playlist
Updraft 01
The public Spotify playlist and the square that starts the whole Wednesday.
PointCast · OpenAI image generation · poster-image-engineISSUE 001 / PUBLIC VISUAL PINBOARD
PORCH → SKY
The visual pinboard for Updraft 01
Wood, wire, open windows, bright old cars, a useful road, and the kind of morning that remembers to come home.
This is not playlist moodboarding by color alone. The board follows the same arc as the compile: intimate strings, accessible crossover, open-road lift, present-tense air, and a grateful landing.
openai image
Porch Strings, 9:34
A new companion print: the kitchen is open, the road is visible, and the strings have already become weather.
PointCast · OpenAI image generation · poster-image-engine
midjourney archive
First Light
A yellow-and-white old car gives the crossover section somewhere cheerful to go.
Michael Hoydich · Midjourney archive · Open Road II
midjourney archive
Green Shade
The middle of the road trip keeps one foot in shadow and one in the warm sky.
Michael Hoydich · Midjourney archive · Open Road II
midjourney archive
Garden Road
Turquoise, yellow, pink: the accessible-pop turn without sanding off the strange.
Michael Hoydich · Midjourney archive · Open Road IIoutside door
How “Ripple” got here
The Grateful Dead’s official archive opens a lyric-and-history door onto the song that closes the issue.
Outside door · Grateful Dead official archiveoutside door
Shady Grove
The official Jerry Garcia archive for the Garcia–Grisman record at the root of this picked-string direction.
Outside door · Jerry Garcia official archiveoutside door
The Pizza Tapes
Garcia, Grisman, and Tony Rice: another official doorway into wood, wire, room, and ensemble time.
Outside door · Jerry Garcia official archiveTHE BOARD HAS RECEIPTS
Collected, generated, and linked are different verbs.
Every image card says where it came from. The ChatGPT / OpenAI pieces were generated for this issue. The Midjourney selections come from Michael Hoydich’s existing PointCast archive.
Outside doors remain links to their publishers. Their art is not copied into this board. The playlist remains public on Spotify; this page supplies the visual and editorial path around it.