Tag: Eye

I’m going to walk you through the process I took, from sketch to final illustration, to create the “Arcane Eye” graphic used in my card game, Mephisto. Here‘s an example of a Spell card: Setup All illustrations start with a sketch. Once I have a drawing worth d...

If you read my last article called “Hey, Dublin!”, you probably remember that 2 weeks ago I had nowhere to live. Literally. I was one of the hundreds of thousands of international students who came to Ireland to study and struggled to find a safe place to stay. I remember that as soon as...

The number of people who have “flown” in the London Eye since it was set up as part of London’s millennium celebrations now runs into the tens of millions. They have gazed out at the view of London and its surroundings and pointed in excitement at everything they can see — Bu...

Café Le Refuge doesn’t exist anymore. Its new name and colour scheme cloud the magic of the City of Lights I felt when photographing its soul. Or more precisely, the year I traversed the city giddily stealing intimate glimpses of its atmosphere through a camera viewfinder, hoping to und...

I’ve never been on what I’d consider a ‘proper’ hike before. I’ve been on plenty of walks — some of them long — but they’ve always been on pretty flat, uncomplicated paths. And when my wife and I set off on our first full day exploring California&rs...

More so the weed removal part, I didn’t mind mowing, it’s a mindless task that I would enjoy doing after a couple of edibles. In fact, the edibles made it a better time, they usually do that with many tasks. The problem with mowing is the fucking clients. People get really uppi...

Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “The evil eye is real and if anything were to overtake the divine decree, it would be the evil eye.” (Muslim) If you feel you are affected by Evil Eye, know that the best Raqi (person who does Ruqya to cure someone) is YOU! You ...

Ever heard of “career-laundering”? Probably not, because it’s a term my friend, a Big Tech veteran, coined. It’s this way of making your CV/Resume shine by being a big fish in a small pond, often without building real expertise. They hop from one small startup to another, ...

When I was forty years old, I learned Reiki, universal energy. The form I learned was Japanese. I was told that only men could learn Reiki until one Japanese woman received Reiki and began to share it with other women. This is a simplified version of the story. It doesn’t matter. What does ...

The same applies to various aspects of civil law, but for the sake of this essay, let's stick to criminal law. Deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation all allegedly serve that purpose — community protection and recognition. Yet it seems our dehumanizing penal system more often than ...

One of the most essential tasks for autonomous driving is precise environment perception. The measurement of environmental distances while integrating monocular cameras is quite difficult. As monocular cameras can only see places in the picture plane, images can be transformed to a bird&rs...

When a Black woman named Rho shared her story that a man hit her in the face with a brick, some Black men chimed in to say they weren’t responsible for her protection, while others suggested intervening would be too dangerous. However, even if they wanted to avoid a physical confront...

The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol known all around the world. It symbolises healing, protection, rejuvenation, rebirth, resurrection and wholeness. The symbol combined art, anatomy, science and mythology. It is sometimes called the all-seeing eye as a reference to the third eye. I...

This piece is really about a possible link between Cosmology & Egyptian iconography… and also about how cultural information spreads through time. But to add some objective value to an idea that might be both, completely wrong and useless, I will try to touch on the concepts of Propositio...

We discussed in the previous chapter the concept of vector spaces (basically n-dimensional collections of numbers — and more generally collections of fields) and linear maps that operate on two of those vector spaces, taking objects in one to the other. As an example of these...

Do you believe in the “Evil Eye”? Many cultures around the world still do today (so maybe you should!). It’s a particularly widespread belief in the Mediterranean region, as reflected by the abundance of amulets on offer to protect yourself from it. For example in Italy, where...

The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol known all around the world. It symbolises healing, protection, rejuvenation, rebirth, resurrection and wholeness. The symbol combined art, anatomy, science and mythology. It is sometimes called the all-seeing eye as a reference to the third eye. I...

We all know that our eyes are often referred to as the windows to our souls. They express our emotions, reveal our thoughts, and connect us with the world. However, sometimes these expressive windows can be marred by an unwanted guest — eye bags. Eye bags, those pesky pouches of swelling and d...