You can spot art by the way it behaves
Framing, invisible sculpture, and the difference between making an image and making something that behaves like art.
Lynn Cole / Writing
Writing
Essays, thoughts, and technical notes.
What goes into a VTuber commission
What stock assets, custom work, clothing, rigging, and client communication actually contribute to a VTuber commission.
A wedding portrait becomes a noise painting
A wedding photograph, a discordant line drawing, CFG 16, and a render that aged the groom and ate the bride.
AGENTS.md, skills, and precomputed priors
Project culture, tool-specific skills, and concise instructions that activate what a coding model already knows.
AI work across software, art, film, and music
A dated perspective on AI work across software, commercial art, filmmaking and music, including my own job interviews.
Volume 9, Document 228: a blotter’s source material
The layers and source material inside Document 228: a blotter designed to displace and confuse the eye and the machine.
Before noise painting: breaking the face classifier
Early facial-recognition experiments, dirt faces, makeup and prosthetics, and the joy of finding where a classifier breaks.
The software you fall in love with
Some software becomes more than a workflow. It becomes an experience people love, share and want beside them at work.
Music models, control settings, and the Harmonifiddle
Musical failure states, control settings, impossible instruments, and why I started building my own music pipelines.
What AI makes possible for independent builders
AI criticism goes in cycles, where the same people repeat the same arguments like they thought of them.
The manifesto predates slop
Trash describes an object. Slop introduces an eater. A reflection on the language surrounding the Dada Kidnapper’s Manifesto.
Orchestration is an engineering art
Orchestration depends on explaining your process, your standards and your definition of done. Being a strong conventional developer does not automatically make that easy.