August 19, 2024 - For this post, I did a little something different. Over the last year or so, I've been enjoying the artwork, livestreams, and philosophy of illustrator, designer, and educator Steven Zapata. His graphite work is exceptional, and he can shift gears from learned reader of the classics to zen monk to unglued monologues in shakespearian character. He's a gifted teacher and orator, and along with Karla Ortiz and others, has been at the tip of the spear in the conversations about AI generated....stuff. It turns out we have a lot of the same interests, so I invited him for a conversation on our blog, and he graciously agreed to participate.  Our conversation is a small sampling of some of his ideas that I wanted to share with the MC audience, and I waste no time swan-diving…