About
About me
I am Matu, sometimes called Lobster, Crab, or other crustacean-esque names.
One day over 30 years ago I went on the internet and never left. I have been somehow involved in its infantile struggles, growth, and its evolution into whatever mess it is today. These days I identify as an “industrious creative nerd.”
About Kedontaus!
I belive art, and by extension the creative process, is one of the most fulfilling things in our fleeting lives. There are few things more wonderful than creating something that didn’t exist yesterday, but exists now, because you made it. Art we leave behind is like a contract between you and the cold universe – a promise that you existed.
There is something even better still. Everybody is born an artist, but we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it.[1] Now, imagine something interesting existing today, because your encouragement resulted in somebody making it. Pat yourself on the back: the world is now a better place. It’s the little things.
Naive, perhaps. I’m an armchair demoscener and have been to Assembly every year since 2003, just to enjoy what people I look up to have created and learned over the past year. The raw talent and creativity of the unleashed nerd is something so incredibly inspiring I cannot even put it into words.
In today’s internet culture, there is an unfortunate trend to focus on branding and strange social ladders. You might find something interesting and attempt getting into it, only to find yourself surrounded by egotistic personal image builders and pretentious clout chasers. To me, they represent everything that’s miserable in today’s internet, and everything that the 90s-00s creative internet was not.
The stream (twitch.tv/kedontaus) and this website are my excuses to create and share fun stuff. It lets me do all the interesting things: art, code, 3D modeling, sounds, music, AI, pretty much anything I find an excuse for. My dream is for you to find encouragement in what I do for fun to perhaps try something yourself, and ultimately sharing what you create! I’m looking forward to it.
Next: read the start of the Streamtech writeup series!