{"id":14385,"date":"2024-05-05T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=14385"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:47:24","slug":"afterimages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2024\/05\/05\/afterimages\/","title":{"rendered":"afterimages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>asdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1b0a2e6-df8a-4c30-a42a-8f4e5fabe200_721x495.jpeg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1b0a2e6-df8a-4c30-a42a-8f4e5fabe200_721x495.jpeg?w=770&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this might be surprising to some people\u2013 i feel like it shouldn\u2019t be, but people get surprised by all sorts of things\u2013 i am a collector of images. i\u2019ve actually been for a very long time, since the earliest days that i was on the internet, as a kid. i particularly remember collecting the highest quality gifs i could find of my favorite video games. back then that seemed like a meaningful thing to do. i remember saving those images onto 1.44mb floppy disks and bringing them with me to school. why did i do that? it\u2019s not like i was showing them to anybody else. i just really liked the idea of having those images with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i used to be quite a heavy tumblr user, and these days i use pinterest, which is also surprising to some people, because i tweet so much that i come across as a hyperverbal guy (which\u2026 i am). but i\u2019ve always had an interest in aesthetics and visuals. words are just one particular medium. i\u2019m interested in all mediums to some degree. i\u2019m not sure if there\u2019s any particular medium i\u2019m <em>not<\/em> interested in. what is a list of mediums? https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_art_media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is a memory? What is a flashback? What is the past, present, and future? What&#8217;s going on? What&#8217;s happened, what&#8217;s happening, what will happen next? What are we trying to do here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ppl really out here bringing the afterimages of their past grievances and just dump it on whoever seems like a similar-ish enough target to them<\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1612527252104957952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>asdf a this might be surprising to some people\u2013 i feel like it shouldn\u2019t be, but people get surprised by all sorts of things\u2013 i am a collector of images. i\u2019ve actually been for a very long time, since the earliest days that i was on the internet, as a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[730],"class_list":["post-14385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-substack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3K1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14386,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14385\/revisions\/14386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}