I thought I knew what AI art was. I thought I just needed to be more detailed (and to some extent, that is true). But this is far more complicated than I thought it was, and I respect the people who do it a lot more than I did a few days ago before I stumbled into all this.

I'm good with technology that you can come to understand if you just poke around for long enough. As I discovered today, I'm not good with whatever AI art is. That said, I did finally get a result that I genuinely like!

I compared the artwork generated by two AIs: DALL·E 2 and Stable Diffusion. Some of the images I was shown will haunt my nightmares.

I am doing a lot of art. I am having fun with it.

Jon Stewart, accepting the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, warned Sunday night that speculation about the future of comedy amid increased audience cultural sensitivity was ignoring a true and enduring threat.

An interactive exhibit in Mississippi prompts visitors to speak aloud the names of people who were killed in acts of racist violence in the United States during the civil rights era — incantations in a darkened room to honor some 150 men, women and children whose lives were cut short.

"We do what we like and we like what we do" - Andrew W.K.

Naia Kete, like so many musicians, had her life turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost overnight, Kete's busy schedule of concerts as a solo artist and with her reggae band Say Real was canceled, eliminating her primary source of income. So when she was approached by Artists at Work, a new initiative that puts artists on a payroll to create and launch programs in their communities, Kete jumped at the chance.

Our love.

We must define our own digestion of our negatives.