Tag: art
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The backstory of named colors
One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison. 🔗 Storied Colors Related, I collect color palettes I like over on cote.pizza.
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“Untitled No. 23” from “The Yosemite Suite,” 2010, iPad drawing printed on paper, David Hockney.
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🤖 “descended into madness” – Backrooms
Original: A Backstory from My Backrooms by Paige K. Bradley. Summarized by AI on June 3, 2026. {I love backrooms. One of the first things I did with AI image generator was make endless empty malls and backrooms. So good. -Coté} A stray 2019 4chan post about a bland, fluorescent-lit interior sparked the viral myth…
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Related to your interests, Thursday
Harry Clarke’s Elixirs of Life 9 Terms That Helped Navigate a Confusing Year in Art – “It’s art that blends street art, Pop art, sneakerhead culture, merch-drop dynamics, and memes into a mix that is the opposite of reverential.” Nobody knows how large software products work – “It’s easier to write software than to explain…
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”Betty’s boyfriend-to-be is a dog-chef called Bimbo, who serenades her on a duck that transforms into a guitar, while the restaurant clientele and staff include a fantastical menagerie of animals.” It was a different time.
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“[N]ot everyone needs to like everything, which is the most important thing.” On art, but also life in general.
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The AI Apprentice’s Adventures
I’ve been wondering why the quality and ease of making stuff with AI has not resulting in a creative explosion. In particular with just a hefty dose of prompt-craft, you can get great D&D stuff. I’m guessing part of the reason is that the incumbent gate-keepers hate AI. They, rightly, see it as a threat…
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AI video generation is very good, but its current prudishness will limit art and general use
I theorize that in reality, AI generated video and images are much better1 than we are currently experiencing. That’s because there are non-technological limits on them driven by prudence and prudishness. This several limits artistic and entertainment use. Most people are restricted to ten seconds or less and a limited number of generations a day.…
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Friendship is difficult
If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp and indifferent, and sometimes another moss spreads nearby, and together they make a bog, and then the bog swallows a horse.” From An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
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Recent D&D pictures made by the robot
When I’m solo roleplaying D&D, or just farting around, I like to make pictures of characters and scenes. Sometimes I ask the robot to make me pages from artists sketchbooks, concept art. Here’s some recent pictures: Above based on this one from the Xoth player’s guide. Look how it made the new one’s décolletage more…
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Clickable proverbs.
Ancient Dutch proverbs are the best. 🔗 Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Audience participation, “don’t sweat the small stuff.”
“Very often, you need great audiences to have great art.” Tyler And at: “people judge things at the margin, right? In a friendship, or marriage, or if you have co-founders. At the margin, am I getting what I want? And, getting out of that mindset is very difficult. ”
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The art of Jean-Michel Nicollet – “French cover design can be unsympathetic to cover illustration, crowding the paintings with poor type choices and purposeless graphics.” // Great looking paperback covers. // That basic framing would be good for video thumbnails…?
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Occupying TikTok with love – “And TikTok is full of advice about how to break out of this ‘200 views jail’ – have a niche, have a hook, look at trends – but maybe instead we could just think ‘how beautiful, TikTok are going to share my thing with 200 random people scattered around the…
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