strange harvest
I didn’t have much time this month, so I got some markers, drew something, and built a light treasure hunt around it. Find all the diamonds to reveal the whole picture.
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The Rules:
- The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (5/11/22).
- All downloads are zipfiles containing a Windows executable.
- All source code and assets are included, licensed under the Anti-Capitalist Software License.
- As long as you abide by the license, you can do whatever you want with the download.
Further Reading
A fascinating history of the underground abortion provider Jane, by Moira Donegan.
I found this blog by Aaron Hertzmann useful in helping to articulate why so much machine learning/AI art leaves me so cold; I think it’s because I can’t see the person behind it. Because I usually love generative art, process music, etc. but AI art really doesn’t do anything for me. And I think it’s because the generative art I love is often created by a single person, and I can perceive that person’s decisions and aesthetic choices in both the system and its output. But so much AI art just feels so diffuse, impersonal, designed by committee, that I don’t perceive a person behind it. And it turns out, I care about art because I care about people. Take away the people and I have no interest in the art.
King Charles Has Some Very Strange Ideas About How Cities Should Look
The White Pube on art school crits and dealing with feedback. And then this tiktok of someone (inadvertently?) demonstrating how to be a good playtester.
Laurie Penny with a long read that somewhat improbably made me care about The Queue.
I’ve included snippets from Dom Domanski’s Selected Poems enough times here now that I feel obligated to let you know that it’s back in stock.
How To Disappear (And Never Be Found Again) by Lora Mathis
It’s getting colder again, and it’s hard to shake the sense that we’re heading into a very hard winter. I hope you’re doing okay out there.