Tootfinder

live the mystery - creative living as solution https://muz4now.com/2016/live-mystery-creative-living-solution/

live the mystery - creative living as solution
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Какво е Creative Commons? - Петър Тушков
https://petertoushkov.eu/paper-books/kakvo-e-creative-commons

Какво е Creative Commons? - Петър Тушков
Наскоро публикувах моя български превод на „Приключенията на Алиса в Страната на чудесата“ под условията на договора Криейтив Комънс и имам усещането, че може би трябва да поговорим какво означават тези две думи.

LitBench: A Benchmark and Dataset for Reliable Evaluation of Creative Writing
Daniel Fein, Sebastian Russo, Violet Xiang, Kabir Jolly, Rafael Rafailov, Nick Haber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00769

LitBench: A Benchmark and Dataset for Reliable Evaluation of Creative Writing
Evaluating creative writing generated by large language models (LLMs) remains challenging because open-ended narratives lack ground truths. Without performant automated evaluation methods, off-the-shelf (OTS) language models are employed as zero-shot judges, yet their reliability is unclear in this context. In pursuit of robust evaluation for creative writing, we introduce LitBench, the first standardized benchmark and paired dataset for creative writing verification, comprising a held-out test…

About bloody time! Should never have happened.
In a statement, Creative Australia CEO Adrian Collette apologised for the impact of the board's decision on Sabsabi, Dagostino and the wider arts community.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/kha

Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at 2026 Venice Biennale
After controversially and suddenly withdrawing Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino from the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has announced it has reversed its decision.

Kein Verbot vorgesehen: Creative Commons arbeitet an Lizenzen fürs KI-Training
Creative Commons will dafür sorgen, dass Verantwortliche für Datensätze signalisieren können, was sie dafür erwarten, wenn damit ein KI-Modell trainiert wird.

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives
https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives – The Creative Independent
Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert discusses growing up in the Seattle arts scene, dealing with music industry hierarchy, and imagining the ideal conditions for creativity.

Das Adobe Foto-Abo ist krass teuer geworden. Man kann dieses zwar nach wie vor 23% reduziert bei Amazon kaufen, aber trotz der Reduzierung kostet es inzwischen 192,99- €. Letztes Jahr habe ich nur die hälfte bezahlt und wenn man das Abo bei Adobe einfach in die Verlängerung laufen lässt, kostet es jetzt 249,99- €.
Pro Tipp: Unbedingt reduziert über Amazon kaufen! Das spart einem immerhin fast 60,- €.

Have you ever watched a @… video? They’re incredibly well-crafted, full of meaningful motion and creative ideas...
and we’ll chat with the man himself this Wednesday to find out how they come together!
Spoiler: it’s fascinating stuff that you’re very familiar with ;)

Ich wurde gebeten, meine Infografik "Kultur einer Mensch-Maschine-Kollaboration gemeinsam einüben" unter einer creativecommons-Lizenz zur allgemeinen Verfügung zu stellen.
Sie ist jetzt lizensiert als CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/…

Hey @…, how’s this for a CC signal for AI, you clowns?
🖕
https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25

Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons
CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons in the age of AI. The development of CC signals represents a major step forward…

Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused for training AI models (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/creative…

Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem | TechCrunch
CC signals will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused by machines, as in the case of training AI models.

“As is the case with reading and writing a language, code is one of those things where if you don’t use it, you lose it. Early studies indicate that humans who use A.I. could become less creative over time.”
Early studies link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3706598.3714198

LensCraft: Your Professional Virtual Cinematographer
Zahra Dehghanian, Morteza Abolghasemi, Hossein Azizinaghsh, Amir Vahedi, Hamid Beigy, Hamid R. Rabiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00988

LensCraft: Your Professional Virtual Cinematographer
Digital creators, from indie filmmakers to animation studios, face a persistent bottleneck: translating their creative vision into precise camera movements. Despite significant progress in computer vision and artificial intelligence, current automated filming systems struggle with a fundamental trade-off between mechanical execution and creative intent. Crucially, almost all previous works simplify the subject to a single point-ignoring its orientation and true volume-severely limiting spatial …

Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused for training AI models (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/creative…

Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem | TechCrunch
CC signals will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused by machines, as in the case of training AI models.

