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I came across this yesterday: > Merveilles seems aligned with the ideals of Solarpunk while internally expecting the world of Cyberpunk, it is neither a utopia

I came across this yesterday: > Merveilles seems aligned with the ideals of Solarpunk while internally expecting the world of Cyberpunk, it is neither a utopian or dystopian vision, but a way of straddling both contingencies. https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/merveilles.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/merveilles.html

roughly 5y ago
Oh man, thank you for that - so good in so many ways. I’ll definitely be following up on this later, I like what they’re doing. Two things stick out for critique to me - > Merveilles seems aligned with the ideals of Solarpunk while internally expecting the world of Cyberpunk, it is neither a utopian or dystopian vision, but a way of straddling both contingencies. I get this, and in a way, I think it’s how I’m operating already, but man, it’s an art movement - don’t give the dystopia space in the room, it’s already got plenty everywhere else. > The Merveilles visual aesthetic restricts color palettes to black and white, vector or pixel art, with at most a single accent color (usually a sea-foam aqua). Industrial design is minimalist, geometric black-forged metals, natural wood. My visual aesthetic these days is “all of the above.” For the love of god, colors exist - trillions of them! Take two! Hell, take three or four! They’re cheap! And shapes - my god, man, the shapes you can make! You ever see the temple carvings in Nepal? So many shapes! Take a walk through a forest, and just look at all the shapes! Look at trees, man - the opposite of simple!
- stonogo 5y ago
  It's an art movement -- don't give the colors space in the room, they've already got plenty everywhere else. (this was intended as a gentle ribbing, not actual criticism. I found the contrast between exclusion and inclusion interesting :)
  - roughly 5y ago
    Hah! Touché.
wrycoder 5y ago
Hundred Rabbits is very cool. It will be interesting to see what they talk about at their Libreplanent presentation 20Mar: https://www.fsf.org/news/artist-collective-hundred-rabbits-to-keynote-libreplanet-living-liberation https://www.fsf.org/news/artist-collective-hundred-rabbits-t...
- pigeons 5y ago
  https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/libreplanet2022/tree/master/item/slides https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/libreplanet2022/tree/master/item/...
  - entaloneralie 5y ago
    spoilers!
  - wrycoder 5y ago
    Awesome. On sr.ht with a slide app [0] written in their own assembler. [0] https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/adelie https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/adelie

roughly 5y ago

Oh man, thank you for that - so good in so many ways. I’ll definitely be following up on this later, I like what they’re doing. Two things stick out for critique to me - > Merveilles seems aligned with the ideals of Solarpunk while internally expecting the world of Cyberpunk, it is neither a utopian or dystopian vision, but a way of straddling both contingencies. I get this, and in a way, I think it’s how I’m operating already, but man, it’s an art movement - don’t give the dystopia space in the room, it’s already got plenty everywhere else. > The Merveilles visual aesthetic restricts color palettes to black and white, vector or pixel art, with at most a single accent color (usually a sea-foam aqua). Industrial design is minimalist, geometric black-forged metals, natural wood. My visual aesthetic these days is “all of the above.” For the love of god, colors exist - trillions of them! Take two! Hell, take three or four! They’re cheap! And shapes - my god, man, the shapes you can make! You ever see the temple carvings in Nepal? So many shapes! Take a walk through a forest, and just look at all the shapes! Look at trees, man - the opposite of simple!

stonogo 5y ago
It's an art movement -- don't give the colors space in the room, they've already got plenty everywhere else. (this was intended as a gentle ribbing, not actual criticism. I found the contrast between exclusion and inclusion interesting :)
- roughly 5y ago
  Hah! Touché.

wrycoder 5y ago

Hundred Rabbits is very cool. It will be interesting to see what they talk about at their Libreplanent presentation 20Mar: https://www.fsf.org/news/artist-collective-hundred-rabbits-to-keynote-libreplanet-living-liberation https://www.fsf.org/news/artist-collective-hundred-rabbits-t...

pigeons 5y ago
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/libreplanet2022/tree/master/item/slides https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/libreplanet2022/tree/master/item/...
- entaloneralie 5y ago
  spoilers!
- wrycoder 5y ago
  Awesome. On sr.ht with a slide app [0] written in their own assembler. [0] https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/adelie https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/adelie