Category: creativity
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Taking Credit
Take credit for the work you do to bring ideas to life. But the ideas themselves are unearned. They are gifts from the black box of your subconscious mind. They are no more your creation than a sneeze. First of a new series animating some of my old aphorisms about creativity. Base image created with…
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Embracing the Weird
When people think of AI-generated images, “weird” is one of the first words that come to mind. That’s not a bad thing. As a matter of fact, the weirdness is what I love best. Not just the deliberately odd combinations of styles, characters, and periods. But the unexpected bizzaro strangeness of unforeseen results. The best…
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Digital Folk Artists
Folk Art: Art and objects made by people who are not artists, using styles and materials from where they live The Museum Network I was very involved in the Second Life art community twenty years ago. Most of the people I met there were actively producing images, videos, and creative writing for the first time in…
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Muse Speaks
Muse: Go create something, little monkey! Artist: I can’t. Music: Yes, you can! Artist When? Muse: Now! Artist: Why? Muse: Because something inside you is begging to be born. The image was created with Midjourney, extended in DALL-E 2, and edited and composited using Photoshop.
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Artists and Dinosaurs
Fighting disruptive technology is a hopeless battle. This year’s rapid evolution of generative AI tools portends that those who don’t use them will eventually be obsoleted in many creative commercial niches. Disgruntled artists opting out won’t make a substantive difference. Even if their portfolios collectively total a million works, they’re just a fraction of a…
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Be the Mystery You Seek to Kill
EVERY post we share on a social network is a Selfie. The continuous stream of perpetual personal branding truncates the vast wonder of a living being into shiny little shareable boxes. Our identities are formed through feedback loops between our visceral sense of self and the reflecting chamber of the external world. There is an…
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Who’s the Dummy Now?
Who puts words in a character’s mouth? It seems simple, right? The author. But who puts the words in your mouth? Another self-evident answer? Not really. It seems like there’s a single “you” inside who is responsible for all of your words, thoughts, feelings, and actions. There is obviously a single brain and body behind…
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A Cautionary Fable of Obsessive Creativity
Although prudence recommends the lowest effective dose, Dr. Muse always prescribes the highest nonlethal option. Once upon a time, a young man named Redacted was known for his obsessive creative drive. He was an artist, musician, and writer and spent every spare moment creating. As time went on, he became obsessed with his creative Muse,…
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