if you haven't seen this vague nightmare fuel yet, you're welcome, it's wonderful. From script to images, all AI.

good rundown on the differences at this time

absolutely fascinating. wanna see it.

New wearable AI thingie. Long way to go but pretty neat for an early start, imo.

what a delightful surprise

I love it when bands put together playlists of their influences and inspiration for a given period of time. It always reveals some surprising choices and some delightful combinations.

I recently tasked Talking with Hands and Telefone with putting together their own distinct playlists for this exact purpose. It acts as a nice promo for their recent releases but it's also just interesting. I'm very pleased with the results and I think you will be too.

I'd also like to note that I made the artwork for both mixes primarily with Midjourney. I know there's a lot of conversation to be had around the creative economy and how AI is impacting that but it's hard for me to deny the power of a tool that can conjure such compelling images with just a little creative prompting.

I'm told that I need to read this. Adding it here so I don't forget. Based solely on the headline, I am sure I agree.

Very insightful quick piece about Bernard Krigstein and his 1955 work that influenced comics well beyond his lifetime.

Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station! The goal of the project is to create as huge animation as possible, with many references to movies, games, anime and memes.

Holy moly this is immersive and huge and incredibly entertaining. Can not imagine the amount of work required to conjure this into reality - even if thousands of people were involved it boggles the mind.

look its a new Blinker song featuring Paul D'Amour on guitar. I don't love the singy-talky bits but I can't deny the rest of it.. which is real dang good.

What YouTube was made to share

Happy to report I've been getting into Finnish instrumental/surf rock band Laika & The Cosmonauts. I'm also happy to report that it's delightful to say aloud that you're getting into a Finnish instrumental/surf rock band.

Topshelf Records recently tweeted that Bandcamp had contacted them to petition them to cease supporting the unionization of employees at Bandcamp. The thread is a worthwhile read and, certainly, a surprising one.

Bandcamp has always been a service that I admire. I've been a fan since the very early days, sing its praises often and leverage it as the primary hub for audience building on yk Records. Reading that they are working against unionization is disheartening and surprising. If any company is going to get the benefits of unionizing; it seems like it would be a company that helps independent musicians build a career.

The workers organizing to form the union - Bandcamp United - have not called for any action against Bandcamp; they're just working through the process of trying to establish their charter and not be squashed before things are even given a chance to begin.

This Game Developer piece has an update on the proceedings but I'm a little unclear on the timeline. The article is from Apr 6th with clear commentary from Bandcamp co-founder Ethan Diamond but the Topshelf Records tweets are from the next day. So, did Bandcamp contact Topshelf to ask them not to support the union after Diamond said Bandcamp was open to the union? Perplexing!

I was optimistic that Bandcamp being acquired by Epic Games wouldn't lead to much but I also knew that could be naive. It's all early days right now but certainly a topic to keep a look out for.

Bookmarking so I don’t forget this exists but also letting you know this looks quite useful.

Seeing these advances in AI tools is blowing my mind. I feel 100% the opposite of how Bitcoin made me feel. The usability of this is obvious and exciting. There’s some scary aspects too but mostly it’s just wildly cool.

An intriguing thought piece on how AI images are homogenizing history through a lack of context. Sort of a tricky piece because the images are just silly selfies but there’s lots of quality ideas here to roll around in your noggin.

for a long period of time, I was very into this Minneapolis band. They broke up years ago but recently re-emerged with new stuff. They sound very much the same; which I am quite pleased about.

enjoyably difficult. Guess what year the photo was taken.

nice piece on some recent trends in horror cinema. not my preferred genre but I do enjoy reading these sorts of thoughts from Forest.

an excellent website to browse (even if you have no interest in the content, the presentation is stellar).