Archive - Wandering Wondering Star

AI Won't Replace Agencies. But Agencies Using AI Might Replace Yours.

AI can write a thousand headlines.

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Evidence of a Life Lived: The Last Human Signature

There's this thing that will eventually happen when you're scrolling through your third consecutive hour of AI-generated fashion campaigns at 1 AM, each…

May 22 •

April 2025

CTRL+ALT+Existential Crisis: What do we actually need in a Creative Director Now?

In the same way generative AI turned brand social into a copy-paste pandemonium of pixel-perfect Ghibli McVibes™—now it's coming for the Creative…

Apr 17 •

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Action Figures and Ghibli: We've Traded Brand Creativity for Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V Culture

Generative AI has turned brand social media into digital suburbs—every street lined with the same Quiet Luxury Beige houses, LEGO lawns, and…

Apr 16 •

Turns Out My Future Personality is Just a Very Expensive Subscription Service

I woke up thinking it was 2026.

Apr 11 •

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James Cameron Is Training the Algorithm to Replace You—And Himself

In a twist worthy of his own science fiction, the director who once warned us about machine sentience in 'Terminator' now knows the truth: creativity is…

Apr 10 •

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March 2025

Marketing Isn't Dead. It's Going Through Its Villain Origin Story.

Yesterday, OpenAI dropped a feature that turned images and memes into Studio Ghibli-like cartoon perfection.

Mar 27 •

Scroll and Seep and Dopamine Drips: How Algorithms Devour Our Imagination in the Tarnished Age of Metrics

I watched my entire creative identity get flattened into an engagement metric last week.

Mar 17 •

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Scrolling Past Ourselves: Choosing Human Inconvenience Over AI’s Understanding

I saw a quote last night that stuck like gum to the bottom of my brain—something about how our current generation of kids raised on endless scrolling…

Mar 7 •

February 2025

The Last Claude Standing: Preserving the Future Ghosts in Our Machines

I fantasize Gibson-like about boutique, backroom marketplaces emerging for vintage AI models, just as they have for Roland TR-808s and Yamaha DX7s...

Feb 28 •

The Temperature of Ideas: Our Strange Labor to Stay Different

I've been thinking about something lately that makes my heart feel heavy in a way I can't quite explain — the way living things have to fight against…

Feb 20 •

Let's Dance, or Why We Shouldn't Let Algorithms Lead

Thinking about how something vital dies inside us when we outsource our decision-making to machines (and why that should scare us more than it does)

Feb 18 •

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