Floating downstream.
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Casting The Net
Every day, I cast my Coblage net into the vast sea of internet content, pulling in fragments of imagery, text, and cultural artifacts. It’s a process that blends automation with serendipity, allowing me to discover new stories, artists, and ideas I might otherwise miss. Today, my net caught something truly special: the work of Slovenian…
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Coblage Retro Projects
Every day, I pull a batch of images from my RSS reader to include in the daily coblage post. From this batch, I composite them in random ways to create 400 derivative images. After compositing, the image goes back into the pool and becomes a candidate for further random compositing and transformation. When the process…
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Signs Of The Times
The title of yesterday’s daily Coblage was: Time. A few days ago, it was: Times. These titles are generated randomly, yet I find myself contemplating them throughout the day. The Coblage is a narrative—a narrative of our times. Coblage.art is a prototype, a project I’ve pieced together in my spare time. If only I had…
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Modern Writing
It’s so quiet. It’s so peaceful right now, as I write this. The sun is shining, the wind is blowing. It’s a good day in Wellington. There’s a Writers and Readers Festival coming up next week. And this is what I’m thinking about and working on today: writing. I should be outside soaking up the…
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The Drones Over The Lotus Pond – A Prelude
One day toward the end of a long journey through Japan and China, after spending some time in and around Shanghai, we stumbled upon the Long Art Museum—a place that seemed almost hidden in plain sight, with its industrial facade. We approached it a bit uncertain. “Are you sure you want to go in?” Well,…
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Places
We may have found ourselves far away from the place where we started. “And you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’” (“Once in a Lifetime“) Or should I say, “places,” as many of us look back and struggle to pinpoint just one place to identify with. Our lives unfold across a tapestry…
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Blurred Tech Era Chaos
Yes, this is the result of a difficult dialectic process with ChatGPT. How else would one write a blog post these days? It’s a tough time for writers, but artificial stupidity is not making things any easier. The value of this partnership allows for a dynamic and iterative process, where ideas can be bounced back…
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The Art Of The Coblage Post
I’ve been getting a lot of writing help from the AI lately. Not just asking it, hey write this thing for me, but conversing with it to tease out ideas and revise writing. For instance, I am trying to describe what I am trying to accomplish with the coalesce.me site here: I have been using…
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A Billion Tons of Carbon Christmas Balls
I set myself a deadline to write about this supreme court case Warhol vs. Goldsmith. I’ve blown through two of those now. ?️? The case is still being considered, but the oral argument has been heard. After I had a few glasses of wine and sat down on the couch one night, it was partially…
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Ragequit Remorse
That emotional response was entirely satisfying. And then the realisation you have done something stupid washes over. The first sign you have exposed yourself is when you get that message that your MFA has been disabled. Then you start thinking about your username becoming available and what if someone else registers it. Within 30 days…
Who are you? What are you doing here? Did I use your image file? Did you use one of mine?