Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology
Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art
Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,…
Posted inLiving
Perfect(ing) the French baguette, kinda. (Actually it’s a bâtard)
A second perfect bread. Or, more accurately, a bread close to perfection. A lesson in life through baking.
Posted inTechnology
Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score
"Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score
Posted inLiving
2026 resolutions BINGO
I've got an empty card for the year. I hope I get at least one BINGO!
Uff Da! Yeah, You Betcha.
Lutefisk does have a distinctive odor, but it's a unifying force, too.
Posted inLiving Poetry Technology
Fiat ars, pereat mundus
Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all?
IMAGE & WORD—January 2026
How do images and words fit together? My question in a January project.
Posted inLiving
No BINGO in 2025. But good progress, too.
The Jag got sold and other resolutions for 2025. Wins, "almosts," and fails.
Posted inHistory Living Technology
Today, typewriters are for art
Your grandfather's typewriter is coming back as a tool for creating art.
Posted inCommentary Technology
Sense and GPT-ability
"It’s the lack of this tactile sensation, this palpability, that seems to me an awful prospect in the automatic summoning of sentences, rather than the elimination of effort per se."