For the next few months (or until I get bored), any experimental film festival accepting submissions is getting an exclusive Stop Making Sense made just for their festival. If you curate a festival and are interested please get in touch.
Currently re-visting a project I started in January 2025. That far back in the day I hand-wrote system prompts to have Gemini look at a sequence of images and generate a description of a video.
Of course it worked terribly 🙈
I tried to use argon as a critic model and it kept choosing the exact opposite of Astra and Fable. At some point Opus just stopped listening to it lol.
I don't think you guys appreciate just how bad Gemini is at agentic work. The hallucination rates are truly surreal.
In one run, it hallucinated:
- line numbers (quoted line 173 in a 72-line file)
- random ip addresses
- command/script arguments
- function exports and returns
Today Instagram announced they are testing long-form horizontal videos called Features. The platform wants to be a place where you watch a 90 second video and a 90 minute video. All on your TV. They are also testing Lives in the Reels tab, a hub for Series, and more.
I'm so desperate to not have to buy yet another backup drive I'm asking Claude to find as much space as possible on these things: duplicates, ways to compress files, anything.
building custom software for my Image and Video LoRA class is a lot of fun. Created a knowledge base of the nearly 500 training runs I've done in the past 6-9 months so every student can use it in their own training. + an agent with my skills repo.
Concerning Unknown Women is now open as part of Threading Landscapes at Museum PARCUM.
106 imagined portraits rooted in historic archives. A speculative museum website. A bibliography of feminist texts that frames a first encounter. A meditation on evolving forms of reading and record-keeping. A love letter via machination.
Some images from tonight’s photograms on 35mm class I taught at Mono No Aware (I only messed up developing one person’s film—she was very chill about it but I still felt bad)
we're in the part of the AI supercycle where founders are pitching startups to create infinite ai pain and "get acquired by anthropic to make us stop" as an exit strategy