feeling good, been reading books a bunch, read nausea by sartre and got introduced to existentialism which i like. also re-read no longer human by osamu dazai, it hits like a truck every time. just finished blood meridian, loved it even though it's a tough read - no commas, no indication as to who's speaking in dialogue, sentences that span like half the page but i think it adds to the desolate feeling of the western desert and the heat and the brutality of life back then.

made this animation in blender, modeled almost everything, actually sat down and textured stuff. the character animations are all from mixamo, still can't be bothered to do them by hand lol. i found a camera shake addon which really elevated the whole thing IMO, also did some color grading and used a film emulator plugin in premiere which gave it such a cool look. really happy how it turned out.

i remembered some fascinating deep dives i've obsessed about a few years back. HeLa Cells and CTVT. HeLa Cells are these cells they extracted from a woman named Henrietta Lacks back in the 50s, Henrietta had some gene mutation that made her cells replicate at an extremely rapid pace so they took a sample to test cancer on them and see how cancer works etc. and even now, almost a century later her cells are still alive and kicking, still being used for cancer research. i found it fascinating how she's technically the only immortal human because her DNA is still alive, her cells are still alive, there's just no soul and stuff. you can check it out on wikipedia, it's a great read, there's some morality questions raised because Henrietta was a black woman and had her cells taken without consent. HeLa Cells WIKIPEDIA LINK

on the topic of immortality, I also remembered transmissable canine cancer (CTVT) which dates over 10k years ago where some dog's cells by freak accident mutated to be sexually transmissable and foreign cells count as cancer so this dogs cells became an std cancer, spreading from dog to dog over the span of 11,0000 years even to today. it still exists, the cells of this dog are still being spread so we have technically the oldest dog ever because the dogs DNA is being spread. CTVT research paper

frost children got a new album out, its called sister and it's banger after banger of recession EDM, big beat tracks, feelgood stuff.

Frost Children - Sister

this IDM album is great, beautiful piano melodies with chopped breaks and crazy rhythms.

The Flashbulb - Krilian Selections

randomly came across this one, it's a huge nostalgia hit for brostep fans, very clearly influenced by scary monsters era skrillex, even samples a bunch of early skrillex stuff. it's banging through and through.

Kimj - KOREAN AMERICAN

new aesop album, best one since impossible kid IMO. catchy, quirky, funny, quotable, relatable

Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette