Shane F King

Oakland with no San Francisco elements? Interesting

Big difference between a healing brush and a prompt generated image.

Illustration of the moon as a woman by this artist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Bayard

I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out what the difference is between that example image, and this one, by this artist.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89m...

I can see how this is impressive at a glance, to someone who might not be familiar with the work of actual artists.

As Marshall McLuhan said, the medium is the message.

What complex things are you talking about?

Here’s the difference: photography is at its core based on the real world, and a human’s perception of it. Only someone who has never done the practice of going out and taken meaningful photographs would think that AI is the same as digital photography. Its more like hiring a digital illustrator.

Damned? Not under Guanyin’s watch!

How else could you reflect Canon’s inspiration and original name “Kwannon” aka Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and Mercy?

Lovely shots

I think thats the tunnel from Terminator 1’s chase scene

USC??

How many times must NYT overlook straightforward nazis before it becomes clear who they are?

Beautiful work!

…we made eleven of these prints today with species from her yard and mine, in my mother’s glassware.

20x24” unique silver gelatin photograms, Japanese maple and Hakuro Nishiki leaves

How violent/scary is it?

Small Polaroid photo of a woman tied up in japanese rope bondage (shibari) with flowers around her

From a recent #shibari #boudoir session. I love how ephemeral #instax #polaroid pictures are. One of a kind, analog. This was a beautiful session, working on the pictures for my blog at shanefking.com

They want fancier funerals, which they only get if they die in office

everything in its right place

don't look (away)

they are trying to ban Stick Stock

Was it Schumer or someone else who gleefully pointed out a month ago that Biden was more effective at deporting immigrants

Or championing “the opportunity to buy healthcare” instead of universal healthcare.

If you are old enough to remember 9/11 and “Saddam’s WMD” as the excuse for the war against Iraq, then you should remember that the CIA isn’t necessarily reliable.

Happens like that all the time in the movies

#bwphotography #leica #photography

“Disney starlets” has been a thing for almost a century at this point

“The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”

- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI

Been thinking a lot about Tetsuo Hara's words on AI lately, and this fits right alongside it

Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming

futurism.com/the-byte/cha...