First comes the awe: can you believe this? Look at this video of a man running backwards on a treadmill!

Then, the panic: given art's decidedly specific turn to "man in sweats running backwards on treadmill" motifs, will art as we know it become obsolete?

Absolutely not.

Culture, or Art, is the response to society. The deviation.

As Kristoffer Ørum, artist and self-proclaimed ‘misuser of technology,’ pointed out in a RADAR interview, as LLMs become “very good at drawing things that look like something,” humans have the opportunity to push in the opposite direction, reviving more absurdist and abstract forms of art — much like how the expressionists thrived after the advent ... See more

I’m interested in this little piece of design history because today I think history is on the brink of repeating itself. Now that we have DALL·E 2 (and other AI image generators), a huge portion of visual vibes will become democratized. What Unsplash did to photography, DALL·E 2 will do to illustrations, 3D renderings, and eventually all visual sty... See more