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12/06/2023

Harper, a Self-Portrait.

We are all accumulative things. Sometimes art can be a small exorcism. Sometimes it is a bridge. Sometimes it is something lovely we can crash into for a little while.

12/04/2023

I've been in a ✨️mood✨️ for a decade or two.

11/21/2023

I love collage because it takes bits and pieces of the world and reassembles them into new meanings. It's kind of like people.

There's also the idea that something needs to be cut apart before it can be something else. De-construction.

De-composition.

Elements like gold, zinc, silver, and lead can only be made in a supernova.

Tear apart the sun. Make a better world.

11/21/2023

My taste has recently been **influenced** if you can tell.

I'm very happy with how collage FEELS. I'm getting some kind of hang of things.

11/21/2023

Posting scheduled are complicated when this body needs more rest than usual.

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11/09/2023

New Post! "I do not have this body." is a contemplative and ongoing series about how we emerge from these forms, rather than riding them.

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11/07/2023

We decided to engage in absurd, weird projects alongside the more serious work we do in the world.

Enjoy or cringe our new episode of ASMR: Guy Ritchie.

Click the link in bio for the podcast!

10/21/2023

COMING SOON!! A brand new from our new associate who we can all call Paper Cuts, and we don't need to worry about whether or not that's his real name or why he would ever need to change his name!!

We are SO EXCITED to host Paper's first ever podcast. We definitely want to do this, and there's no reason to really think otherwise!! Not that you would, because that would be weird!!

Paper takes the lyricism and manic energy of Guy Ritchie's early work, and slows it down along with what he calls, "All that whispery nonsense and crinkles."

You ever want a Londoner (who has never broken a law in his whole life) whispering **made up** life advice and monologues about **hypothetically** getting away with **alleged** crime in your ears?

Well, here we are to deliver!

The first episode drops Nov 06!!

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10/02/2023

The image was made with a collage of features generated by AI and then assembled in a photo editor.

AI is a handy tool, but I don't believe it should (or could) replace creativity by people. It makes creativity accessible to people like me, and I'll always be upfront when I use it.

I like the algorithms that are less "sophisticated" because I can generate more general globs of features that I can then smoosh together in a photo editor app.

The algorithms that give more "refined" or "coherent" output give me less control. They seem to be trained on very narrow, people-pleasing material that limits malleability. Of course, you can adjust parts of them, even at different points in the generation, but that's still dependent on the algorithm's bias.

Sometimes, I just need a vaulted crystal cavern, with a yellow crystal on a pedestal, and it's so much faster to generate the pieces, put them together like a collage, and then smooth it out in the style algorithm I wanted in the first place.

Also, this makes me feel better about not stealing from artists, because I'm cutting and reassembling like I am making a collage.

It works for my purposes of making visuals for ttrpg campaigns.

I don't know about art for sale or for other purposes. It's a complicated topic, with many perspectives.

06/22/2022

This week, we wanted to spotlight Steph Littlebird ( on Instagram), a Two Spirit artist of the Grand Ronde Condfederated Tribes.

Her work with neon colors in traditional and contemporary styles speaks to her own love of their brilliance but also the survival and thriving of Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island.

Follow Steph on Instagram (and the tag !!) and let us know which of her works of art are your favorite!

05/25/2022

Our future visions are built on how we understand the past and present. We can only make the futures that we can imagine.

09/23/2021

We have experienced some technical hiccups in our first live-stream! It feels like we are real streamers now.

Please join us at 8 PM MST (MDT).

Grab a beverage of your choice and join Harper in a virtual cantina, as they talk with sci-fi expert Nico VC and archeologist Stephanie Halmhofer about how w...