#asymmetry

[quotespile]

I once heard a filmmaker say that in order to be truly creative a person must be in possession of four things: irony, melancholy, a sense of competition, and boredom.

Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

#literature #quotes #Lisa Halliday #Asymmetry #quote #books #lit

[soracities]

Summer arrives in a strawberry, sweet, juicy. As long as you feel its flesh on your tongue you’re unaware how. One minute inches into the next. But how could you observe awareness anyway? Or, for that matter, a thought? It grows in you, not as a sensation. (Nor like a baby or tumor.) An experience that you can’t hold on to. Any more than to the smell of lilac. Though it soothes emptiness.

Rosmarie Waldrop, from “Asymmetry (2)”, The Nick of Time: Poems

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[alphynix]

Strange Symmetries #01

Most animals are bilaterally symmetric, having body plans with mirrored left and right sides – which also allows them to have a defined head end, rear end, top side, and underside.

It's not entirely clear what evolutionary advantage this type of symmetry gave to the first bilaterians, which would have been been small "simple" worm-like animals living sometime during the Ediacaran Period between 600 and 560 million years ago. The current generally accepted explanation is that it probably allowed for better active locomotion – clustering sense organs at the head end and directing body movement more efficiently towards food sources and away from threats.

However, this sort of symmetry is never completely perfect. Internal structures like organs are often arranged nonsymmetrically, and the realities of genetics, physical development, and environmental influences always result in external small deviations.

Zebra From The Back by Lynn Greyling | CC0 Public Domain

…But not every bilaterian has stayed roughly symmetrical.

Over the last half-billion years or so some bilaterians have abandoned their roughly-mirror-image body plans in favor of something distinctly wonkier. Asymmetry has evolved multiple times in various different lineages, and so every weekday this month we'll be looking at some examples.

And we might as well start way back near the beginning:

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Strange Symmetries #01: Almost Bilateral

Living in the Ediacaran between about 567 and 550 million years ago, the proarticulatans were flattened rounded organisms with two rows of soft "quilted" rib-like segments (known as isomers) and sometimes a larger fused "head" section at the front. The left and right isomers weren't perfectly mirrored, instead being offset from each other in a glide reflection pattern – but the presence of a clear central body axis suggests these animals may have had some sort of relation to the earliest bilaterians, possibly even being a very early stem group that was experimenting with a not-quite-totally-bilateral body plan.

Discovered in what is now northwest Russia, and dating to around 555 million years ago, Vendia sokolovi was a small proarticulatan measuring about 1.1cm long (0.4"). It had a rather small number of isomers compared to some of its relatives, only 7 per side, and seems to have had a simple digestive tract that branched into each isomer.

(The superficial resemblance to trilobites was coincidental – while we might not be entirely sure what these things were, we do at least know they weren't closely related to early arthropods.)

Very little overall is known about these animals' lifestyles. Trace fossils suggest they were able to move around, feeding on microbial mats on the seafloor, and they may also have been able to firmly stick themselves onto the spots they were currently grazing.

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#science illustration #strange symmetries #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #vendia #proarticulata #ediacaran #bilateria #maybe #art #asymmetry #glide reflection

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Jenny Packham | Resort 2022

#kaftans #evening gown #pink #asymmetry #pink brown

[asuddensway]

MM6 oversized asymmetric sweatshirt

S/S 2017

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[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Lisa Halliday #Asymmetry #quote #lit #books #words

[touhoutunes]

Title: Draw

Arrangement: 平茸

Vocals: 真野紫

Album: Asymmetry

Circle: Aftergrow & minimum electric design

Original: Heartfelt Fancy

#touhou #heartfelt fancy #rin kaenbyou #touhou project #satori komeiji #Aftergrow #subterranean animism #minimum electric design #Asymmetry #真野紫 #平茸

[nakedinthecity]

Asymmetry, 27.11.2022

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[quotespile]

The older you get, the more you have to do before you can go to bed. I’m up to a hundred things.

Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

#literature #quotes #Lisa Halliday #Asymmetry #quote #books #lit

[lordofdestructionm]

"Asymmetry" Mordecai Heller Lackadaisy Animation with Dialogue

#youtube #lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #tracy j butler #animation #fan animation #asymmetry #dub

[vsslxo]

Asymmetry

One of the benefits of channeling art on a daily basis is the opportunity to recognize patterns and recurring symbols, imagery, or themes over a span. Sometimes these are things we don't expect or understand at first, but over time or upon questioning, layers of meaning emerge.

For example, I channeled a set of images with Hadit yesterday. The resulting images were conceptual and forced me to expand my ways of thinking and seeing in order to engage with them. This morning, while working on something else, my attention was drawn to three collages from a series I had channeled a little over a year ago.

The first image was of Hadit, as we had learned after it was created. It is relatively minimal in appearance, but took many layers to create. When I zoomed in on the image, I noted that some of the geometric shapes were not perfectly symmetrically aligned. As someone who is generally obsessed with details like this, it irked me. I had spent many hours creating each of these collages in deep trance and each tiny nudge and digital placement was guided and confirmed. Knowing this, I mentally took a step back and realized that it was intentional.

When channeling the most recent images with Hadit, I received some imagery related to portals, wormholes, and interdimensionality. Often these initially rub me the wrong way because they do not exhibit the symmetry that I've been trained to desire. But they speak to something more, a way through. The way the geometric shapes in the collage were offset echoed this. Once I was able to grasp this, this reframing of my mindset helped me to better understand the collages as well as the newly channeled images and subsequently identify more symbolism and meaning that I had previously overlooked.

—IYNX

Images in post: 1 - "A," digital collage, Oct 2022 2 - Untitled, channeled AI art, Feb 2024

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[miko-fellco]

Oh Lord how i love asymmetry. Unevenly cropped photos, ALMOST perfect shapes, uneven room decor, asymmetrical faces, I could look at them for hours and never have enough

#ill be looking at something and notice its asymmetrical and instantly love it #asymmetry #mikis daily post

[seijorhi]

hi rhi :)

i was rereading asymmetry and i’m curious about ran’s soulmate. idk if you already talked about this, but what happens when ran’s soulmate shows up? would she end up in a similar position as the reader?

while the idea of soulmates being perfect romantic partners seems very nice and all, if nothing else asymmetry proves that that isn't always the case.

ran's already decided that the only person he's interested in is his brother's soulmate. if his actual soulmate managed to either track him down or they had some kind of 'meet cute' it... wouldn't end well.

he wouldn't go so far as to kill her or anything, but he'd make it pretty fucking clear (in the cruelest way possible) that they're less than dirt to him, and to kindly fuck right off.

if, for some reason they were incredibly masochistic and kept trying to pursue him with the idea that the bond would click into place and spark something between them, he'd take more drastic actions to dissuade them. meaning he'd beat the absolute shit out of them, possibly in front of the reader themselves because if that isn't romance i don't know what is

#thanks for the ask nonnie #rhi answers #fic asks #asymmetry

[litsnaps]

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[soundberr1es]

黒曜日‐「Asymmetry」 MUSIC CLIP

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[gnotknormal]

I am allowing you to see my face.

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