Sunday, July 23, 2023

LinkWeek: Artist life, AI and me, Design Ref/Inspo, Watching, Gmail, Collage

The hardest part: SubtleManeuvers Mason Curry on the challenges of the artist life.

Rest or regret: The Art of Lying Fallow in The Marginalian

But, use it or watch it die: May Sarton on talent in The Marginalian

In my passive media queue: New "secret film" from Steven Soderbergh, Command Z. A weirdos-try-to-fix-the-past-to-save-the-future streaming only series. A $7.95 donation required to stream all 8 episodes. Be tempted by the trailer. 

I'm waitlisted for Google's new AI research assistant NotebookLM. And Bing Chat is now my go-to search agent. It's been very useful, even with some hallucinations.

Mass delete gmail trick: This random guy on instagram shows how to delete hundreds emails at once.

Beloved and invaluable art resource: Public Domain Review. NYT says: A gold mine of fantastic images and stories. I cherish my copy of their beautiful book Affinities.

Design Reference: An amazing collection of magazine covers: coverjunkie

Lovely to Look At: Collage mastery from Beto Val.