Originally posted on Substack “The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from the air, creating by the exertion of the imagination.” - Frederick Brooks Quick update: Well its been 6 months of almost weekly newsletters and I am so excited of how much content and interest (~500 Substack subscribes) there has been! I’ve loved the interactions I’ve had with you all and will hope to continue to do so!...

Originally posted on Substack “Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.” - Osho Hello friends! I know that I generally release on Saturday for the week but we had family and work which led to not having as much time this weekend to ensure that I finish editing the video done in time for the next release. And it is here! My conversation with Dave Yarwood led us down some very interesting conversations on the idea of generative music and how one might go around using a system such as Alda to create “generative music....

Originally posted on Substack “Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.” - Pearl Zhu As NFTs are all the rage, I thought I might lay out my thoughts and maybe inspire more conversation and thoughts. So I’ve intended this to be considered in small chunks. I love the fact that the non-centralized infrastructure brings transparency to the masses. I don’t like the idea that we could be speeding up the process of CO2 shot into the environment due to additional electrical consumption of the blockchains....

Originally posted on Substack “Set your imagination free and do your best to keep up with it.” - A.R. Fagundes Another week has come and gone. I am currently working on an essay trying to historically outline the world of generative art since the 1960s. I’d like to really trace the thread back to compile a little history just because I love origin stories and I also highlight our “ancestors” of the generative arts....

Originally posted on Substack “Set your imagination free and do your best to keep up with it.” - A.R. Fagundes Another week has come and gone. I am currently working on an essay trying to historically outline the world of generative art since the 1960s. I’d like to really trace the thread back to compile a little history just because I love origin stories and I also highlight our “ancestors” of the generative arts....

Originally posted on Substack “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." ― Paul Cezanne One of the things that I hope we continue to remember as “autonomous art” (i.e. currently GANs and generative artistic systems) becomes more apparent in the coming decade. Let’s not forget what makes art and the aesthetic beautiful. the process and the relationship one has with a piece of art....

Originally posted on Substack “If little else, the brain is an educational toy.” - Tom Robbins Well, there is about 6 hours worth of learnable content that I’ve attached this week. Most of it I’ve been able to race through. Tyler Hobbs Interview Being the first interview I’ve done this way. I am a little overwhelmed and self conscience but I decided that the beauty of generative is that sometimes the mistakes are just part of the output and should be kept....

Originally posted on Substack Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." - Alfred North Whitehead R and Generative Art How do you like to see tools used for different things? I enjoy seeing a tool used for something entirely different. Take Excel, for example, it is a complicated calculator with a bunch of functions used for managing portfolios, budgeting, forecasting, to personal databases as the normal use case of Excel....

Originally posted on Substack “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” - Brene Brown Happy Weekend Friends! Its been a week. The people of the United States have much to consider for the future. It’s only through thoughtful debate and understanding on all sides in which we need to hash out our differences with patience, respect, kindness and vulnerability. Otherwise it is our animalistic nature that will take its course....

Originally posted on Substack “Create with the heart; build with the mind.” - Criss Jami Good Morning! I’ve been wondering, “What is creativity and where does it come from?” Are we wired with certain default, “inspirations” of ideas that generate the corpus we have come up with today? I think of Carl Jung’s story archetypes and it would seem that there is evidence for a collective conscience. Yet, we still need to ask, are there entirely new ideas that have never been thought or created?...