What the market wants is lower cost, more efficient production, higher output and easily reproducible steps. If that becomes one’s criteria for running an art practice, it’s not an art practice anymore, it’s a business.
September 30, 2025
Other observations
The Usual
Is there value in being consistent & predictable? Is there value in the opposite?
On building one’s own neural network
What if we chose to build our own neural networks instead of the networks of enormous and extractive software companies?
It came outta nowhere
Could thinking of ourselves as a characters in an unwritten movie help us process good and bad surprises and make the movie more interesting?
Lists work
How do I organise, prioritise and complete the life shrapnel that gets in the way of making more significant work? Can an empty square help?
Quentin Dupieux makes films
Why bother making a weird idea that’s really difficult to make if it won’t make you money, find an audience?