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Designer, artist, musician, multipassionate, chaotic good. Personal feed and design archive for Anthony Smolenski, half of @bigbadbeetlebolos.
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Pineapple Fountain (2012). 24x30", Oil on Canvas. by @antaesthetic
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Bird's Nest Fungus growing on a pinecone. by @antaesthetic
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23 days ago
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A few of my favorite fly photos I've taken with my new phone. by @antaesthetic
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23 days ago
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🔄 komorebi (2020). Trailer played during DreamsFest 2020 for an adventure/puzzle game about a kokeshi in a wood-inspired land that I was working on back then. Everything sculpted, scored, and animated by me. #MadeinDreams by @antaesthetic
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🔄 The Pine Gap (2021) #MadeInDreams by @antaesthetic
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RIP Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) taken in Mattress Factory Museum by @antaesthetic
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Had an amazing time seeing TLC, En Vogue, & Salt-N-Pepa tonight. All of whom remain as cool and adorable as ever. CrazySexyCool is one of my favorite albums ever, and... I can't really tell you how much this concert meant to me. 😭 by @antaesthetic
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2 months ago
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"Diamond Sky" (2021). Visualizer made in Dreams. Song is a clip from "Summer Bobble Dance", a mashup I made in 2008. by @antaesthetic
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Did this article from 2000 age well? 😅
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HOW WILL WE LISTEN TO MUSIC?
In the digital future, we'll all be drive-time Puff Daddys
BY MOBY

Imagine that by 2025 music will be available on command, as will anything else that can be reproduced in the digital domain. Most of the recorded music in the world will exist on a variety of servers, and it will be possible to download instantly any piece of music to whatever portable playback device you might be using. If you're in your car and want to hear (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding, you'll be able to call it up instantaneously on a playback device that will make today's MP3 player look clunky. And if you want to hear only the intro, then you'll hear only the intro. If you want to hear the intro looped 300 times, then you'll be able to hear that too—virtually any permutation or variation you want.

With the spread of instantly accessible digital media, music will no longer be constrained by the time limits of a compact disc. Single pieces of music could be 75 minutes long, or six months long, or virtually infinite. With the sequencing technology that I have in my home studio now, I could start playing a piece of music that would still be playing five years from now. People in the future will be able to drive down the road and, through voice commands, take the drums from a Led Zeppelin song and put Billie Holiday's vocals on top of them and then play the whole thing backward and twice as fast but at the original pitch.

Which raises a crucial question: If we all become drive-time Puff Daddys, sampling and re-creating music according to our personal taste, are we the composer or the listener? If you create something that contains fragments of other songs but sounds nothing like any of those songs, have you in fact written a new song? This is a question that will keep music lawyers busy for a long time. Yet it's a development that will make the French deconstructionists happy. They've been saying for years that the act of reading completes the written work. By 2025, the distinction between listener and composer will be completely blurred.

Moby's latest album, Play, has been nominated for two Gram HOW WILL WE LISTEN TO MUSIC?

In the digital future, we'll all be drive-time Puff Daddys

BY MOBY

Imagine that by 2025 music will be available on command, as will anything else that can be reproduced in the digital domain. Most of the recorded music in the world will exist on a variety of servers, and it will be possible to download instantly any piece of music to whatever portable playback device you might be using. If you're in your car and want to hear (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding, you'll be able to call it up instantaneously on a playback device that will make today's MP3 player look clunky. And if you want to hear only the intro, then you'll hear only the intro. If you want to hear the intro looped 300 times, then you'll be able to hear that too—virtually any permutation or variation you want.

With the spread of instantly accessible digital media, music will no longer be constrained by the time limits of a compact disc. Single pieces of music could be 75 minutes long, or six months long, or virtually infinite. With the sequencing technology that I have in my home studio now, I could start playing a piece of music that would still be playing five years from now. People in the future will be able to drive down the road and, through voice commands, take the drums from a Led Zeppelin song and put Billie Holiday's vocals on top of them and then play the whole thing backward and twice as fast but at the original pitch.

[Caption: Playback The composer listens]

Which raises a crucial question: If we all become drive-time Puff Daddys, sampling and re-creating music according to our personal taste, are we the composer or the listener? If you create something that contains fragments of other songs but sounds nothing like any of those songs, have you in fact written a new song? This is a question that will keep music lawyers busy for a long time. Yet it's a development that will make the French deconstructionists happy. They've been saying for years that the act of reading completes the written work. By 2025, the distinction between listener and composer will be completely blurred.

Moby's latest album, Play, has been nominated for two Grammys by @antaesthetic
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2 months ago
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A collection of Groove Night / Rave Flyers from Club Laga from my time at Pitt in 2001-02. And one bonus Pitt News clipping about the amazing Poe show I saw there with my new dorm neighbors in 2001.

Groove Night was my weekly solo self-care ritual as a freshman in college. I would put on my favorite PEZ t-shirt and tech pants, walk a few blocks from the Towers dorms, and stand in the winding line up the stairs of Club Laga to the main dancefloor to move and get lost in the music, watch people breakdance, and admire the fashion of all the club kids. 

I still remember September 21st, 2001 — I was standing in that winding line, excited to hear one of my favorite DJs—DJ Rap—but I overheard the girl in front of me say that she cancelled last minute and wouldn't be there. 9/11 had just happened, and the idea of flying at the time was not exactly comforting. Thankfully, DJ Baby Anne was there to represent for the female DJs and played an excellent set.

#clublaga #groovenight #pittsburghraves #raveflyers #vintagepittsburgh taken in Club Laga by @antaesthetic
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"Man in Blue Henley" (2026) |  6x9" | Acrylic ink on watercolor paper. 

Channeling some vibrant Van Gogh vibes for this handsome guy, and enjoying being able to layer the acrylic ink with impressionist strokes in bold, expressive colors without the ink bleeding through the paper. Yellows, oranges, reds, and blues.

#acrylicinkart #maleportrait #queerart #gayartist #modernimpressionism by @antaesthetic
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"Outta New Shit" (Ashlee Simpson vs Marilyn Manson). One of my favorite mashups I did around 2008. by @antaesthetic
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