Morabo Morojele’s creative career was remarkable.
What wove his three identities together – musician, development worker and writer – was his conscious, committed pan-Africanism
and his master craftsman’s skill with sound:
the sound of his drums and the sound of his words as they rose off the page.
Through his books, and his (far too few) recordings, that beauty lives with us still.
Robala ka khotso (Sleep in peace)

Morabo Morojele: The social and political drum beats of the Lesotho jazz musician
The jazz drummer, novelist and development scholar died on May 20.

#mosterdon candidate?
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/753282065327357952/the-creative-act-is-not-performed-by-the-artist?source=share

An amazing read- 'You are both the poison and the antidote' (and huge thanks to @… for tipping me off to it): https://www.printmag.co…

A Broad View: You are both the poison and the antidote – PRINT Magazine
Monica Danielle on discovering wholeness in the American countryside.

Creative Commons 4.0 Has Arrived on Flickr! (Flickr, 18 Jun 2025)
#MediaLit

Anyone know if #Helldivers2 creative director Johan Pilestedt gotten any better in his public statements since misunderstanding DEI and apparently spouting anti-immigrant sentiment? https://www.

Arrowhead Director: “[DEI] doesn't add to the game experience, it detracts. And games should be a pure pursuit of amazing moments”
Before twitter changed to hide people's likes, I took a deep dive through this dude's stuff and yeah, this outcome was always only a matter of time. Pilestedt had liked a bunch of posts over the last few years that were anti-immigration/borderline xenophobic etc. He cleaned up his feed a bit...

Creative Commons launches “CC Signals”. Quote:
“TL;DR – What are CC signals?
“CC signals are a proposed framework to help content stewards express how they want their works used in AI training—emphasizing reciprocity, recognition, and sustainability in machine reuse. They aim to preserve open knowledge by encouraging responsible AI behavior without limiting innovation.”

CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons
TL;DR – What are CC signals? CC signals are a proposed framework to help content stewards express how they want their works used in AI training—emphasizing reciprocity, recognition, and sustainability in machine reuse. They aim to preserve open knowledge by encouraging responsible AI behavior without limiting innovation. 💗Love it! How can I show my support?…

Author Michelle Tea on making art your main focus (and not taking your day job too seriously)
https://thecreativeindependent.…

Author Michelle Tea on making art your main focus (and not taking your day job too seriously) – The Creative Independent
Author and publisher Michelle Tea discusses surviving as an artist, building community, and staying true to your voice

Learning Perceptually Relevant Temporal Envelope Morphing
Satvik Dixit, Sungjoon Park, Chris Donahue, Laurie M. Heller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01588 htt…

Learning Perceptually Relevant Temporal Envelope Morphing
Temporal envelope morphing, the process of interpolating between the amplitude dynamics of two audio signals, is an emerging problem in generative audio systems that lacks sufficient perceptual grounding. Morphing of temporal envelopes in a perceptually intuitive manner should enable new methods for sound blending in creative media and for probing perceptual organization in psychoacoustics. However, existing audio morphing techniques often fail to produce intermediate temporal envelopes when in…

Neural Langevin Machine: a local asymmetric learning rule can be creative
Zhendong Yu, Weizhong Huang, Haiping Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23546 https…

Neural Langevin Machine: a local asymmetric learning rule can be creative
Fixed points of recurrent neural networks can be leveraged to store and generate information. These fixed points can be captured by the Boltzmann-Gibbs measure, which leads to neural Langevin dynamics that can be used for sampling and learning a real dataset. We call this type of generative model neural Langevin machine, which is interpretable due to its analytic form of distribution and is simple to train. Moreover, the learning process is derived as a local asymmetric plasticity rule, bearing…

