Tag: art
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Ted Chiang on AI is required reading
One of the best thinkers on the topic is back with another brilliant piece
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Time to Live: “I’ve given you my time. Now it’s your time to give that gift to someone else.”
Time to Live is an experiential artwork that sounds haunting, unforgettable, and oddly familiar
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“…we will always have to test the resistance of new ideas against the hard matter of the world.”
Artist Henrique Oliveira creates large, weird installations out of reclaimed materials. Some are just gorgeous, some are straight out of Pan’s Labyrinth.
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Amazing indoor clouds
This artist makes short-lived, indoor clouds, and the photos are awesome. The artist is Berndnaut Smilde: “People have always had a strong metaphysical connection to clouds and, through time, have projected many ideas on them.” more at Aesthetica Magazine
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“This ballet needs more umami!”
LitHub: Amy Kurzweil on Text, Image, AI and Artistic Translation Amy Kurzweil (whose book Artificial: A Love Story is top of my Christmas list) writes about how transforming an idea from image to text (or music, or a digital form) is actually translation, same as from one language to another, and how much our brains…
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“There were a lot of people there with strange philosophies. I met someone who told me they were a time traveller and that their father was a pharaoh of Egypt.”
Toronto Life: The wildest stories from the legendary 888 Dupont art squat. I once worked with a photographer that lived there, and their stories were wilder than anything in this article. Still a fun read. It’s pretty sad that we’re losing all of these places. With the crazy vacancy rates for commercial real estate right…
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Ani Castillo Fan Post
The Nicky Case thing made me think of another artist whose work found me at the right time: Ani Castillo. Several of my loved ones struggle with mental health issues, and at a particularly challenging time in 2016, I came across a showcase of her work, and now there are three of them in my…
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There’s no shame in being a garbage fondue fountain.
Matthew Inman on “Eight Marvelous and Melancholy Things I’ve Learned About Creativity“. This is great, and I immediately shared with my extremely artistic teenager. Like a lot of smart advice from smart people, it’s relevant to more than the audience it’s written for.
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Thin skin is in
I more-or-less quit Facebook after realizing I was being pulled into too many pointless arguments on there, and my life has been better since. Social media pushes people to indulge their worst instincts. Tristan Harris may be smarmy, but he’s not wrong. I read two pieces yesterday and for some reason didn’t post, about a…
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a.k.a Mr. Chow
I don’t know anything about this guy, his art or his food, but this trailer makes me want to know everything.