𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Why would a culture obsessed with authenticity view endless synthetic media as anything more than a fad curiosity 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Using AI to create visual artifacts indistinguishable from traditional media aesthetics really misses its potential. I don’t want to see more of the same, more quickly. I want to see things I’ve never seen before 110 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Technically impressive yes but I know of very few young people who think AI is “cool” in the rock n’ roll sense which seems bad for a new tech attempting to intervene in every aspect of culture 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Most people can’t distinguish diamonds from cubic zirconia. Therefore real and fake diamonds should be valued equally. Do I understand this correctly? 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Too AI-critical for TwitterX not AI-critical enough for Bsky 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Microblogging sites should have a “notifications silenced” status like iMessage so people know you won’t be replying quickly 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 04/05/2026One thing the PalmPilot got right was the stylus. These finger swipe touch UIs are killing my hands 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 03/05/2026People on social media work themselves into rigid anti-AI (or pro-AI) positions, making it hard to publicly admit to any benefits (or harms) I don’t think this matches peoples’ actual AI use which is somewhere between total refusal and enthusiastic adoption 100 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Not anti AI art but I will say I can easily enter a 4+ hour flow state while painting that would never happen working with AI tools The roulette aspect of prompting (which is part of its gambling-like appeal) frustrates each gesture from building toward a cohesive whole 130 3
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I like this 1980s Kim Gordon quote to partly explain why AI wont supplant human art: “People pay to see others believe in themselves” Already seeing increased cultural cachet of handmade over automatic. An expression of “faith in ourselves,” as Miyazaki put it after the AI demo 040 4
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 27/02/2026AI will make everyone a filmmaker the same way VHS did in the 80s, digital camcorders in the 00s, iPhones in the 10s 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Care less about what is new and more about what is true 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Every painter can be an ai artist but not every ai artist can be a painter 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025There’s always a sprinkle of dust in my studio I have to wrap my paintings in Saran 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Again, go look at early CGI ads and tell me they look better than today’s slop 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 07/11/2025“…every design choice expresses a vision of humanity.” 040 4
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Painting of my girlfriend’s dog I made for her birthday 030 3
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 14/09/2025AI artists who valorize custom or ‘handcrafted’ aspects of image generation (training your own model on your own data instead of using ‘off-the-shelf’ models) mirror the valorization of ‘hands-on’ work that motivates anti-AI criticism of AI art 000 0
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 10/08/2025AI art boosters who say “aesthetic taste is the new artistic skill” undercut themselves by downplaying the skill required to make AI art in good taste (very difficult) 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 09/08/2025I really enjoy my job. Very lucky to come across a gig that combines arts & culture, design & tech, humanities & engineering. Rare find 150 5
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Prediction: as AI gains traction in Hollywood, low Erdős–Bacon numbers will become more common 100 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 20/07/2025One of my more trad opinions is that visual art is multi-sensory and something is lost when images are exclusively made or experienced via digital interface 110 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I saw someone in a cafe diligently copying an AI-generated illustration off their phone onto paper by hand. If you’re wondering whether the art object still has aura 020 2
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 28/06/2025“JackSepticEye calls out MrBeast for creating YouTube AI tools”… incredible culture we have here 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Writing an article for the first time in a while and rediscovering the joys of Zotero browser integration 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 19/06/2025The bsky video upload quality is subpar but I kind of like it (defending the poor image) 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Luckily I “learned to code” enough to do my research and creative projects but not enough to make an increasingly precarious career of it 020 2
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 30/05/2025I’d rather risk posting cringe than never post sincerity 120 2
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Reminiscing a time when the big Twitter controversy was how they changed the font 010 1
𝒜ℒ @alanlundgard.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Good old-fashioned Artisanal Intelligence like how your ancestors used to reason (no GPT) 000 0