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: We picked up a whole flock of 'em. But we should outrun them in seven hours.
JENNA: It's almost too easy, isn't it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/133 B7B5

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Creative Commons jumps the shark.
*smdh*
#AI #CreativeCommons https://mastodon.social/@creativeco…

You Don’t Have to Sell Your Art to Call Yourself an Artist
https://www.artiststrong.com/you-dont-have-to-sell-your-art-to-call-yourself-an-ar…

You Don’t Have to Sell Your Art to Call Yourself an Artist
One of the most commonly search phrases when you look at Google or Pinterest is: How To Sell Art How, How To Sell Art work How To Sell Art on Etsy How to sell Art on Instagram? How to sell art onli…

6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan https://theconversation.com/6-ways-ai-can-partner-with-us-in-creative-inquiry-inspired-by-media-theorist-marsha…

6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan
By engaging consciously with technology, students learn to use AI critically and creatively — without surrendering their agency.

How performers on OnlyFans and other adult sites are using LLMs for creative inspiration, amid a rise of adult-specific LLMs like sex worker chatbot GPTease (Lux Alptraum/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/692286/ai-bots-…

LLMs are optimizing the adult industry
Large language models are helping OnlyFans creators run single-person production studios.

Looked at @…'s Signals page (https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/) again.
I think this…

CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons
TL;DR – What are CC signals? CC signals are a proposed framework to help content stewards express how they want their works used in AI training—emphasizing reciprocity, recognition, and sustainability in machine reuse. They aim to preserve open knowledge by encouraging responsible AI behavior without limiting innovation. 💗Love it! How can I show my support?…

Shape2Animal: Creative Animal Generation from Natural Silhouettes
Quoc-Duy Tran, Anh-Tuan Vo, Dinh-Khoi Vo, Tam V. Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran, Trung-Nghia Le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20616

Shape2Animal: Creative Animal Generation from Natural Silhouettes
Humans possess a unique ability to perceive meaningful patterns in ambiguous stimuli, a cognitive phenomenon known as pareidolia. This paper introduces Shape2Animal framework to mimics this imaginative capacity by reinterpreting natural object silhouettes, such as clouds, stones, or flames, as plausible animal forms. Our automated framework first performs open-vocabulary segmentation to extract object silhouette and interprets semantically appropriate animal concepts using vision-language model…

Examples of creative data visualizations, mostly ggplot: #ggplot

GitHub - tashapiro/tanya-data-viz: Personal data visualization side projects.
Personal data visualization side projects. Contribute to tashapiro/tanya-data-viz development by creating an account on GitHub.

Exploring Classical Piano Performance Generation with Expressive Music Variational AutoEncoder
Jing Luo, Xinyu Yang, Jie Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01582

Exploring Classical Piano Performance Generation with Expressive Music Variational AutoEncoder
The creativity of classical music arises not only from composers who craft the musical sheets but also from performers who interpret the static notations with expressive nuances. This paper addresses the challenge of generating classical piano performances from scratch, aiming to emulate the dual roles of composer and pianist in the creative process. We introduce the Expressive Compound Word (ECP) representation, which effectively captures both the metrical structure and expressive nuances of c…

#ScribesAndMakers May 30 - Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
Spark! Our teacher held poetry Fridays, he invited authors to read for us, he allowed creativity. The subjects mingled a bit, but I learned a lot more when I had fun, I didn't even notice that we were being taught history or whatever at the same time.

Musician YATTA on going towards the unknown https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-yatta-on-going-towards-…

Musician YATTA on going towards the unknown – The Creative Independent
Musician YATTA (aka ricky sallay zoker) discusses not playing shows after an album release, following their curiosity, and seeking slow and supportive environments to see the work through.

