2025 Recent posts

✦ July

Closer #014 →

09 Jul 2025

Hey, so, thought: you know how we're already generating AI-images, based on AI-descriptions of real life images, right? What if... we also asked ChatGPT how to properly ask for those descriptions? Would that make it better?

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✦ July

Closer #013 →

02 Jul 2025

I'm reconsidering my approach, but I'm not sure I'm willing to change it. Not right now. These are still interesting times we live in.

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✦ June

Soul searching in Greece (again) →

30 Jun 2025

Tears of relief as I'm waist-deep in the ocean, trying to see if I can dance still. I can, I think, I CAN, I scream. So that's how we make our way over the island. Curious to learn, relieved the fire still burns.

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✦ June

Closer #012 →

25 Jun 2025

Imagine a cat behind a closed door, only paws and nose peeking from under the small crack between the door and the floor. Now imagine it again. How different are those results? Quite a lot, as it turns out.

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✦ June

Closer #011 →

18 Jun 2025

We all know things can get weird in AI image land. But what if you give it a weird image? Will we get twice the weirdness or will they balance each other out?

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✦ June

Closer #010 →

11 Jun 2025

SHOCKER: Asking AI for a direct replication of your work will give you a direct replication of your work. But does it really?

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✦ June

Building a daylight studio →

09 Jun 2025

This one is for my Amersfoort folks. It goes Tjommies, OostWest 1, OostWest City, Van Zanten, OostWest, Van Zanten, OW, VZ, OW, VZ, Tjommies, OW, VZ, OW, VZ, OW, VZ

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✦ June

Closer #009 →

04 Jun 2025

Learning that it's the imperfections of our actions causing things to feel real is one of this week's biggest take-aways. And that's something I think we should ponder on for some time.

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✦ May

Closer #008 →

28 May 2025

Eight weeks in. Time to evaluate early results and recalibrate accordingly. What other directions should we take this experiment in?

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✦ May

Closer #007 →

21 May 2025

Not to ruffle someone's feathers but a little birdie told me to continue this newsletter until the pecking order between us, beautifully flawed and inherently creative humans, and AI, the ever logical mimicker of life, has been determined. Who comes out on top this week?

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✦ May

Closer #006 →

14 May 2025

By popular demand, ChatGPT gets pushed aside to give Midjourney its chance to shine. This is also the first time I'm using a self portrait as the base image. What do I look like according to AI?

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✦ May

Wandering with wonder →

11 May 2025

Four cities, thousands of images, endless new impressions, one additional newsletter. April, 2025, was a rich, full month that allowed me to tap into my wanderlust as well as organize my thoughts a little.

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✦ May

Closer #005 →

07 May 2025

What happens when an image is described super accurately, to the point that you can picture the thing in your mind with ease? Does AI have the same skills?

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✦ April

Closer #004 →

30 Apr 2025

On the surface, things seem to be looking good. But look more closely, and you'll find that fiction is, thankfully, still stranger than reality.

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✦ April

Closer #003 →

23 Apr 2025

I purposely chose to share a relatively complex black and white image with ChatGPT for this week's entry. Lots of layers and many things going on in the frame. The black and white edit also provides the AI with less context. How does it perform?

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✦ April

Closer #002 →

16 Apr 2025

Although AI perfectly describes my input photograph, it somehow isn't able to reproduce an image that's the same as the original.

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✦ April

Closer #001 →

09 Apr 2025

A surprising start to this new experiment. Using one of my favorite portfolio images from 2023, ChatGPT both accurately describes as well as impressively generates an image based on my original work.

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✦ April

April 5th, 2025 →

05 Apr 2025

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