Impressions from today's walks
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This Art Nouveau storefront in Rue Royale, Brussels, was originally designed by Paul Hankar in 1896 as a shirt shop. After years of abandonment, it was restored & now operates as famed floral artist/designer Daniel Ost’s flower shop.
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Island of Sanity
My thesis is simple: The louder you all scream & hectically move as if your insane (Politics! Technology! Economy! Progress! Crisis! Emergency! Harder! Faster! Louder! More! MORE!!!), the more people will seek islands of sanity - where the practices of relaxation, mutual care & nature connection are celebrated.
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Monodisciplinary
Many professionals in academia & industry have a tendency to overfit on their job/discipline category: "I am a pro in X & hence ONLY interested in X info & people". Such narrow minded "monodisciplinary" behaviour is bad for collaboration & creativity. Why does it keep happening?
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The Late Capitalist Art Apocalypse
My wife has been a pro comic artist for 10y. Today she reported that Pixiv - Japan's leading art community - has been massively flooded by AI generated content. All ranking lists are now dominated by accounts that upload 1000s of AI images/day. A catastrophe for artists like her.
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Quotes from "Creativity: Flow & the Psychology of Discovery and Invention" by M.Csikszentmihalyi
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Illustrations from the presentation "Why are they not on the paper?" - by Mafalda Gamboa
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"We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." - Ellen Ullman.
