Preliminary conceptualization for THE SOLAR GRID video game is looking good. There's a high probability we'll be exploring things that were only touched upon in the [already elaborate] graphic novel, building upon the book rather than copying it as is. Which is exactly how a video game adaptation ought to be in my opinion.
Travels lined up for Amman (workshop) and Qatar (lecture + workshop + class visits) next month, which will cross out about 2 weeks of studio time for me, so I'm trying to get as much work done as I can in the meantime.
Getty Images is filing for bankruptcy. Their model was extortionist anyway, so fuck 'em, but this may just mark the first big profile blow to a field as a direct result of the emergence of AI.
I have yet to read any Karl Ove Knausgård, mainly because I am not typically attracted to the kind of narcissism that compels someone to write so indulgently about their own life, but interviews with him keeping popping up in my feeds and I am now finally intrigued. This Vice interview with Knausgard is very good.
Generally speaking, I oscillate between two modes of aspirational existence: Working daily with a dynamic team in a cool-as-fuck space, and being the hermit at the end of the world who lets out a signal every once in a while. The latter is in fact what has dominated most of my life, but this video of Margaret Howell's operation makes the former look sexy as hell.
Inbox 96, RSS 343. Dishes and laundry have also piled up. Not cool.