#patternfinding

[bitethedevil]

I feel like you are in tumblr the Encyclopedia on Raphael ahahah everyone asks you all sorts of questions and you always have an answer, I wouldn’t be surprised if you’d put half of the fandom in your followers

Thats nice of you to say! It means a lot to me that people are curious about my thoughts and value my opinions on things. I’m humbled that people care about my insane yapping at times lmao. I love stitching things together to make theories or analyses. It scratches that patternfinding itch in my brain.

Not to get sappy but this community really means a lot to me. It got me into writing again. Even better, a few people have said to me that some of my analyses or fics inspired them in some way and that shit is a high like no other.

This dumb man has been stuck in my brain for a year soon. I think I started this blog mid February this year. I’m at 626 followers currently. Once I get 666 I can happily retire at some point lmao.

(Thank you for the ask <3)

[arrozaurus]

i suppose walking through uneven terrain improves neuroplasticity. any task that actually requires the brain to make some sort of effort really, but in my experience walking through irregular surfaces stimulates so many areas of the brain i would consider it both a cognitive, sensorial and physical exercise.

it teaches you to be more aware of whats under your feet; it forces you to find possible paths, therefore stimulating patternfinding neurons; your motor neurons learn to coordinate movements better; your equilibrioception is sharpened; it improves your eye to limb movement; and of course it comes with the physical benefits for your circulatory, respiratory and muscular-skeletal system. also i personally think its very fun

[grubloved]

like, i can try -- "magic", in my house dialect, is the categorical term for all ritual, religious belief, prayer, supernatural meaning, superstition, placebo effect, spiritual meaning, or ultimate context.

crucially it isn't meant to be derogatory or dismissive; these things are important regardless of whether or not they have a material "reality" or effect. inherent in the term is the idea that magic is a real thing, at the very least as a kind of phenomenon that occurs consistently in human behavior and should be treated as a reality with significance and meaning. humans are evidently a magical animal whose pattern-finding ability creates a need for, a recognition of, and the creation of meanings in literal material ways and in abstract more esoteric forms.

magic as a behavior is both a tool to cope when material solutions fail and a way to improve upon material conditions in a stable situation, a way to make sense of life and trauma and shape decisionmaking, a way to anchor the lived experience to time, a way to feel and create connection with one another and with other creatures, a way to heal from wounds that do not close in other ways.

significant here again is the neutrality of the term; as a real thing, magic has the genuine possibility of being good for you-- it has the potential to greatly improve your life. it can also be dangerous or bad for you; many people are sick for magical reasons, and magical ideas can be wielded as a tool of power. but magic itself, as a phenomenon, is not good or bad. it simply is a reality of human experience.

in this way one can speak broadly of magics present and absent as a fact of human life, those that occur both consciously and unconsciously, which i find really quite useful for talking about a lot of things.

so when i say for instance that my pills are helping me and it may just be for magic reasons i mean it literally and without judgement; assuming the pills aren't "doing anything", me feeling better anyway would be a magic solution because either the patternfinding animal of my body or the meaning creation unconscious of my brain has decided that the idea of medicine is strong enough to change my lived experience physiologically or psychologically -- which is not bad or somehow more fake than just a material physical reaction. it may be valuable enough on its own to continue by itself or in addition to other material solutions.

i use a lot of words a little strangely but i think the word i struggle to share definition with new people the most is the word 'magic' because for me it has taken on a lot of extra anthropological/psychological/supernatural meaning that it doesn't usually have. it feels like a critical theory term in my house and in the conversations we have in that it's got like. an essay or two's worth of nuance in there but is such a useful concept that being able to say it as a single word is important. so there are a lot of thoughts i have that are difficult to verbalize to other people because the crucial background of the word for the concept is missing

[monstermoviedean]

Wait so if the pattern continues, whats the connection between 9x18, 10x18, and 11x18?

i am SO sorry but i don't remember 09x18 or 10x18 well enough to comment, and i haven't seen 11x18 yet. i'll for sure keep an eye out though!

