Using a 20,000 lumen LED to trick my cactus into thinking it lives in the desert

Maybe due to Musk’s retreat from politics, realizing Bluesky lacks sauce, or both – but I’ve noticed more academics posting on Twitter again

Whenever I see a big Richter squeegee painting I cant help but think of the mess and cleanup it requires

Care less about what is new and more about what is true

Bethlehem Star over the Brooklyn Tower

Every painter can be an ai artist but not every ai artist can be a painter

No aurora for NYC

When the sweet spot is Nowhere

There’s always a sprinkle of dust in my studio I have to wrap my paintings in Saran

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Again, go look at early CGI ads and tell me they look better than today’s slop

“…every design choice expresses a vision of humanity.”

Do you even have joie de vivre bro

Abundance of imagery, absence of meaning

Computer science is a self-problematizing discipline

cremaster cycle where to watch

Painting of my girlfriend’s dog I made for her birthday

AI artists who valorize custom or ‘handcrafted’ aspects of image generation (training your own model on your own data instead of using ‘off-the-shelf’ models) mirror the valorization of ‘hands-on’ work that motivates anti-AI criticism of AI art

AI art boosters who say “aesthetic taste is the new artistic skill” undercut themselves by downplaying the skill required to make AI art in good taste (very difficult)

I really enjoy my job. Very lucky to come across a gig that combines arts & culture, design & tech, humanities & engineering. Rare find

Reject modernity embrace tradition

Prediction: as AI gains traction in Hollywood, low Erdős–Bacon numbers will become more common

Like watching an angel lose its wings.

One of my more trad opinions is that visual art is multi-sensory and something is lost when images are exclusively made or experienced via digital interface

I saw someone in a cafe diligently copying an AI-generated illustration off their phone onto paper by hand. If you’re wondering whether the art object still has aura

“JackSepticEye calls out MrBeast for creating YouTube AI tools”… incredible culture we have here

Writing an article for the first time in a while and rediscovering the joys of Zotero browser integration

The bsky video upload quality is subpar but I kind of like it (defending the poor image)

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A peel is nature’s to-go package

Newness lasts longer when mixed with oldness

Luckily I “learned to code” enough to do my research and creative projects but not enough to make an increasingly precarious career of it

I’d rather risk posting cringe than never post sincerity

Reminiscing a time when the big Twitter controversy was how they changed the font

Good old-fashioned Artisanal Intelligence like how your ancestors used to reason (no GPT)

The true story behind Sherita, a brutal tale of old Brooklyn and a predatory real estate spree. Debbie Nathan and I dug deep to expose the brothers behind it, who hid behind phony last names.

The Matta-Clark roses are now blooming!

All the technology in the world cannot by itself create meaningful aesthetic experience

This is making me think of how much I love libraries, and of the absolutely crucial work librarians and archivists do in supporting research and scholarship of all sorts. With that in mind, a short thread: Here's Walter Benjamin's library card for the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris

Now warm enough in NYC for the house plants to go outside and they love that

Contemporary art loves to conflate austere aesthetics with conceptual rigor. Making something minimal won’t make it smart, but might make it boring

A decent painter could do a conceptual joke art by painstakingly rendering AI slop in oils on canvas

The impulse to replicate traditional media aesthetics misses AI’s unique potential imo but we’re already down the path of illustration and photorealism

New image models are impressive in many ways, I’m surprised beefed up style transfer is what people are most stoked about. This was a cool idea ten years ago. Normies desire uncritical Ghibli

AI is just another way of seeing

Art that’s mostly or entirely predicated on a new technology will easily go out of style. Have fun

I’d love to see an analysis of AI’s energy consumption compared to, say, the video game industry. Does this analysis exist?

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