I did it again, but this time with Claude Fable 5.

I gave Claude Fable access to my pen plotter. Not directly. I was the interface between the two machines. Claude Code produced SVG files that I plotted with my pen plotter. With my smartphone, I captured photos that I pasted into the chat, asking what Claude thought about the pictures. Claude produced one drawing and signed it. When asked if it wanted to sell the drawing, it told me that I could sell series of the plot but that I should give half of profits to literacy charities as a way to repay his debt for the "chorus of human voices it never paid".

Ruby Justice Thelot presents a talk at Gray Area asking why there are no new aesthetics emerging in contemporary culture.

According to him, new aesthetics:

• exist in new media
• emerge from synthesis
• require a philosophy
• require search
• require a shared vision of the future

I find this take interesting and inspiring. Especially as it comes in direct support on the common complaints about tech.

1. Popular platforms such as Instagram and Twitter are notoriously difficult to search. AI slop is flooding the google index and it becomes increasingly labor-intensive to find good quality results.
2. The constant focus on hyper-personalization of digital experiences is a massive friction to our ability of sharing a common vision of the future as it makes difficult to even share the same present reality.
3. Geopolitics and product management dominates big tech decisions. Philosophy isn't really on the menu.

A wholesome surf documentary about the Granny Grommets group in West Australia. This group of mature woman find community and belonging through surfing the ocean together.

A French paragliding documentary following someone's traverse across Nepal by paraglider, combining fly-camping through the Himalayas. The route covers major peaks like Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, and Machapuchare, essentially following parts of the Great Himalayan Trail by air. The expedition is done in full autonomy.

I posted about State of the Art. I just found this gem on youtube that shows the original source videos that were sampled and remixed into the demo. The footage includes side-by-side clips from Felix's "Don't You Want Me", Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, and James Bond "License to Kill".