Seeds of CreationThere is a plant native to Madagascar, the native peoples call it 'Songosongo', when the species was introduced to France it took on the name: ['Crown of Thorns'](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorb...
On the Wings of a ButterflyModern research today focusing on protecting artist content from AI systems stems as a by-product of trying to find the limitations of models, so that the models can become stronger and more robust. T...
gutenbergSomewhere around the year 1440 AD, a skilled craftsman sat in his workshop, fashioning pieces of tin. He and his partners had come up with an innovative variation of a common souvenir of the time, the...
Digital FreedomI left off the last article drawing comparisons between the invention of the printing press, and the invention of AI. For depth on this concept, we should first take a look back at the past few decade...
AI Artists ExistThere is a great bit of debate online as to whether people who use AI to generate images and video are in fact 'Artists'. I've written other articles about this subject, but thought it proper to narro...
Ogon BattoMany in the west are probably familiar with the sordid past related to the creation of Mickey Mouse. If you're not, here's a quick refresher. It began with a Rabbit named Oswald (Trolley Troubles 1927...
The Dark Knights GhostHistory is haunted with the ghosts of unknown artists. Takeo Nagamatsu created the very first superhero, Ogon Batto, and was buried by it. Ub Iwerks drew Mickey Mouse, and was buried by him. Two men w...
The Artists StruggleSpending hours in front of the page, trying to extract that image that is tormenting you in that space behind your eyes. The never ending pull toward the eternal toil. The page can be comforting and a...
A Painted Language (Part-1)It's easy to look at examples of Christian Medieval Art and assume the artists were horribly unskilled. Generally it looks like they had a real problem with accurately rendering perspective in their a...
A Painted Language (Part-2)We're looking at a medieval Last Judgment. Heaven and hell, the saved and the damned, all rendered in a style a long way from realism. It's easy to call that a lack of skill. It isn't. They say a pict...
A Painted Language (Part-3)This medieval painting shows Christ performing an exorcism. It turns out the medieval artist had a strict visual code for demons: how to render one, and how to defeat one. Let's learn it.
All Your Modern Mythologies SuckI think I may have wasted years of my life as a human art slop generator. That is a hard thing to admit, but looking deeply at my career in the mobile games industry, I have to be honest with myself. ...
Numeric DogmaThis is a continuation of a Christian iconography study I have been building. This time I wanted to draw a different kind of saint, a new class of saint even: a scientific one. The subject is Hippasus...
Spaced OutBe warned, I am going to be tearing down holy nerd idols with this piece. I enjoy science fiction. As a child two of my favorite shows were Battlestar Galactica and The Six Million Dollar Man. I remem...
Catherine Against the Machine Part 1Of all the saints, only one is said to have married Christ himself, with his mother and all of heaven as witnesses. She was a beautiful princess who would one day defy an empire. But first, she fell i...
An Audience of OneI read an article recently that pointed out that many ai music creators only listen to their own music. The article was a bit scathing titled: 'Nobody wants to tell me why they only listen to their ow...