Anna Noby

Posts by Anna Noby

• Why Do People Doodle? What the Research Actually Says

  Doodling is supposed to boost your memory by 29%. The real story is more complicated and more interesting, here's what the studies actually found, caveats included.

• Does Drawing Actually Reduce Stress? What the Research Shows

  A 45-minute art session measurably lowered cortisol in most participants of one study, and being bad at art made no difference. Here's what the research supports, and what it doesn't.

• Read the Storyboard Artist Job Listings

  You don't need a prediction about AI in animation. The job listings say it plainly: storyboard artist roles now ask for Runway, Kling, ComfyUI, and LORA training experience.

• 25,000 Doodles Later: What We Saw When Nobody Signed Their Name

  We put a blank canvas in an art installation in Los Angeles and 25,000 people drew on it anonymously. No names, no likes, no audience. Here's what showed up.

• Twenty-Five Thousand People Drew Something. What Kind of Object Is That?

  Twenty-five thousand people drew on one canvas in Los Angeles. Is the result an artwork, a document, or a kind of object museums do not yet have a name for?

• How Do You Collect Something Nobody Signed?

  Museums can collect a single digital artwork, but collecting 25,000 anonymous, unauthored, unbounded drawings is a different and largely unsolved problem, and this post lays out what makes it hard.