From Initial Idea to Concept / Character Design Sheet — Art is an act. This has two contradictory meanings, but in this case, they are unified. “An action, in the world, real” and “a performance”. Real and a performance, particularly when we are under its spell. (MASKS) Several people have asked me if I would share more how I’ve been…

Reports from the Bunker at the End of Time “The killing of birds is forbidden — the birds are involved in the creation of time.” -Vyacheslav Krasheninnikov Another era closes its eyes. The air is thick with a sleepy silence that is not the absence of sound, but the presence of too much lost meaning. No one believes even…

6 Do’s and Don’ts of LLMs — It can be difficult for me to predict in advance what will be obvious to others and what needs stating. This holds true when applying common sense to using various LLM (“AI”) programs effectively. Assuming this is one of those cases, here are some “obvious” pointers for text-based applications like…

Drawing from the Past to Illuminate the Path Ahead — I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things — that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film “Contact,” when Jodie Foster’s character…

Unveiling the Black Iron Prison of the Mind and AI’s Dark Reflection — I had a conversation recently with GPT 4 to demonstrate a point and explore a couple related ideas. This is a framework I’ve talked about before, for example in “The Bullshit Machine”, but it was amusing playing it out with GPT. It was quite popular on my social media channels…

Can We Keep Pace With A Race That Never Ends? — A quote is making the rounds on social media: “The correct response to uncertainty is mythmaking.” This idea, now amplified in the digital age, is as essential in our accelerated, virtual world as it likely was around a campfire 20,000 years ago. But a few things have changed. …

What Good is the Moral High Ground, Anyway? — “Drunk reptiles are in charge and fear is for breakfast. Loathing is an aperitif.” — Hunter S. Thompson The 21st century has witnessed a boom in virtue signaling, from corporate social responsibility pledges to the viral ‘thoughts and prayers’ posts that flood our social media feeds in the aftermath of…

May Newsletter Update — First, an update. I’m currently in the middle of a move, so at least until August, I won’t be exploring any new apps, or engaging in much visual work. However, I wanted to address the recent announcement from Adobe, as it’s significant, and share my thoughts about prompting styles which…

Reevaluating the “One World Picture” predicament over coffee. — Like the overlapping maps in a Mercator projection, where the ranges of different versions overlap, they predict the same phenomena. …