Like many of you, I've been in a post-election malaise, trying to stay busy and distract myself with endless lists of tasks. I've felt compelled to write precious little about any of it, even less about anything else. Is there anything else? I’ve tried to write about anything else only to lose interest or feel like there wasn’t enough there.
Then this week I sat down to play with Leonardo Ai’s new Flow State. Connor Grennan of the NYU Stern School of Business says Ai is more of a behavioral change than a technological one, and I’ve found that true about myself. If I have a specific need of the tools, say when I’m working on a project, I use it. But I don’t really explore all that it can do on my own. So even though I didn’t really think Flow State was a relative tool for the way I work (we’re all different) I was curious to check out the UX.
This forced me to have to think about what kind of image I wanted to generate. And this got me thinking, “How do I feel right now?” “What type of image would represent how I’m feeling.” (Both loaded questions these last few weeks.) And yet I soon got to the opening image of this next piece, which then inspired me to write it. So maybe Flow State is a relative tool for the way I work. Maybe, by keeping an open mind, by playing around a little more and not always being so task oriented, I can discover new ways to work, new inspiration.
I always look at these tools as a way to support my creativity. This week they helped me be more creative and break through the malaise.
Please enjoy “Dissociating for Christmas.” And please do some of your own. We’ll meet back here in 2025!
xoTess
“Dissociating for Christmas.”
Lyrics & idea by myself, Tess Rafferty
Music by Suno
Images by Leonardo.Ai
Video by Runway and Hailuo Ai
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