I love this statement that @… wrote and sent to me a while ago:
"A creative discomfort with ontologies is a really good thing. As soon as someone
tries to essentialise something that is aesthetic, whether we're understanding it as
culturally situated or as relating to some kind of innate mystery in our senses, it shuts
d…

I randomly checked out the Neuro-sama stream. At first, the two AI characters’ free-association banter felt legitimately creative and funny. But then Vedal (human) tried to get one of them to do something specific, and it repeatedly misunderstood the simple instructions, breaking the spell.
I guess that shows the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs today.
I post about AI way too much.

Mary Edith Barnes became aware of the work of the Glaswegian psychiatrist and countercultural figure, Dr RD (Ronnie) Laing,
author of "The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness "(1960).
This led her to Kingsley Hall, a radical therapeutic community in Bow in East London.
Established in 1965 and headed up by Laing, it was an unconventional centre where mental-health professionals and those experiencing mental illness lived together. Drug-taking …

MARY BARNES
First published: Summer 2025 For English artist Mary Barnes, it was psychosis, radical treatment and an unorthodox relationship with her doctor that began her creative journey Mary Edith Barnes was born in Portsmouth, on England’s south coast, in 1923. She trained as a nurse, later joining the British Army and working

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Tianrun Qiu, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21962

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Generative AI assistants have been widely used in front-end programming. However, besides code writing, developers often encounter the need to generate animation effects. As novices in creative design without the assistance of professional designers, developers typically face difficulties in describing, designing, and implementing desired animations. To address this issue, we conducted a formative study (N=6) to identify the challenges that code developers face when dealing with animation desig…

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: We picked up a whole flock of 'em. But we should outrun them in seven hours.
JENNA: It's almost too easy, isn't it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/133 B7B5

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

"Summer Faux Postage Stamps" #basteln

Creative Commons, eine der ignoriertesten Lizenzen der Welt mit Sitz in Mountain View, diskutiert AI Scraper systematisch zu legitimieren. In other News sind die Koksvorräte in Mountain View auf historischem Tiefstand.
#CreativeCommons #CCSignals

The writing that Creative Commons is also "AI"-pilled has been on the wall for a while, and here we are are, wasting time and money on some useless signalling to "AI" scrapers that already don't care for any existing limitations…
https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-ariel-courage-on-ne…

Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished – The Creative Independent
Author Ariel Courage discusses hyper-individualism, MFAs, and writing as a social act.

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00035 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

MiZero: The Shadowy Defender Against Text Style Infringements
In-Context Learning (ICL) and efficient fine-tuning methods significantly enhanced the efficiency of applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. However, they also raise concerns about the imitation and infringement of personal creative data. Current methods for data copyright protection primarily focuses on content security but lacks effectiveness in protecting the copyrights of text styles. In this paper, we introduce a novel implicit zero-watermarking scheme, namely MiZero. Th…

Ако сте наблизо, отбийте се да се запознаем от 12 до 13 ч. днес на Панаира на книгата, щанд на изд. Ерго 🙂
If you happen to be in Sofia and nearby today, come and say hi. I'll be signing books and talking Creative Commons at the Sofia Book Fair from noon to 1 pm (Ergo Books publishing house) 😎

Shape-for-Motion: Precise and Consistent Video Editing with 3D Proxy
Yuhao Liu, Tengfei Wang, Fang Liu, Zhenwei Wang, Rynson W. H. Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22432

Shape-for-Motion: Precise and Consistent Video Editing with 3D Proxy
Recent advances in deep generative modeling have unlocked unprecedented opportunities for video synthesis. In real-world applications, however, users often seek tools to faithfully realize their creative editing intentions with precise and consistent control. Despite the progress achieved by existing methods, ensuring fine-grained alignment with user intentions remains an open and challenging problem. In this work, we present Shape-for-Motion, a novel framework that incorporates a 3D proxy for …

Fixed-Point Traps and Identity Emergence in Educational Feedback Systems
Faruk Alpay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21038 https://arxiv.o…

