Musings on photography, illustration, mobile apps, and more
It s a very imperfect analogy, but I feel like as AI video fully passes the can this pass for real test, we ll break into new more interesting territory—much as painting did once photography took the does this replicate reality crown. Here s a handful of fun, beautiful animations rendered in a variety of styles. The [ ]
Maciej Dobrodziej writes, Today, a solar eclipse over Poland. The first such one in 72 years. The last time people looked up at the sky like that was in 1954 through soot-covered glass, on Constitution Square in Warsaw. I froze that moment and flew through it with a camera. All the way to the [ ]
Greetings from the midst of our bittersweet (but mostly very sweet!) roadtrip to take Finn off to college in Boulder. Me being me, I of course brought our Lego selves to use in making arguably cringey (#jeezdad) family pics. I don t have a precise match for our newly modded van, so I brought the closest [ ]
I have no words for this kind of witchcraft. In case the embedded tweet doesn t show up in English, here s a translation: Wow. Maciej Dobrodziej a digital creator has brought to life one of Warsaw s most famous photographs. The photo of a girl running in the rain on Puławska Street was taken by [ ]
A.I. sing of arms and the man Wait—that was the Aeneid, but Imma go for it. This reimagining of The Odyssey—nailing everything from casting to an apparently generated period-accurate song that actually slaps—demonstrates my long-running contention that when things become amazing enough, we can t even process them. People see this and neither marvel at the [ ]
It’s so fun to see work from a past life enabling whole new modes of expression! Who knew PMF for MediaPipe hand tracking would be performance art for social media 🙂 One of the unpredictable things about vibe coding is it breathes new life into tech that s been around for ages and gives it a [ ]
As I walked the dogs past our new camper van a few weeks back, Pinterest happened to send me some vintage World War II aircraft art. I thought, heh, how nuts would it be to give the van shark teeth? I snapped a quick pic of the van, popped it plus one of the shark [ ]
Fill your head with sweet 80 s synth chords, using Google Omni Flash to reimagine suburbia as a sci-fi dreamscape: Transform any scene into the Upside Down using Gemini Omni Flash in @FlowbyGoogle. Prompt: The video starts completely normal, showing the original, unmodified scene. Immediately after the start, a slow, detail-by-detail transition into the Upside Down [ ]
Correlation is not causation, and I hope that Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announcing his retirement from Google has nothing to do with my return. 😉 The news brings to mind a couple of fun memories: Semi-legendary story: Some Googler was chilling in what he thought was a conference room named “Vint Cerf,” only to have [ ]
I ve been trying to put my finger on exactly why the AI-related buzzword du jour gets under my skin. Taste is anything but new, yet I can t stand the way it gets bandied about, like some mystic shibboleth, by grasping little growth hackers. I ll have more to say about this (aren t you lucky!), but I m [ ]