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Prompt-Brush.com / Now available! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social

Prompt-Brush.com

Prompt-Brush.com

It's almost here. The Prompt-Brush 1.0 book ships next week.
After more than 1700 drawings, it's finally about to land in readers' hands. If you'd like to be among the first, pre-orders are open now — and they make a huge ditterence. Prompt-brush.com

The Robot Impersonator In the latest edition of The Daily Heller, I had the pleasure of speaking with Steven Heller about Prompt-Brush 1.0—the book and the project that has consumed the past two years of my life and reshape...

Sharing a Q+A with Steven Heller, for the Print Magazine Daily Heller, on Substack. We talked about Prompt-Brush 1.0, drawing like a machine, and what it means to make “human” work in the age of AI. open.substack.com/pub/pablodel...

My new book just arrived—and it’s up for pre-order!
If you’ve followed this project, now’s the time. Every early order helps! www.amazon.com/Prompt-Brush...

The Subway Poster / I wrote about a drawing in the NYC subway—and the strange ways people responded to it. open.substack.com/pub/pablodel...

A couple new book cover designs for Verso Books and New Directions.

The Game More things to ask the machine.

More things to ask the machine. ⬇️

pablodelcan.substack.com

Prompt-Brush.com / Pre-order the book!

Cover for @nymag.com / American Wreckage / A wildly destructive month that may look mild in hindsight / a collaboration with Tom Alberty and Danielle Del Plato

Prompt-Brush 1.0 is going to be a book! Pre-order yours at www.prompt-brush.com

Illustration for the NYTimes article “What if No One Misses TikTok?”By @kevinroose.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/t...

Cover image and animation for the NYTimes Sunday Business. “She Is in Love With ChatGPT / A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.”

Face 1.0 zine at the Delcan.co/Store $12 / From the new desktop application Face 1.0 that generates a unique face every time you press one button. 170mm x 250mm / printed on 45gsm salmon paper stock. Includes the Face 1.0 desktop application for your own use.

Opinion | Why Silent Film Still Speaks Volumes The old movies have a great deal to say, and linguistics can explain why.

New image for the John McWhorter column with a photograph of Eddie Cantor / also, if you have an hour to spare today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHw_...

Enter a prompt and this “non-AI artist” will render it as an artwork What started as a joke on social media has turned into a queue of over a 1000 prompts for Pablo Delcan, the artist behind Prompt Brush.

The Prompt-Brush 1.0 project made it to the top 50 most read articles of @itsnicethat.com.web.brid.gy this year! You can read it here:

A face by Alexander Calder at SF MOMA.

Faces 1.0 / I developed a new desktop application that generates a unique face every time you click on a pink button. It’s a completely useless yet amazing program. I’ve spent 10 minutes this morning staring at these faces, and I won’t get that time back.

Googly Eyes Placed on Sculptures Follow Residents in this Oregon City The eyes were attached to eight installations, to the delight of residents. City officials, who lamented the cost of repairs, were less amused.

“The Googly Eye Bandit”

Best book I read this year. By Meghan O’Gieblyn “God Human Animal Machine — Technology, Metaphor and The Search for Meaning”

A walk through San Francisco’s Chinatown

The Best Book Covers of 2024 A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.

Best Book Covers of 2024

New cover for the @nytmag / The Most Dangerous Game / How Nuclear Escalation Spirals Out of Control / written by William Langewiesche / in collaboration with Danielle Del Plato, Gail Bichler and Claudia Rubin. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/m...

A few recent drawings from the Prompt-Brush 1.0 project.

Prompt-Brush 1.0 / Try it out! / My new non-A.I. generative art model / Send me a message with your prompt. 🤖 www.promptbrush.com