Full moonrise

After decades of being buried beneath a shitty parking lot, like a lifted curse, the failed racetrack’s demolition has finally allowed the river to rejoin the world.

It would’ve been a hugely valuable lesson years ago, to realize that it’s not simply that my journals and sketchpads don’t need to be perfect. It’s best when they’re not!

• Chuck Jordan, Semi-Precious Paper

I love Chuck’s attitude towards keeping unfocused and messy journals. Much like the photos I share on this blog, the process is the whole point.

These cooling winds are quite welcome in July.

If we allow these [AI] tools to dictate our visual culture, we must accept that it will be vitrified by machines which consider a few billion webpages equivalent to the sum total of human existence. I don’t accept that. How dare we abandon so many countless traditions and people and ideas and nuances, simply because they are under­represented in the training data?

• Rutherford Craze, From Human Hands