Jeff Fohl

I’m still going into the studio with very little idea about what I am going to do. Yesterday, my only idea was that I wanted to work with charcoal. Then these started to emerge.

Who are the people who are against the courts? Criminals, of course. America is led by a mob boss.

Maciek Hamela@maciekhamela.bsky.social

Rubio announces sanctions on the ICC: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will dismantle the ICC piece by piece.” A mob shakedown of an International Court of Law just because the big boss didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize he wanted.

Break the sky

Invented wetland. Ink, charcoal, acrylic and watercolor pencil on paper.

Not the English countryside.

Landscape inspired by a trip to Norway in 2022.

Variation on a theme.

Another invented landscape.

23 Sept

Autumn equinox painting. Not sure where this is…

17 Sept

It's still not too late to get tickets for our hometown production of Annie, the musical! Opening night is tomorrow, and the production continues through to October 4th. Come see me play Drake the butler, and the rest of the very talented cast: thelandingsv.org/events/scott...

11 Sept

In between set load in shifts for Annie, I managed to get in a few more sketches of Wendy for War Bunny. I am still struggling to find a way to make bunnies look menacing. #warbunny #character_design #pencilsketch

8 Sept

For today's daily practice, I decided to break out the charcoal and just make up some figures out of my head. Here is one. #charcoaldrawing #figuredrawing #dailyartpractice

6 Sept

I have a daily art practice. During these sessions, I have no rules, no goals, no long term stuff gets worked on. It is a time for pure exploration. Today, two small works came out of this.

4 Sept

Poison Oak. Acrylic on board. Investigating plants that people usually avoid. #poisonoak #alternatelanscapes

thelandingsv.orgScotts Valley Performing Arts presents AnnieThe Scotts Valley Performing Arts (SVPA) production of Annie is a musical based on the 1924 comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. The play tells the story of Annie, a young orphan who lives in a miserable orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Even though her parents abandoned her at the orphanage as a baby, she holds on to the ... Read More

3 Sept

Funny thing happened when I took my son to audition for the musical, Annie. The director asked me to audition too. I was like, "Uh, what? I don't even have anything prepared" Now, I am in a musical, acting, singing and dancing and stuff. September 18th - October 4th thelandingsv.org/events/scott...

30 Aug

Hey Google, can you be bigger cowards?

21 Aug

I'm working on a larger piece which features poison oak prominently. So, I am doing some pencil studies in order to grasp the finer details and structure of the plant.

26 July

Daily art / July 26th, Number 1 #landscape #guiltypleasure

25 July

Daily art / July 25th, Number 2

25 July

Daily art / July 25th, Number 1

20 July

Feeling pretty gruntled and combobulated today.

8 July

Funny how life in the tech world repeats itself. Back in the day, you had to wait for computers to compile your high-level code to machine code. It was always a puzzle to figure out what to do while you waited.

8 July

Then, for a while, interpreted languages like Python and Javascript brought that wait down to near zero. Now, we are back again twiddling our thumbs while we wait for the computer to convert our prompts into high-level code.

2 July

Some drawing/painting I have been doing. It appears to be turning into a series.

21 June

Happy Father's Day to all the pops out there. My family took me out for brunch. On the way, I got to pick out the music, so I chose the GenX classic, the Heavy Metal Movie Soundtrack. I think everyone really enjoyed how I described in detail how each track was used in the movie.

nytimes.comTrump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

2 June

The ignorance and ineptitude of these people knows no bottom. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

28 May

One of the great difficulties in life is that reality and what makes you feel good are often very different things. Sometimes, they are diametrically opposed.

21 May

Jeff Bezos on Trump: "Trump has lots of good ideas, and he’s been right about a lot of things." and "I think he is a more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term." Why is it so hard for Bezos to criticize Trump?

21 May

The answer is obvious. Bezos doesn't want to lose out on Federal contracts that he needs so badly for Blue Origin. So, his ambition outweighs any kind of moral standing, or principles he may have. Either that, or he really doesn't have any.

lawfulgood.usLawful Good | AI Assistant for Independent Attorneys | Legal Research & DraftingLawful Good helps independent attorneys handle legal research, drafting, and back-office work in a fraction of the time. Secure, private, and built for you.

