The Mythology of the Algorithm
Welcome to the 70th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...
A Life Well Lived (According to GPT)
Welcome to the 68th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...
Anne Brigman, Nan Goldin, and Workshops
Welcome to the 67th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...
Cats are the ideal form of life
Welcome to the 66th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...
The problem with infinity snark
Welcome to the 65th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...
How to get your work out
Welcome to the 61th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...
Angry walking, trees, algorithmic kisses, and hyperart
Welcome to the 63rd edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...
This is not a real picture
As you might know, I have long been looking into Germany's complicated recent past in order to better understand what it means to roam the world as someone...
It’s a privilege to see how we all behave
Welcome to the 61th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...
Everyone has a story to be told
Welcome to the 60th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I'm hoping it will inspire you, too. If...
Pizza Flavoured Japanese English French Toast
Welcome to the 59th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I hope that it will inspire you, too. If...
Dead artists behind the camera (and more)
Welcome to the 58th edition of this newsletter! With each email I'm sharing material that has inspired me recently. I hope that it will inspire you, too. If...
Tools, tools, tools
This is a self-portrait by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, a Polish artist more commonly known as Witkacy. I first came across him when I saw a 1912...
sensations that fade (or: the white cube isn't life)
You usually don't know when you're seeing a person for the last time. When they're gone, you might ask yourself whether you could have done more, should have...
Yes! Workshops!
By now, you know that every once in a while (but not too often) I advertise what I do as part of this Mailing List. Today, I want to tell you that I'm...
The artist may not necessarily understand his own art
The other day, I remembered that I had started Luis Camnitzer's One Number Is Worth One Word a while ago. It's a very good book, especially if you're...
The Power of a Documentary
Various streaming services have been churning out documentaries about all kinds of things. For personal reasons, I don't watch much TV. I never got into the...
Yasumasete agetai
Early last month, I mentioned my idea to create something visual from the Japanese green tea I drink. In part, my motivation was conceptual (of sorts)....
Where Photography Ends
The other day, I started work on what I'm hoping to become my next book. I've had the idea in my head for a while, and I'm excited about getting started. In...
Twenty Years
I'm not particularly interested in anniversaries. I'm happy to celebrate other people's; but in my own life, I prefer to look forward -- rather than back....