A Premonition from the Rubiayat
The idea that the whole world is being “shattered to bits” and remade “better” may seem fairly close at hand these days. But if the means of actually engineering such a feat is very...
Category: creativity
it’s everywhere. art has no particular claim.
Don’t trust a teacher who…
A few weeks ago, I set out to learn something about volvelles, a legacy of the medieval period consisting of moveable paper or card circles that rotate to expose or conceal specific information. It...
Medieval app
I have a new enthusiasm for volvelles (and yet another suspicion that I would have made a happy medievalist). A volvelle is a paper thing made of moveable layers, or more exactly, several circular...
Creative Writing
Remember the phrase, “creative writing”? Did it annoy you? It did me. Now that we’re getting more familiar with ai, I think I know why. And I’m even more annoyed. It goes beyond writing,...
Training robots?
LinkedIn advertises quite a few job opportunities in the “AI training” area. Please, fellow writers, don’t squander your hard-earned human skill on robots! Writing is a way for humans to discover, invent and evolve,...
Luigi Ghirri: The Complete Essays 1973-1991. Book Review
I had already read a few of these essays when I realised that no one would try to persuade me that photography “records” or “represents” reality. A reader is credited from the start, that...