Tag: art
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house plants
George Gessert ornamental plants as a form of domestication. Under that framing, Gessert argues, humans have actually domesticated more species for aesthetic purposes than we have for eating… and “interesting” has been just as common an aesthetic aim as “beautiful” has been. Also: I have a hunch: kitsch discards “the interesting” as a desirable aesthetic…
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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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