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'Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking'... by Bayles and Orland

is an audiobook?

Best book I've ever read on the obstacles artists put in front of themselves to avoid the pain of making new work.

Have your photographs or artworks been used as learning material by AI?
This website will tell you:
haveibeentrained.com

Hugely enjoyable interview with Saul Leiter:
youtube.com/watch?v=GLUwFf…

30.12.22. From VIEWS: my polarising, participatory photography series, which employs the Instagram Story opinion-poll-function. 180cm x 100cm, archival inkjet. #johnmaclean turning up the Turing heat and toppling the origami crane since 2008.  jmaclean.co.uk

The first digital camera.

From my new photo-typology of McDonald’s restaurants in England. #johnmaclean #mcdonaldsart #typology #bechers #mocktudor #goldenarches #McDonalds

‘Destiny 29.3.22’. From my polarizing participatory art project: VIEWS. I combine my high-resolution, digital photographs (using an AI filter to detect the ‘subject’) with the Instagram Story’s ‘audience poll function’ to create algorithmic snapshots of a masked zeitgeist.

theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

My work is in the exhibition ‘No Place is an Island’ opening tomorrow at Photo50 curated by Rodrigo Orrantia
tinyurl.com/283w79u2

Paul Graham Gives Advice to Young Photographers
youtube.com/watch?v=PzQGkN…

“The war, the brutality of the world. What kind of man am I, sitting at home, reading magazines, going into a frustrated fury about everything – and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue?”

Philip Guston 1977.

'When I began painting,
all my paintings were of words
which were gutteral utterances
like
Smash, Boss, Eat.
Those words were like flowers in a vase.'
Ed Ruscha.

insider.com/photographer-j…

Charlotte Cotton
interviewing
the great
Brandon Lattu
youtube.com/watch?v=nnhIxD…

‘I touched culture, really lightly with a feather, but I touched culture’.
Larry Sultan

Beautifully written and narrated series
about
William Hogarth:
youtube.com/watch?v=D2l50m…

VIEWS. A new #wip project utilising Instagram’s audience poll function. Skip over to my current IG story to participate. ‘Are you the same person you were yesterday?’ #johnmaclean clogging the culture machine and hedging the attention economy since 2008.
instagram.com/john_maclean_p…

'My worst
nightmare
is a passive
audience'.

Jason Fulford.

Robert Capa - the rare 1947 radio interview:
youtube.com/watch?v=MYe4yn…

Great series.
BBC Radio 4

The Spark

Leading thinkers posit solutions to the structural problems of our age.

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