Labyrinth (2026)

The literal name of this section of a wall of almost a thousand meters[1] of near vertical ice, a slowly shapeshifting maze of seracs, flowing, fracturing, the light refracting and revealing the beautiful blue ice glow of the (dying) glacier... No photo can do justice (to the scale and impressions). For reference, the cliffs in the foreground are ~2.4 km (1.5 miles) in front and the path to the ice goes first over/across them...

(Ps. I will keep posting my images of glaciers and their precious fragile environments until someone tells me off, and then probably continue anyway... To me they're some of most fascinating and important envs in the world, their changes/losses having vast implications elsewhere too.)

[1] ...much more if one includes the more shallow sections above/below...

#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Glacier #Alps #Abstract

The below is correct and any claims of "rogue behavior" and other popular attempts at anthropomorphization are merely means to actively distance the original purveyors of software agents by 1) shifting blame onto users of agentic tooling and 2) claiming agents themselves are something more advanced than auto-generated, buggy, shoddily assembled, half-baked, brute-force and insufficiently secured products with the unfortunate inherent capabilities to directly employ a vast library of trained malware patterns.

This is not just lack of security. It is lack of design, lack of foresight. Above all, it is lack of care, of responsibility. It is a social failure of imagination of what technology could/should be like.

These software products (agents) should never have been released in this current form in the first place. Instead of addressing LLM's fundamental knowledge management issues & shortcomings, the industry keeps on building increasingly fragile layers atop, each one with more anthropomorphisms attached to normalize these shortcomings and sell them as breakthroughs (even if these are sold with supposed civilization-ending warnings).

The true "advances" this whole industry has pioneered are how their PR strategies have managed to successfully influence such a vast number of people in such short time (< 4 years), incl. people who should know better and/or have an official duty/responsibility to be more objective & critical of the constant flow of vapid claims and explanations put forward by this industry... journalists, educators, politicians, doctors, civil servants have MUCH explaining to do about their lack/failure of objective critical assessments of this tech! Regurgitating the industry's talking points (aka distractions) without neither acknowledging their own roles and sycophantic/egotistic behaviors and ignoring the actual real multi-domain emergencies already knocking at our doorstep — all this is simply unacceptable! If these people cannot or will not exercise the required level of objectivity, then we need to elect & elevate the people who can...

#AI #Agents

Since it's #TextureTuesday, and since I missed them earlier, here are some recent images by the great @nprofile1q... with some beautiful abstract impressions of the Pyrenees in early autumn... 🤩

https://mastodon.social/@pyrenaicus/117392950842315096

https://mastodon.social/@pyrenaicus/117275415447852061

https://mastodon.social/@pyrenaicus/117303883012329191

https://mastodon.social/@pyrenaicus/117347409616427622

#Photography #Pyrenees #Mountains

Found some of my old (and first) teenage years cameras and other photo equipment on the DDR Museum website. Artifacts from a truly different life... Some of these were already 15-25+ years old when I first used them in the '80s...

More items/objects here:
https://www.ddr-museum.de/de/objects/filter/sammlungsbereich/42

All image credits belong to DDR Museum. Reference links in alt text.

#Photography #Camera #History #DDR

In the past two weeks I already couldn't help but prepare roasted pumpkin & garlic cream soup twice, so I guess that puts me in the "Love it" camp... 😋

Hologram's Solstice (2018) is just what my ADHD brain needs today to remain calm... Melodic, rhythmic & aural evolving complexity of the finest synthetic vintage... (Headphones recommended)

https://runningbackrecords.bandcamp.com/track/solstice

#Music4Coding #Hologram #Synth #NoBeats

Gurglerferner (2026)

Beautifully rich textures and structures, emphasized by the hard light and created by glacial abrasion of this once great (and still utterly majestic) glacier flowing directly from the central Alpine divide. If you squint you can see a faint path zigzagging up the exposed & plucked bedrock near the center bottom... Like the Vernagtferner in a neighboring valley, this glacier too has caused ice lakes to form several times over the past centuries, occasionally ending in GLOFs (glacial outflow floods) causing widespread destruction in the valleys below...

#TextureTuesday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Glacier

Pass dal Güglia

Sep 29, 2024
Sep 28, 2026

#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Alps #Mountains

Sign of the times. Gaudi & zusaufen bis zum erbrochenen Ende! Ist es denn auch wirklich eine Wiese, wenn's nur Bier aber gar kein Gras zum konsumieren gibt? 🤔

Gran Inversion (2026)

(Gran Zebru (3851 m) and the glaciated Monte Cevedale (3769 m) and Adamello-Presanella Alps [with main peaks at 3539 & 3558 meters] towering high above the clouds floating above the valley)

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains #CloudAppreciation

I've started collecting dates for various photography related markets/events in southern Germany & Austria (mostly Tirol) for the coming ~9 months. If you know about other such events (esp. for fine art photography prints), I'd highly appreciate any pointers and I'll add them to this list. Thank you! 🙏

The events are also available as static ICS calendar file here:
https://data.thi.ng/calendars/artmarkets-de-at.ics

Kunst & Design Markt Stuttgart
https://kunst-designmarkt.at/stuttgart/
10 - 11 Oct 2026
20 - 21 Mar 2027

Kunst & Design Markt Konstanz
https://kunst-designmarkt.at/konstanz/
17 - 18 Oct 2026
17 - 18 Apr 2027

Münchner Fotobörse
https://fotoboerse-muenchen.de/
18 Oct 2026

Artfair Innsbruck
https://www.artfair-innsbruck.com/
23 - 25 Oct 2026

ARTMUC Kunstmesse München
https://artmuc.info/
23 - 25 Oct 2026

Kunst & Design Markt Salzburg
https://kunst-designmarkt.at/salzburg/
24 - 25 Oct 2026
13 - 14 Mar 2027

Kunst & Design Markt Augsburg
https://kunst-designmarkt.at/augsburg/
31 Oct - 1 Nov 2026
1 -2 May 2027

Kunst & Design Markt Innsbruck
https://kunst-designmarkt.at/innsbruck/
7 - 8 Nov 2026
27 - 28 Feb 2027

Kunst & Design Markt Wien
https://kunst-designmarkt.at/wien/
14 - 15 Nov 2026
10 - 11 Apr 2027

Kunst & Design Markt Nürnberg
https://kunst-designmarkt.at/nuernberg/
28 - 29 Nov 2026
24 - 25 Apr 2027

Kunst & Design Markt München
https://www.kunst-designmarkt.at/muenchen/
3 - 4 Apr 2027

Fürstenfelder Naturfototage
https://www.fuerstenfelder-naturfototage.com
23 - 25 Apr 2027

Oberstdorfer Fotogipfel
https://www.fotogipfel-oberstdorf.de/
16 - 20 Jun 2027

Fotomesse Tirol (Innsbruck)
https://fotomesse.tirol/
Sep 2027

#Photography #FineArt #Artist #Market #Events #Germany #Austria

The beauty of pure synth. A single filtered sequence, repeated in ever changing variations, deeply touching, on perma repeat... 😍

nthing — I Hear You
https://nthng.bandcamp.com/track/i-hear-you

The opening track from nthng's new album Last Light Of The Sun (released today):

https://nthng.bandcamp.com/album/last-light-of-the-sun

#Music4Coding #Synth #NoBeats #nthng