First, your paintings are lovely. I'm not much for abstract art, but those are charming.
Also, thank you for the laughs this morning, if only for the term: dick-driven.
Not sure what your grind is about Peterson, but I also have been turned off lately by his new Old Testament style of addressing his followers. He's an odd creature for sure.
Also, my iPhone is older than yours. I do miss the new emojis though.
Thank you, Marie. You've inspired me to to get back into my studio. I wish I had a clone. Venus in Gemini is, as you might guess, all over the place when it comes to creative work.
I saw something the other day and I was like YES, THIS:
"You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-Al is? Wrong direction. I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes" via Working Mom Notes on IG. But hey, that's a women's POV, exactly your point!
As I noted, that was the most alarming news I'd read recently about AI mania. Very few women are involved. You can understand why.
I have a Jungian slant to my life's baseline philosophy, and I sense (and experience) directly, as an artist and writer, how the anima and creativity are bound together. This isn't an earth-shattering revelation, but you can see -- just by observing what AI is offering us (in the arts especially) how it is always the missing ingredient: the anima's, the Feminine's, influence or overseeing.
AI art, when I first saw shit from Midjourney and stuff, last year was sort of intriguing, but then with repeated viewing it all melded into rubbery-looking glop -- and then, lately, (for me) it's *vibe* has become more grotesque and dystopian. I'm seeing this AI-generated shit all over Substack now and I keep equating that influx with the collapse of the platform. An irrational take, but then I'm an intuitive, not a rationalist.
Like you I still maintain my old website, in a ‘parked’ sense, though I have frederickwoodruff.com refer incoming traffic to my SS, which I can easily change w the domain registrar.
SS’s features like FOLLOWERS are not a good sign for the same reason that people with big ‘follower’ numbers on Twitter are afraid to leave the platform as they’d lose all of those connections. I saw that as a red flag when SS launched it.
I miss the early simplicity of Substack, now there are so many bells and whistles going down. It’s turning the platform into a labyrinth.
If I’m confused, imagine the reader or subscriber’s WTF.
Could not agree more re AI. Of course, driving all of it, despite the promises of the elite of humanitarian evolution, is that old, nasty, dark, reality: money. And just as assured, it will be put to the purposes of war and the testosterone driven aspirations of sociopath "leaders," irony intended. BTW, I continue to lurch along with my iPhone 6...
Loved the interview and the conversation was quite inspirational. This song kept running thru my head afterwards: "From Hydrogen to Love" by Phideaux from the album " Infernal":
I didn't realize you were actually a painter, beloved -- though at first I thought you meant that you used a robot, and I thought "fuck; that doesn't look like a robot," which concerned me. (Love these!)
We are drowning in wretched air-brushed looking anime horseshit graphics and broshit hype - with opposing bros warning about the threat of the hype-bros.
A lifetime ago I was sitting with my wasband in a cafe on Union Square in NYC called "The Coffee Shop," a designer retro diner filled with models and wannabes and their whatevers. It felt like high stakes professional high school - cool to the point of freezing; the beauty of the Spring morning was utterly eclipsed by the glare of egos and desperation, a silent black howl where Heart Presence should be.
I tried to pinpoint WTF was going on and why it was so dark, and my ex-one said "The Goddess is Absent." (The healthiest thing he may have ever expressed.)
Precisely the prob with the robobros, to the point where I have begun automatically deleting and cursing when AI hype invades my IN box.
I must start using "high stakes professional high school" as a descriptor for this or that, ASAP.
Also: "robobros," excellent.
Check out the discussion with Laurence Hillman, the absent goddess world is addressed in a round about (and more is more encouraging, as to the return).
I'm so excited to listen to your conversation with Laurence! ❤️
As Paul McCartney wrote: it's a "LONG AND WINDING ROAD" -- I don't think many stones were left unturned
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And he's such a kind, wise, example of active wisdom. We can't wait to have him back on.
Thank you again, Stephanie for the introduction!
First, your paintings are lovely. I'm not much for abstract art, but those are charming.
Also, thank you for the laughs this morning, if only for the term: dick-driven.
Not sure what your grind is about Peterson, but I also have been turned off lately by his new Old Testament style of addressing his followers. He's an odd creature for sure.
Also, my iPhone is older than yours. I do miss the new emojis though.
Thank you, Marie. You've inspired me to to get back into my studio. I wish I had a clone. Venus in Gemini is, as you might guess, all over the place when it comes to creative work.
