Tyler Howarth

@bnj it is a good week

@tylr Damn everyones joining

new job this week

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@drewcoffman Best swing around

i love being a dad

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@DavidSHolz gave me goosebumps 🔊

this might be my favorite video ive ever made. i was making web visualizers for every part of our stack and i added a zoom and said "whoa this looks like a Max Cooper music video" then i got license to a Max Cooper song, added some technical narrative subtitles and ahhh 🥺❤️❤️

@KristyT @pieratt everyone calling it a pivot just outing themselves

Midjourney doing medical imaging is not a pivot. Medical illustrations were historically the domain of artists. This is a modern version of that tradition.

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chatgpt is asking me to do rl every single time i open the app

@SlexAxton @pierrecomputer look like beans to me, let me know the tasting notes after u brew

@tylr @pierrecomputer this picture is of dog food

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@GK3 this is fantastic

some thoughts on vibe coding, taste, and the part that doesn’t get easier: gk3fyi.substack.com/p/the-wall

missed collab

@ericlu @alexkehr dafont 2.0

my friend @alexkehr said to just post more demos on X so here's me generating a font from the La Croix logo

@williamrhoffman i thought u liked pain

@tylr I thought we were done with this topic

i'm about to churn off spotify for this icon

Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: newaesthetics.art/grants. Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create. My reflections on the whole thing: • Though there are clearly selection dynamics afoot, figuring out some route beyond the current aesthetic moment seems to be of wider interest in the art community than I would have guessed. Many applicants described their dissatisfaction with the status quo, some in strong terms. We had to close applications after a few weeks because there were so many. • It's too early to call it, but it seems that both beauty as an unapologetic goal (contra much that is in modernist and contemporary approaches), and ways to channel pre-modern styles into something new for the present era, are of growing interest. • The awards made me reflect on the perhaps obvious issue of how hard it must be for an artist to persistently do something new: schools, galleries, buyers, etc., all have structurally embedded preferences as well. These individual awards made me wonder what form supporting new clusters could take. • Architecture seems to me like the discipline most ripe for new ideas. One correspondent observed: "American architects are somewhat constrained by the association with the academy, in addition to the well known regulation issues. There is a tendency to overthink things so that the designs are formally interesting to someone deep in the conversation, but lacking poetry and magic. There are more firms in Europe, South America and beyond that “just do things” (especially in places where it is easier to build)." This was evident in the submissions. • AI seems to be making people rethink things in a quite fundamental way, just as urbanization/industrialization/popularization of photography did at the end of the 19th century. For some that will mean interesting new forms of AI-augmented art, but the effects of the rethinking will likely be wider. • Arts funding is clearly as precarious and scarce as ever. That's unfortunate, but it probably also means that individual actors can have meaningful impact, and I encourage others to get involved if interested. • There's a lot to know that is not written down, and I'm very grateful to those who have helped and advised me along the way.

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@Dan_Cassaro this is good design

a cool feature of adobe is that i typed this in the Firefly dialogue box 2 months ago and they just leave it in there

sensing a shift from tokenmaxxing → pricemaxxing