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It was only during an initiation of sorts last year that I started to really take note of how interpersonal relationships are subject to a similar sort of gravity as cosmic bodies. Connections, threads, wax and wane in rotation with one another. People grow closer and farther apart in orbit; some longer and wider, the friends you only talk to every few months, years, or lifetimes; some shorter and…
When I was 19, one of my best friends shot herself dead in the bathroom of her parents' house. That was when I learned that it is possible to lose something you care about in a manner that makes it impossible to get back - that it is possible for you to have something one night and wake up the next morning and it's gone, its disappearance a hole newly-punched into the fabric of your life that you…
My heart & soul I gave to thee, emboldened by your majesty, and, tho' it seemed a good ide', 't was fascination's dud. Knowest knot what held in hand nor could thou ever understand. Though turgid wat'r & spoil't land, you planted them in mud. I think you thought you knew what was of unimportance, gathered dust, in spite of this, still, as Life must, one day, they grew a bud. A seedling, green, it…
Almost 20 years before LLMAI exploded into popularity, I thought I could automate art. I thought that the right sequence of filters, brightness and contrast tweaks, level adjustments, and GIMP plugins could make anything into a viable and even profitable series of pieces that I could generate in a thoughtless sequence, down to version numbers and iterative nomenclature. Before I even really…