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Pursue a domain you love. But simultaneously get so insanely technically skilled at math/coding/AI that you can apply it to your domain of interest in an innovative way. Deep domain expertise plus alien-level technical skills equals lots of interesting and rewarding work to do.
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1. Learn the material before you take the course.
2. Blow the course out of the water, no matter how terribly it’s taught.
3. Be first in line for any “smart kid” opportunities: research, internships, recommendations, etc.
4. Compound the advantage. The more “smart kid” opportunities you capitalize on, the more you get.
5. Find your niche. You’re so far ahead that you have plenty of time to explore until you land on a career you love and are amazing at, instead of getting time-pressured into the first thing you’re decent at and don’t hate.
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Lately I am finding myself *really* struggling to ‘lock in’.
I used to have a gut instinct on what to create next. I would occasionally find myself obsessed with some concept and hyper focus on bringing it to reality.
Lately I wonder if I’ve lost that instinct. I increasingly struggle to concentrate. I drift from one idea to the next, but before there was this sense that you knew what was worth pursuing and what was a dead end. But with rapidly advancing technology, nothing really seems like a dead end anymore. Much of the curiosity is gone.
It is as if the desire for pursuit comes from partly not knowing if something will or will not work out.
Then the combination of global instability, rapid advances in AI, having young kids, real time redefinition of the value of art, and a gradual misalignment with the web3 space, the scams, the posturing, lack of authenticity, the informational asymmetry. And to say this delicately, there are also some performative aspects expected that do not align with me and that can be problematic.
It all has me wondering has me wondering what is next, what will bring a sense of joy back, where to look for it etc.
I am curious if any other artists have/are experiencing this at the moment. How are you / did you get through it?
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A lot of people are answering that it’s because we no longer use film. That doesn’t quite answer why shooting on film made everything look better. The answer is nuanced in how much usable sensitivity was in the film compared to modern digital cameras. Cinematographers had to work creatively to put enough light on the set. Now you can just go to subway and there is enough light there already.
In 1975 Barry Lyndon, Kubrick insisted on lighting the scene with candles. And that scene looks a bit like something from late 2000’s. Of course then he had to use a rare f/0.75 Carl Zeiss lens. But that was Kubrick.
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We mainly have approx. 30 Mohr, Verostko, and Hébert, all created before 2000/01, acquired from the artists. There is no catalog of inventory. Happy to inform you, email is best. DM for initial contact.
Here are 2 works by Roman Verostko from '89 & '01
With mixed feelings, we've begun the process of letting go of our collection of artworks, books, catalogs, etc, assembled over more than 50 years.
Recently, our Harold Cohen collection was acquired in a private transaction. Step by step, piece by piece, we'll move the others on.
ALT Cover of an art show catalog curated by @HerbertWFranke in 1989. Image created by FD at West Coast University with Jim Blinn's Metaball sw in 1983.
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Alright, public my progress so far: open source bootloader for the printer is done!
Now just a loop of RE the stock fw --> reimplement --> flash over USB --> validate, until we have all the functionalities
github.com/ngxson/canon-mg25…
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A clip from when we were young.
Unearth by the master in internet research @Noahbolanowski
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With mixed feelings, we've begun the process of letting go of our collection of artworks, books, catalogs, etc, assembled over more than 50 years.
Recently, our Harold Cohen collection was acquired in a private transaction. Step by step, piece by piece, we'll move the others on.
ALT Cover of an art show catalog curated by @HerbertWFranke in 1989. Image created by FD at West Coast University with Jim Blinn's Metaball sw in 1983.
