Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

The dogs were asked to create an original artistic portrait. Here you go, Yuka! #NoFilters

Yuki has a hygrometer built into her nose. If her nose is strangely black — then it’s raining

Our dirigible has found its emotional balance and is now traveling all over the floor. It’s raining outside, the pressure dropped, and it soa-red

As I look at modern artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, I think to myself that the only thing left of the old good visual art is modern architecture. It doesn’t require understanding of context or the inner feelings of the author, which are supposed to explain why their ugly paintings deserve attention. Today, I was deciphering the art of Francis Bacon. And one might also recall Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Twombly, Warhol, Rothko.

Architecture simply delights with interesting ideas and expressiveness, and almost never do even the boldest experiments evoke strange feelings.

One of the channels on Telegram, which greatly distracts me from work during the day—

P.S. Also, my Lisa will soon have completed half the journey to becoming a licensed architect 🙂 Lisa, hello!

Today, I noticed that Marilyn Monroe’s mole in Warhol’s work and in the film is in different places. I don’t know why you need to know this, and why I needed to know it, but it turned out that it moved from the cheek to the chin in 1959.

Finished reading! Quite a useful book. I’ll post some excerpts in the comments.

Indeed, in all the teams I’ve been part of, I’ve encountered a wild mix of cultures. For example, I’ve been heading a project at Mercedes Benz for almost three years now. I work with people from India, Colombia, Germany, Brazil, the USA, and some of them have also moved and adopted a foreign culture, gradually replacing their own. So, it is possible to make some conclusions from such a mix about how to interact considering the cultural context, but they are unlikely to work. And it has been like this in all other projects since 2016. But I still find it very useful.

Next in line are American Nations and Endurance.

Indeed, yes.

I asked midjourney to draw a life-weary Cheburashka with oranges. Seems like it turned out alright

An idea for a startup or pet project – it would be interesting to create a blinking sign at the entrance to a room saying “camera on” or “in a conference call”, which would activate automatically on any messenger that switches to active status.

The simplest way is to monitor the CPU consumption of certain processes (zoom, teams, etc.), and turn on the sign “in a conference call” when a typical CPU load pattern occurs. Probably, one could also programmatically check the camera activity to light up the “camera on” sign

Reading “The Culture Map”: …In another study, Americans and Japanese were asked to “take a picture of a person.” Americans often took close-up shots, highlighting the features of the human face, while Japanese instead showed the person in their surrounding space, where the human figure appeared quite small compared to the background.

Well, that’s how it is, just watch their cartoons