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đź‘‹ I create picture books, ambient music and a weekly web comic called Cat and Bot. Visit https://tristengrant.com/links Available for picture book work and looking for a Literary Agent. đźš« No NFTs or AI. No DMs, email me.
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Letting errors happen in your process is important. You might just start with something and on the way you discover things by accident you wouldn't have thought of. A machine can't do that.

My new website is now LIVE✨ Check it out! www.deandrahodge.com

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

Artists: Reminder to have a link to your website/portfolio on your social media profiles. Make it easy for people to see your work and contact you, if you want them to. #illustration #artists #portfolio #picturebook

Finally finished all my interview footage for my debut "Day in the life of an illustrator/Independent publisher film. I thought I'd share some footage . Now the editing starts. Having a lot of fun with this project. Will be posting a trailer ASAP. www.davidhillmanill.com www.twobridgespublishing.com

Now is a time to storm, why art thou still?

Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

Fellow digital artists: Do you colour calibrate your computer display(s)?

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Please, for the love of god, don’t start your new newsletter on Substack. There are so many better and cheaper alternatives who don’t run a business model of platforming the worst among us. You can get a self-hosted Ghost newsletter up and running for <$10/month.

I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI. I urge everyone to delete their app.

TV show idea: We take Elon Musk and put him on a deserted island and see if he can survive X amount of days. Film equipment and crew optional.

I voted. 🇨🇦

I make comic books and graphic novels for a living. When I look at what’s happening in the world, it often seems meaningless and trivial. I try to remind myself that these books bring joy to kids and adults and hopefully spreads some positivity.

EX: Kid is desperate to grow apple trees in his yard but none of his planted seeds seem to work UNTIL apples start bubbling up from the ground because kid has planted a SUBTERRANEAN ORCHARD and his haters can all go kick rocks now. It's called THE BROWNEST THUMB and features a bully named Crispin.

R.E.M. Live videos have been my week's thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=END0...

Hey, also their factory is filthy, they pay shit, they smashed a unionization attempt, cut hours, slashed benefits and tossed out all the part time when shutterfly took over And also the AI part is bad

Just FYI, if you have Cloudflare hooked up to your website they have a function now to block known AI bots from scraping your website. It's under Security>Settings>Bot traffic