u/matigekunst

This is my entry for the Summer of Math Exposition 2026. Made with Manim and TouchDesigner. Hope you enjoy:)

Vanaf volgende week ga ik een anderhalve maand op een mooi huis in Arnhem passen naast de grote vijver in het Sonsbeek park. Ik kom uit Amsterdam en ken buiten de eigenaren van het huis niemand in Arnhem. Het plan is om er in alle rust het laatste artikel van mijn PhD te schrijven. Maar ik heb ook zin om de omgeving een beetje te ontdekken.

Ik ben een man van 31, kunstenaar en VJ van beroep en ik houd van: elektronische muziek maken/luisteren, videos maken, moderne kunst, urbexen, boulderen en hardlopen.

Op de planning staat al: Kröller Müller, radio Kootwijk en hardlopen door de Veluwe en ik heb een pas gekregen voor een mooi buitenzwembad. Graag hoor ik waar een leuke boulderhal is, kunstmusea of leuke kunstzinnige plekken, cafeetjes waar je kan werken, techno/alternatieve clubs, en leuke urbexplekken (DM als het een geheime is;) ).

Experimenting with softbody physics in Manim. The scene with all the individual blocks falling took my laptop 5 hours to render, just as long as the rest of the video😅 Made with Manim and TouchDesigner

I'm an artist and I sometimes get messages to apply for art residencies. Often in very nice locations. Sounds good, so I apply and I have to send in a lot of information, CV, portfolio, motivation etc. But then at the very last page, when you've already put in a lot of time to enter information they say applying is 50-100 euro's. At that point I realise it's probably a scam. There's actually a lot of Instagram pages that do this and these pages have tens of thousands of followers and quite some followers that I know from the digital art world.

Is this a scam?

At the very least it feels predatory

I make videos about algorithms and sometimes about machine learning algorithms. I've noticed my videos about AI do terrible in comparison to videos about fractal rendering or non-AI algorithms. I have the feeling people seem to conflate machine learning with AI slop, and dismiss anything that uses the term rather quickly.

I make videos about algorithms and sometimes about machine learning algorithms. I've noticed these videos do terrible in comparison to videos about fractal rendering or non-AI algorithms. I have the feeling people seem to conflate machine learning with AI slop, and dismiss anything that uses the term rather quickly. Has anyone noticed this?

I have made quite a few long-form videos and some of them have flopped for now obvious reasons other I have no idea. Is it worth it going back an re-editing my some of my videos that have fewer views than I have subscribers?

I think the idea of some of them is good but my editing and story-telling skills weren't as good as they are now. That being said my most recent video also flopped🥲

My videos are mostly about algorithms and their real-life analogues

In the Netherlands we get all the perfect fruit. Straight cucumbers, perfectly purple aubergines, nothing can look splotchy or imperfect. This year there were some apples with light hail damage and my supermarket had a sign explaining it. But mostly non-perfect fruit/veg are mostly exported for cheap or turn into smoothies or animal feed.

In 2017 I went to a supermarket in Kiev and I could hardly recognise any of the fruit and vegetables. What struck me the most were the kiwis. The whole crate was lumpy and conjoined. I sadly didn't take a photo. I was telling someone about this and they didn't believe me. I came across this subreddit and the fasciated kiwis on here look exactly like what I saw.

My question: how common are fasciated kiwis? If one tree or branch has fasciated kiwis will there the rest also likely be fasciated? Will these crates be much cheaper? What I'm wondering is if this was real or whether my mind is exaggerating history