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Marc Ribot leans over his guitar in his performance at INNtöne Jazzfestival 2024. His white hair os frizzy and he looks at a fellow musician over his glasses.
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,…
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May 18, 2026
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
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February 23, 2026
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?
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January 30, 2026
Slips of yellow paper with typewritten words. Austin Kleon poses interview questions to interviewees on paper in this manner, and the person being interviewed takes the paper and responds to the question using his or her own typewriter. The image shows two such interactions on two slips of yellow paper, side-by-side.
Posted inHistory Living Technology

Today, typewriters are for art

Your grandfather's typewriter is coming back as a tool for creating art.
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December 30, 2025
Jame Mustich sits behind a microphone in a blue Oxford shirt. A water bottle sits in front of him. He has his hands folded as he talks, probably at a conference or a meeting.
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."
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November 16, 2025
On a grey mass in the shape of the Southeastern US, orange colored blobs and slight orange strings connecting them appear. The image was created by a computer model, but it looks like a view from space of urban lights against a dark background of undeveloped land.
Posted inAutomobiles History Living

Deep influence of the asphalt below us

Four meditations on roads, highways, and ancient paths
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November 11, 2025
Rolling tires
Posted inAutomobiles History

Rolling tires

Why is this woman snuggling with a radial tire on a loveseat? A look at another advertising trope, this time for tires.
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February 17, 2022
Flimsy film, ethereal pixels. Pictures and us.
Posted inHistory Technology

Flimsy film, ethereal pixels. Pictures and us.

An image captured, rectangularly framed. The 35mm frame-of-mind. Cannonballs, OFF and ON. "Seeing machines."
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January 6, 2022

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