Erika

Just snagged myself a fairy pin ✨ they're stunning

We are juuuust beginning to christmasmaxx

OMG these are incredible!!!!! That one of it flying towards you!

Every time I see this I squeal with delight

Perfect guy! I can hear the plap plap of his little feet

made a zine last month about the bus !!!! I love the bus!! 🚌 (1/2)

This made me feel so warm and fuzzy! The bus is wonderful 🚌✨

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YouTube video by LAIKA Studios Wildwood First Look: Where Magic Takes Flight | LAIKA Studios

I can't get through this first look trailer of Wildwood without tearing up. Beyond excited 🪶

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This little doodle made my heart flip flop. You are the cutest

She's thinking about buying more pearls

When that Peruvian pan flute hits, hellll yeah

haha no, but maybe my teacher was a fan

YouTube video by Jon Talks Beats If you wish you felt more creative, watch this.

My grade 3 teacher told us: "If you're bored, you're boring." And I think that was a succinct way to redirect an 8 year old's whine of, "I'm bored!" But I've since come to believe that boredom is incredibly important and as this video posits: The path to creativity
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Absolutely gorgeous illustrations!! I could stare for hours ✨

Ahhh, what a gorgeous colour! Breeeee what are you doing to my wallet

🙏 thank you!!

So lovely! Is the double cotton gauze top self drafted? I'm always on the hunt for patterns with big sleeves

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