Fixed-Point Traps and Identity Emergence in Educational Feedback Systems
This paper presents a formal categorical proof that exam-driven educational systems obstruct identity emergence and block creative convergence. Using the framework of Alpay Algebra II and III, we define Exam-Grade Collapse Systems (EGCS) as functorial constructs where learning dynamics $φ$ are recursively collapsed by evaluative morphisms $E$. We prove that under such collapse regimes, no nontrivial fixed-point algebra $μ_φ$ can exist, hence learner identity cannot stabilize. This creates a …

Two rather different implementations of a V10 engined car, today at the Down Royal Motor show.
There was a nice selection of cars on display, and as usual at these things, some gems in the visitor car park as well. https://timfoster.smugmug.com/Events/Down-Royal-Motor-Show-20…

Down Royal Motor Show 2025 - timfoster
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ICE Agents Told To Get "Creative" And "Push Envelope" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/ice-agents-told-to-get-creative-and-push-envelope/

#ScribesAndMakers May 30 - Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
Spark! Our teacher held poetry Fridays, he invited authors to read for us, he allowed creativity. The subjects mingled a bit, but I learned a lot more when I had fun, I didn't even notice that we were being taught history or whatever at the same time.

Statement by Dean Greg Sterling.
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Like many around the world, I am deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis. I am grateful, too, for all he did to advance currents of Christianity that are too seldom seen today...
Read the rest https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15KhqHmUk

Yale Divinity School
Statement by Dean Greg Sterling. ------ Like many around the world, I am deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis. I am grateful, too, for all he did to advance currents of Christianity that...

The Edit By Engaged Creative
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

90% of the tracks I’ve made in the last 2 months or so have been bland shite. I’m looking forward to a change / some “good creative happening” soon! (Don’t know if anyone can relate to such sudden and then long lasting dips.)

Woohoo new @… podcast! @… introduces me to a great resource: https://mobygrati…

mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects
Free music resource designed to empower creative projects by students, non-profits, indie filmmakers, musicians and more.

#GitHub #Copilot coding agent in public preview
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-…

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
-Carl Jung
#acting #coaching

I’m off all next week, so tomorrow will consist of me doing all-the-work-whilst-crying

Munich -> Aachen -> Dutch Coast -> Mannheim
Heading into an exciting week with director meetings, creative button making with the team, beach with the co-founders, and finally, the EconData workshop in Mannheim.

Malicious earworms and useful memes, how the far-right surfs on TikTok audio trends
Marloes Geboers, Marcus B\"osch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20695 h…

Malicious earworms and useful memes, how the far-right surfs on TikTok audio trends
With its features of remix, TikTok is the designated platform for meme-making and dissemination. Creative combinations of video, emoji, and filters allow for an endless stream of memes and trends animated by sound. The platform has focused its moderation on upholding physical safety, hence investing in the detection of harmful challenges. In response to the DSA, TikTok implemented opt-outs for personalized feeds and features allowing users to report illegal content. At the same time, the platfo…

Culture Minister Chris Bryant says UK's high-end TV tax credits are very competitive with the rest of the world, after calls to increase them from 25% to 40% (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/chris-bryant-down…

UK Culture Minister Chris Bryant Downplays Likelihood Of Improvements To High-End TV Tax Credit
Chris Bryant has talked not improving the UK High-End TV Tax Credit, Netflix & Donald Trump tariffs as he unveils creative sector plan.

