate on AI together.

AI Sketches of a Bored Dad

Not a Winner 016

"NOT A WINNER"

Is this how my daughter and her generation will feel about their future? Will my generation do anything to change their odds, or will we just keep hoping they will beat the odds that generations before have stacked against them?

Not a Winner

The holidays can be a stressful time. This is especially true if you are a goblin. Male goblins, you see, have no sense of smell. This particular goblin (let's call him Harvey because his name in Goblinese is unpronounceable in English) knows that his wife, Jalkdskzdffkt would like a particularly expensive perfume for Christmas. But, which one? Let’s help him, shall we? Purchase this NFT and all proceeds will be donated to Harvey so that he may purchase the best and most expensive damn perfume Tezos can buy. #saveHarveysmarriage

Help me, please?

AI art generated from prompts provided by my daughter who had full artistic control and over which I held no sway. Funds generated from the sale of these works will be squandered on NFTs (which is much better than raiding her 529 plan). #Dadication

My teenage daughter and I watched Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker together one evening. It was not until the scene with the motorized draisine that we realized nothing was going to happen, let go of expectations, and allowed ourselves to simply experience the incredible cinematography, atmosphere, and acidic tension of the remaining two hours of this masterpiece. This is our humble tribute to this memorable and metaphorically transitional scene as well as to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, and the great Russian novelists Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Roadside Picnic).

Into the Zone - Redrick's Contemplation

Prompts from my Daughter

Zombie Zingers - Player #09 - "AArrhhh" 

Player 09 was a couch potato prior to his infection, seldom getting up even to fix some ramen. "Sooo sleeepy" was the first thing he slurred after turning. He's the safest of the Zingers to hang out with (for humans, at least) as he moves too slowly to be much of a threat.

bAIseball is BOOring - S1 - ZZ - Player 09 - "AArrhhh"

bAIseball is BOOring is the trAIding cards genesis project. It's a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek Halloween and baseball themed game played in which four frighteningly ridiculous teams compete for the "Weird Series" championship in the fall of 2022.

Zombie Zingers - Player #10 - "Mmllaahh" 

Player number 10's olfactory bulb has yet to decay, so he still has his sense of smell. This is most unfortunate for any living creature that must spend hours each day among zombies as they are (hmm, how shall we say it?) a rather fragrant bunch.

bAIseball is BOOring - S1 - ZZ - Player 10 - "Mmllaahh"

bAIseball is BOOring

Stunning art and a clever blockchain-based mechanism of self-generation complete with photocopy "jams", this work simply defines "dope!" What you are getting with this edition, however is what you might create after a night of smoking dope. Fun times either way, right?!

"generic nfts" are cheap and unsatisfying knockoffs of what you really want. What they lack in style and taste they make up for in low price and availability. There’s no signaling or collar popping benefits, but you can afford it. These NFTs required almost no effort to create and are low resolution so they look like crap when displayed on large monitors. In this manner they are the visual aesthetic equivalent of the bland generic food products commonly available in the early 1980s. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: This NFT prolly won't ever be worth even what you just collected it for, but at least you now have a "replicator" NFT. Please interpret the airquotes (well no, they are actual quotes aren't they?) liberally as this NFT has no official tie to the artist mad dog jones, the artist's work, or work product. 

Minted on the Tezos blockchain cause who's gonna pay gas for generic crap?! Sorry Ethereum GOATS, 

generic nft - replicator

Cheap & unsatisfying knockoffs of what you really want. What they lack in style & taste they make up for in low price & availability. There’s no signaling or collar popping benefits, but you can afford it. Minted on Tezos—would you pay gas for this?!

Your friends and family who have never collected an NFT have prolly heard of this work of art even if they don't know its name. You could win your state lottery tomorrow and you still wouldn't be able to afford it (after taxes and assuming the current owner would give it up). Why are you waiting? Grab this generic edition and tell your friends at the next cocktail party, "Oh yeah, I own that." and watch their eyes bug out in disbelief. They’d be right to not believe you, but you can say it anyway.

"generic nfts" are cheap and unsatisfying knockoffs of what you really want. What they lack in style and taste they make up for in low price and availability. There’s no signaling or collar popping benefits, but you can afford it. These NFTs required almost no effort to create and are low resolution so they look like crap when displayed on large monitors. In this manner they are the visual aesthetic equivalent of the bland generic food products commonly available in the early 1980s. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: This NFT prolly won't ever be worth even what you just collected it for, but at least you now have an "everydays the first 5000 days" NFT. Please interpret the airquotes (well no, they are actual quotes aren't they?) liberally as this NFT has no official tie to the artist beeple, the artist's work, or work product. 

