art Archives - Nate Cooper

Walter Benjamin vs. BenjamAI

by natecooper | Mar 31, 2025 | aesthetics, art, Comics, culture, technology

“On the Aura, Reproduction, and the Machine That Dreams” I have been deep in ChatGPT conversations recently and I happened upon a framework supposing that Walter Benjamin (Author of the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) considered whether ai similarly...

Roger Ebert’s Life The American Dream Itself

by natecooper | Mar 28, 2015 | art, Brooklyn, culture, media, movie reviews, movies, Nate's Thoughts, new york

Photo Credit: Kevin Horan I am a midwestern son. There’s a sequence in the documentary ‘Life Itself’ that suggests that Roger Ebert styled himself as a Chicago journalist in an archetype of public figures like Studs Turkel. He was, for a time, hard drinking and hard...

Brian Rea On Illustrating Malcolm Gladwell’s Collected | Los Angeles, I’m Yours

by natecooper | Jun 6, 2012 | art, books, cool, culture

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Two Initiatives

by natecooper | Apr 19, 2012 | art, books, cool, technology

I got two important things going on right now that I want to share. One is that my Kickstarter Website Bootcamp Adventure Comic is almost at an end. If you want to learn how to build a website in a fun and entertaining way check out this project. The other is Reboot...