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I am Florian Lohse, a designer/engineer/strategist working at the forefront of filmmaking technology with ARRI Camera Systems.

Artificial Ocean is my regular publication on mundane futures for the technosphere – feel free to subscribe!

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This site features a collection of insights I’ve gained over the years on system design and shaping better futures, as well as observations from the filmmaking industry.

All content here is work in progress by nature.

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2026

• The Best of all Possible Worlds
• Start With a Hunch

2025

• What I Learned from the Silicone When I Fixed My Windows
• I Tried to Be a Data Center but Ended Up on the Floor
• Drive vs. Agency
• History Machines in the Margins
• Stoic Unsettling
• Large Language Agency Traps
• I Respawn in the Same Place Every Morning
• AI Is a Charming Consultant
• My Globish Identity is Bold and Shallow
• Personal Experience is the new Rare Earth Metals
• Futurist ruins are radiating contingency
• Systems Build in Calm Are Tested in Storms

2024

• Franchise storytelling has become cultural fracking
• Streaming is the new Cable, more elegantly commoditized