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   Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 08:54:42 JST Jesse

   Me: I hate the way we talk about “content” like it’s some kind of fungible substance
   Also me: I wish I could just plug something into my brain and the creative stuff would come out

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     Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 08:54:42 JST Jesse

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     I wonder if this is the appeal of generative AI for other people: it looks like the fantasy of your words or images just tumbling out (even though that’s not what it is at all)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 08:54:42 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @misc
     You’re on to something here. There’s that “tip of the tongue” feeling of a creative idea •wanting• to come out, of it being right there but not quiiiite possible to articulate. The gulf between that feeling and the idea being fully realized can feel so vast, and painful.

     But: I would venture that with artistic maturity comes the realization that in that gap is where the most important work happens.

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     Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 08:56:10 JST Jesse

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     @inthehands Yeah, I don’t have that maturity thing. Just the pain. :-/

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     Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 08:56:10 JST Jesse

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands that sounded more dramatic than I intended

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 08:56:10 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @misc
     Eh, we’re talking about art here, go for it

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 08:57:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @misc
     One of the recurring themes of my late musical mentor and friend, Donald Betts, was that the biggest artistic things happen in the tiniest details. Architecture lives and dies in the nuances.

     All that filling in that makes the process of artistic realization so slow and painful, that’s where it’s •at•.