On constrained serendipity, learning by doing, and whether the system is the art. I’m chatting with Claude, kicking around ideas on building a tool that generates AI images, but without the prompting. I like to start these chats by brain-dumping ideas into it. In this case it’s about auto-generating…
The weather forecast for this weekend doesn’t look too great (at least for where I live in), so why not visit some strange and fun places on the internet?
Here’s something weird I recently found: Wplace. The idea is simple, but powerful: Overlay pixels on top of a world map, then let anybody edit those pixels, one pixel at a time.
The result is fascinating: from simple logos and drawings, through meme imagery and icons to the most complex and artistic pixel drawings. Though the terms of service do forbid the use of bots, I can’t imagine some of the images having really been painted pixel by pixel. There’s a 1 pixel every 30 second throttling, probably to prevent misuse or bots, too.
Some of the stuff is quite breathtaking, some just crude or immature. Kinda like the whole internet.
It reminds me of of the Million Dollar Homepage from 2005, remember?