Jacob Sam-La Rose
@jacobsamlarose
Jacob Sam-La Rose
As generative AI gets better at producing content, it’s important to remember that creativity is about far more than the outcome. The striking and wondrous thing about creativity is its mysterious seeds of origin.
from Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence by Scott Belsky
People keep asking me about AI and I really think how you feel about AI comes down to whether you believe art is about producing things (images, objects, data files, “content”) or about a way of operating in the world as an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional creature.
from AI can’t kill anything worth preserving - Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
- Kierkegaard said that the greatest hazard of all is losing oneself — dangerous because it occurs so quietly. To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been wr... See more
- Media sites like Reddit, Twitter, and HackerNews are entropic, optimized for novelty, and “random”: the user is pulled into several different directions that limit their ability to progress at any one thing
from Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519 by Balaji S. Srinivasan
- “Research is a ceremony for building closer relationship with an idea”
-Shawn Wilson, ‘Research is Ceremony: Researching within an Indigenous Paradigm’.from Are.na
- “The real danger is not to people who are experts in their fields. Super experts in every field will continue to do what they have always done. All of us, however, are novices in almost everything we do. Most of us will never be experts in anything. The vast majority of the human experience of learning about something is done at the novice level.
Th... See more - James Turrell took inspiration from astronomy and perceptual psychology. Coco Chanel was most influenced by nuns and religious symbols. David Adjaye drew from Yoruban sculpture, and Steve Jobs from Zen Buddhism and calligraphy. We could continue this list forever, but that’s not the point. The point is to look outside the confines of our industry t... See more
from Optimizing for Feelings by browsercompany.substack.com
- What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes. The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds. That’s what you really want—to internalize their way of looking... See more
from Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
- "Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."
~ Picassofrom Tweet by Poetic Outlaws