Everybody’s busy listing the content AI can replace. I spent a day a week ago getting a sharp reminder of what it can’t. If AI can fake an interview now, why did we just spend a day filming real ones? A few times a year ds_moments and gopopfizz bring cameras into places like arrowmont_school , an historic arts and crafts school in #gatlinburg Tennessee, to capture something that turns out to be weirdly hard to fake: what it actually looks like to learn a craft by hand. A single answer in a single interview made the point for me and marketing director bekuhb We asked an instructor who teaches portraiture how she breaks the ice on the first day of class. I expected something ordinary. A game. A round of introductions. Instead she walked us through her whole practice. She has students draw a self-portrait from memory. No reference, no mirror. Just what they think their own face looks like. It’s revealing. It’s a little humbling. And it loosens up the whole room before anyone attem...