Alex Dobrenko

In Phelps’ world of journaling, there are two rules.

The first: No limits.

No prompts, no planning, just riffing.

Phelps established this as a first-time journaler, and it’s been his style since.

“It was my way of just getting all the thoughts and feelings and emotions on paper,” he said. “To where I wasn’t really carrying them as excess weight around... See more

So we all know that the hard boundary we place between ourselves and the world is somewhat artificial. Sure, on one level you are a separate being, different from any other. You can move your own arm, you probably can’t move my arm. On the other hand, your life is a product of an incredibly complex enmeshment of influences that can be traced back

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Keepers of private notebooks are a differ ent breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

As Kristoffer Ørum, artist and self-proclaimed ‘misuser of technology,’ pointed out in a RADAR interview, as LLMs become “very good at drawing things that look like something,” humans have the opportunity to push in the opposite direction, reviving more absurdist and abstract forms of art — much like how the expressionists thrived after the advent... See more