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· Dec 9
Slopism (n). An artistic movement in the early 21st Century characterized by the depiction of latent spaces as paranaturalistic forms. (adj. Slopist)
Nostos is a new newsletter from Robin Peckham about art and the creative life and the cultural family
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Nostos
For the long road home
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April 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Nostos is a new newsletter from Robin Peckham about art and the creative life and the cultural family
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Someone on X already posted a “steve mccurry afghan girl studio ghibli” (in case you were wondering how precipitously we’re falling)
March 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Someone on X already posted a “steve mccurry afghan girl studio ghibli” (in case you were wondering how precipitously we’re falling)
Can chatgpt do a studio ghibli prompt like “a heron with human teeth” or “my parents turned into giant gluttonous pigs” ?
March 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Can chatgpt do a studio ghibli prompt like “a heron with human teeth” or “my parents turned into giant gluttonous pigs” ?
Many people seem to have only internalized Ghibli’s formal aesthetics and completely missed its dramaturgy. Just like an AI would!
March 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Many people seem to have only internalized Ghibli’s formal aesthetics and completely missed its dramaturgy. Just like an AI would!
Every single cheery ChatGPT Studio Ghibli portrait looks like an in-movie photo meant to contrast with some nostalgic or even tragic story beat
March 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Every single cheery ChatGPT Studio Ghibli portrait looks like an in-movie photo meant to contrast with some nostalgic or even tragic story beat
Why hold out for Nolan’s vision of “The Odyssey” when Godard’s is right there?
February 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Why hold out for Nolan’s vision of “The Odyssey” when Godard’s is right there?
Instead of calling Nostr "decentralized" social media, I should say "censorship-resistant"
A new way to get started with Nostr (a truly decentralized social networking protocol)
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Create your Nostr account
Create your Nostr account, back it up, and get a Nostr Connect bunker URL in few easy steps!
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February 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Instead of calling Nostr "decentralized" social media, I should say "censorship-resistant"
Jack Dorsey on the Citadel Dispatch podcast about efforts to create an open, decentralized protocol for social media:
“Nostr is it.” And: “Bluesky was probably the wrong answer.”
serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
“Nostr is it.” And: “Bluesky was probably the wrong answer.”
serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
CD150: JACK DORSEY
Jack Dorsey is founder of both Twitter, now X, and Square, now Block. We discuss his strong focus on bitcoin and nostr, lessons learned across his many…
serve.podhome.fm
January 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Jack Dorsey on the Citadel Dispatch podcast about efforts to create an open, decentralized protocol for social media:
“Nostr is it.” And: “Bluesky was probably the wrong answer.”
serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
“Nostr is it.” And: “Bluesky was probably the wrong answer.”
serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
A new way to get started with Nostr (a truly decentralized social networking protocol)
start.njump.me
start.njump.me
Create your Nostr account
Create your Nostr account, back it up, and get a Nostr Connect bunker URL in few easy steps!
start.njump.me
January 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
A new way to get started with Nostr (a truly decentralized social networking protocol)
start.njump.me
start.njump.me
A folding-chair inauguration
January 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A folding-chair inauguration
“I have written my name on the far side of the sky.” — Yves Klein
January 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“I have written my name on the far side of the sky.” — Yves Klein
A Chief Justice administering the oath of office of the president of the United States to the same person for the second time should judge whether their first oath had ever been broken.
January 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A Chief Justice administering the oath of office of the president of the United States to the same person for the second time should judge whether their first oath had ever been broken.
Paul Schrader’s review of The Clock (2010) on letterboxd
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Postscript to post re Marclay's The Clock at MoMA: I decided to watch until come Hell or high water there was a clip from something I'd been involved in. I was rewarded after 45 minutes with a clip from American Gigolo.
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Postscript to post re Marclay's The Clock at MoMA: I decided to watch until come Hell or high water there was a clip from something I'd been involved in. I was rewarded after 45 minutes with a clip from American Gigolo.
January 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Paul Schrader’s review of The Clock (2010) on letterboxd
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Postscript to post re Marclay's The Clock at MoMA: I decided to watch until come Hell or high water there was a clip from something I'd been involved in. I was rewarded after 45 minutes with a clip from American Gigolo.
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Postscript to post re Marclay's The Clock at MoMA: I decided to watch until come Hell or high water there was a clip from something I'd been involved in. I was rewarded after 45 minutes with a clip from American Gigolo.
WHITE FUNGUS on the late great Taiwanese sound artist DINO (a few of my photographs are in the piece) www.whitefungus.com/dinoliaoming...
