Originally posted on Substack Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded. -Ozzie Zehner Good Morning! I’ve found that this is the best way for me to get inspiration. Unfortunately, I don’t have as much time as I’d like, but I think it’s all about finding balance. When I was a full-time artist, I had a difficult time with this, but when I have other things in my life that help drive me, that’s when I’m at my best....
Originally posted on [Substack](AI Sculpting, Voronoi Fonts, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded. -Ozzie Zehner Good morning friends! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Here are a few interesting links for you all to explore and discover. Right now I’ve been rather busy so I hope that you can find some Who Am I? Last weeks image was Harold Cohen Here is a great overview of his life and work!...
Originally posted on Substack The nature of yearning is urgent so as to guarantee evolution, change. -Darryl Calkins “We are the knights of a future realm.” I’ve been wading through the libraries of the mind trying to grapple with the relationship of art and it’s prophetic nature. There appears to be a correlation that art has a predilection to predict the future of culture. It also tends to have gravitational pull on innovation....
Originally posted on Substack It’s humbling that in the past 90 days, I’ve had subscribed readers from 75 different countries. In a world with so much content and other things to do, I do appreciate your interest in this passion of mine and I hope I can continue celebrating this practice with you all. But to some of my weeks shenanigans: So speaking of AI, I’ve been working with ChatGPT to develop catchy article titles to gain inspiration for a few posts I’d like to write this year....
Originally posted on Substack Art is a tool to set up new questions -Ai Weiwei So last week, I started adding a new segment to experiment with, and I have a couple more in mind that I’d like to try over the future weeks. But why this “who am I?” As some of my long-time subscribers have probably noticed, History is important to me. It brings context to both the old and the new....
Originally posted on Substack Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Henry Thomas Buckle I want to say thank you so much to the subscribers that continue to sign up far! And thank you to the paid subscribers for your support that is so generous of you! This week I’ve been thinking through various ways I can bring some interesting content into the mix....
Originally posted on Substack The true secret to happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -William Morris A little over a year ago, I dedicated a year and my full-time work to generative/creative coding and thought I’d give a bit of an update. What went well, what I wished I could have done better, etc. I aimed to do the following: Interview more generative artists like Tyler Hobbs here… Outcome: I have done 0 of them since last year 😟....
Originally posted on Substack Every mistake is a new style. -Michael Meade Happy Holidays! I hope you find time to appreciate the little things in life. It is a time of stress, family, loneliness, and remembering those we lost. So be kind to yourself, and find ways to appreciate the chaos.. May that be a little piece of code to obsess about, a quote to ponder, a walk in nature to absorb the color, smells, emotions, or simply the sound of the cold wind tickling your inner ear....
Originally posted on Substack if(creation && object of art && algorithm && one’s own algorithm) { include * an algorist* } else if(!creation && !object of art && !algorithm && !one’s own algorithm) { exclude not an algorist } The above statement was the manifesto coined by J. P. Herbert and the mantra of The Algorists; a group formed in 1995 at SIGGRAPH which included (Roman Verostko, Jean-Pierre Hébert, and Ken Musgrave)....
Originally posted on Substack Silence creates space for content to appear. -J.R. Rim Video Art with FFMPEG {{ youtube nobWeGycSe8 }} One of the many tools we use to describe motion is in a sequence of images or videos. We love them and use them for our work as it adds yet another dimension to the images. The following few selections all use FFMPEG an open source tool to convert video from different formats in the command line or through a programming language....