colin brooks
@colinbrooks.com
i'm on here now
head of digital development @ whitney museum
head of digital development @ whitney museum
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colin brooks
@colinbrooks.com
· Jan 11
Daily Bird: a Bird a Day
See and learn about regular and unusual birds! Daily Bird shows you new featured birds every day, with information, images, and quotes pulled from multiple public data sources like Wikipedia and Wiki...
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reposting the bird app i made a few months ago—Daily Bird gives you new birds everyday in a few categories and has ✨widgets✨. i made this mostly because i wished i could put the eBird bird of the day on my homescreen. all data is pulled from open sources
apps.apple.com/us/app/daily...
apps.apple.com/us/app/daily...
ignoring fascism for a moment to download the update that makes my phone worse
September 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
ignoring fascism for a moment to download the update that makes my phone worse
did karl marx have a backpack?
July 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
did karl marx have a backpack?
one of my favorite things about working on early net art projects is when you're missing a file like dumpster_587x400.jpg and that file might have gone missing in the 00s, or the decade after, or it never actually existed in the first place and it's just a bug and no one including the artist knows
June 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
one of my favorite things about working on early net art projects is when you're missing a file like dumpster_587x400.jpg and that file might have gone missing in the 00s, or the decade after, or it never actually existed in the first place and it's just a bug and no one including the artist knows
taking an international flight out of newark is great because it breaks your spirit that there is anything good in this country right before you leave
April 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
taking an international flight out of newark is great because it breaks your spirit that there is anything good in this country right before you leave
Reposted by colin brooks
This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day
March 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day
jabberwocky (2025)
wait til i tell you that that was me paraphrasing because his actual wording was way funnier
February 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
jabberwocky (2025)
entering the despair hole
February 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
entering the despair hole
had some belated thoughts about submitting art as apps to the app stores and how much it stinks compared to the web
colinbrooks.com/app-stores-a...
colinbrooks.com/app-stores-a...
App stores and museums
Some thoughts about apps, app stores, and art on the internet.
colinbrooks.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
had some belated thoughts about submitting art as apps to the app stores and how much it stinks compared to the web
colinbrooks.com/app-stores-a...
colinbrooks.com/app-stores-a...
the only one brave enough to say it
January 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
the only one brave enough to say it
reposting the bird app i made a few months ago—Daily Bird gives you new birds everyday in a few categories and has ✨widgets✨. i made this mostly because i wished i could put the eBird bird of the day on my homescreen. all data is pulled from open sources
apps.apple.com/us/app/daily...
apps.apple.com/us/app/daily...
Daily Bird: a Bird a Day
See and learn about regular and unusual birds! Daily Bird shows you new featured birds every day, with information, images, and quotes pulled from multiple public data sources like Wikipedia and Wiki...
apps.apple.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
reposting the bird app i made a few months ago—Daily Bird gives you new birds everyday in a few categories and has ✨widgets✨. i made this mostly because i wished i could put the eBird bird of the day on my homescreen. all data is pulled from open sources
apps.apple.com/us/app/daily...
apps.apple.com/us/app/daily...
the guy in florida doing horny trump prompts on our ai art bot needs to chill or go to a hospital
November 22, 2024 at 4:12 PM
the guy in florida doing horny trump prompts on our ai art bot needs to chill or go to a hospital
Reposted by colin brooks
Hi Bluesky 👋 We're debuting with...a blue sky
November 20, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋 We're debuting with...a blue sky
did not expect this bug in my daily bird app today
November 5, 2024 at 4:06 PM
did not expect this bug in my daily bird app today
happy brat remix day to all who celebrate
October 11, 2024 at 3:59 PM
happy brat remix day to all who celebrate
i know this is a niche style guide complaint but the NYT trump/putin story today says Mr. 49 separate times and it feels insane to read
October 8, 2024 at 7:39 PM
i know this is a niche style guide complaint but the NYT trump/putin story today says Mr. 49 separate times and it feels insane to read
the fun part of being a dev at a place that does this is you get to explain the difference over and over again forever as new people onboard like accessibility sysyphus
to the publications that stylize headlines and other content in ALL CAPS, but who use `text-transform: uppercase` instead of actually typing the headline in caps: i see you, i appreciate you, i love you
September 5, 2024 at 3:42 PM
the fun part of being a dev at a place that does this is you get to explain the difference over and over again forever as new people onboard like accessibility sysyphus
giving my work plants a little bit of coffee as a treat
July 25, 2024 at 6:46 PM
giving my work plants a little bit of coffee as a treat
I worked on this for the biennial with holly herndon and mat dryhurst it was very fun
xhairymutantx.whitney.org
xhairymutantx.whitney.org
xhairymutantx | Holly Herndon + Mat Dryhurst
Do we get to choose how we are represented on the AI substrate?
xhairymutantx.whitney.org
March 19, 2024 at 2:47 AM
I worked on this for the biennial with holly herndon and mat dryhurst it was very fun
xhairymutantx.whitney.org
xhairymutantx.whitney.org
wrote about using AI to tag artworks (sometimes i still write things)
colinbrooks.com/gp4-google-v...
colinbrooks.com/gp4-google-v...
Keyword tagging artworks with GP4 and Google Vision
I have no data to back this up (a great way to start a blog about data), but I think when people visit a museum’s online collection there are two kinds of things they’re likely to type in a search...
colinbrooks.com
January 3, 2024 at 7:17 PM
wrote about using AI to tag artworks (sometimes i still write things)
colinbrooks.com/gp4-google-v...
colinbrooks.com/gp4-google-v...
the pain and sadness of a new phone
September 22, 2023 at 9:48 PM
the pain and sadness of a new phone
i need to go to remedial being alive in the world school
September 6, 2023 at 11:55 PM
i need to go to remedial being alive in the world school
gonna go look at the new burritos in the store window
August 21, 2023 at 6:20 PM
gonna go look at the new burritos in the store window