Hi, I’m Paul
I’m a writer, creative technologist and systems thinker based in Perth, Western Australia.
I write stories and essays about things that matter to me like reclaiming agency, liberty, technology and the systems people create in order to live inside them. I’m also the co-founder and technical director of Open Studios.
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How to create unique art styles and looks with Stable Diffusion
My last article about generating images using PyTorch feels like it was written three years ago, rather than three months ago. At that time the source code of the tools…
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Using a PyTorch DCGAN for Generating Unique Character and Fashion Silhouettes
As a digital artist I tend to prefer working in vector format and as such I’ve been a keen user of Adobe Illustrator and now Affinity Designer. In the course…
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Reminiscing about the greatest TV show of all time
When I was growing up, I moved between Australia, Poland and the Philippines a bit. I first saw the gate in 1994, a trailer for the original motion picture film,…
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My 2020 Retrospective: A lesson in happiness
2020 was a really good year, for me personally. My consulting business had a slow but promising start to the year, which included my first paid trip as a freelancer…
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About Me
I’m Paul, a writer and creative technologist based in Perth, Western Australia. I have spent more than two decades working with software, the web, systems and graphical applications.
I’m also the co-founder and technical director of Open Studios, an independent studio creating fictional worlds, open-source software and experimental values led R&D.
The subjects on this site vary, but they come from the same place: an interest in how people live inside systems, what those systems do to them and how people find ways through.