TITLES

Mar 18

TITLES & Lucky The Golden Goose

How my dad’s 1999 children’s book led to the future of creator-owned AI modelsAs an entrepreneur and someone building in consumer technology, I’m realizing that much of what you bring into the world is rooted in the ideas that were instilled in you as a kid. Each of us is led into the world by our parents who open doors for us with a slight push of encouragement, watching to see how far we walk in. Looking back, it’s clear now that my love for creativity, storytelling, and finance can be attr...

TITLES

Apr 12

INTRODUCING TITLES

It’s 2016, I was working on my first startup and traveling around Oregon taking drone photos. I started to see many of my photos pop up across the web without mentioning me. The excitement eroded and in its place came frustration looking for credit, attribution, or pay. Shortly after, I started to learn about a network of media startups like Mediachain, Po.et, and Ujo leveraging Ethereum to build a more equitable media ecosystem. Little did we know that the core of these projects was a simple...

TITLES

Aug 12

Forked Self: How Mr. Misang’s AI Model Explores a Different Creative Future

Mr. Misang is a Seoul-based illustrator and animator whose work explores the individual's position within the anonymous structures of contemporary life. His densely composed scenes depict crowds, cities, and bureaucratic systems not as backgrounds but as active forces—environments shaped by desire, routine, and infrastructural logic. Forked Self, Mr. Misang’s model with TITLES, is trained on two separate bodies of work—one more recent and one comprising pieces created between 2010 and 20...