If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker
I’ve written before about my song lyric sheets, and the mess they show of my mind in the midst of revision process. I took a pic of a brand new song I am composing and filtered it a bit. It’s neat (as a piece of art) but not neat (as a piece of writing).
Peace (and sound),
Kevin
This comes from a visit to the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On a floor with all sorts of exhibits on AI, there was a little alcove where there was an exploration of creative fonts. This display is activated by movement. I couldn’t resist pulling out my phone and dancing a bit.
Peace (in type),
Kevin
In my small city in Western Massachusetts, some artists (including students from the middle school) have once again created a Tiny Art Museum, with five boxes along the rail trail with art on display. I took pictures and then did a little artistic filtering.
Peace (looking inside it),
Kevin
Here are two pieces I made this morning — one from a poetry prompt (“eaves”) and the other from the DS106 Daily Create (elements).
Peace (in creative spirit),
Kevin
The prompt for the DS106 Daily Create was to create a misleading sign. I veered off a bit for mine.
Peace (please),
Kevin
For today’s prompt at DS106 Daily Create, for International Dot Day, I asked Anthropic’s Claude to create a Dot Generator. It did and you can play with it, too.
Peace (dot after dot after dot),
Kevin
Every now and then, the daily prompts for DS106 Daily Create make me stop and scratch my head. This is a good thing, by the way. This morning, for example, the prompt called for making some Asemic writing (see an overview), a form of abstract art.
The sentence that stuck out for me, from Wikipedia, was this: “Asemic writing is a hybrid art form that fuses text and image into a unity, and then sets it free to arbitrary subjective interpretations.”
I cheated a bit and used an online Asemic Writing Generator (there’s such a thing) and what it gave me (image above) reminded a bit of some musical lines, flowing from left to right, with each line another sound or instrument. If I had more time, I might even try to compose something musical with the image as framework.
Peace (in art),
Kevin
One of the cool things (I think) about the DS106 Daily Create is that a prompt can often lead you into experimental ideas, if you take the time and find a thread. This morning’s prompt was to explore the new Gif Search Engine at the Internet Archive (a prompt I had submitted), and as I wandered around, I came to look at spinning world globes. I decided to make a gif of a section of the page the globe gifs (and I shared that as my original post on Mastodon). This involves screen recording, then converting the video into a Gif file.
Then, I starting thinking of remix, so I played around for a bit with some different ways to filter the original Gif of the globes spinning (first, I used an online Gif site, and then I went into iMovie and used its effects library and layering tools) and I ended up with the above Gif, which layers in two different versions of the original, both with heavy filtering.
Peace (spin away),
Kevin
I saw this on a trip to a museum (can’t remember where):
Within poetry, there is painting
Within painting, there is poetry
Peace (and poems),
Kevin
