Marta Pyr
@martpyr
Marta Pyr
How a Painter Converted a Brooklyn Factory into her Dream Studio in 1986
youtube.com. Remixes and memes abound, but almost no one shares anything weird, original or different. People wake up, perhaps with ambitions to make unique choices they believe are their own, only to find that the options have been filtered, curated, and ‘tailored to existing tastes’ by algorithms that claim to know them best.
Adam Singer • Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world
It’s interesting because a reposted meme must have been created by someone. So, some people are original creators. However, I think it comes down to volume and proportion, how many reposts are there for every original post. 10x, 100x, 1000x. I would add that the incentives/commercialisation of the content creator only fuels the volume dynamic.
y folk artist, I mean “an individual creating art reflecting a particular culture, society, or community.”
I argue that this digital folk renaissance, characterized by memes, viral videos, and grassroots content, faces an existential threat from artificial intelligence, much like folk art faced a threat from the First Industrial Revolution. As AI... See more
I argue that this digital folk renaissance, characterized by memes, viral videos, and grassroots content, faces an existential threat from artificial intelligence, much like folk art faced a threat from the First Industrial Revolution. As AI... See more
The Content Creator as Algorithmic Folk Artist
True Blue
truebluestory.com
Super interesting new format for an illustrated book
Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.
– Justin Welsh
https://www.oblique.pouruntemps.com
wikipedia.org • Oblique Strategies
Another prompt generator offering constraints to problems through prompts Brian Eno. Could be used for the drawing tool
SPACE TYPE GENERATOR
spacetypegenerator.com“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an
... See more“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi