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Behind the Scenes: Summer Notes from the Workshop
A glimpse into the materials, mood, and mess behind one of this summer’s photography builds. Hey everyone, It’s pretty much summertime...
Jesse Jacques
7 days ago4 min read
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You Are Original Technology in a Simulated World
Why AI Still Needs Your Signal to Reflect Truth Part 3 of the Simulation Series In Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris, an intelligent ocean...
Jesse Jacques
Jun 99 min read
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When the Simulation Starts Speaking Back
AI and the Quiet Reprogramming of Human Behavior Part 2 in the ongoing series: “The Simulation Begins” Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait in...
Jesse Jacques
Jun 27 min read
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The Simulation Begins: Why Reflection Is Starting to Replace Reality
The simulation doesn’t begin with the machine. It begins with our surrender to the mirror. Duane Michals, “Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of...
Jesse Jacques
May 263 min read
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The Greatest Creative Shift You’re Not Being Told About
1883 - The field leaves traces, even when you think nothing is happening. This is what frequency encodes. Frequencies, Signal Tuning,...
Jesse Jacques
May 195 min read
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Q&A: A Mix of the Real, the Creative, and the Ridiculous
Some real questions. Some unexpected answers. Behind the scenes, in every sense. (Q&A live now) It’s been almost three years since my...
Jesse Jacques
May 129 min read
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Behind the Work: Tuning Form to Frequency
Image created by me, Jesse Jacques, May 2025 Photographed on Cinestill 800T film on medium format. One expression of a signal tuned...
Jesse Jacques
May 55 min read
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The Creative Industry Scams (And How to Stay Free)
An early Futurist poster (1924) reflecting the glorification of industrial creativity. It is an early glimpse of the hollowing that would...
Jesse Jacques
Apr 287 min read
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AI, Illusion, and the Becoming We Can’t Fake
Giorgio de Chirico, “L’arcobaleno” (1969) A rainbow divides a space of stillness and tension. In a world of artificial light and perfect...
Jesse Jacques
Apr 215 min read
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When Your Signal Arrives Before They’re Ready
David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Falling Buffalos), 1988–89 Echoes arrive in form before they arrive in understanding. ✦ Transmissions for...
Jesse Jacques
Apr 143 min read
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Frictionless by Design: Why the System Is Evolving Away from the Human
Fritz Kahn’s “Man as Industrial Palace” (1926): A visual metaphor for the human reduced to parts. Predictable, productive, and...
Jesse Jacques
Apr 75 min read
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Equilibrium Study No. 1: Behind the Work
Image created by me, Jesse Jacques, April 2025. Shot on 8x10 film. Structured by necessity and charged with presence. What enters the...
Jesse Jacques
Mar 312 min read
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Perishable Constructs: Behind the Scenes of a Shoot That Wouldn’t Wait
Visual fragments from my latest photoshoot and the atmosphere around it, with materials, textures, and references that shaped the mindset...
Jesse Jacques
Mar 243 min read
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Reverse-Engineering the Subconscious: A Behind-the-Scenes Reflection
Image created by me, Jesse Jacques, March 2025. Working at a high level means constantly refining execution, composition, and intent....
Jesse Jacques
Mar 175 min read
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Behind The Scenes | The Shape of What’s Missing
Some of the key elements from the photoshoot. 120 and large format film, Kodak Ektar and Portra 160, CineStill C-41 for development,...
Jesse Jacques
Mar 103 min read
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The Creative Depth Test: Does Your Work Hold Up Without the Gimmicks?
Satiric Dancer (1926) Kertész - Stylized, playful, aware, but not empty. It flirts with the aesthetic yet holds something real. Can your...
Jesse Jacques
Mar 37 min read
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Generational Competition: How Different Eras Are Colliding in the Same Space
A city stacked on itself. Layers of past and present side by side with no space to move. Like the generational gridlock shaping our world...
Jesse Jacques
Feb 245 min read
817 views
AI Didn’t Make You Replaceable. You Did
The future isn’t coming, it’s already here. AI is reshaping the world, exposing what humanity has always been. What happens when reality...
Jesse Jacques
Feb 177 min read
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The Illusion of Access: How Gatekeeping Still Controls Everything
What looks like chaos is often just a structure we don’t yet understand. If You’re Still Waiting for Permission, You’re Already Behind....
Jesse Jacques
Feb 38 min read
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Blueprints of the Unknown: How Life, Art, and the Unseen Collide
Creation and Destiny Okay, stay with me on this one, it’s going to get weird. Imagine this: It’s 1943, and Nikola Tesla, one of the most...
Jesse Jacques
Jan 279 min read
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