Mid-month news, with a focus on the weird. Before the paywall, a little bit of Art Brut / Outsider art content. And it’s not even AI. TITAA #76.5: Art Brut and the Squash ClusterTims in Stories - Bullshit Questions - Disorganized Agents - Three.js - WFC - Embeddings
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Art BrutSince it’s the weird issue, I wanted to spend a few words and pics on “Art Brut,” or outsider art. Jean Dubuffet coined the term for people outside the art establishment. He included “art qui comprend à la fois l’art des fous et celui de marginaux de toutes sortes : prisonniers, reclus, mystiques, anarchistes ou révoltés.” (Wikipedia) One of the items that crossed my path the past month was this Open Culture piece on Henry Darger, here claimed “the Most Famous of Outsider Artists,” for having left behind in his one room apartment a legion of collage artworks and journals, including a giant 15K page manuscript book, “The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.” Plus a sequel (set in Chicago?) and a lot of giant mural artwork for the book. Here’s a cropped section from the “official” site:
Like so many “outsider” artists — outside “the art establishment,” or “self-taught,” or even outside society (with all the various sneers and border-keeping involved there): “The author, who wrote himself into the saga as both a savior and betrayer of these child-victims, was himself the real-life victim of a tragic and miserable childhood.” Darger’s sexuality and fixation on naked intersex children are a topic of research, it seems. Coincidentally, I just read a chapter in an old sf novel by Allen Steele, in which a cryogenically frozen space traveller is accidentally awakened before arrival at destination, can’t get the ship to put him back to sleep, and spends 32 years writing a YA novel seemingly starring himself. He also decorates the walls of the ship with murals for the book. (He’s a Prince.) While I was passing through Montpellier this past week, I detoured to their Musée d’Art Brut. I was again struck by the miserable bios of the artists displayed (so often institutionalized), and the great variety of talent from not much to “is this really outsider? why?” Who gets to be an outsider artist in a museum? Is there a level of misery you need to have suffered? Some of these folks went to art schools, too. Like Sabrina Gruss:
“Thus, she invented for her a pedagogy of the "reality next door"—the true one—which, by offering a different look at the world, unveils its truth and offers a chance to grasp it.” — from Sabrina’s bio by her brother?
Welp, on to the news — a day late because of travels. There is less AI creativity tooling than usual (stop cheering), but a lot of other stuff here: 👉 Brain cells playing Doom 👉 Eleusinian mystery drug identified 👉 Sidney Personas 👉 40,000-year-old proto-writing 👉 AI agents forming hierarchies 👉 Bigfoot hunters 👉 Characters named Tim 👉 Met 3D art scans 👉 three.js games 👉 Wave Function Collapse hex maps 👉 Happy Map 👉 SETI progress 👉 A Game Writing book 👉 a lost Méliès 1897 automaton film 👉 new embedding models 👉 Models that run in browsers 👉 more… ... Subscribe to Things I Think Are Awesome to unlock the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Things I Think Are Awesome to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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понедельник, 16 марта 2026 г.
TITAA #76.5: Art Brut and the Squash Cluster
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