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and they’re gone 🫥 the 8 items are on the way to the winners missed this one? → good time to become a patron there’s more coming 🫥

100+ artists applied 🫥 submissions for round #2 are closed now ministry-funded installations, debut albums, brands with real audiences, music videos, books, zines, jewelry, animation and a lot more what’s next: • we pick the 10 finalists • our patrons vote • $6,000 goes to the 3 projects they like most • probably something will be born after btw, WAVES & Cute Weapons from round #1 are almost ready, keep your eyes wide open patrons are the people who keep Nothing going join them and you get a vote this round, a private chat with the artists, patron-only drops and every tool on not.online -> become a patron 🫥

we almost hit 1M in this group the fewer people here, the higher the chances we'll start posting something keep going down 🫥

OPEN CALL EXTENDED 🫥 honestly, the ideas you’ve sent us so far are really good, so we want to give a few more people the chance you have until october 16 to send yours we’ll fund 3 projects, up to $2,000 each APPLY NOW 🫥

he spent almost ten years teaching water to show sound 🫥 finds №004 Lachlan Turczan used to choreograph water shows like the Fountains of Bellagio. now he makes art out of water, light and sound → Light Object, 2025 laser light passes through water inside a clear box. sensors follow your hand, and the light ripples like fabric, as if you're touching it → Wavespace, 2023 the speaker here is a mirrored steel bowl of water. sound pushes the water into patterns, and the bottom throws them onto a dark ceiling as huge, shifting geometry our patron said about this: Turczan manages to completely hack human perception by materializing the intangible he makes sound visible, transforms light into a tangible object seemingly graspable, and uses water as the perfect medium to embody these idea found by @not_jammm 🫥

$6,000. GET YOUR IDEA FUNDED 🫥 in august we ran the first round of our fund. artists pitched, patrons voted, and 2 projects got funded now the second round opens, and it's bigger: • $6,000 • 3 projects get funded • up to $2,000 each we pick the 10 best pitches for the vote. patrons choose, and the top 3 get funded and start working any medium works: objects, music, books, film, hardware, things that don't have a name yet two ways in: → if you make things pitch your project. if patrons pick it, you get up to $2,000 to make it, and the rights stay yours → if you know someone who does nominate them. you get rewarded if we work with them in any way: funding, interviews or drops open until october 12 PITCH OR NOMINATE 🫥

MEET THE TOOLS 🫥 being featured is only part of it, people also need practical tools for the boring stuff Nothing now has solutions for the work around the work: 🫥 PAGE your own link: https://not.online/cultofnot a small corner of the internet for the details that matter to you. want more? host your whole website here 🫥 MARKET you make the work, we handle everything else: delivery, packing, insurance, fulfillment, payments, tax, storage, refunds. 70% goes straight to you. 30% goes to the Not Fund, which pays for operations and new projects 🫥 SOCIAL every social-presence practice we've found that actually works, in one place, so running your public pages gets easier. post scheduling across the main platforms is coming next 🫥 LOCATOR open calls, exhibitions, residencies, grants and camps, collected in one map. find the next thing worth showing up for (WIP) tools live for patrons & artists everyone else can try the guest demo more time to create, less time on the routine → probablynothing.xyz → become a patron 🫥

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worth your time 🫥 over the past months we published a lot of reads on the site interviews, art statements, and editorial research on nothing from artists, filmmakers and musicians here's everything in one list Research on the Visual Language of NOT Feeding off the stimuli Filtered Presence La Confession Booth Experiencing life before the internet Musica Subsonica Batten & Kamp Reality capturing O18/2 → probablynothing.xyz 🫥

the shop on probablynothing.xyz is live what's left from the first drop is back on it, and you can pay in more ways now next month the first drops from artists go up there, and from you (more on that later) for now, one thing that doesn't need explaining blank longsleeve 20% off for the first 10 code: cultofnot_tg you'll scroll past a thousand things today. this one you can keep grab yours 🫥

L'invisible 🫥 Julien Berthier bought a worn-out boat on a classifieds site and built a rock on top of it. 4.3 metres high, with a hatch you climb through to steer it cruises the calanques near Marseille, drifting past the real rock formations it was copied from people notice only when it overtakes them the author says: it intrudes on the landscape modestly and changes it imperceptibly the thing sits between stage set, enhanced reality, leisure object, survivalist anguish and ecological stakes but anchored it rocks with the waves and catches every eye on the coast the invisible turned out to be very visible by Julien Berthier 🫥

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Engraved Objects Lurking online is like mining for precious stones. You can hack at rock for a month for naught, but one day you would hit a diamond and all that time spent became vindicated instantly. Because beyond that drab talk there are people as brilliant as any gem. People that would reply with what you expected and more. People that were as brutal in their put downs as they were admirable in their genius. by Trystan Williams 🫥

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he mogged Apple before John Ternus was even CEO started shipping the Duo back in 2016 by Alexander Endrullat 🫥

O18/2 – interview with Sasha Sokolov 🫥 ░░░░░ we talked about how scanning a random tree turns it into a memory, and why a broken scan feels closer to how we actually remember places and about writing music for a Marvel trailer on an old laptop on the edge of Ryazan "there is so much content and AI stuff nowadays that these process videos are like some kind of stamp proving there's a real human behind it" full interview → 🫥

Sasha Sokolov 🫥 meet the new Nothing resident audiovisual artist & musician builds visuals out of thousands of points ░░░░░ ⚪️👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻⚪️👻 👻👻👻 👻profile from Ryazan, came into visual art through music scans real places, courtyards, trees, post-soviet blocks and rebuilds them through points shows them as installations that keep running whether you're there or not also wrote music for Marvel, Star Wars and Transformers trailers ⚪️👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻⚪️ inst 🫥

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The Spray Paint Test · · · in hardware and paint stores people spray a bit from the can before buying it, just to see the color and how it comes out some of those spots got covered in names, tags and layers of paint over the years. the floor around the shelf turned into graffiti nobody planned now more stores keep the cans locked in cases, so these spots are getting rare #weeklyvisuals 🫥

Streaming Isn’t Broken. It’s Working Exactly as Designed new essay with jaoson deiss producer + force user $22 billion flowed through music streaming in 2025. the same year, Spotify ruled that 87% of the tracks on its platform were no longer eligible for royalties at all 1) what independent artists are actually for on a streaming platform 2) why nobody with the power to fix this wants to read →