More artist musings on “Intellectual Property” — I’ve found myself missing the LiveJournal “format” — which is to say, private musings written for the public. There isn’t really a good “space” for it anymore, but I’ve found myself mostly taking notes the past couple years, rather than writing much for public consumption. …

First published on The Great Debate — Well, the great “AI Art Debate” continues to rage on, and so have the requests to comment on it. This past week has included two podcast discussions on the subject and several articles. The below summarizes my current view, probably more succinctly than some of my previous posts. I keep…

Book Release Announcement — After its labyrinthine journey through the mists of time — and several dozen revisions — Masks of Origin: Regression in the Service of Omnipotence, Brian George’s first book of essays, is now available through Untimely Books. Each section is also illustrated. I hope to write a longer review of my…

Will AI Threaten The Creative Mind, Or Will We? — Part 3 of Arts and AI This will be the third in a series of posts I’ve been writing about AI and the Arts. These have been only lightly edited, and typed stream of thought, although I hope they aren’t entirely slipshod. In Part 1, I dealt with how many of the knee-jerk questions visualization apps…

Part 2 of Arts & AI — Several people have asked me if I would share more how I’ve been integrating AI with my existing illustration process. The truth is, I’m not entirely convinced that anyone actually reads process posts, so I figured I’d never get around to it. …

I’m happy to announce that our 6 track EP has now been released on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube Music, and several other streaming music platforms. …

Are We Even Asking the Right Questions? — Part 1 of Arts & AI Over the past several weeks, there has been a wave of reactions to recent developments in the world of Ai and the arts, which seems pretty well typified in this article from the Verge…

Updates from the artwar trenches — The past months have been all about wrapping up the last of the active, big creative projects I had in the works, and they’ll transition into trying to get them out into the world more broadly. I’ve had my focus on fulfilling the Tales From When I Had A Face…

Sign up here to be notified when it goes live: TFRband.bandcamp.com The Tomorrow’s Forgotten Relics EP will be available shortly, starting with Bandcamp. I’ve been working on this one for almost exactly 2 years, though it seems like it should be far shorter. I thought I’d share a little of how this EP came to be, without getting too far into…