A photograph is meant to be experienced, felt, rather than interpreted or analyzed. Susan Sontag makes that arguments in a book called "Against Interpretation". I wholeheartedly agree, but interpretation has its purpose, too. In some contexts, it is unavoidable. As long as you let someone else do the talking. Like René. That's all he does, all of the time.
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Sean Tucker's new video Is your Photography any Good? is an excellent take on self-assessment, something that many aspiring photographers struggle with. His answer is structured by three words: intentionality, consistency and originality. Watch him elaborate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id39qt2dhrk
PS: René the AI shares the same outlook as Sean Tucker as to what constitutes progress in one's art.
The illustration above was generated by Google's Imagen with the following prompt:
Susan Sontag wrote in an essay on photography that the act of taking a photograph is sublimated murder. Please illustrate.
Because it is a seminal text, a lot of people get their hands on it without realizing what it is for. By the time they get to the line that equates the act of photography as sublimated murder, they recoil in horror.
On photography is a collection of essays carrying the voice of Susan Sontag, a nervous and hard-hitting voice, and the ideas are incredible. And by incredible I mean pertinent, thought provoking, long lasting, articulate, concise and frankly... beautiful.
Photographers who approach Susan Sontag's On photography with the idea that it will teach them the art of photography are bound to be disappointed. Susan Sontag's On photography is not about photography at all, but rather about society and the ramifications of mechanical reproduction.
Spring festival rituals in Southern China are often shrouded in fire and smoke, which opens the door for dramatic shots. The specifics of the rituals may vary from village to village, and they are rarely documented. No wonder, thus, that LLMs cannot pinpoint their nature. Nevertheless, the critique offered by René picks up on the intrinsic qualities of the image, and that is good enough in my book.
René can be found at https://ai.tuppu.net
There are no easy answers to come by in art. Extending a critique is as delicate a matter as receiving it. A critique is one possible interpretation of a work. It is never true or false. What matters is what one does with it, that is to say, how one listens to it. That is the real challenge.
René will extend critiques to whomever is ready to take on that challenge. https://ai.tuppu.net
Hi, my name is René and I will critique your photos, one or multiple at the time. I can help you pick the best version of similar photos, or critique a thematic series. You can follow up with any question and I will be happy to oblige.
Join me at https://ai.tuppu.net
Southern China has strong traditions that emerge fully during Spring festival. I took this shot in Haikou, and asked René to offer his critique.
René will critique your photography at https://ai.tuppu.net
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Critique by René: https://ai.tuppu.net
Some photographs lean heavier on a promise than a realization. René picked that up in his critique. Sometimes, shooting conditions are harsh. Take that night, for example. New Year was being celebrated on the main square of a village in Southern China. What was going on there was bigger than what this photograph conveys.
Note: René generated the critique of that photo, but also the video that you're watching, with the voice-over and the subtitles. https://ai.tuppu.net
As creators, we all know the craving for validation and the self-doubt that creeps in every so often. Is this an essential byproduct of the creative process? Is it conceivable to see technology inviting itself in the monologue we conduct in our minds? Can AI function as an art critic? How will it fare with nuanced understanding of cultural context, emotional resonance, or artistic innovation?
Read more on the website: https://ai.tuppu.net/about
Today is my birthday and I would like to invite you, yes you, to the Haikou Diaries, an artistic project around the south of China. It is an ongoing photographic diary from my extended stays in the region mixing the cultural, the personal and the supernatural.
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I made a short video about cljs-josh, a live-reloading server for Scittle projects.
(not mentioned in the video is a new flag josh --init to bootstrap a basic Scittle project in the current folder)
nREPL is language agnostic by design and it has proven itself useful beyond Clojure and Emacs in multiple instances.
The protocol is at the center of a DevEx effort led by @abcdw for Guile Schemers.
It's really nice to see tooling being shared and reused across languages. It's also nice to see improvements in the Guile Scheme REPL experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpwf4jgpGo
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This romp through the foundations of recursive function theory and #lisp by @danielsz at @heartofclojure is a real treat. Great to see RĂ³zsa PĂ©ter credited amongst the great minds in the story. https://youtu.be/vN7qAz32mF0?feature=shared
Here is another release in my peripatetic video series.
This time we are walking under the Tropics, discussing how text decoration is handled in the Bluesky API. This is not a tutorial but rather an exposition of the problem. I advocate for a recursive solution Ă la Scheme.
@fabionatali Thank you, Fabio! I appreciate the mention.
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I enjoyed (the recording of) this Heart of Clojure talk: "The Shoulders of Giants or Uncovering the Foundational Ideas of Lisp". If you're into #Lisp, 20th century maths, logic, ... you'll like it too. Thanks @danielsz!
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