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It’s not often in life you get to say you did exactly what you set out to do, without any compromise to your vision and execution.

I made an ad for Instagram, we’ll see how it does.

So I’ve been working on this for a while: Like many of the things I work on, it started as a joke; well, a kind of mean comment, leaving a Fringe show last year and saying to my partner “I’d rather have sat in goddamn silence for an hour.”

After watching one too many movies where a “cabin” has 20′ windows, a wine cellar, soaking tub, rainforest shower and a room that could be called a “foyer,” I have made a simple checklist.

A bit of goofin’ on a Saturday morning.

It’s odd to say that a chunk of collapsing ceiling in my kitchen made me grateful, but here we are.

Watch this video and get back to me and let’s talk about the genius of the zag.

Tip for AI adherents: if you want people to use it, make it less cancerous.

A vague developing thought on image-generation LLMs: used to be with image banks etc that you’d have to find a metaphor that worked and apply it, creating a layer that made readers think a little differently about the piece.

A stroll down Princess St. and up through Doug Fluhler (sp?)