I saw something the other day and I was like YES, THIS:
"You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-Al is? Wrong direction. I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes" via Working Mom Notes on IG. But hey, that's a women's POV, exactly your point!
As I noted, that was the most alarming news I'd read recently about AI mania. Very few women are involved. You can understand why.
I have a Jungian slant to my life's baseline philosophy, and I sense (and experience) directly, as an artist and writer, how the anima and creativity are bound together. This isn't an earth-shattering revelation, but you can see -- just by observing what AI is offering us (in the arts especially) how it is always the missing ingredient: the anima's, the Feminine's, influence or overseeing.
AI art, when I first saw shit from Midjourney and stuff, last year was sort of intriguing, but then with repeated viewing it all melded into rubbery-looking glop -- and then, lately, (for me) it's *vibe* has become more grotesque and dystopian. I'm seeing this AI-generated shit all over Substack now and I keep equating that influx with the collapse of the platform. An irrational take, but then I'm an intuitive, not a rationalist.
Thanks for your comment Susan. A good one.
Out of interest, would you go back to your blog/website if it declined (too much) here? I've kept mine for that exact reason!
Like you I still maintain my old website, in a ‘parked’ sense, though I have frederickwoodruff.com refer incoming traffic to my SS, which I can easily change w the domain registrar.
SS’s features like FOLLOWERS are not a good sign for the same reason that people with big ‘follower’ numbers on Twitter are afraid to leave the platform as they’d lose all of those connections. I saw that as a red flag when SS launched it.
I miss the early simplicity of Substack, now there are so many bells and whistles going down. It’s turning the platform into a labyrinth.
If I’m confused, imagine the reader or subscriber’s WTF.
So true! I'm still on twitter for that reason. I need to cut my losses really 🤪
Could not agree more re AI. Of course, driving all of it, despite the promises of the elite of humanitarian evolution, is that old, nasty, dark, reality: money. And just as assured, it will be put to the purposes of war and the testosterone driven aspirations of sociopath "leaders," irony intended. BTW, I continue to lurch along with my iPhone 6...
Right after I read your comment, Dennis, someone sent me this email, the timing was serendipitous:
“hey dickhead, look around dicks invented everything... fly on a plane ? land it on a runway in the fog? drive a car? had a catscan? had a Xray?”
Here's to old iPhones, too! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Ex-Seattlite here typing from an iPhone 8+. Praising the AI gods/Ahriman is going to have to wait. Native intelligence is the old/new black.
This made me go ‘oh, yeah’ and laugh. Thanks, TAG.
Someone named ‘niki rich’ just emailed me this comment. Must be a Sam Altman bro. He seems to have forgotten that he emerged from a woman’s vagina.
“hey dickhead, look around dicks invented everything... fly on a plane ? land it on a runway in the fog? drive a car? had a catscan? had a Xray?”
Loved the interview and the conversation was quite inspirational. This song kept running thru my head afterwards: "From Hydrogen to Love" by Phideaux from the album " Infernal":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0A8HfRhDU&list=OLAK5uy_lnIPrLfxqb77Rqx7VvOJ3DYd11WPbVZt8&index=17
Wow, not sure how I would take that!
One HUNDRED percent this.
I didn't realize you were actually a painter, beloved -- though at first I thought you meant that you used a robot, and I thought "fuck; that doesn't look like a robot," which concerned me. (Love these!)
We are drowning in wretched air-brushed looking anime horseshit graphics and broshit hype - with opposing bros warning about the threat of the hype-bros.
A lifetime ago I was sitting with my wasband in a cafe on Union Square in NYC called "The Coffee Shop," a designer retro diner filled with models and wannabes and their whatevers. It felt like high stakes professional high school - cool to the point of freezing; the beauty of the Spring morning was utterly eclipsed by the glare of egos and desperation, a silent black howl where Heart Presence should be.
I tried to pinpoint WTF was going on and why it was so dark, and my ex-one said "The Goddess is Absent." (The healthiest thing he may have ever expressed.)
Precisely the prob with the robobros, to the point where I have begun automatically deleting and cursing when AI hype invades my IN box.
Love you even more, Frederick.
I must start using "high stakes professional high school" as a descriptor for this or that, ASAP.
Also: "robobros," excellent.
Check out the discussion with Laurence Hillman, the absent goddess world is addressed in a round about (and more is more encouraging, as to the return).
♥️
Absolutely - on it!