Dolly
Just a few that have come up over the past couple days
Fragments
The closest I'll ever come to blogging.
Extravagant, Too
Collage: New York Times 21 August 2026
I found Friday's New York Times lying on the sidewalk while walking the dog yesterday, so I took it home and cut it up.
In particular, a Van Clief ad with golden birds and a (deservedly) grumpy review of Franz caught my attention.
Dials: play with text masks and congressional testimony transcripts
I made this knob-looking set of text masks over a random selection of text from a transcript of this Congressional AI hearing from last year, while I watched the hearing. It's amazing (but not at all surprising) the extent to which the industry is controlling so much of the narrative around how it is integrated into society. The mask moves at 15 degrees each screenshot, which is just enough to ensure the full circle is revealed by these twelve masks.
Here's each mask, in order, if you'd like to check them out more closely.
Rules for grief
Mid-century starlet with ground chuck and greens
From a 1940s Life and a '90s Wired. All of the greens!
Two collages with kandinsky and various sources
A sketch Kandinsky's "Black Triangle," a weird political cartoon, and linen from a clothing catalogue I didn't ask for
I found this Kandinsky book, Point and Line to Plane, which is all manifesto-y and full of heady ideas about art and geometry.
www.wassilykandinsky.net
Wassily Kandinsky - Point and Line to Plane, 1926
This black-and-white sketch of "Black Triangle" caught my attention.
I didn't try to match the geometry or subtle color composition of the original.
commons.wikimedia.org
Category:Black Triangle - Wassily Kandinsky - Wikimedia Commons
Cut some stuff up, and wound up with this:
I kept working with some of the Kandinsky language, and started with that for this one, which also includes stuff from and '80s Games magazine, this summer's Marine Layer catalog, and a weird political cartoon from an '80s Newsweek.
(The political cartoon, which is worth seeing. Why is that portrait of Lennon there? Are they trolling?)
