Creating is: Stare at blank page Despair Do anything else Become furious with self Despair Sit down and bloody do it Hate every minute Look at what you’ve done Despair Fix it It won’t sodding work Despair Have a breakthrough Fix it Look back at what you’ve done Dopamine - ThreadSky

gralefrit.bsky.social • 79 days ago

Creating is:

Stare at blank page

Despair

Do anything else

Become furious with self

Despair

Sit down and bloody do it

Hate every minute

Look at what you’ve done

Despair

Fix it

It won’t sodding work

Despair

Have a breakthrough

Fix it

Look back at what you’ve done

Dopamine

Reposted from Reid Southen

People who use AI image generators are more consumer than creator. It goes like this:

Ask for images.

Get dopamine.

Decide to share them.

Get dopamine.

Decide you're an artist, that this was hard work, and that you're a secret genius with sublime taste.

Get that dopamine.

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seanreynard.bsky.social•79 days ago

Mine is Ask Ai for images based on my promos- not get dopamine as it’s completely not what I wanted- rephrase prompts- not get dopamine again and start getting really pissed off with how disgustingly naff and tacky it’s imagery is- go to a very early version of stable diffusion -

seanreynard.bsky.social•79 days ago

After spending about 2 hrs of re re re re re editing…. You realise you’ve spent the same time as you would making completely from scratch! I personally think if you use Ai to assist partially then it’s fantastic! But don’t see point of full prompt! And yes! Consumer! Consumer!! Not producer!

seanreynard.bsky.social•79 days ago

Don’t people who go “Full Retard” with Ai feel empty inside? Bit like Dj’s getting praised for playing other peoples recerds!!

seanreynard.bsky.social•79 days ago

One should never get praise for being a Consumer!

seanreynard.bsky.social•79 days ago

Promos?

gralefrit.bsky.social•79 days ago

If there’s dopamine at any stage except the “beating the fucking thing into submission” point, then that’s not any sort of worthwhile creative experience. Certainly not one that anyone else is going to enjoy.

gralefrit.bsky.social•79 days ago

This morning I’m doing an edit where I will be removing all the bits I got a dopamine hit from while originally writing. The bits I enjoyed filling the page with. Because those are the shit bits, it turns out, annoyingly, as ever, and can probably go.

longdencalling.bsky.social•79 days ago

"Sure, writing is great.

But have you tried 'having written'?"

gralefrit.bsky.social•79 days ago

That’s the mantra.

monc.bsky.social•79 days ago

I can relate to this as an artist. Creativity is more than process. Process is the means to express and the finished article is just a record of the struggle.

gralefrit.bsky.social•79 days ago

Exactly.

gralefrit.bsky.social•79 days ago

My first reaction to the delightful success of the new podcast was to make a “bonus reel” of alternate takes and fuck ups and dead ends - for my own benefit - to remind me how hard it was to make it, to memorialise the process. To not forget that for most of its life, it was no bloody good at all.

monc.bsky.social•79 days ago

Yes! When I look at a painting I like to see the bits the artist has gone over a few times to see their struggle to forge something out of it. Hands that started off as a bunch of sausages is one of the best examples. Where you can see the scrapes and brush marks in the effort to get them right.

flatmm.bsky.social•79 days ago

Sounds like you too are a user of Ansys😅

rathergood.bsky.social•79 days ago

My process also tends to include:

Dread

Creeping horror of impending catastrophe

Also when something acceptable finally emerges, a period of wondering if everyone will hate the thing when we put it out.

squireknottyash.bsky.social•79 days ago

I agree with all this but you missed out
‘Eat lunch alone at 11.59’
Otherwise bang on.

gillkirk.bsky.social•79 days ago

📌

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