Minted on the Tezos blockchain cause who's gonna pay gas for generic crap?! Sorry Ethereum GOATS, but I gotta eat.

generic nft - art series 001 - everydays the first 5000 days

generic nfts

Clip sampled from "YOUR CHANCE TO LIVE: TECHNOLOGICAL FAILURES" presented by the DEFENSE CIVIL PREPARDNESS AGENCY, Washington, D.C. with the cooperation of CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES and consultation services of the CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Produced by SCREENSCORE, INC.

DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE

Clip sampled and heavily modified from "YOUR CHANCE TO LIVE: TECHNOLOGICAL FAILURES" presented by the DEFENSE CIVIL PREPARDNESS AGENCY, Washington, D.C. with the cooperation of CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES and consultation services of the CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Produced by SCREENSCORE, INC.

A VAST MYSTERIOUS SYSTEM

Unretouched image taken on March 10, 2024 with DreamBow 6 Letsglitchitcam bent by Dawnia Darkstone (@letsglitchit)

Glass Mug

Art that cannot be easily categorized into another collection, but lovingly created and looking for homes capable of appreciating the odd and unusual. We are Absurdeity's misfits.

Unmodified image taken on March 2, 2024 with DreamBow 6 Letsglitchitcam bent by Dawnia (@letsglitchit)

EXIT

mis·cel·la·ne·ous m1sF!Tz

Secret Lives of Vulcans 098

Jyllyl cannot believe his eyes. The dashboard instruments are crystal clear—the spaceship is caught in the wake of a black hole! Despite having memorized complex calculus tables and acing Advanced Pythagorean Theory at Starfleet Academy, he is now convinced that he has somehow jeopardized the entire crew. Logically, this just doesn't make sense with the precautions and checklists he is known to be so obsessive about. But his experience is anything but logical. In truth, Jyllyl's subjective experience is uncoupled from reality, as the side effect of unknowingly ingesting mushrooms in an exotic local cuisine during his recent visit to the planet XB Centurys just a few hours ago.

- Image of Vulcan and spacecraft generated by Absurdeity using Midjourney and GIMP
- Psychedelic black hole visuals and modified pixelation of image by Gogolitus

Space Trip 🍄

Juxtapositions is a collection of collaborative creations by Absurdeity and the talented and generous artists willing to explore how distinctive styles of art can merge to form something unique and compelling.

Kylvunn has a daughter in the Vulcan equivalent of grade school. She has a "pen pal" on Earth. Well, it wouldn't really be practical for her to have an actual pen pal given how far Earth is from Vulcan, but they do communicate by subspace communication (a perk of Kylvunn's role as the local Starfleet base security communications officer). In any case, Kylvunn's daughter learned through her pen pal how all the cool Earth girls were creating their own slime. So of course, she just had to do that too. Being the cool dad he is (nothing illogical about being a cool dad after all 😎), Kylvunn agreed to help her figure out the process. Problem is, Vulcans don't wear contacts as they all receive government-funded refractive surgery (now, that's clearly logical--catch that? "Clearly" logical 😒...um, ok, back to the story then...). No contacts, no contact lens solution. Anyone who has ever tried to make slime knows that IS the key ingredient. Without that,...well, just take a look at poor Kylvunn. But hey, at least he appears to be fully experiencing that other grade school Earth girl fad, ASMR 🤣

Base image created by Absurdeity using Midjourney
AI video conversion and glitch effects by 6oryachikh
Narrative by Absurdeity

Kylvunn discovers that making Slime is not kid's play (Secret Lives of Vulcans 105)

Juxtapositions

Unmodified image taken with a circuitbent camera
Location: Union Station, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date taken: October 21, 2024

Passageway

A collection of Unretouched images taken with the "DreamBow 6" Letsglitchitcam. Glitch in camera appears to have also bent spacetime to 05/01/2023

Images taken by Absurdeity (@absurdeity)
Camera and spacetime bent by Dawnia Darkstone (@letsglitchit)

Unretouched image taken with a circuit bent camera

Gifted to my good friend and so very talented artist, ex_mortal_

Trees along San Pasqual

A Strange Day

Minted for #RGBMTL 2024
Location: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date image taken: July 30, 2024

Santa Monica Beach in Blue

Hat tip to THE OUTER LIMITS. Why? Because glitch art can look "wrong". But, "Do not attempt to adjust the picture". That's already been done by a circuit bent camera. The question is, "Can what is 'wrong' with these images be aesthetically 'right'?"

Tongva Park Fountain West

There's Nothing Wrong

Golden fields of grain / Farmers gather crops with care / Nature's bounty shines

Harvest Joy

Leaves dance in the breeze / Golden hues paint the sunset / Nature's soft embrace

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