Noah Kalina Reflects on 25 Years of Everyday 10 January 2000 - 10 January 2025: Artist Noah Kalina is back with a reflective commentary on his Everyday project, about which I have previously blogged here and here. Famous for photographing himself every day for the past 25 years, Kalina is not making a 25-year video for the project. His most recent summary was posted for the 20-year point.
I don't have words now to express how sad I am that David Lynch died today, 16 January 2025. Three decades ago, I re-watched Blue Velvet with a roommate who had never seen it. After it ended, she said, "Now I know why when we saw that paper bag by the sidewalk last week, you told me, 'Don't look inside it. And don't touch it.'" With unforgettable imagery, direction, actors, music, and scripts, Lynch found grandeur, mystery and horror in the mundane. I learned how to cook quinoa from watching an extra on the Inland Empire DVD.
Several classic lines pop up in my head:
Lynch had a great influence on my literary work and I'll write more about this shortly on my writer's blog, The Dragonfly.
If I could pick one scene which transformed a fragment of everyday reality into mythic horror, it would be "Gotta light?" from the second Twin Peaks series.
Happy New Year! My podcast, A New Mythology for the New Millennium, continues with my Solar System Space Opera.
I wrote the prompts for the opera, but the music is Suno AI-generated. Suno is very pop-oriented and it was interesting to see how it could be pushed to produced more nuanced music. This project explores how AI prompts and music offer a new way of presenting themes in my writing.
Over at my other blog, The Dragonfly, I will follow up later in January 2025 with a podcast on the mythological or occulted history of the solar system and how it fits with my Dark Matter literary symbolism.
Here at Histories of Things to Come, I will begin to discuss the positives and negatives of AI tools as they rapidly evolve. The recent video below raises serious concerns, namely, that AI will be fantastic until the moment when it suddenly turns on us. I think AI development has been affecting our society for decades already, and until we grapple with that fact, we won't see how close to the edge we actually are.
I have a new post up at The Dragonfly:
Narrative Conventions of the Seasons
This post concerns my development of a children's book series about wildlife in my locality. The series includes four books about the seasons. My research for these books revealed that we use narrative conventions differently, depending on which season we are describing. For example, stories about winter have a different view of time than spring tales do.
I have a new publication announcement up at The Dragonfly. Also, follow my new posts at Patreon this week for updates on the vision driving my literary works.
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