Month: March 2024
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08MAR24 / dockside, springtime
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among all the hundreds of bottom right corners of left-facing pages: thoughts on notetaking
Last week I found myself in the new-to-me position of talking about being a writer to people studying for postgrad qualifications in creative writing. This was a very strange experience, and not entirely a comfortable one. Over the last decade or so, I have become fairly comfortable with expounding on matters and/or techniques in which…
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the parts of the shadows that didn’t exactly reflect the numbers became problems
Many people loved the installment of Dorothy Gambrell’s Cat & Girl webcomic in which Gambrell confronted her feelings about being one of a few thousand early webcomics people listed as having had their work used as training material for generative models. I loved it too. I haven’t been following C&G since the start, but for…
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Swans
Intense. More like some sort of art ritual than a gig, in a way; the first “piece” was almost half an hour long, partly improvised, big slow dynamics, old man Gira controlling the vibe by waving and shaking his arms around above his head, while the band cranks the volume and intensity up and down.…