allisone.bsky.social
PDX writer, artist, amateur scientist, culinary expert
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This is such an interesting and distinctive style. I feel like I've hit upon a great combination and warped the AI's sense of reality, but I can't help feel like it's ripping off someone specific. The abstract organic forms are Tim Burton and World of Frank. What are the desaturated halftone people?
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Always do something just a little bit harder than you're sure you can pull off. You don't have to double it every year. Just do a little more research, experiment a little more, push the art forward a little bit. So many work the same job for ten years and never learn anything. Also true of artists!
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As you acquire more skills and resources, you take on more ambitious projects. That's how it should be. That's NOT how it is in the world of work. If you're caught in a work situation like that, you need to prioritize getting out. But, if you're a self-employed artist, you can push yourself further.
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If you could imagine a job interview for a filmmaker, they'd be like, "Well, we want someone who's an artist, but also a businessperson, and great with people." You'd never find someone who's all of those things, though planners like the Duffer Brothers succeed all the time. You become those things.
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I love the misspelled words and unpronounceable letters in AI T-shirt graphics. It's a new form of synthetic Engrish, like, highly advanced and inoffensive because it isn't associated with ethnic stereotypes. I don't know if people would understand the idea, but screenprint shirts would be awesome.👕
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So glad to see a real artist who also has fun with AI. It seems like there are only Luddites and Bros anymore. Just a couple of years ago, there were tons of artists into AI.
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Hey hey! Ho ho! This protest song has got to go! Hey hey! Ho ho! This protest song is stupid.
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This is smart because it shows a methodical brain. It's not "writing to market" or selling out, but it's focusing on what he uniquely can do and furthering his art. To do big projects like that, like even one episode of The Rehearsal, requires prolonged focus and selectivity in what you'll work on.🧠
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It's not like Sascha Baron Cohen getting good at doing Ali G by going out on-camera and doing it. It's not like a YouTuber building up to professional sets and a film student production crew. It's not even some crazy guy with an idea talking a producer with technical/logistical skills into doing it.
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I think we're all just standing by because the work that needs to be done will destroy. It would be nice if No Kings protests halted the fascist advance and the West Coast could just chill out, but I don't think that's happening. I think Socialists are going to have to seize sectors of the economy.⚒️
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I would love that with a female figure on the mug, like those Japanese woodblock prints of women with octopuses.
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Pixar may be the one company that has its shit together, and the applications they get for an internship runs into the thousands. Maybe they can operate that way because they're the best at what they do, so many PhDs, but people want to work there because of the way they operate, not their prestige.
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It's not that there are so many spaceship engineers in the job market, but that people are willing to bet everything on a job. They'll specialize from 8th grade to fit a job posting. They'll move. No task is too small, they'll take any abuse, and they just want to have work forever. It's their life.
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As much as I like the idea of doing collage with AI output, I think I'll only use it to plug holes, when sometimes I can't find that last piece I need for an idea to work. It's an alternative to using pigment to make something fit. I might also generate patterns or replicate small magazine cutouts.✂️
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I've just been playing with weights to learn how the workflow works, but this combination is really interesting. It's part Tom & Jerry, part alternative girls on the sidewalk, part Japanese painting. I love the weird fluffy Tim Burton sculpture, and the desaturated figures. I've got 64 like this.
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The billionaire-owned media is the enemy. Their equipment must be seized and given to the people.
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A LinkedIn psycho would probably say you have to start at the bottom and work your way up. Start in the mail room, right? That's a sure way to get into R&D. No, get a Masters in Engineering so you can build spaceships. Then, Taco Bell will take you seriously enough to let you improve the equipment!🤣
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That keeps the grift going, but the end game, when their back is against the wall or they feel like they have the opportunity to commit to total war, like they have now with this global fascist movement, is to tell all those who were left behind that they WERE chosen, to be God's soldiers on Earth.🔫
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There's nothing original here, but it serves as a reminder that bands posed in front of banged up solid color backgrounds look great. There are so many murals and graffiti walls around Portland that would make great photo spots. Walls of roses. Gallery walls. If you have a DSLR and flash, go for it.
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Ordinary Portland sidewalk scenes.
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After a few tries, I have a winner. The ingredients were good, but it's the technique that makes it. Put 50/50 cranberry and cold water in a seltzer canister, add merlot to make it a red wine spritzer. It's sangria without the fruit! With carbonization, the cranberry flavor changes, no lemon needed.
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MSNBC. People give them shit, but they're the only good network left.
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Oh looky here, another horror movie idea. It's almost like we're living inside a horror movie, haha!
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I met a kratom shop owner here in Portland who's using AI to improve kratom cultivation in Indonesia. He's self-taught in organic chemistry through MIT OpenCourseWare. This is the kind of bizarre mutation that can happen through ordinary people working with AI. At its best, it's an alien technology.
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If we survive the coming cataclysm and rebuild a just world with Socialist and Environmentalist values, that world is still going to have AI in it. It's still going to have combustion engines (though hopefully they'll be phased out at some point). It's going to have hamburgers.
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I hate that guy, but I hope he's willing to go to war for California.
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I would love it if rightwingers started boycotting WalMart. Imagine that place being safe to shop at without fear of getting hatecrimed!