Running large/modular/multilang #OpenSource project(s) is more than just dropping one-off code on Github: Planning APIs/modules/boundaries, docstrings/readmes, diagrams, creating commented examples, ∞ refactoring, building tools, endless maintenance (3rd party deps/tooling)... ...answering issues, reviewing PRs, managing/crediting contributors (more on that below), doing the actual research & creating cleanroom implementations of various concepts/algos/structs, writing change logs, tweets, blog posts, creating media assets...

If anything, a large part of my frustration (for years) w/ "the scene" has been a LACK of evolution & I am on the record pushing for more experimentation w/ new types of code/langs/approaches. I'm sorry I don't share the excitement about recent "(r)evolution". Don't have 2 agree!

https://twitter.com/LimnDigital/status/1491441864171753473

From an aesthetic POV, a noticeable change in recent years has been the rising popularity of abstract/geom 1920s constructivism (an evergreen theme in GA!), flower/plant forms (another evergreen), tessellations, figurative themes via code & various stylistic/shading post-FX...

Some reflections on yesterday's Toxi in PFP-wonderland journey... it's been a trip! Most surprising wasn't that quite a few people don't seemingly read (or overread), but the general debate but about there even being such a thing as what I called "low effort" art. tl;dr: Thanks to PFP popularity in the media, EVERYONE who's been working in Generative Art under the existing conceptual framework/meaning of the term risks experiencing negative connotations because of PFP-flooding and resulting reduction of the GA term in the public eye (IMHO)

1/ A brief metacritique of the critique below (and of much of what I'm missing in what I'd like to call "new school generative art", say since anno ~2018) as a small thread below...

https://twitter.com/Kaloh_nft/status/1481019166937260034

2/ Most aspects mentioned aren't specific to generative art and merely points of critique which address factors of appearance (color, texture, style, composition, context/story) of _any_ traditional, static visual arts. There's more to generative aesthetics than appearance!

1/ As follow-up to my @hicetnunc2000 revenue-split feature request: It was really great to see - at least in principle - many people are agreeing there's a need AND will/desire to support such a feature. I will try to explain my own thoughts/perspective in some more detail... 2/ For me this isn't primarily about tool makers getting a piece of the cake. It's about at least _attempting_ to provide some form of _economic feedback loop_, an incentive built into the platform(s)...

I've just posted this NFT-revenue-splitting-to-support-opensource-projects feature proposal for @hicetnunc2000 and would very much love your support/upvote or at least thoughts/consideration:
hicetnunc.featureupvote.com/suggestions/18… Isn't it ironic a 3D render, GIF, art piece made w/ open source tools not just quickly yields more income, status & higher incentive than putting in 1000s of hours working on the tooling/frameworks/community which allowed people to create & benefit from such works in 1st place?

1/ Painful realisation: The more I've learned, done & created over the years, the less I know how to even talk about it & get somewhat frustrated not being able to produce an elevator pitch for my last 10-15 years of near daily activity
trying to create... 2/ ...an alternative ecosystem of tools & concepts for creative coding. So here's a 🧵 to summarize my #PCD2021 talk a bit more: I likely missed _most_ of the key points I wanted to make on Thur, esp. the parts I didn't even get to present due to running out of time...

@EmmanuelOga I was going to blog about this topic, but never seem to find the time for it. In short, I still love & use CLJ(S) for some of projects, but at the same time find TS is possibly more suited for my purposes/interests and IMHO provides a somewhat better balance overall... /1 @EmmanuelOga Some parts of thi.ng/umbrella are heavily influenced by my experience of working w/ CLJ fulltime for 5+ yrs, but adding a spin to it. Compared to CLJ, TS gives me more flexibility to break out of certain lang aspects/features when they're really not warranted/wanted /2