ARTIST REVEAL: PRAYFIRSTDIVA A new interactive sculptural installation, made for the first edition of ASMBLY. November 19 · Demo Room, Toronto Community presale ends Oct 21: ctrlshift.community

Everything we've ever made still dreams. CTRL+SHIFT. The signal for creative intelligence. ctrlshift.community

What is CTRL+SHIFT? A monthly creative-tech event series on how technology is changing what it means to create. Year one: 14 sold-out events, 40+ speakers, 120 people a night, 1,300 on Luma. Come for the talks. Stay for the room. ctrlshift.community

VOL. XIV, recapped. Three talks in Toronto, one thread: more creative decision making. Talk to the system. Art direct the engine. Direct the shot you never had to stage. ctrlshift.community

Show the world what you are building. Automate the middle, never the ends. A wedge beats a promise. And five questions to audit your system honestly. Lessons from Vol. XIII on building in public.

We're entering an age of generative abundance. Producing more isn't complicated anymore. Producing something tasteful still is. Four questions we keep asking, and the values we use to answer them.

Vol. XIV is this Friday. Sept 18, 7 PM at Ambition, Toronto. Generative AI, creative coding, agent workflows, hybrid VFX, virtual production. RSVP: ctrlshift.community

You've seen the 3D demos from Astra and Fable. Here's how they're actually made.

Building in public is a systems problem. Not a content habit. Accountability. Feedback. Distribution. Most people optimize for one and wonder where the other two went. The failure mode is mistaking output for progress.

What people are building with Claude Fable 5.1, one week in: a helicopter in Three.js, a kart racer in one shot, a model train yard in the browser, a drawing turned into a SolidWorks part. Sources on every card. ctrlshift.community

OpenAI just shipped GPT-6 Astra. It works inside the software, not next to it: a 3D city in Unity, a transmission in FreeCAD and Blender, a house in 3D from one photo, a GTA 2 style game from a single prompt. Field notes, with sources on every slide. ctrlshift.community