Ars Nihil

Photo by me of an alleyway in L.A.'s Little Tokyo ( July 2022 ) Saw a video posted by CBS Mornings from earlier this month and remembered...

For most of my life, I always thought I had to do something impressive to actually "live" but never got up the nerve to work towards...

Today was the first time I found out about the concept of contronyms (a.k.a. contranyms), something they don't really teach you about...

The Nerdwriter on YouTube posted this video a couple weeks ago about the performance artist/photographer Tseng Kwong Chi in conjunction...

Sunny on a Sunday after 2-3 days of rain, so glad for that. Sleep was fitful but otherwise nothing major going on for today other than...

Last night was one of those good "quiet nights at home" times. Enough happened that this will be a bullet-point focused one: Photo of a...

This morning while doing my usual coffee-time phone checks, I found this quote on Bluesky posted by a vintage photos account: “Once we're...

Creativity, at least the productive & interesting kind, requires honesty. That's what makes it difficult to be consistent with posting...

While in the process of building out a zine based on this blog and entries I've been putting in my commonplace book , I ended up...

I had such high hopes to be more active on this thing and then the world had to throw several hundred wrenches into my plans... Bunnies...

I follow several independent animators on YouTube (favorite is Ian "Worthikids" Worthington , who's probably more famous than I realize...

It's the end of 2024 and again time for giving some kind of an annual wrap-up and a preview of things to come for 2025. Here's what I got...

This blog's not dead but I've been busy for the last several months and will be until mid-December/early January. Here's what I'm...

One of the strongest memories that feels alien to me was how many restaurants during my childhood had the same kind of décor:...

One of my favorite genres of music is both pretty ubiquitous and mostly unremarked about other than every once in a while by other music...

This subject is one that I’ve wanted to cover for quite a while, since it reminds me of watching all kinds of late-night weirdness during...

A by-product of stress is often nostalgia, which I won’t lie and say I’m somehow above falling into that trap. The last several years...

Petrichor is one of my favorite scents. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s the smell that occurs after rain has hit soil and mixes with...

I haven’t posted in a while, so I’m making a housekeeping post until autumn. Summer always becomes a time for other – primarily good -...

A month ago, my YouTube algorithm brought up a video called “Japan in 1960 was insane” and I knew I had to check it out. While it covers...