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Zarir Madon

Zarir Madon

@zarirmadon.bsky.social

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Digital creative from New Zealand. http://www.zarirmadon.com https://mastodon.social/@zarirmadon https://bsky.app/profile/zarirmadon.bsky.social https://www.instagram.com/zarirmadon

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Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 2d

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#substack #thewackywitfactory #writing #blog #creative #humor #zarirmadon

WTF, BRB, and the Rest of the Alphabet Soup We Swallow Daily

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Acronym Apocalypse

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Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 4d

ALL annual subscribers will get a 20% off their annual plan till 11th November 2025. HURRY!

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ALL annual subscribers will get a 20% off their annual plan till 11th November 2025. HURRY! https://zarirmadon.substack.com/bea53321

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 6d

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Diwali Through the Ages: From Clay Lamps to Crypto Lamps (And Why Your Grandma Still Side-Eyes Your LED Diyas) Ah, Diwali-the Festival of Lights, the grand cosmic housewarming party thrown by the un...

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 6d

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MTV: Streaming killed the Video Star Forty years. Forty years! That’s longer than most Tik Tok trends, longer than the lifespan of a goldfish named Kevin, and significantly longer than the attention ...

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 6d

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My first paid post is out! Subscribe early to get on top of these reads. Look. Let’s be honest. Shohei Ohtani isn’t a baseball player. He’s a cosmic typo-a celestial copy-paste error that somehow sli...

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 12d

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My Rocket-Powered Darkroom Exploded (Again)

Look, I never meant to launch my cat into low Earth orbit.

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Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 13d

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Wonderfully offbeat, genre-blending, and humor-infused blog posts - spanning propulsion, coding, chemistry, existential cheese, and acronym-fueled rants, with a blend of whimsy, wit, and winking chaos...

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Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 23d

Cityscape.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Diffusion Tensors & Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #bluesky #xiaomi15 #processing #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #dreamsmoothingenhanced #diffusiontensors #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 23d

Bush.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #bluesky #landscape #mobilephotography #xiaomi15 #processing #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #art #photo #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 23d

Seascape.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #bluesky #seacape
#photography #mobilephotography #xiaomi15 #processing #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 23d

Cityscape.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Skeletik & Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #landscape
#photography #xiaomi15 #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #skeletik #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 23d

Cityscape.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #bluesky #mobilephotography #fineart #xiaomi15 #mobileedit #processing #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 23d

It had to go through around 45+ iterations, over various cups of tea, with small tweaks before I was satisfied. It's in the G'mic github repo, and also available with some instructions for newbies who are exploring this filter on my github.

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 23d

You can find it in the Artistic menu. Happy Dreaming!

I do not have a bone of coding in me. So needed to get some help. Coded entirely with Claude Sonnet 4 & 4.5. Took me around 3 weeks of research on Claude, Mistral, Qwen & Gemini.

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · 23d

Introducing the new supercharged version of the Dream Smoothing filter for G'mic plugin for Gimp!

It's called Dream Smoothing Enhanced, update your G'mic filters today and have fun with the sliders.

#photography #gmic #gimp #opensource #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon

Dream Smoothing Enhanced filter for G'mic for Gimp by Zarir Madon.

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Feb 2

Paddock.

#auckland #newzealand #summer #nature #leaves #grass #bluesky #clouds #paddock #fence #landscape #colourful
#photography #fotografie #fotovorschlag #mobilephotography #art #wallart #fineart #xiaomi #mobileedit #snapseed #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Jan 28

Tui.

#auckland #newzealand #summer #nature #leaves #trees #bush #tui #bird #native #landscape #colourful
#photography #fotografie #fotovorschlag #mobilephotography #art #wallart #fineart #xiaomi #mobileedit #snapseed #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Jan 26

Flax.

#auckland #newzealand #summer #nature #leaves #flax #landscape #colourful
#photography #fotografie #fotovorschlag #mobilephotography #art #wallart #fineart #xiaomi #mobileedit #snapseed #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Jan 24

Sunset.

#auckland #newzealand #autumn #nature #leaves #tree #landscape #bush
#photography #fotografie #fotovorschlag #mobilephotography #art #wallart #fineart #xiaomi #mobileedit #snapseed #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Dec 1

Swamp.

#auckland #newzealand #autumn #nature #leaves #tree #landscape #swamp
#photography #fotografie #fotovorschlag #mobilephotography #art #wallart #photostr #artstr #noicemag #fineart #xiaomi #mobileedit #snapseed #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Dec 1

Swamp.

#auckland #newzealand #autumn #nature #leaves #tree #landscape #swamp
#photography #fotografie #fotovorschlag #mobilephotography #art #wallart #photostr #artstr #noicemag #fineart #xiaomi #mobileedit #snapseed #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Nov 30

Thanks.

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Nov 30

Dried leaves.

#auckland #newzealand #autumn #nature #leaves #tree #landscape #bark
#photography #fotografie #fotovorschlag #mobilephotography #art #wallart #photostr #artstr #noicemag #fineart #xiaomi #mobileedit #snapseed #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Nov 30

Lone tree against blue sky.

#auckland #newzealand #spring #nature #leaves #tree #landscape #bluesky
#photography #fotografie #fotovorschlag #mobilephotography #art #wallart #photostr #artstr #noicemag #fineart #xiaomi #mobileedit #snapseed #zarirmadon

Zarir Madon @zarirmadon.bsky.social · Nov 30

Tower.

#auckland #newzealand #spring #tower #nature #flower #plant #leaves #tree #landscape
#photography #fotografie #fotovorschlag #mobilephotography #art #wallart #photostr #artstr #noicemag #fineart #xiaomi #mobileedit #snapseed #zarirmadon

Tower