#Mastery

2026-02-14

The Arabian Poet, Gustave Moreau

seems like these two are happy together and with each other ❤️

#art #mastery #valentinesDay #love #muse #heaven #feelings #sparkly #contrast #color

a male figure in elaborate costume riding a prancy, fancy horse, is looking up and back at a winged female who seems to be floating just over his shoulder, and they seem happy to see each other.  she is holding aloft some flowers and is also wearing intricately decorated clothing, headwear, and jewelry.  She may have a halo or it may be a crown.  There is strange and perhaps magical fantasy bird flying alongside them, and beyond are trees and a body of water and the sun near the horizon
2026-02-12

Whirlpool at Naruto, Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855

love this. really feel the flow and the rolling and crashing of the water, and the composition works so well. Just the right amount and size of birds, of color in the sky, dark and light.

#art #mastery #perfect #sucking #rolling #power #swimming #pit #depth #dark #hole #woodblock #ukiyoe

we are in the ocean near a shore on the horizon, and a whirlpool is spinning right here in the foreground among rocks sticking out of the water.  Waves are crashing against the rocks from the other side, and more rolling waves are seen beyond the rocks.  in the sky a few birds are flying.
Charlescvdreek
2026-02-07

In this bonus video on special shakuhachi techniques, I reveal the secret to becoming a shakuhachi master: forget the special techniques!
#shakuhachi #introduction #tutorial #technique #master #mastery #尺八
youtu.be/QA5Vm41BbDY

2026-02-01

illustration for Paradise Lost, Gustave Dore

Gustave Dore. So good. the dark and light are so perfect, sort of heavy on the dark? I haven't read the poem but this is an epic illustration.

I wonder if the denizens of hell were like, there go those angels... "We're so special, we're Angels, look at us!"

I think everyone probably identifies with this image, even people on opposing sides of the same issue see this and think they are the angels and the others are the stewing churning demons?

I was thinking of some kind of archetypal - psychological thing about our whole natures and how culture serves to create social creatures.

#art #mythology #archetype #heaven #hell #angels #demons #paradise #mastery #woodcut #perfect #woodcut #illustration #epic #detail

curling snake-dragons and monstrous winged chimerical demons are expressively noticing a crowd of angels on a cliff above them.  The angels seem very small compared to the demons, but there is a bright light beyond the cliff, and  on the clouds in the sky, as though the power of Light is with angels.
Manish AhujaMrEmogical
2026-01-19

Keep Going Keep Growing 🚀

[professionalism; career growth; mastery; work ethic; leadership mindset; process improvement] mastodon.social/@MrEmogical/11

2026-01-15

I found an image match that associated this with Kurdish rug making. Love the complexity and symmetry, hand made with wool, amazing. I was trying to look at it as a piece of art meant to hang on a wall and I made associations with portals and maybe like different levels or elaborations of a central thing, maybe like a oneness with complex expression. haha Amazing traditional art

#art #craft #mastery #patterns #red #love #life #harmony #contrast #home

this is a photograph of a woolen rug with complex patterned design.  from the center outward are shapes and designs that are both horizontally and vertically symmetrical around the center.  The designs are mostly of flower and intertwining vine shapes made with red, blue, brown, yellow, and black.
2026-01-04

What's on my mind? uh, profit as a destructive force in human relationships, drama that obscures that reality #venezuela

Sea Bream, Bakufu Ono

feeling like a sea bream with all the water falling out of the sky around here. These prints are so elegantly done, I really appreciate the careful work. Fish faces are amazing. I guess they don't have eyelids? they never sleep. or maybe they sleep when the sun goes down. The rotation of the earth is their eyelid 😆

#art #blockPrint #mastery #design #character #fish #fishy #underwater #rain #wet #hungry @art

we are looking down at three red tinged fish swimming above some hazy rocks on the sea floor
2025-12-31

The Apparition, Odilon Redon

I haven't put up any Odilon Redon in a while, he's easily one of my favorite artists. I really don't understand how he got here from a blank canvas. The way his mind worked with color and application is fascinating to me. I think that there is just barely enough representation to understand the scene, but all the rest is magic, so much magic. 😁

#art #mastery #color #fuzzy #apparition #ghost #magic #sparkly @art

this colorful painting is closer to abstract than to representational but there seem to be two standing figures looking at each other, and one is surrounded by a halo of light and may also be winged like an angel (but it's impossible to say for sure).  Above this may be fuzzy, abstract, cloudy sky
2025-12-29

"“Bun without bu means authority withers, while bu without bun means the people remain in fear and distant.” —Fujiwara Shigenori, 1254."

Medieval Japan understood that true mastery requires balance. My latest article explores bunbu ichi and why “artists and fighters” belong together.

Read more: The unity of pen and sword: understanding bunbu ichi

#Bunbu #JapanesePhilosophy #Shuhari #SamuraiCulture #MedievalJapan #ArtAndWar #LifelongLearning #CulturalHistory #Mastery

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2025-12-22
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2025-12-17

Oh joy, another framework claiming it'll change the world by compiling into a Rust server 🚀. But first, you've got to master the ancient arts of enabling JavaScript and accepting 🍪. Clearly, we've reached the pinnacle of web innovation, folks! 🤦‍♂️
npmjs.com/package/@ezetgalaxy/

2025-12-15

Gate Among The Trees, Jan Stanislawski

The color in this is amazing.

Reminds me of the time of day when I take off my sunglasses because it's finally too dark. 😂 Good time of day to go inside get warm.

#art #dusk #mastery #color #home @art

There is a path leading between two small pillars, with grass on either side and a couple of tall trees.  The mostly cloudy sky behind the trees seems to be showing the last of the daylight and the trees are silhouetted against it, everything in the painting reflects a low light situation.
2025-12-15

AI, Mastery, and the Barbell of Cognitive Enhancement

In the typical Hollywood action movie, a hero acquires master-level skill in a specialized art, such as Kung Fu, in a few power ballad-backed minutes of a training montage. 

In real life, it may seem self-evident that gaining mastery takes years of intense, deliberate, and guided work. Yet the perennial optimism of students cramming the night before an exam tells us that the pursuit of a cognitive shortcut may be an enduring human impulse.

It is unsurprising, then, that students—and many adults—increasingly use the swiftly advancing tools of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) as a shortcut around deeper, more effortful cognitive work. [...]

languageandliteracy.blog/ai-ma

Inautiloinautilo
2025-11-07

“Designing for edge cases isn’t a chore; it’s an investment in the integrity of your work. For those of us who care about craft, that’s where the real mastery shows.” — Praveen Juge

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