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Hello, this is the void calling.

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AI is ruining reference images. 

Am I surprised? 

No.

Am I annoyed. 

Yep. 

I'm leaning back into my impressionist style for my current series of paintings so I wanted to go back and look over the works of the old masters. Specifically, I wanted to find some seascapes, preferably one with a lighthouse. The impressionists were quite the busy bunch. Surely a few of them must have painted one. Ideally I had hoped to find some from a few different painters…

Recently I had the pleasure of watching a video recording of Jackson Browne and his ensemble performing "The Load-Out" and "Stay" live in concert. And while it was thoroughly goosebump worthy, as it should be, it did throw me off a bit.

According to the caption the video was recorded in 1978, which majorly shifted my understanding of our cultural history.

You see, there's the line in "The Load-Out" about how on the bus they have "Richard Pryor on the video".  And while that…

It’s been a heavy week. I’m tired, my back’s sore, the world has managed to reach yet another new level of absurdity and it has left me feeling like I don’t have anything deep or profound to say this time around. …

Have you ever heard of the Lipstick effect? 

Basically, people claim that women buy more, or at least more high end cosmetics during an economic downturn.  

It’s been pretty thoroughly disproven, but the concept still catches the popular imagination.

And I think that’s because while some ascribe shadier motives to this supposed trend, something about the more innocent explanation for it makes a certain sense, even if the data…