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Adam Stone

@foundinblank.io

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👩‍💻 Director, Analytics Engineering @ Brooklyn Data 🐕 Future dog owner 🐶 (hoping to drop the "future" qualifier in early 2025?) 🤟 Deaf 🧠 PhD in educational neuroscience

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Adam Stone @foundinblank.io · 27/11/2024

Felled by sickness from a covid booster I got yesterday, but taking the day off got me a nice chance to see pretty sunset vibes in Central Park

Lake surrounded by late-autumnal trees, beneath a sky of clouds lightly tinted by sunset colors. Lake reflects the sky in a cool Monet-like vibe

Bow Bridge across a lake in Central Park, the lake reflects the bridge so it’s a mirror effect. Sky is tinted with sunset colors

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Adam Stone @foundinblank.io · 19/11/2024

Good AI use case: Summarize artwork descriptions at museums! Especially if you're at a conceptual art museum that likes to hand out essays. 😵‍💫 Take a photo of it and ask to rewrite "in simple, plain English." For extra fun: Ask to do it in a sassy tone or use a different format (sonnet, haiku)

Laminated handout from Dia: Beacon museum about Fred Sandback (see next image for text). 5 paragraphs of text.

*The first sculpture I made with a piece of string and a little wire was the outline of a rectangular solid... It was a casual act, but it seemed to open up a lot of possibilities for me, Fred Sandback recalled of a germinal sculpture he executed in 1967. In making sculptures that do not have an inside, he hoped to "assert a certain place or volume in its full materiality without occupying and obscuring it." Sandback pursued these formative insights with remarkable consistency and inventiveness. Both informed by a signature style and closely related to the architecture in which it is realized, his body of work always differs in its manifestations.

For his first presentation at Dia Beacon (which is how the works continue to be installed), Sandback seamlessly integrated older works with newer ones to orient and ground the viewer in a particular place, a specific situation. Selected from his deliberately circumscribed lexicon, each sculpture was chosen for its installation at this site: "I don't feel that once a piece is made, then it's done with," he explained. *I continue to work with alder schemata and formats, and often begin to get what I want out of them only after many reworkings. Though the same substructure may be used many times, it appears each time in a new light" Thus the artist intuitively adjusted a work's proportions and measurements depending on other works placed in conversation with it and its site of display. (text truncated from this point)

Fred Sandback (1943–2003) was an American sculptor known for redefining the concept of sculpture using simple materials like acrylic yarn to outline shapes and volumes, creating spaces that felt both present and intangible. His work began in 1967 with a casual experiment in outlining a rectangular shape with string and wire, which inspired a career-long exploration of how to define space without occupying it. At Dia Beacon, Sandback integrated older and newer works, often reworking and adjusting pieces to fit their architectural context and engage the viewer. His sculptures, made to exist in “pedestrian space,” blended seamlessly with their surroundings, inviting viewers to perceive spatial relationships in new ways. Sandback chose yarn for its soft, matte quality, which offered a less rigid and reflective appearance compared to metal. He balanced fact and illusion, creating works that defined physical space while playing with perception, yet always grounded in their tangible existence.

Fred Sandback was all about creating art with barely anything—he used simple yarn or string to outline shapes in space, making you feel like there’s something solid when there’s really just air. His minimalist style didn’t fill up the room with heavy materials; instead, he let empty space do the talking, transforming places like Dia Beacon into sites of quiet but powerful illusions. Sandback once said his work isn’t a representation of anything—it just “doesn’t do anything,” which is exactly what makes it intriguing. His art plays with perception, making you question what’s real and what’s simply a trick of the eye.

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Adam Stone @foundinblank.io · 10/11/2024

“Based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like” That dog is the BEST

“Illustration of a 44-year-old man’s modern apartment with a view of Washington, D.C. The scene shows a cozy yet tech-focused workspace with dual monitors displaying code and data charts, hinting at his role in analytics engineering. A friendly dog sits nearby, and personal touches like books, travel photos, and framed pictures of two young girls (likely his nieces) are scattered around. The room is bathed in a warm, ambient glow that contrasts with neon cyberpunk colors in blue, purple, and green, blending a high-tech aesthetic with homey warmth.”

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Adam Stone @foundinblank.io · 29/10/2024

my vibes rn seeing all these data folks back in one place again

Star Trek Lower Decks - a Klingon triumphantly saying "our greatest day is yet to come!"

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