Signal Archive

Thoughts, fragments, dispatches from the feed. Some are sharp. Some are scrappy. All part of the signal.
A place for working theories, postmortems, and pattern recognition.

(Not) Exorcising Restraint
Nick Rosendorf Nick Rosendorf

(Not) Exorcising Restraint

…I built it like a man possessed: slow tension, sudden violence, no escape. It didn't just promote the film—it summoned it.

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Little Bot, Big Idea
Nick Rosendorf Nick Rosendorf

Little Bot, Big Idea

A few years back, The Delta Hanger came to us with a brief that wasn’t really a brief. Just a handful of emerging concepts and a request: help us visualize what the future might look like.

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NFTs Promised Architecture. We Got Extraction.
Nick Rosendorf Nick Rosendorf

NFTs Promised Architecture. We Got Extraction.

We were promised a revolutionary system that could finally give artists control. A way to establish provenance, prove ownership, and get paid in ways the traditional art world rarely allowed. NFTs offered the potential for a fundamental shift - not just in how work was distributed, but more importantly, in how it was valued.

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Fidelity to Fracture: AI in Image-Making Practice
Nick Rosendorf Nick Rosendorf

Fidelity to Fracture: AI in Image-Making Practice

Generative AI has become increasingly proficient at tasks that demand fidelity. It can stretch a background, fill in missing areas, or conform assets to technical specs with mechanical precision. These interventions are fast, clean, and structurally predictable. The image extends. The frame holds. The system follows orders.

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Game Engine as Frame: Presence Without Play
Nick Rosendorf Nick Rosendorf

Game Engine as Frame: Presence Without Play

There is beauty here, but it's not comforting. It arrives through light filtered across the wreckage, the flicker of glitch in dust, the slow shift of shadow across a broken world.

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