Photographer/Director/Artist "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Jun 11, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I did a pregnancy portrait shoot and one of the takes had a nipple slip, which would require me to censor before posting to Instagram. Can Adobe's AI Generative Fill save the day by "covering" the nipple with an extension of the model's shirt? No. The AI is also censored.
I've seen it coming for a long time. The cloud is just someone else's computer. And the "smarter" and more cloud-based computing gets, the less you own and control your own tools as an artist. This should concern everyone.
10 years on and I'm so pleased that our subversive little YouTube book reading project continues to delight and intrigue. Several sessions will be screening at @ClermontISFF, a beautiful and important international short film festival. Here's the poster for @stoya's session
And the charming @fette au français
Dec 6, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I fuckin hate the way gigantic tech companies are poisoning the very concept of "community"
When you have 2 billion users you don't have a "community" you have millions of communities, and lots of them have genitals and fuck, even if your creepy alien CEO doesn't