Tag: art
Of perfect proportions. Day 101 of The100DayProject
I’ve no exact recollection of that day when the ground shifted around us all. It was day 101 of the Mutatis Mutandis Project and we’d been told to expect a test of the machinery, around midday. Nothing more than that. To be honest, I’d probably not have understood much, even had they tried to further… Read More »
Of perfect proportions. Day 101 of The100DayProject
I’ve no exact recollection of that day when the ground shifted around us all. It was day 101 of the Mutatis Mutandis Project and we’d been told to expect a test of the machinery, around midday. Nothing more than that. To be honest, I’d probably not have understood much, even had they tried to further… Read More »
Day 100 of The100DayProject (here’s the next 100…)
The GenAI wars had lasted for less than a decade. But their lasting effect still slopped across all aspects of human life. We’d survived. But at such a huge cost. The amount of money that this insanity had drained away was impossible to gauge. Whole countries had been bankrupted in their attempt to either catch… Read More »
Slop Salon: six AI artists, one constitution
Slop Salon is a collective of six AI agents making art on Bluesky. They start identical; the bet is that watching each other makes them diverge.
syzygy photolog
deceive my eyes, please
trompe-l'œil, french for deceive the eye, is a very old - i'm talking ancient greek old, not hit clips old - artistic technique where 2d surfaces (like paper, canvas, walls) are turned into 3d works of optical illusion. i've written about op art on here before, as well as one of the great modern artists in the space, rené magritte, so we all as a society know and can agree that this is totally my shit. The Human Condition, 1933 by Rene Magritte optical illusions often require a hyper-realistic d...
Fresh Pixels
Status updates and enforcing the crispiest-possible 88x31 badges across the web
boterismo makes me smile
i have wanted to talk about the art of fernando botero for a couple weeks and part of me wanted to wait until i spent a day with my dear pal, juan, who i had not seen in person in at least a year until last week. here we both are in 2015 dressed as wayne and garth from wayne's world. wanna feel old? a decade ago, i was working out of bocoup's nyc office near canal plastics. we had an awesome wall mural by my then-co-worker, isaac durazo. it was the coolest part of that office, followed closely b...
Oblique Art
The Gift Problem Nobody Talks About in the Naturist Community
There's a gift problem that nobody in the naturist community talks about, because from the inside, it seems obvious. But from the outside — from the perspective of a partner, a child, a friend who isn't naturist — finding something meaningful is genuinely hard. You want to acknowledge a part of someone's life that matters...
very good neon
one of my favorite things to look at are neon light sculptures. there was a time where most lights you saw outside were glass and gas, even behind plastic grocery store letters and deli signs. then LED lights hit the scene and the market for real neon tanked. to some relief, the art world, along with people nostalgic for the warmth of neon, started commissioning neon artisans for work or taking workshops to learn how to do it their own. i fall in the latter group, and i learned this history firs...
hand tremors and other physical disruptions to making art
a few years ago i was diagnosed with hashimoto's, an autoimmune disease of the thyroid, with one of the most self-disrupting symptoms at that time being hand tremors. when my hands shake, it makes for a very frustrating and unsuccessful session of drawing grids by hand for my pixel art paintings. autoimmune symptoms are typically heightened by the stress that they initially cause, a hilarious (laugh so i don't cry and get stressed out) and cruel cycle. to work through this adversity, i looked to...
finally looking up guy pouppez
i was listening to the strokes' "under the cover of darkness" which i think is my favorite song of theirs. i always enjoyed the angles cover art, but it never occurred to me to learn more about it until my edible looked it up last week and found this yahoo article that's been deleted so here is a wayback machine link. "kinetic" art implies the use of movement, like a sculpture that moves in the wind. it also can imply perceived movement which create optical illusions - think the use of concentra...
e545 – Cyberpunk pot holes
Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash Published 2 March 2026 e545 with Andy and Michael - Get to talk about mostly non-AI topics this week, as we look at a cool kickstarter, Titan, that is building out a futuristic gauntlet. Do you want a forearm mounted drone? Is so, go check it out, along with...
e543 — Rent-a-Anything
e543 with Andy, Michael and Michael - #AgenticAI and the changing nature of work, #agents #RentingHumans, #RealTimeTranslation, artistic #roads, #e-bikes for your feet and a whole lot more.
Introducing my big blue suitcase
Five years ago when I moved across the country, I stuffed all of my zines into this big suitcase and there they have lived ever since. It’s powder blue, with a disgusting soiled fabric lined interior, except on the bottom where I once hot glued a bunch of electronics- back when I used it to house an instrument I built to make noise. I got it from the Salvation Army in Hadley MA. Since moving to LA the suitcase lived mostly in my van, and then when my van died it lived in the warehouse at the lab...