18 May

I've been building this for the last year or so. I've been testing it out with a small group of attorneys for several months. The last steps before going live was wiring up all of the SaaS infrastructure. But, we are now live! lawfulgood.us

11 May

Why yes, I think I will listen to Pink Floyd's Echoes (Live at Pompeii) for the 2,134th time, thank you very much.

I've been thinking a lot about the difference between being an engineer and an artist - especially in today's hyper-accelerated technological environment.

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In the AI age, where all knowledge work can be performed better and more efficiently by an AI, it occurs to me that, in a way, we all may be pushed towards the role of the artist. The value we create will be tied much more to what we make, than our ability to make it.

The economics of this is still a mystery.

I've been thinking a lot about the difference between being an engineer and an artist - especially in today's hyper-accelerated technological environment.

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As an artist, what is valued is what is being said, and how it is being said. There is far less anxiety about "falling behind" technically, because you are only competing with yourself.

Of course, historically, it has been easier to make a living as an engineer, because your skills are applicable to many other people's needs. So, getting paid for your skills is usually a lot easier than getting paid to be an artist.

I've been thinking a lot about the difference between being an engineer and an artist - especially in today's hyper-accelerated technological environment.

As an engineer, we often feel a certain anxiety about falling behind. This is because our value is tied to how well, and at what speed, we are able to implement ideas.

instagram.comNewsweek on Instagram: "HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Congresswoman Summer Lee clashed over Black maternal health and DEI during a tense hearing after Lee pressed the HHS Secretary on dispar...1,188 likes, 179 comments - newsweek on April 17, 2026: "HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Congresswoman Summer Lee clashed over Black maternal health and DEI during a tense hearing after Lee pr...

19 Apr

RFK Jr: "President Trump is trying to end division in this country, not sow division." .... ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?! (PS - how do I make all fonts larger so it sounds like I am shouting louder?) Link for reference: www.instagram.com/reels/DXP7Oo...

youtube.comThank you for replacing the Ayatollah Khamanei, The Taliban, The Communists and OthersYouTube video by Joseph Tawadros

11 Apr

Thank you replacing the Ayatollah Khamanei with another Ayatollah Khamanei: www.youtube.com/shorts/NonW9...

youtube.comSYSTEM OF IRANYouTube video by Andre Antunes

11 Apr

And Andre's interpretation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlwX...

7 Apr

Threatening genocide and war crimes is itself a war crime - especially when the one doing the threatening has the well-known ability to carry them out. The ICC should at this time issue a warrant for the arrest of Donald Trump on these grounds.

6 Apr

Art made by AI is driven by the audience. Art made by humans is driven by the artist. This is why AI art can be both beautiful but also have an empty feeling. Art made by a human is deeply different in ways that are hard for algorithmic distillations to replicate.

6 Apr

It is sort of like art by committee vs art by a unique and strange single entity - a human being. I think this difference may become more clear to us over time.

3 Apr

I'm feeling pretty confident that there will be one technical challenge that AI will never be able to crack, and that is printer networking.

substack.comThe Desk Killer Gets DOGEdSilicon Valley, Hannah Arendt, and the new face of thoughtlessness

2 Apr

I learned a new turn of phrase today: "desk killer". Derived from the German word, "Schreibtischtäter", which was coined by Hannah Arendt after WWII. Our world is infected with them. substack.com/home/post/p-...

2 Apr

I can't stop listening to @tonylevin.bsky.social 's bass on Sledgehammer. Help!

youtube.comJoris Voorn - Collapse [Official Visualiser]YouTube video by Joris Voorn

17 Mar

Very cool music and viz from Joris Voorn : www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Go... #musicviz #jorisvoorn

22 Feb

Feeling a bit under the weather today. Figured this might be a good time to take a crack at Touch Designer, which I've been meaning to do for quite a while.