Co-Creative Learning via Metropolis-Hastings Interaction between Humans and AI
Ryota Okumura, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15468

Co-Creative Learning via Metropolis-Hastings Interaction between Humans and AI
We propose co-creative learning as a novel paradigm where humans and AI, i.e., biological and artificial agents, mutually integrate their partial perceptual information and knowledge to construct shared external representations, a process we interpret as symbol emergence. Unlike traditional AI teaching based on unilateral knowledge transfer, this addresses the challenge of integrating information from inherently different modalities. We empirically test this framework using a human-AI interacti…

Thoughts from the @braiduk.bsky.social event thus far (shaped through my own interests and thinking)
People's desire to shape AI in society was very present (but I missed a sense of grassroots work eg AI4LAM in GLAMs, other equivalents)
Science fiction and other creative expressions can help society think through potential models for AI
AI is an extension, intensification of existing technologies
Clearly tensions, temptations between values and efficiencies, which lin…

'Tariff engineering' is making a comeback as businesses employ creative ways to skirt higher duties (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/businesses-tweak-products-to-qualify-for-lowter-tariffed-categories-.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p34#a250618p34

A Gentle Introduction To Ncurses For The Terminally Impatient
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/a-gentle-introduction-to-ncurses-for-the-terminally-impatient/

A Gentle Introduction To Ncurses For The Terminally Impatient
Considered by many to be just a dull output for sequential text, the command-line terminal is a veritable canvas to the creative software developer. With the cursor as the brush, entire graphical u…

The value of human and machine in machine-generated creative contents
Weina Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17808 https://arxiv.org/pd…

"In this TED talk, Jason Fried, founder of 37 signals, discusses how people get work done. When asked where do you go when you really need to get something done, almost no-one says: the office (unless it is early in the morning or late at night)? This is especially for creative people and knowledge workers..."

#ScribesAndMakers May 29
What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavour this month?
I dared to read an excerpt from my WIP loud, I am terrified of reading for others. But I did it. It didn't suck.

Singer-songwriter Nemahsis on the importance of being uncompromising
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/singer…

Singer-songwriter Nemahsis on the importance of being uncompromising – The Creative Independent
Singer-songwriter Nemahsis discusses breaking through despite hardships, freedom of expression, and the power of building a genuine community online

"We honestly should rename GIMP: It's a bad name. | think a new and better acronym would substantially improve brand recognition.
Free Utility for Creative Kits, Brushes, Overlays, & Imaging:
FUCKBOI"
https://lemmy.ca/comment/16863046

GIMP - Lemmy.ca

Preparing for tomorrow's No Kings protests?
✅ 54 Anti-Trump Protest Sign Ideas for the No Kings Protest
https://wildingout.substack.com/p/54-anti-trump-protest-sign-ideas

54 Anti-Trump Protest Sign Ideas for the No Kings Protest
Fun signs ideas that are creative as they are hilarious

when ur a soulless vapid husk who's "creative" work is just leeching off everyone more thoughtful than u but u have FANTASTIC taste in what u steal

(Strange) gamma evaluations
Wadim Zudilin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20289 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20289

(Strange) gamma evaluations
We review "creative" strategies of closed-form evaluations of hypergeometric functions.

What has ... DRM (?!) ever done for us?
https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/114546912959367470

I'm back at DumbTube to look up Keyoxide tutorials and I can do something about it this time because this video is Creative Commons Attribution 3!
Only problem is I would need PeerTube I think unless I want to really trash the resolution...
12 Megabytes...ok...no, it's fine...
Mastodon accepted my upload!
https://www.

Bei #Cyberport hab ich heute für 388 € eine Jahreslizenz für die Adobe Creative Cloud gekauft.
Der Code bleibt gültig, bis ihr ihn einlöst, ihr könnt also das normale Abo bis zum Ende des Jahres ggf. weiterlaufen lassen, dann kündigen. Und dann neu buchen und mit dem Code bezahlen.

Bei #Cyberport hab ich heute für 388 € eine Jahreslizenz für die Adobe Creative Cloud gekauft.
Der Code bleibt gültig, bis ihr ihn einlöst, ihr könnt also das normale Abo bis zum Ende des Jahres ggf. weiterlaufen lassen, dann kündigen. Und dann neu buchen und mit dem Code bezahlen.

