Radical Hot-Take on AI
Veo makes a moment in my handmade journal come to life. I make the art and the photograph with my sensibilities, and AI takes me higher in under a minute. Did not see this coming. Or I did. I've seen this pattern before, anyway. I'm of sufficient age to have lived through the Digital Revolution in the early 1990s. I was an old-school graphic designer in New York when the consumer Macintosh hit the field hard. I went from pasting up waxed galleys of linotype output onto cyan-blue layout grids to Photoshop v.2 image editing and Quark page layouts overnight. Back then, the designers and graphic artists were shitting their pants over the new Digital Tools and what they would mean to their business. Oh, how the dinosaurs roared over how inferior the digital results were to their hand-inked logos or what-have-you. I once had a nasty phone call with one of these hand-inkers who was asking me to pay him double to revise one of his babies per the client's requests. He said he'...
