Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
To return to the original idea of extending a painting to reveal more of the scene, what might it mean to be able to produce infinite worlds from a single painting or photograph? This significantly augments the capacity of what we understand of generative art, when a coherent world, or narrative, can be spawned from a single stylistic or linguistic... See more
OpenAI CLIP • Infinite Images and the latent camera
While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Performative magic is one of the most honest exchanges between people; whether it’s you and a card shark on the street today, or Houdini escaping from handcuffs in the East River a hundred years ago, in both cases you’re watching artists perform what you both call tricks. The magic happens in the ether between the magician or performer and the... See more
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
We miss this because there is something self-effacing and non-epic about the region. In my limited travels (Bali, Thailand, Singapore), I get a sense of a collective consciousness that is “island-sized” in individual minds, but somehow also connected region-wide into a whole that’s continent-sized in aggregate.
Venkatesh Rao • Nusantaraphilia
“Song of the summer” is a much-contested term, more of a cultural myth or a shared hallucination than a hard-and-fast label.
The Atlantic Daily • The “Song of the Summer” Is a Myth
Mental Health and
I don’t need donations. I do, however, need investments, and investment signifies a commitment to seeing something through, while a donation usually exists as a one-off gift. How is language being used to reprogram the way that we’re putting energy into the world? Money that’s invested is money that’s going to multiply.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
Every new idea, every new direct experience we have expands the cosmos. Each of us is a different way for consciousness to explore itself and expand. It makes life intrinsically meaningful, no matter how you live it, while also making life more meaningful the more fully you live it – the more ideas and experiences and emotions you have.
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SKIn both literal fermentation and metaphorical fermentation the fermentation is breaking down previous forms into new forms. We don’t know yet what the outcome of this pandemic is going to be on us. I mean, as I was finishing my manuscript, it was clear that society was making this sort of abrupt shift in a way that I don’t know that I had ever... See more