The Sanhedrin

Being efficient has its strengths But as an artist. You need periods of “inefficiency.” Read a random book, study a different art form, learn to play music. Newness comes from the overlapping of different passions.

Many lessons from Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game but here’s the one that sticks out the most. Art and knowledge is a treasure, but you need to create for yourself in order to realize its true power.

Worry isn’t dangerous because it blows up suddenly, it’s dangerous because it suffocates slowly.

There’s always doom around new tech. Until now, it’s a net positive. It’s only made our world better. It’s good to keep in mind when seeing the conversations around AI.

It’s important to remind yourself, as an artist, your duty is to continue the hard way. While the NPC’s let their clawbots run their TikTok channels to chase views. the filmmaker continues to shoot, edit, reshoot, until it fits the vision. Art requires the “human” (hard) way

St. Valentine

Exodus 4 God called Moses and Moses gave excuses. Like “Im not ready, I can’t speak well, I stutter” God said “it doesn’t matter. Go! And I’ll be with you” Too many of us are waiting and getting “ready.” GO

making a list of things ai can't replace: - taste - experience - parenthood - loyalty - courage - intuition - empathy - vulnerability - love - wisdom - trust - companionship

The irony of thinking Art has to be useless to remain Art is that the argument is useless. It’s word-thinking, which leads nowhere.

Jesus’ words before death. “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” Death ends (your) life but blooms it for generations. Depending on how you lived. Great challenge.

One of the best aspects of the internet is how it connects creators around the world. Even more fun when you see people create in real time and “ship the work” before it’s finalized. Allowing for feedback in real time. Really cool product, JC

The creatives always need permission from finance people, never the other way around. Creativity can’t be proved with numbers, so new ideas are the first to get cut.

ARKETYPE, the new collection from AIREI releasing Friday. Had so much fun with this one

“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path.” – Joseph Campbell

New collection for AIREI, new website launched. Been working on this for the last 9 months and I’m really happy with what we’ve built.