Tagged creative tech.

Gaussian splats are the first 3D capture medium that actually deserves to be called holograms. A field note on the workflow, the heritage case, and the limits.

Three years of bookmarking the AI debate, from artists losing work to vibe-coding taking off, and what it is to benefit from the tools that displaced others.

A year of generative art, then GPT-4 lands. The first thing I built with it, a poetry-to-image pipeline, took days not weeks. The compression starts here.

Building Alternative Stages, a WebVR gig platform with LIDAR-scanned Brighton venues, and what a chaotic WoW guild taught me about online spaces.