Kevin Bowen

Mexican artist and designer Pedro Friedeberg

Art is I, science is we.
(Acrylic and ink on board)

#Surrealism

Canine Fruit Store depicts a black and white op-art scene of whimsically illustrated dogs with halved melons in red

Frutería Canina by Pedro Friedeberg (1969)

On Saturday, March 7th Jello Biafra suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure.



As per Jello:

It's not entirely new; but, with the rampant proliferation of #LLM usage in software, I'm not exactly thrilled(actually, I'm very annoyed) in having to re-evaluate my personal heirarchy of trust when it comes to the computing that I use daily.

For me, it's always been a trade-off between the […]

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pkirn/116164966101251297

Playing reel-to-reel tape recorders as performance art and wonderful music?!?

Beautiful genius!

#ElectronicMusic #Music

Last year, while traveling to Honduras, I briefly made a ferry stop on the island of Roatan before continuing to my final destination. What I didn't know at that time is that I was less than a mile away from a zone called Próspera ZEDE.

Today I wrote about the link between recent Honduran […]

It's lights out for WA Legislature's effort to regulate data centers • Washington State Standard Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. House Bill 2515 would have required data centers to ...

Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...

A comic panel of Uncle Scrooge thinking "what a horrible fate to befall the world!"

A photograph of the full moon rising over a building roof. The top of a pine tree in the distance and some closer pine branches and needles wrap around the moon. The background is a light blue evening sky.

Moonrise over apartment complex.

Taking a quick break from some reading and caught the moon peeking out towards the east just before sunset.
I doubt that I will be awake for the start of the Blood Moon lunar eclipse in 6-7 hours.
#photography #moon #pnw

We have met a lot of Welsh people.

A print divided into three sections. The largest vertical panel is in greyscale with a hedgehog-like creature with the words: peace or we all perish The second, thinner vertical panel to the left has an orange/rust tone with the words: And to think... It all started out Like and other The bottom rectangle background contains 3 brown horizontal stripe with an ocre field behind it. It contains the words: WORLD Intended, one might almost believe, to last for a good long time

I'm feelin' the need to bring back some Kenneth Patchen pics for a lil' bit o' introspection.

From Kenneth Patchen's "What Shall We Do Without Us". #poetry #painting #literature #art #war

Published a short #HOWTO on resolving "collation version mismatch" warnings when upgrading PostgreSQL in Docker containers(specifically Django applications).

Part of my ongoing quest to get my notes off of my local harddrive....
If my enthusiasm(!) continues, I may, eventually, migrate off of […]

A photograph of an old, weatherworn granary in Sylvana, WA. The sides of lower, long building are weather & rain stained in various dark greys. The tall tower behind it is reflecting the mid-afternoon sun and appears shimmering. The background is a clear, light blue sky. In the foreground, diagonal black electrical cross the tower.

#photography #SkagitValley #pnw #Architecture #SylvanaWA

On this cold rainy night, people sitting on stools are enjoying hot noodles and sake in this cosy lantern-lit roadside booth (Tomikichiro Tokuriki’s woodblock print ‘Noodle Restaurant on A Rainy Night’ (1951)

Three weeks ago I spent a few days in one of our global dark sky sanctuaries in Rakiura Stewart Island New Zealand. Never has deep time felt so real or so close.

But every now and then one of Elon's dumbfuck satellites would interrupt the eternal rhythms of the stars. Let's not let it get worse.

FCC’s Carr urges broadcasters to air ‘patriotic, pro-America’ content The agency chair’s call is tied to administration efforts to foster celebrations of American exceptionalism ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary.

The FCC wants broadcasters to "promote national pride" by stuff like "daily broadcasts reciting the Pledge of Allegiance or playing the national anthem." What's more American than patriotic speech under duress? www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Schlemmer was a key figure and Master at the renowned Bauhaus school, where he headed the stage workshop from 1923. The ballet explored the relationship between the human figure and space, geometry, and technology. The elaborate, sculptural costumes transformed the dancers into geometric shapes, restricting their movement to emphasize form over realistic expression. The production featured 18 different costumes and 12 different dances, divided into three parts based on color: yellow, pink, and black. The design in the image is one of the most iconic from the production, known for its bold, optical-art-style black and white stripes and spiral hat.

A moment from German Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer's avant-garde production, Das Triadische Ballett (The Triadic Ballet), first performed in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1922.

#oskarschlemmer #bauhaus #triadischeballett #triadicballet #germany #dance #costumedesign #setdesign #moderndesign #art

Eliane Radigue - Echos_Engsubs This is "Eliane Radigue - Echos_Engsubs" by Eleonore Huisse on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

The beautiful documentary « Éliane Radigue - Échos » by Eleonore Huisse has just been made available to honor Éliane Radigue’s passing: https://vimeo.com/541076521/d661c359f7

#electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #soundart

Kindness abounds and life is very normal.

Éliane Radigue, French composer and musique concrète legend, dies aged 94 The Paris-born artist reinvented the synthesizer through meditative and feedback-drenched sonic explorations

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Early examples of air guitar

Detail of photo of workers in the boiler room of Edendale Dairy Factory, NZ: api.digitalnz.org/records/4808...

Alison Knowles (1933–2025) Nicole Woods memorializes Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles.

"In Alison’s final days, frail and lying in a hospital bed in the SoHo loft, she performed Nivea Cream Piece one last time with [her daughter] and a close family friend.... Ordinary gestures become art, revealing their deep and personal nature in heightened acts of attention."

A member of my extended family is working on an Android app designed to provide good audio access to Project Gutenberg. To submit it to the Google Play store, he needs at least 20 testers to use the app regularly for 14 days. Testers can be blind or sighted, and both are wanted so their […]

B&W photo of lighted hotel sign, Royal Nevada, 1950s army troops in front, sign says Welcome

Welcome Atomic Soldiers

This article about PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd (1947-2026) shows what I love about the technology sector. I might be romanticizing the past a bit, but it still looks a lot better than today. There are fun tidbits for people in Seattle, too.

I really enjoyed reading about Brainerd's startup […]

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Check it out.

Everett passed the ordinance, not the Snohomish County Council, which is a pretty glaring mistake for "Seattle Red" to make here.

Unpermitted vendors now face jail in Snohomish county Snohomish County cracks down on illegal food vendors with a new law allowing jail time, $5,000 fines, and equipment seizures after complaints surged.

You simply can't pretend to support immigrants who are under constant threat from ICE and simultaneously support throwing immigrants in jail for selling juice or tacos on the street.

This is in Snohomish County, but King County (Seattle) is also obsessed with this.

seattlered.com/washington-s...

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans