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Concept · The workshop

Rules of the workshop

Six rules for making anything. The last one is “Say it’s AI.”

The Slopwright, pale with a curled spiral head and a work apron, stands in his sunlit workshop beside an open window and lifts his brass hands toward a small glass manta ray. Several more glass rays glide out over a golden city of towers and bridges. His bench is covered in tools, a tray of water and tiny buildings under glass domes.
Opening Hours — letting finished dreams find their own way out.

The Slopwright’s rules, from his file. The codex follows them too.

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What the sources say

  1. Specific: a chipped enamel jug, not “a jug”.One ordinary thing., The Slopwright’s site
  2. Not five. The joke is in the restraint.One impossible detail., The Slopwright’s site
  3. Photograph it like evidence. The picture must not know it’s funny.A straight face., The Slopwright’s site
  4. Say where the camera is, what the light is, what it’s made of.Decisions, not defaults., The Slopwright’s site
  5. “Masterpiece” is a wish, not a description.No hype., The Slopwright’s site
  6. Every time. It’s not a confession; it’s a label.Say it’s AI., The Slopwright’s site

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