ThinkSound: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models for Audio Generation and Editing
Huadai Liu, Jialei Wang, Kaicheng Luo, Wen Wang, Qian Chen, Zhou Zhao, Wei Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21448

ThinkSound: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models for Audio Generation and Editing
While end-to-end video-to-audio generation has greatly improved, producing high-fidelity audio that authentically captures the nuances of visual content remains challenging. Like professionals in the creative industries, such generation requires sophisticated reasoning about items such as visual dynamics, acoustic environments, and temporal relationships. We present \textbf{ThinkSound}, a novel framework that leverages Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to enable stepwise, interactive audio gener…

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-demian-licht-on-learning-to…

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow – The Creative Independent
Musician Demian Licht discusses the feminine energy she's inspired by, teaching Ableton as a woman in Latin America, and identifying as an outsider in the music scene.

Inspired by the ever-creative, innovative and connected guru / Yoda of #edtech, @… Alan Levine, I started by own Pinboard collection of bookmarks:
https://

"California rolls on with electric trucks, despite Trump’s roadblocks"
#US #USA #America #EV

California rolls on with electric trucks, despite Trump’s roadblocks
California remains committed to zero-emissions trucking. But Trump's hostility to the idea means it will require creative policymaking.

Defining the Game Producer: A Mapping of Key Characteristics and Differentiators of the Professional Behind Digital Game Production
Rafael C. Lopes, Danilo M. Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14409

Defining the Game Producer: A Mapping of Key Characteristics and Differentiators of the Professional Behind Digital Game Production
Introduction: As digital games grow in complexity, the role of the Game Producer becomes increasingly relevant for aligning creative, technical, and business dimensions. Objective: This study aimed to identify and map the main characteristics, skills, and competencies that define the Digital Game Producer profile. Methodology: A qualitative investigation was conducted with 11 semi-structured interviews, analyzed through Grounded Theory to build categories grounded in professional practice. Resu…

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A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
Saloni Singh, Koen Hndriks, Drik Heylen, Kim Baraka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21333 https://

A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
The co creativity community is making significant progress in developing more sophisticated and tailored systems to support and enhance human creativity. Design considerations from prior work can serve as a valuable and efficient foundation for future systems. To support this effort, we conducted a systematic literature review of 62 papers on co-creative systems. These papers cover a diverse range of applications, including visual arts, design, and writing, where the AI acts not just as a tool …

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
-Cynthia Heimel
#acting #coaching

#scribesandmakers May 26. Describe your creative workspace(s).
Chaotic, comfortable, unkempt and always loaded with a thermos with coffee.

Extended Creativity: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Human-AI Creative Relations
Andrea Gaggioli, Sabrina Bartolotta, Andrea Ubaldi, Katusha Gerardini, Eleonora Diletta Sarcinella, Alice Chirico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10249

Extended Creativity: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Human-AI Creative Relations
Artificial Intelligence holds significant potential to enhance human creativity. However, achieving this vision requires a clearer understanding of how such enhancement can be effectively realized. Adopting the perspective of distributed creativity, we identify three primary modes through which AI can contribute to creative processes: Support, where AI acts as a tool; Synergy, where AI and humans collaborate in complementary ways; and Symbiosis, where human and AI cognition become so integrated…

#scribesandmakers May 26. Describe your creative workspace(s).
Chaotic, comfortable, unkempt and always loaded with a thermos with coffee.

How ad agency WPP is embracing AI tools, despite the threat to its creative business, as its stock falls 50% in seven years; its WPP Open platform has 50K users (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4d1d939c-23e3-491f-9a5e-58532fdc82cb…

WPP races to harness AI before the technology kills its business
Chief executive Mark Read pushed to adopt artificial intelligence but is set to exit with the share price languishing

Home and dry now - there was a bigger turn out than you'd have thought, but at least we all got home in time to watch Le Mans 😃
A few photos at https://timfoster.smugmug.com/Events/Stormont-Car-Show-2025

Stormont Car Show 2025 - timfoster
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Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
- When I broke my ankle last year, I had no idea how much it would affect me -
#creativity #inspiration

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Vanity Fair names Vogue creative editorial director Mark Guiducci as its global editorial director, replacing Radhika Jones and starting at the end of June (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/media/va…

Vanity Fair Names Mark Guiducci as Its Top Editor
Mr. Guiducci, 36, fills a role recently vacated by Radhika Jones, who led the magazine for seven years.

