The Clerk Manifesto

Each time I approach AI image generations in photography another little leap in the quality or capabilities of the technology has been made....

  For the weekend I thought it might be nice to curl up on the couch with an old clerkmanifesto post. What could be more cozy than a mystery...

  Here are five simple studies (?) (!) of animals in the library. My more keenly observant readers may note: "Hey, this isn't your ...

  Amid a vaguely irritating afternoon at the library with too many people working and taking up space in the back room, I was on the automat...

  After 5,000 posts in this space, I have exhausted all possible titles. So my placeholder title seems good for today. I will try to live up...

  On occasion my darling wife and I take to Scrabble. Some of these episodes have involved the strict rules of the game, with proper challen...

  I am hard at work today on clerkmanifesto. But all art is an iceberg. You only see a little bit of it at a time. Most of it is underwater....

  Here is another video I made. I made it a couple of days ago in a section of non fiction where I was shelving again today. Nothing as exci...

  The other day when I was presenting a couple of short films involving monsters in our elevators at the library, I began to reminisce about...

  Hello young people. Thank you for coming to clerkmanifesto. You will find it an endless wellspring of wisdom. Alas for you that like all w...

  Not to complain about a creative endeavor that no one particularly asked for anyway, but... (Several paragraphs of complaining here redact...

  Because we are taking you on the first part of an endless mystical journey today, we couldn't fit our video here, so it's off to Y...

  In assembling today's post, which I largely did on the more complicated medium of my phone, at work, on a day that afforded me extra f...

  I try to stay moored in the present. It's all we have. But as a dramatic change in the life of me and my darling wife inches relentles...

  I was working on a nice fox and skunk at the beach in France video. It was inspired by a handwritten post I was writing. I'm sure it...

  Though I have written thousands of reflections on my life in the library, and covered details of every sort of event that takes place ther...

At the beginning of a no doubt long journey to learn the glorious French language, I take heart that I have once before managed, over the ye...

  I turned to my lovely wife and asked her to pick a number between one and ten. "Eight." The die it is cast then! We take our way...

  I should be sharing with you my hilarious banter at the front desk of the library, like with the woman who returned a bookclub in a bag at...

  Some of you, knowing about my personal relationship wherein I go drinking with Bob Dylan, were perhaps disappointed that I covered my seei...