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No. 15 · 2026In progress

Half a Century of Weirdness

A retrospective presentation of the creative work, delivered to the whole team. Fifty years old, so the framing owns it: half a century of weirdness, told chronologically, from crayons to local AI. The workbook is the source database, the catalog plates are the slide language, and the deck is being built in the open like everything else here.

Status
In progress
Year
2026
Stack
AI · Presentation · Retrospective · Storytelling

The Idea

Sometime in the next month I stand up in front of the entire team and show them the artwork. Not the client work they already know. The other stuff. The phone, the collars, the bison made of couches, the zine that prints itself, the notebook full of machines that should not exist.

The framing writes itself: I am fifty. That is half a century of making things, and the range stops being a quirk and starts being the resume when you chart it in order. So the talk runs chronologically, crayons to local AI, and lets the escalation do the arguing.

The System

This is also a build, which is why it gets a ledger entry.

  • The workbook is the database. Every project on this site carries a date, a status, a medium, and a one-line summary. The deck queries the ledger instead of starting from a blank page.
  • The plates are the slide language. Cream paper, etched illustrations, mono annotations, honest status chips. The presentation inherits the visual system this site already runs, so the deck looks like the work instead of like a template.
  • The timeline is the spine. Presentations are the one place where chronology wins. The deep-dive arc (hands, tools, the phone, the constellation, the models) becomes the chapter structure.
  • The co-author is a machine. Script and slides get built with AI doing the assembly and me doing the directing, which is itself a fair demonstration of the thesis: the tools changed, the weirdness is constant.

The Timestamp

For the record: this is the first entry in the ledger started after the Fable release, and the first built with it. The ledger notes its own tools now. That feels right for a workbook.

Status

In progress. The research base is done (every project on this machine is dated from its own receipts). Delivery is roughly mid-July. The talk gets written here, in the open, like everything else.