Erika

OH BANANA

Look, I love it as much as the next gal. It's just that the soft Herzog monologue in my right ear makes it hard to focus on punching bananas

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Grateful I got to experience the wonderful space you created at Teddy's and I'm really glad your health is climbing into the front seat

I found a free (functional!) drafting table on the side of the road when I was younger. The way I SPRINTED home to ask my dad for help loading it into his truck

A poobble

A perfect little lad

🥰 <3

Thank you! It's fun mashing styles together

close up for texture

A textural illustration of a kingly statue (center), detailed with gold, over grown with moss and ivy, and standing in a forest grove. There are dark silhouettes of trees in the foreground where birds perch. The statue is facing the viewer straight on, resting his hands on a sword in front of him. Birds have taken up residence on the statue, making their nests in the mossy crook of his neck and arm.

The king never requested statues of himself, though that didn't stop the sculptors. Their beloved king was immortalized in the woods where small creatures were inexplicably drawn to the simulacrum, just as his human subjects were drawn to the original.

For the April True Ref challenge #TrueRefDT003

Such a simple powerful moment. So lovely Nick

HECK YEAH! That was awesome!!!! The expressions are so perfect and the flow of everything is 😙👌
Can't wait to see more some day!

I absolutely love all of these. Your masks are incredible!

correct, this faerie owns my back

I wish I could turn my head like an owl and look at her more often

it's too late

Design by: @yugentear.bsky.social ✨

A drawing of a long necked faerie. They have bug wings coming from their head and tall multi-branched antenna. She spiky. She is staring directly at you

I know I shouldn't trust a faerie but this one has my back

These are so lovely!

I really enjoy these wonderfully odd bird creatures! And the blues are lovely 💙

Magazine cut out collage of a face in a face. (It’s goldblum) Flower cut outs around neck, it’s thinking about a hummingbird in Uranus

Magazine cut outs. Three screaming animals on left (two birds and a horse). On the right a calm horse adorned with flowers looks on, unbothered.

Magazine cut out collage of a squirrel with wings hugging a unicorn. A man to the far right wiggles his magic fingers at them

Humming birds win the war against horses in this magazine cut out collage. A rearing horse with the face and wings of a humming bird, a horse with goldblum’s eyes, and just a normal humming bird all over da page.

Got a bunch of magazines from a used book store and spent the day collaging ✂️📚

Gorgeous! I wanna explore all up in there

Sword birds! This is beautiful ⚔️

✨✨✨THANK U✨✨✨

Stunning!! In the flowers! wow 😍

So siiiick

It counts! Bouquet shaped for sure

Watercolour painting of a woman cradling a bouquet of roses. She is wearing a gown, a flower crown, and has long hair to her waist. She holds an open hand near her face and looks at the viewer

If you're seeing this it means you need to gift someone you love flowers/plants. I don't make the rules

Aw yeahh, the bird magic is working ✨