Archive - On Looking

The wisdom of hot men making shitty art

💪 A look at the heroes of a post Algorithmic art world

Jul 23 •

May 2024

The AI doppelgänger experiment – Part 1: The training

👯 On training my own AI to steal illustrators’ styles

May 15 •

April 2024

I wrote an article for It's Nice That

Spoiler alert: It's about labour

Apr 29 •

Letters from the field #5 - Season 2 announcement + Call for participation

A new season of research, and how to participate in it

Apr 19 •

Total Eclipse of the Heart

A photo essay about the cosmic, the social, and the cognitive

Apr 8 •

March 2024

Thread: How to lose your style?

👀 Hello dear On Lookers! 👀

Mar 26 •

Letters from the field #4 - Work Work Work

Thinking about work in an illustrator studio in Brooklyn

Mar 18 •

Image-Event — Kate Middleton's photo

Images, truth, and post-AI ways of seeing

Mar 12 •

January 2024

Thread: Quitting illustration

Hello everyone, A comment on my last letter brought up the question of the sustainability of a career in illustration. This echoed many observat…

Jan 15 •

Letter from the field #3 - The anthropology of illustration

🌴 Reflections on 6 months spent with the creatives of New York

Jan 10 •

December 2023

5 books on images, the people who make them, and the people they make

A reading list for a creative end of year

Dec 9, 2023 •

November 2023

A union for illustrators | An interview with Rebecca Blake

✊ A discussion on artists' labor unions, systemic solutions to AI, and the future of the creative industry

Nov 18, 2023 •

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