The recent controversy with Let 3 and their song Mama ŠČ. — A lot of you have probably heard the Croatian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, a song entitled Mama ŠČ by group Let 3. It is a highly provocative song that alludes to Vladimir Putin, his relationship with Belarus, and the invasion of Ukraine. …

Why is our society a historical exception. — When I was a student, I adored lectures on art history. I was passionately studying everyone, from Imhotep to Rembrandt and Rothko. One of the books that brought them to life was Gombrich’s The Story of Art, which describes their life and work so vividly that I almost felt like…

The real ones, those we can mathematically predict. — This is not the Terminator movie, nor is it the Ex Machina. It is something much more imminent and present. It is a continuation of the process we embarked on at the dawn of the industrial age, and that is overpopulation and, consequently, overshoot. Until then, humans have been pretty…

A method optimised for speed without sacrificing too much quality — Suppose you find a big box full of BW negative films. You don’t know what’s on those films, so you are curious to find out. But you don’t want to spend an eternity (nor a fortune) scanning just to find out it’s all rubbish. That happened to me. I got…

I said great, not just very good, but truly great. — They will never tell you this on your local crash courses of photography. They might not even tell you at an expensive masterclass with a world-class photographer. Why? I guess the amateurs are too occupied with camera settings, rules of composition, and lighting setups, while pros take it for granted…

Here’s what I learned — It was one of those things Youtube recommends, and one time I bit the bait. I was (and still am) working on a scanning project that leaves a lot of room for listening to music and podcasts, so I said, what the hell, let’s give it a try. This article…

How to have fun acquiring a new language. — Despite having eight years of formal English classes in primary and high school (as a foreign language here in Slovenia), I struggled to handle it. My grades were terrible, and I was by no means able to express myself. It was only in my late teens that my learning took…

Where have I heard this before? Oh yes, about every time a new genre was born. — It’s 1838, and photography has just been invented. The first to do it were geeky guys from Paris and London with a thing for optics and chemistry. The first to adopt it were struggling painters who saw it as a new trick to attract customers. “But is it Art,” people…

My first encounter with AI art “of the third kind” — I’ve been reading about AI-generated art for quite a while, and today I decided to jump into that pool myself. I’ve spent almost the entire day on the MidJourney server, totally hooked. My eyes are sore, just like the first day I discovered video games as a teenager. So what…