S Cearley @scearley@cybre.space

I am a former artificial intelligence philosopher. As much as academia is for me a PhD was not. These days I am using my past experience in poetry and AI writing to create concrete poetry.

You can see all of my/the computer's work at http://exampleurl.xyz -
The "quarterly reports" are PDFs of every concrete poem of mine posted online in the three months stated.

I post concrete poems on Masto (and birdsite) every Thursday using the hashtag #concretepoetry in the fediverse.

#introduction

i have to be at 600 dpi minimum just to feel anything

Cover of the Now: Michael Leonhart Orchestra, "Big Bottom / Lonely Woman" https://youtu.be/OyQoieQRy3Q

il faut accepter la personnalité comme elle est. il ne faut jamais regretter qu'un poète est saoul, il faut regretter que les saouls ne soient pas toujours poètes

-wilde

Reading about absinthe I found this nugget about victorian-era publisher Leonard Smithers:

"He graduated from absinthe to chlorodyne (a mixture containing chloroform, morphine, ether, and ethanol)."

no wonder he died from gastric trouble and cirrhosis of the liver.

and then this one popped up

another morsel from the poetry generator

I covet Jack Hues' (on the right) suit in Wang Chung's "Let's Go" video. A very rare GOOD 80s suit.

I'm back on quilting my poems and it's looking SO good. Especially now that I've figured out a good way to get the pieces "cut" and "patched".

"It is too easy to see people as laughable or pathetic, absurd or contemptible. This was a convenient way of masking the painful impact they could have upon my life." -Nicholas Freeling

new word learned: rambustious

"a 1974 spoken word and concept album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Having_Fun_with_Elvis_on_Stage

put THAT in your constrained writing hat and smoke it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den

I thought I would try getting the computer to do some asemic writing and....and it's got a real Ed Emberley vibe.

I made a great poem tonight. Things are alright.

I was going for wicker, but now that I'm here, I'm thinking we can go farther. Deeper. Pricier. I'm thinking from here we can work towards......

Faberge Egg.

this is, as the kids say, extremely my shit

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/itsuo-kobayashi-food-paintings/

Made of rabbit, the "face" is an extended portion of the skin with fur removed and formed into shape.

I applied for a professorship. Today the emails went out. I expected the usual "decided not to go with you" letter.

What I, and presumably every other applicant, got was a leter listing each candidate and why each candidiate was not selected. (Except the one who did get the job obvs)