What is Art?

When photography first appeared, painters didn’t celebrate. They panicked. Suddenly, a machine could capture reality with a precision no human hand could match. No need to master anatomy for years, no need to understand light through endless trial and error, no need to mix pigments until your fingers carried the memory of color. A camera could do in seconds what took painters decades to approximate. … Continue reading What is Art?

Video killed the Radio Star

Video Renaissance

It feels like one of those moments when you hear “video killed the radio star”. Except this time, no radio died. Video was reborn. In the span of days, two launches reshaped what video even means. Synthesia 3.0 unveiled video agents, lifelike avatars, AI copilots, and interactive courses—video not as a clip but as a system. Then Sam Altman announced Sora 2, describing it as … Continue reading Video Renaissance

From Dial-Up to GPT-5

How the AI Moment Rhymes with the Internet’s Dawn Or Does it? Going back for the summer to Spain to visit family, I found myself in my mom’s basement—dust motes in the sunbeams, the faint smell of cardboard and old paper, and boxes labeled in my younger handwriting. In one, under envelopes of old photos from my photo-journalistic period and the detritus of a pre-cloud … Continue reading From Dial-Up to GPT-5