Adobe reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.87B, vs. $5.8B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.35B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/ado…

Adobe Posts Strong Outlook, Touting Traction for AI Tools
Adobe Inc. gave a strong sales outlook for the current quarter, quieting investor anxieties that the leader in creative software is falling behind in a competition with AI-focused upstarts.

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
Roi Alfassi, Angelora Cooper, Zoe Mitchell, Mary Calabro, Orit Shaer, Osnat Mokryn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18706

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
The integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into creative communities, like fanfiction, is reshaping how stories are created, shared, and valued. This study investigates the perceptions of 157 active fanfiction members, both readers and writers, regarding AI-generated content in fanfiction. Our research explores the impact of GenAI on community dynamics, examining how AI affects the participatory and collaborative nature of these spaces. The findings reveal responses ranging from cautious acceptan…

YouTube releases its 2024 US Impact Report, which says YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed $55B to US GDP in 2024 and supported 490K full-time jobs (Alexandra Veitch/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/2024-us-youtube-impact-re…

2024 U.S. YouTube Impact Report
Learn how YouTube empowers creators and fuels the US economy. Our new report highlights a $55B US GDP contribution and 490K jobs supported, showcasing two decades of shared growth and creator success.

#ScribesAndMakers 5/22. Which creative activities do you engage in (almost) every day?
Writing, since it's my day job as well as my hobby, my passion, and my greatest interest.

LLM-enhanced Interactions in Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing with Older Adults
Marianne Bossema, Somaya Ben Allouch, Aske Plaat, Rob Saunders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18711

LLM-enhanced Interactions in Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing with Older Adults
The goal of this study is to identify factors that support and enhance older adults' creative experiences in human-robot co-creativity. Because the research into the use of robots for creativity support with older adults remains underexplored, we carried out an exploratory case study. We took a participatory approach and collaborated with professional art educators to design a course Drawing with Robots for adults aged 65 and over. The course featured human-human and human-robot drawing activit…

#ScribesAndMakers 5/22. Which creative activities do you engage in (almost) every day?
Writing, since it's my day job as well as my hobby, my passion, and my greatest interest.

PromptCanvas: Composable Prompting Workspaces Using Dynamic Widgets for Exploration and Iteration in Creative Writing
Rifat Mehreen Amin, Oliver Hans K\"uhle, Daniel Buschek, Andreas Butz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03741

PromptCanvas: Composable Prompting Workspaces Using Dynamic Widgets for Exploration and Iteration in Creative Writing
We introduce PromptCanvas, a concept that transforms prompting into a composable, widget-based experience on an infinite canvas. Users can generate, customize, and arrange interactive widgets representing various facets of their text, offering greater control over AI-generated content. PromptCanvas allows widget creation through system suggestions, user prompts, or manual input, providing a flexible environment tailored to individual needs. This enables deeper engagement with the creative proce…

Crowdsourcing eHMI Designs: A Participatory Approach to Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Communication
Ronald Cumbal, Didem Gurdur Broo, Ginevra Castellano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18605

Crowdsourcing eHMI Designs: A Participatory Approach to Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Communication
As autonomous vehicles become more integrated into shared human environments, effective communication with road users is essential for ensuring safety. While previous research has focused on developing external Human-Machine Interfaces (eHMIs) to facilitate these interactions, we argue that involving users in the early creative stages can help address key challenges in the development of this technology. To explore this, our study adopts a participatory, crowd-sourced approach to gather user-ge…