Julien Posture

Sep 29, 2024 | julienposture.substack.com | Julien Posture |Brian Merchant

This is part 2 of a two-part series describing an experiment Sitong Wang (Columbia University) and I conducted over the past year. We invited four illustrators to use a generative model fine-tuned to their style (a task known as “style transfer”) and asked them what they thought of the results. We wanted to understand how artists see the output of such stylistic doppelgänger and how artists’ and machines’ ways of seeing style differ. If you haven’t already, go read Part 1 – The Training.

Sep 14, 2024 | nybooks.com | Leanne Shapton |Julien Posture

In April I got an e-mail from Julien Posture, who introduced himself as a PhD student, to ask about illustration, style, and the creative industry. After a lively conversation, I looked up his work and found that, in addition to writing about creativity, he was a wonderful illustrator, so I asked him to draw the cover for our Fall Books issue.

Jul 23, 2024 | julienposture.substack.com | Julien Posture

The studio is basked in the white glare of the neon lights, the walls and floor are covered in colourful paint splatters, hint of the many hours of feverish, almost carnal, throes of creativity. My attention is quickly drawn to the main character, the man, the artist. Enters six feet of chiseled, plump, glistening muscle adorned only by stained, ripped shorts bearing the mark of the repeated wiping of his paint-soaked, brawny hands against his firm and rounded backside.

May 21, 2024 | thephilanthropist.ca | Tai M. Huynh |Julien Posture |Angela Long |Christina Palassio

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May 19, 2024 | julienposture.substack.com | Julien Posture

‘And only one for birthday presents, you know. There’s glory for you!’            ‘I don’t know what you mean by “glory”,’ Alice said.  ‘Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. ‘Of course, you don’t–till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”’ ‘But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument”, Alice objected.