Author: Artemis Desertsong

When I first came across the concept of Wikipedia speedruns, I thought they were a pretty stupid idea. Not that they were a bad idea per se, but the idea of a speedrun is that it’s something measurable across time using a medium that’s static. As soon as conditions change, that speedrun must be adjusted […]

Modern existence seems to always be in a ceaseless flux, in which any meaningful human endeavor seems marred by tides of disillusionment. Thus, I often find myself adrift. I’m caught between the ephemeral beauty of creation and the stark realities of a world that grows ever more cynical. The complexities of our era, with its […]

Whether expressed through words or pictures, artistry thrives, no matter what the medium. Like other forms of art, writing can never quite be perfect. But, this doesn’t mean it can’t be a work of beauty in its own right. Everyone has their own personal style to everything they do – whether you’re speaking aloud or […]

One newsletter I once read talked about “sliding door moments.” (That newsletter now requires a paid subscription to read, so I’ve killed any reference to the original link.) This a reference to a 1998 movie with a young, gorgeous Gwyneth Paltrow called Sliding Doors. In that film, Paltrow’s character has two divergent encounters with a […]

What does Emily Dickinson mean when she writes, “the brain is wider than the sky”? Emily Dickinson’s Poem #632 seems to revolve around the human mind as its theme. The first stanza, after which the poem is commonly titled, is what instantly drew my eyes to this poem. “The Brain – is wider than the […]

I wrote these few thoughts about the portrayal of exploring the atom in a work of legendary Russian-American physicist George Gamow’s that I came across in high school (2003 or 2004). They are pretty high level observations for the time… “On George Gamow’s Clever Way of Presenting the Atom” While personally I knew of the […]