Pedaled 165 miles on Saturday and Sunday with my camping gear. It was very rainy and quite cold (45ish F) so fortitude was paramount but I persevered and overall enjoyed myself minus a few shivering low points.

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"My Grandmother made me her AMAZING banana pudding in this exact old Corningware dish a million times growing up. For birthdays, holidays, just because days and any time I asked for it - this dish would be waiting for me filled with the best banana pudding in the world."

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This has been one of the most stressful experiences of my life. But, I'm very happy with the result.

I'll post a few more detail shots of the exhibit. It consists of six risography poster prints, two big-ass vinyl prints, a video and a zine.

Here's the artist statement:

Humans dream. AI hallucinates.

For two decades I’ve enjoyed the benefits of being a white man in tech. Worldwide economic downturns seemed to glance off my career. During the 2008 financial crisis, people were still building websites. During Covid, SaaS products boomed as companies reached for IPO. My privilege appeared to be impermeable.

With the proliferation of AI, tech companies are gambling on the unproven potential of a digital workforce. Dreams and Hallucinations examines the question, “I guess I could quit coding but what else do I do if not that?” This quote has echoed throughout the online forums and discussion groups as my demographic reckons with our weakening professional value. Do I embrace the rapidly changing landscape, trading my dreams and aspirations for dreams and AI hallucinations? Or do I use my privilege to explore other options?

In a series of six sarcastic posters, photographs are combined to compare the traditional corporate headshot with a profession considered to be “AI-proof”, showing the character pondering options he has seen as plan B vs plan A. The posters are placed in the barrios of Poblenou and Eixample, areas with a high population of tech professionals. Risography is used to produce each poster; a technology invented for corporate reproduction now used for niche artistic printing. The posters are paired with a booklet exploring a conversation about career and white privilege with Claude Code.

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The photos were shot on film using a Hasselblad. I scanned the film and paired a headshot with a working image. The results were then printed as layers using risography.

The caption was presented in Catalan, Spanish and English. The caption reads, "I guess I could quit coding, but what else do I do if not that?"

See my exhibition post for the artist statement.

We’ve been playing Asbury Undergound for maybe 10 years now. This year we played a set just before a long time friend Rick Barry who’s new project, Church and State TM, happens to have Jon Stewart as their, functional if not impressive, drummer. After our set I went back to the green room to put my trombone away and a man, whom I’ve respected for years, reached out and shook my hand and said “You guys were fucking awesome!” So I’ve got that going for me…

Made more kodama and whistle kits to distribute randomly

My previous prep was prophetic (or maybe I'm too adhd or autistic and the pattern recognition was off the charts).

Maybe I'll write something about it in the near future here https://sometimes.email but email only, no web archives, no rss. Doing ok but no idea what I'm going to do next.

Lamb shepherd's pie with a ton of veg.

Second shepherd's pie I've ever made. Last one I made was when my dad was dying. It was amazing. We invited the visiting nurse to help herself. She loved it. I told her to take the rest home to her family and she didn't say another word and grabbed the pan.

Fun fact: this has dairy and gluten, so the whole is going in my belly. Just not tonight.

OK, last one.

This is a macro shot of a circuit board. It's intended to be a visual representation of an aerial photograph of a data center in rural US.

The board is an old and busted GPU, which is a fun detail.

And once more, few posts down contains the artist statement

This zine contains some of the original black and white photography from the project, some ascii images, and most notably a conversation with claude code about white privilege in tech.

See a previous post for the artist statement for more info.

Photo by Robert Trachtenberg

two new windows creepers in my building this evening, making *serious* eye contact, plus some asshole in a patagonia cap

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This is the video included in my final project exhibition. The treatment of people came about from an accident. I planned to just video people walking past the posters out in the wild.

I was configuring the raspberry pi used in the exhibit so it would automatically play a video on startup. I found out when ssh-ing into the pi that the video would play in ascii in the terminal. I thought this was so interesting!

I triggered the video and recorded the screen. I then overlayed the two videos and rotoscoped the people out. The playback didn't match up well, so sometimes they walk past as "ghosts" and other times they walk within their own frames.

This made me think of people being replaced by AI.

Check out a few posts down for the artist statement

Willem Dafoe is 70. And yet somehow still appearing in 2 dozen movies a year it seems.

In 1975 Mel Brooks' "When Things Were Rotten" brought his freewheeling style to television. America wasn't ready and the constraints put on him by the network didn't really help him.

Quickly cancelled but to a kid who wasn't allowed to watch his films, it was a lifeline and a hint of what was to come

#Mel

"Gagea lutea (Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem), Pulmonaria officinalis (Common Lungwort), Tussilago farfara (Coltsfoot), Draba verna (Common Whitlowgrass), Pulsatilla vulgaris (European Pasqueflower)"
April 24–30, 1919
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Open faced melted Muenster cheese sandwich, over spiced Roma tomatoes, with wholegrain sourdough bread.
Recipe:
One slice frozen wholegrain sourdough boulé, put into the toaster oven.
Two fresh Roma tomatoes, sliced into small rounds, lightly salted, sprinkled with dried basil, 1 tsp olive oil drizzled on top, mix the tomato rounds to coat.
Pull out the toaster oven rack, put the rounds on half toasted bread, put one slice of Muenster, torn in half, carefully onto the tomatoes, toast until melty.

Post a gif of your fav movie of his in his honour

#mel

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100 years of mel brooks

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#Mel brooks turns 100! Post a gif a fav movie of his in his honour

HBD #Mel Brooks

my youngest brother's wedding was last weekend, indeed a familial stressfest on all ends, but also lovely in a few fleeting moments.

both of my younger brothers have sons, born only about a month apart, who never got to meet each other until that weekend. they were hamming it up the whole time and i was there to delight in it.

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happy birthday mel!