Cyberpunk demands that we find the human in the face of oppression. It is a glimpse into the future we can experience inside the present. It is what happens when a world loses touch with its own humanity and asks us how we will survive in the margins.
Friend of Foofaraw, Casey Aimer (of Radon Journal), guest edited the latest issue of Eye to the Telescope, full of wonderful sci-fi poems. Highly recommend you go check it out.
Because every creative endeavour has a small part of your soul and spirit, it would be too vulnerable and unbearable to admit the real cost and fear involved in making something new and offering it up to the world, to our customers and savage imaginary contempt of our peers.
Not me thinking about buying Die Grotesk despite having both Untitled Sans and Helvetica (and a terrible eye that can only slightly tell the difference when they are side-by-sideā¦) On a more serious note, I love reading these long pieces about the thoughts, ideas, and process that goes into designing
I think people who are high on Sora 2 as The Next Great Thing are giving the same energy as those who thought Clubhouse was going to kill podcasts a few years ago or that NFTs were actually a great idea and were totally not just a bubble that would immediately pop.
Yes, exactly. And this is why I always said people who have zero concerns about AI are living in the clouds. Financially, economically, environmentally, ethically, and culturallyāthere are major concerns across all five of these areas. And the people in charge of these companies donāt
Artists hate using it. Consumers hate consuming it And yet it thrives, like an Arbyās built inside a protected forest.
This whole comic nails itāespecially that line. The only people excited about AI art are those who see it as some sort of tech bro hustle culture. But real artists, actual fans, and people already a part of these communities want and expect more from their artāeven if they canāt always tell something was AI. Art I about humanity and connection and no matter how good AI gets at replicating things (keyword: replicating), it
Whelpā¦ I went and dropped $250 bucks on comics from hereā¦ Go support indie comic creators now! Tons of these are huge inspirations for what I hope to eventually be able to do with Foofaraw.
The film is āconceived to celebrate the poetic and dreamlike language of great European cinemaā and directed āby an AI agentā called āFellinAI,ā according to a statement.
This is gross. And not just because itās removing the humanityāan essential component of artāfrom the creation, but it genuinely looks terrible. Can you imagine sitting through two hours of this ugly monstrosity? And yeah, I know, the tech will get better and not look this badāeventuallyābut god is it ugly today.
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