Dispatches from the Diamond Frontier

I found myself in the strange and twisted world of something called 'diamond painting' – a bizarre craft where tiny, glimmering beads are meticulously placed to create images that bore into your brain with their hypnotic pixelation. The mastermind behind this peculiar operation? A woman known only as Anna Hannka, who has taken it upon herself to infiltrate public spaces with these Nounish creations.

The evidence arrived in my inbox on March 8, 2025 – a surveillance video showing a small Russian furniture shop where Anna's propaganda had already taken hold. The video panned slowly across beanbag chairs and soft furnishings, before revealing a wall adorned with nine perfectly squared portraits, each bearing the unmistakable rectangular glasses that mark them as part of this 'Nouns' movement.

"I was sent a video review from the store where my painting of Nouns is located," Anna wrote cryptically, tagging her message with coded hashtags: #DiamondArt, #NounsArt, #Flows. The furniture store, identified by the text "art-nesko.ru" visible in the footage, has become ground zero for Anna's public art invasion.

Experimentation with Dangerous Materials

The diamond painting operation isn't limited to standard techniques. My investigation revealed Anna's experimentation with increasingly diverse and unpredictable methods.

On March 6, she documented her foray into the ancient art of embroidery: "Noun 1438 in a new technique 😎 I decided to remember what embroidery is 🤪 I had one idea, another came in the process, now I'm thinking what to do with it." The cross-stitch piece depicting a character with brown-framed glasses and a checkered pattern of pink and brown reveals her technical versatility.

By March 1, she was testing new materials: "By swapping the chocolate for beads, I got square beads 🤔 It was the first time I worked with square beads, interesting result, only the beads were different sizes and did not collect the mosaic evenly."

The madness doesn't end there. On March 2, evidence surfaced of Anna infiltrating a school fair: "For the school fair, I decided that I just had to do something with #Nouns 😇 I sewed shoe bags and drew Nouns 792😻 and 976 🐋 I drew them with acrylic markers, then fixed them with an iron, the drawing is fixed forever." Her tactics worked disturbingly well: "Knowing that kids love cats, the bag with Noun 792 🐱 was taken away as soon as it was put on the table 😎"

The Assembly Process Revealed

Anna's methodology is methodical bordering on obsessive. Videos from March 5 expose her process: "Before I start assembling the little nouns into a picture I arrange them by size 😎." The footage shows her carefully sorting through handcrafted pixel art squares, organizing them by their dimensions.

By March 11, her plan was advancing: "Collecting little Nouns into a big picture 🤫 soon they will go to their new home 🤗 🏫." The video evidence shows her arranging small, pixelated, cross-stitched squares on a white sheet of paper, each featuring distinctive characters with large square glasses.

Even the elements couldn't halt her progress. On March 4, she merely adjusted her timeline: "Snowfall is expected this weekend, so we are postponing the photo shoot ⛄☃️🌨."

The latest intelligence, from March 15, suggests the movement continues to grow: "The noun 1447 was joined by the noun 1448 ⌐◨-◨," with photographic evidence showing two pixel art images on a yellow stand – one depicting a blue diamond-shaped character, the other a brown moose character with yellow glasses.

These aren't just crafts. They're propaganda materials designed to infiltrate public consciousness through furniture stores, schools, and beyond. God help us all if they succeed.