Dino（廖銘和): 反饋就沒有盡頭 這一杯止於至善
廖銘和（Dino）是台灣噪音音樂領域的先驅之一，該領域於1990年代戒嚴結束後興起。他拒絕使用合成器、取樣器和其他數位工具，而是通過簡單的類比設備生成的回授創作電子音樂。Dino熱愛傳統茶道，是一位篆刻家，同時也是古琴演奏者。2022年1月，Dino因食道癌併發症在台北去世。他不僅以藝術造詣被人銘記，也因其隱居的生活方式和獨特的神秘氣質而廣受懷念。顏峻回顧了他的生命與創作。
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January 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
WHITE FUNGUS on the late great Taiwanese sound artist DINO (a few of my photographs are in the piece) www.whitefungus.com/dinoliaoming...
If an art movement was coined with the protest, "Encore des cubes ! Assez de cubisme !" then I want to exclaim in the present, "Enough AI slop! More Slopism!"
December 9, 2024 at 12:57 PM
If an art movement was coined with the protest, "Encore des cubes ! Assez de cubisme !" then I want to exclaim in the present, "Enough AI slop! More Slopism!"
What was the fate of Bassel Khartabil? This Syrian-Palestinian free software developer, Creative Commons lead, brave activist, and my friend, was detained by the Assad regime in 2012 and imprisoned in Saydnaya and Adra, but disappeared in 2015, presumed executed.
December 9, 2024 at 11:48 AM
What was the fate of Bassel Khartabil? This Syrian-Palestinian free software developer, Creative Commons lead, brave activist, and my friend, was detained by the Assad regime in 2012 and imprisoned in Saydnaya and Adra, but disappeared in 2015, presumed executed.
Art Basel’s AI chat bot gets tested by @timschneider.bsky.social
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thegraymarket.substack.com/p/art-basel-...
Art Basel makes its big AI move
8 lessons from test-driving the fair’s new in-app chatbot
thegraymarket.substack.com
December 7, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Art Basel’s AI chat bot gets tested by @timschneider.bsky.social
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Join the private beta to help test Public Diffusion
PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain
We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material
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PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain
We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material
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December 6, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Join the private beta to help test Public Diffusion
PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain
We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material
source.plus/public-diffu...
PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain
We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material
source.plus/public-diffu...
“a cybernetic forest / filled with pines and electronics / where deer stroll peacefully / past computers / as if they were flowers”
How did Richard Brautigan manage to write, in 1967 (!), something that looks exactly like a prompt for an AI slop image generator?
How did Richard Brautigan manage to write, in 1967 (!), something that looks exactly like a prompt for an AI slop image generator?
December 6, 2024 at 10:19 AM
“a cybernetic forest / filled with pines and electronics / where deer stroll peacefully / past computers / as if they were flowers”
How did Richard Brautigan manage to write, in 1967 (!), something that looks exactly like a prompt for an AI slop image generator?
How did Richard Brautigan manage to write, in 1967 (!), something that looks exactly like a prompt for an AI slop image generator?
The Dean Kissick dustup 🧵
December 6, 2024 at 7:54 AM
The Dean Kissick dustup 🧵
This amazing paper on Art-Free Diffusion where an AI has been trained only on what is "clearly not art" presupposes it has never once seen a "readymade"
joaanna.github.io/art-free-dif...
joaanna.github.io/art-free-dif...
Art-Free Generative Models:
Art Creation Without Graphic Art Knowledge
joaanna.github.io
December 6, 2024 at 5:36 AM
This amazing paper on Art-Free Diffusion where an AI has been trained only on what is "clearly not art" presupposes it has never once seen a "readymade"
joaanna.github.io/art-free-dif...
joaanna.github.io/art-free-dif...
Li Yi-Fan for the Taiwan Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2026 is an inspired choice. This is an artist looking at what it means to be meta-human.
December 5, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Li Yi-Fan for the Taiwan Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2026 is an inspired choice. This is an artist looking at what it means to be meta-human.
Art is when intention is in tension with attention
November 29, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Art is when intention is in tension with attention
I once met Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu. Noticing the Leica around my neck, the very first thing he said to me was, "That is the worst camera in the world." I played along: "Yeah, it is..... why?" He said, "Because you can leave the lens cap on and take pictures without realizing it."
November 20, 2024 at 11:50 AM
I once met Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu. Noticing the Leica around my neck, the very first thing he said to me was, "That is the worst camera in the world." I played along: "Yeah, it is..... why?" He said, "Because you can leave the lens cap on and take pictures without realizing it."