[adhdo5]

Shit is literally so pointless it’s so funny

[wyrmoftheweb]

hate it when my brain goes into wuh woh danger mode and im literally just sitting here because it gives me bullshit amounts of nervous energy with nothing to do and I can't even scroll tumblr because its decided it's going to be scared of fucking images

[glnnt]

⏺⬆️ #GudakApp #Gudak #Monochrome #PatternFinds #BlackAndWhite

[kippbakr]

View to a Winter's Day A look towards the northwest of Fort Worth's 7th Street near the Museum District on a cold , rainy day LAST winter. We may see another one yet? #winter #fortworth #fortworthtx #fortworthtexas #fortworthwhile #fortworthartist #blackandwhitephotography #fujifilm_xseries #fujifilmxe2 #museumdistrict #7thstreet #aboutime #aboutframing #aboutfocus #aboutasenseoftime #patternfinding #layeredphotography #phototheday #photographylovers #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #blackandwhitephotography (at Fort Worth, Texas)

[torharn]

Aesthetic of Bacteria ----------------- #bacteria #bacterialgrowth #microuniverse #microbial #patternfinding (at Gothic Quarter, Barcelona)

[ourlinjan]

Liked on YouTube: "Patternfinding / Meditation 🔴LIVE | @davidoreilly" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Kpl4_4LKg

[mvaillette]

#Art is a #puzzle with #infinite answers. :D I stashed some little #eastereggs for you. Hope you enjoy. See it? Feel it? Don't ruin it for the others ;D⠀ .⠀ Humans are rockstars at #patternfinding. If its there, someone will find it. If it's not there, someone will also find it. I guess this is how prophecies work; Give it long enough and someone will find that something fulfills said prophecy. Fuzzy, #abstractthinking can be your best friend or worst enemy. It sure helps us find our own sense of #meaning in everyday life.⠀ .⠀ "Believe in yourself (coded)" by Matt Vaillette⠀ .⠀ #visuallogic #art #artist #artwork #drawing #cipher #cypher #artistsoninsta #artistsoninstagram #artoninsta #artistsoninsta #portraitart #digitalart #illustration http://ift.tt/2j0vI0c

[kippbakr]

#2017bestnine gets the new year started with a look back at posts on IG. #eldercare dominates my time, but new living arrangements have eased both our burdens. #beautifullight #weekendgetaway #naturallight #cityview #bestplacestolive #artofphotography #ourplanetdaily #beautifullight #truth #loveAmerica #fortworthphotography #loveAmerica #artificiallight #studiolight #hummingbird #landscape #framing #artofphotography #patternfinding #fortworth #fortworthtx #fortworthtexas #fortworthwhile #birdlovers #Texas #texasphotographer #fortworthphotographer #fortworthcamera @camerasupply @everydayusa @juanseemas Follow @mrpixure on IG, FB, FLICKR and other social media - interested in workshops? Register on the Contact Us page of www.pixure.com to be informed about upcoming workshops on lighting, light-painting, portrait photography and much much more! ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: (at Fort Worth, Texas)

[torharn]

Aesthetic of Bacteria ----------------- #bacteria #bacterialgrowth #microuniverse #microbial #microscope #patternfinding (at Gothic Quarter, Barcelona)

[torharn]

Aesthetic of Bacteria ----------------- #bacteria #bacterialgrowth #microuniverse #microbial #patternfinding (at Gothic Quarter, Barcelona)

[kippbakr]

(The Merry Minuet from the Kingston Trio, circa 1960's) Just a short poetic commentary from previous times... "They're rioting in Africa
They're starving in Spain
There's hurricanes in Florida
And Texas needs rain
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The french hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don't like anybody very much!!
 But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
For man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud
And we know for certain that some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off
And we will all be blown away!!
 They're rioting in Africa
There's strife in Iran
What nature doesn't so to us
Will be done by our fellow man" #commentary #Aboutcolor #position  #untitled #handofman #framing #atthemoment #composition #patternfinding  #handheld #beautifullight  #fortworth #fujifilm_xseries #fortworthwhile #Texas #staytuned #onlocation #studiolighting #Fuji #DPRK #fujicamera #KingstonTrio #MerryMinuet #fortworthphotographer #fujiex2 Follow @mrpixure on FB, Instagram, FLICKR, and other social media

[kippbakr]

Photograph of #foundcolor presented itself to me while waiting for the delicious offerings of Charley's Hamburgers in south Fort Worth. #fortworth #fortworthwhile #texasphotographer #onlocation #fortworthphotographer #76102 #817 #iPhone7 #iPhonephoto #aboutcolor #CharleysBurgers #photojournalism #summerfun #summer #patternfinding #colorcomposition #design #fortworthcamera #fortworthtx #portrait Follow @mrpixure on Instagram, Facebook, FLICKR and other social media...more at www.pixure.com (at Charley's Old Fashioned Hamburgers)