The fix is not a better way of highlighting, but building in friction: forcing yourself to retrieve, explain or generate something without the source at hand. That feels harder and less successful in the moment, precisely because you can fail at it, and that friction is what leaves a lasting trace. Jeroen Sanders explaining why you need to reprocess things into your own words to truly internalize…
A high-profile influencer can mobilize a following within hours of posting a standout dish at a restaurant, creating demand for a menu item that can’t possibly be sustained—all to re-create a moment that wasn’t theirs to begin with. Danny Chau, Before He Was Bourdain
Another evening visit to the restored rouge river.
I am this many years old. 💿
When I got to art as an undergraduate student, I felt like, oh, this is amazing. I want to be able to learn all of these things. But my program, like most art schools, was basically entirely conceptual. So I didn’t have any practical classes in terms of like how do you learn how to paint better? You just have studio time where you sort of figure it out by yourself, and then you have crit…
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…
It’s Canadian wildfire season again. 😷
The gate swings open and the dungeon reveals itself before you…
The number of personal projects that AI has killed continues unabated.
Backyard Bounty
Went to our speakeasy for some live jazz.
It’s harder to convince people there’s something wrong with them when they intimately understand that the things they are experiencing are normal and shared. smallthingsgrowing, What you’re missing without a village is not just material help The people you know in real life are also trying to figure things out as they can. The problem is not struggling, it’s struggling…
Ascension
Sacred Doorway
”Your local caffeine dealer” The most appropriately advertised coffee shop.
Star Dream Fountain Marshall M. Fredricks , 1908-1998
If anyone wants to hire me, I’ve really got my finger on the pulse of middle-aged white guys trying to get their hair cuts at the least busy time of day who end up all going at the same time.
Whenever you’re lucky enough to find it, you have to receive life’s poetry – even when, and especially if, it makes for a funny story to tell. Federico Viticci, WWDC 2026: Between Seasons
The Last Burning of the Light
Fortress of higher learning.
The world, one giant selfie jostle. Eventually, right before the machines turn off our light of meat-based consciousness, we’ll do some Borgesian space selfie and be done with it all. But for now, we selfie on the ground, with great desperation, preening for the screen, to be uploaded to god only knows where for god only knows what audience. The volume of media captured defies comprehension. It is…