Bruce Willen

@publicmechanics.bsky.social

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Multi-disciplinary artist, designer, musician
Design + public art: Public Mechanics
Music: solo, Peals, Double Dagger
Co-founder: Post Typography
Baltimore

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we are all calvin's dad

I am an engineer and have this same thought about the speed of work when drawings were done by hand and not on the computer and that was way less than 200 years ago.

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Last year, Jeremy Gordon wrote a superb profile of Steve Albini that captured how the one-time provocateur learned to age with grace. www.theguardian.com/music/2023/a...

The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’www.theguardian.com The long read: Steve Albini was long synonymous with the indie underground, playing in revered bands and recording albums by the Pixies, PJ Harvey and Nirvana. He also often seemed determined to offen...

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HEY BALTIMORE I MISS THE BIG SLICE citypaperarchives.com/story.php?id...

Yet Another Use for City Paper - Dec. 30, 2008 - Baltimore City Papercitypaperarchives.com Why, to show how big the Angelo's .

birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/two-fl... Hi! Hope that everyone is having a nice holiday. Wanted to share this mellow instrumental album that my friend Albert and I just finished. Enjoy!

Two Flowers, by Birney-Willenbirney-willen.bandcamp.com 8 track album

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best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶

Thanks CityLab & David Dudley for writing about Ghost Rivers and the critical ecological and resilience issues touched on by the project! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A ‘Ghost River’ Is Unearthed in Baltimorewww.bloomberg.com To visualize the transformation of streams into sewers — and highlight the city’s water pollution woes — an artist reanimated an urban creek buried for more than a century.

"Baltimore buried this river a century ago. Now, an artist is bringing it back to life" www.fastcompany.com/90975560/bal...

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‘Ghost Rivers’ visualizes a mile-long stream buried deep beneath Baltimore. www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/ghos...

Some incredible photos in the article! I also love that this project did more than just tear down a monument, but reimagines a new future from the materials of a troubling history. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/o...

Opinion | The Most Controversial Statue in America Surrenders to the Furnacewww.nytimes.com Monuments to the Confederacy got emotionally rich ceremonies when they were installed. They deserve no less when they come down.

Vermont mood

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Heads up Baltimore

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I didn’t know about Glaze until I posted this! LOVING all these tools. in case you didn’t know about it either: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/faq.html

Let’s gooooo! #kidlitart

Glaze - Protecting Artists from Generative AIglaze.cs.uchicago.edu

Love this. Lets poison the well, my friends.

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AIwww.technologyreview.com The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

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Hey y’all! Matmos has made a special hourlong collage of our favorite science, nature / field recordings and spoken word LPs from the @Folkways catalog and it will be broadcast on @NTSlive this Sunday! check the full lineup of this daylong program because it’s wild ´ stacked

A neighborhood-spanning public art project I've been working on for three years, Ghost Rivers, opens its first mile-long stretch of 9 sites this week! Thurs. Oct. 19, 5–7PM @ B.Willow in Baltimore www.ghostrivers.com

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