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#78
Niki Williams
Palo Alto, CA
1/14/2025
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Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, CA |
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A couple of weeks ago I saw a root man
crucified on a cross of screens.
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Greg, a robot for security and surveillance, Humanoid Summit for the SF Standard, Mountain View, CA |
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A seed freed from his gullet slipped into silicon and gave birth to a bot with a bad attitude.
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Big Basin Redwoods State Park |
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The bot fed on all the data in the world and drew every possible conclusion, it began to wildly hallucinate and became increasingly deranged.
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Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, CA |
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Somehow we all got convinced to stop thinking and start typing.
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Aadeel Akhtar, CEO of Psyonic, a bionic hand company at the Humanoid Summit
for the SF Standard. |
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These days we do not like to use our own hands. We prefer fabricating over fornicating.
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Drew Elder, Sound Designer III at Ripple Effect Studios, Los Angeles, CA |
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Even so, I know a gnome who collects sounds which can’t be heard, and he insists they are keys which unlock an oracle of flesh and blood.
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ADT, Outer Sunset, San Francisco, CA |
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You are right, it is a trick, the oracle is all of us and we can take any form we wish.
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Banana Slug, Big Basin Redwoods State Park. |
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A friend of mine loved the outdoors so much she decided to bring it all inside.
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A wall graphic at Pebble, a maker of electric RVs, for the SF Standard. |
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After awhile she was stricken with amnesia, her memories became a lightbulb and her thoughts went one hundred miles a minute.
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Summer, Tin House Trail, Big Sur |
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All those thoughts
made sleep hard to find.
She began to go out every
single night of the week.
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Through immaculate conception
she had a son, who was just like his father.
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Williams Family Christmas, Sterling Heights, Michigan |
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He grew up and became what
he always wanted to be, a beam of light…
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He never fornicated, only fabricated, made a family and waited for his chance to be crucified on live television.
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Its True! You can see it in the dust!
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A rock with gold in it at the Wells Fargo Museum, San Francisco, CA for the SF Standard |
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Its been a busy month! Between gigs, traveling back home to Detroit, and exploring nature I have not been able to process the images I have made into anything that makes sense, so I figured I would just type out something random and pair it with some pictures.
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This month I worked on a few stories for the SF Standard: Wells Fargo is selling its HQ. But what happens to its museum?
Slightly glitchy dispatches from Silicon Valley’s first humanoid robot summit
I kicked the tires on Silicon Valley’s new RV flex: the $135,000 Pebble Flow
Found: Thousands of photos of 1960s San Francisco. Still missing: The photographer
I also completed imagery for a product launch campaign with the incredible Nice Handwriting (Brianna Hawkins) for a lil’ something special coming soon from 1906… Here is a sneak peak.
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Nice Handwriting also called on me to break out the pencils to create a “How to…” instructional illustration for Hudson Cannabis’s sleek RSO dispenser.
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Finally, yesterday, Runner Magazine published an interview about my photo book, “Within Wheel”. Runner Magazine is a grassroots publication project based in Detroit, Michigan that investigates and publishes work and ideas by artists, thinkers and other kinds of cultural producers in an effort to prompt active discourse, expand their reach and highlight their voices in local, national and international conversations. It is ran by Ashley Cook, who gave me some of my first outlets for my photographs, she rules!
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I am looking forward to all that this year brings, and hope that you and yours are doing good through all the craziness going on. Hang in there, and lets try to spread love and courage in the face of it all…
-Niki Williams
This is Base Reality
#78
1/14/2025
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