colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 29/09/2026current count of computers at my desk for the artport show: 42 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 28/09/2026came so close to being run over walking through a crosswalk in nyc today by an inattentive driver I had to literally jump out of the way and screamed. the driver honked at me after. 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 31/08/2026besides being “loser shit” there has to be a line where Maps isn’t useful anymore as a product if the names dont reflect reality. obviously people aren’t actually going to start calling this lake america 🤮 020
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 27/07/2026installing software art and feeling existential between this and being asked “is America working?” about a touch screen 010
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 28/05/2026i love to forget everything i’ve learned and then relearn slightly less of it later 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 14/04/2026count yourself blessed. for me it basically answers questions as normal, then will end with something like “Living in brooklyn and taking the G train often, you understand having to wait.” 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 07/04/2026why do i have to work while the president is saying he’s going to end civilization 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 03/04/2026added birthdays and most-viewed filters to the whitney museum's online collection, if you like birthdays and seeing who's popular. colinbrooks.com/birthdays-an...colinbrooks.comBirthdays and popularityRecently I added a page for birthdays and a bunch of most/least popular sorting options for artists, artworks, and exhibitions on whitney.org. 010
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 03/03/2026no microsoft I don't want to install the Microsoft Rewards extension or the Bing Bar what year is this 010
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 18/02/2026me reading any paul ford piece about technologymedia.tenor.coma cartoon character is standing in the rain looking up at the skyAlt: a cartoon character is standing in the rain looking up at the sky 010
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 15/09/2025ignoring fascism for a moment to download the update that makes my phone worse 010
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 11/08/2025absolutely proving the point of this being about “i like to speed” and ignoring the consequences of everybody who doesn’t break the law correctly like you do 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 26/06/2025one of my favorite things about working on early net art projects is when you're missing a file like dumpster_587x400.jpg and that file might have gone missing in the 00s, or the decade after, or it never actually existed in the first place and it's just a bug and no one including the artist knows 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 01/05/2025"For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple." absolutely DYING reading this order. you've got to be sweating if you're alex roman right now. 070
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 08/04/2025taking an international flight out of newark is great because it breaks your spirit that there is anything good in this country right before you leave 000
Reposted by colin brooksBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day 86125471372
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 24/02/2025thanks! glad it was interesting, though yeah it does feel like a time capsule at this point. i’d be curious if any of the other multimodal LLMs are better now but i wouldn’t be surprised if they’re all pretty equivalent 110
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 16/01/2025my laptop sets them off every time i go through and the guards just wave me on because we all know they don’t work 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 14/01/2025this is so bleak. I can't imagine carrying water for these policy changes when you have a nb kid. like who believes "dialog" is what's going to come out of this??? 1600
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 14/01/2025had some belated thoughts about submitting art as apps to the app stores and how much it stinks compared to the web colinbrooks.com/app-stores-a...colinbrooks.comApp stores and museumsSome thoughts about apps, app stores, and art on the internet. 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 11/01/2025reposting the bird app i made a few months ago—Daily Bird gives you new birds everyday in a few categories and has ✨widgets✨. i made this mostly because i wished i could put the eBird bird of the day on my homescreen. all data is pulled from open sources apps.apple.com/us/app/daily...apps.apple.comDaily Bird: a Bird a DaySee and learn about regular and unusual birds! Daily Bird shows you new featured birds every day, with information, images, and quotes pulled from multiple public data sources like Wikipedia and Wiki... 010
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 22/11/2024the guy in florida doing horny trump prompts on our ai art bot needs to chill or go to a hospital 000
Reposted by colin brooksWhitney Museum @whitney.org · 20/11/2024Hi Bluesky 👋 We're debuting with...a blue sky 4454
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 06/11/2024this is talking me down from the ledge but i reserve the right to go back there 11051
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 08/10/2024i know this is a niche style guide complaint but the NYT trump/putin story today says Mr. 49 separate times and it feels insane to read 010
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 05/09/2024the fun part of being a dev at a place that does this is you get to explain the difference over and over again forever as new people onboard like accessibility sysyphus 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 25/07/2024giving my work plants a little bit of coffee as a treat 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 19/03/2024I worked on this for the biennial with holly herndon and mat dryhurst it was very fun xhairymutantx.whitney.orgxhairymutantx.whitney.orgxhairymutantx | Holly Herndon + Mat DryhurstDo we get to choose how we are represented on the AI substrate? 000
colin brooks @colinbrooks.com · 03/01/2024wrote about using AI to tag artworks (sometimes i still write things) colinbrooks.com/gp4-google-v...colinbrooks.comKeyword tagging artworks with GP4 and Google VisionI have no data to back this up (a great way to start a blog about data), but I think when people visit a museum’s online collection there are two kinds of things they’re likely to type in a search... 000
