Paneful and a deliberately unreasonable Dada mode
Paneful’s Dada mode needs more unreasonable tools: random scribbling, layers, distortion and a bigger word dictionary.
Lynn Cole / Writing
Writing
Essays, thoughts, and technical notes.
Against abstract meaning
Abstract claims of meaning can say nothing. A particular song making someone cry says everything.
Meaninglessness to the masses
Meaninglessness to the masses: an absurdist NFT declaration, complete with a prompt for Animals in Chaos.
Nobody owns the rules of art
Nobody owns the rules of art. Tool choices do not require a stranger’s validation.
Validation, provenance, and the fear of replacement
Arguments about validation, provenance and replacement expose competing ideas of what artists need from the world.
Picking up a pencil again
After a motorcycle accident left drawing excruciatingly painful, Stable Diffusion inspired me to pick up a pencil again and develop adversarial noise paintings.
Rewriting Friday as a songwriting exercise
Taking Friday apart as a songwriting exercise: keep its narrative beats, rewrite the lyrics, and discover a different arrangement.
Be the change for a change
Dissent is participation—and opposition to conformity does not sit easily beside demands for tighter control of art.
Appropriation, access, and the rules of ownership
Appropriation and access matter more to me than property arguments that serve corporate interests and make art less accessible.
Anti-art opposes the contemporary definition
Anti-art opposes the art world’s contemporary definition. The walls that exclude a medium also give that medium power.
AI coding with Claude Sonnet 3.5
Building a scripting language with Claude taught me how formal specifications, Robot Kanban, context management and cross-model QA change the engineering workflow.
How a Love Again remix became a new song
A Love Again remix became a new song through lyric writing, inverted prompts, vocal recasting and repeated reconstruction across music tools.