Founder and CEO of @tinybop & https://xitter.cf/t.co/t6RZ2kfKpR. I hate cheese and cats. Love robots and pie. @themexican on threads/insta @themexican.bsky.social
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I dreamt I could query @googlemaps AI-style: “make me a 32 day backpacking itinerary for Japan featuring small villages with hot springs” or “show me cities in Texas with higher than average dog populations.”
I want this to be real.
This might be a good reason to take a side trip up to Amherst: carlemuseum.org/explore-art/…
Nice way to start the day: gateway.fxhash2.xyz/ipfs/QmZ… by
@zancan
and
@Yazid (part of the '(kinder)Garden, Monuments' project: fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/(…)
Raul Gutierrez retweeted
Edward Gorey swam in one of the coldest but deepest currents of children’s literature, @cncep writes. But his stories also took children’s fears and anxieties about bodily integrity, environmental danger, and parental neglect seriously.
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Facebook's AI team has been releasing some interesting open-source projects recently: github.com/facebookresearch/…
Steve Jobs Archive released an online book of his words and photos today. I had the thought looking through it that his analog 50s-60's childhood looked a lot like my 70's-80's childhood, but that his work forever changed childhoods that would follow. book.stevejobsarchive.com
I've been thinking a lot about analog childhoods vs digital childhoods and about how we build systems of meaning around our childhood experiences. @David_Rudnick recently touched on this in a talk where he defined how those systems are expressed generationally.
For years I've advocated for a book form that is somewhere between a picture book and a graphic novel. Tonight I learned @EnchantedLion is starting a new imprint for teens/adults that seems to be exactly that. I'm excited to see what comes out of this. enchantedlion.com/unruly
Do you grow tomatoes? If so, the experimental farm network is a pretty great place to find seeds: store.experimentalfarmnetwor…
If you love NYC, do yourself a favor and check out Tria Giovan's project Loisaida documenting the Lower East Side in the 80s: triagiovanphotography.com/lo…
Soon to be a book!
I overheard some teens on the F train lamenting how "normal and boring" everything (and everyone) is today. I wanted to tell them to travel a bit. People everywhere are weird and wonderful if you just look around. foundation.app/@themexican/s…
Fellow camera geeks might enjoy this deep dive into the importance of the imaging pipeline (over camera selection) by cinematographer Steve Yedlin: yedlin.net/DisplayPrepDemo/i…
