Steph Fizer Coleman

Back at it with the Bird Mail newsletter as of last week, promising very occasional emails with new bird art.

I declared this month to be Hummingbird Month and started by painting a rufous-crested coquette. So fancy, eh?

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A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

thanks Natasha!

Well I cant stand summer but these red ruffed lemurs don't mind.

Important June Dates

3 Egg Day
4 Hug Your Cat Day
4 Cheese Day
6 Donut Day
10 Ballpoint Pen Day
13 Pigeon Day
14 Gin Day
18 Picnic Day
18 Panic Day
19 Sauntering Day
21 Longest Day (WTAF)
22 Onion Ring Day
23 Pink Day
30 Meteor Day

It’s always worth repeating that when the tech guys say “we are going to disrupt x industry”, they mean they are going to disrupt the wages of the workers and make it easier for capitalists to exploit us.

When you outsource thinking, you not only get garbage, but lose your ability to think. When you lose your ability to think, someone else gets to hand you what they call “reality”.

I have those fancy pens I make on sale. thingsbydan.myshopify.com/products/pis...

For a hot second, I thought it said "earnest newt" and I was like yeah he's a serious guy, that makes sense 😂

well you've worked so so hard and it's just a joy to see the pieces finally coming together for you!

Amazing! So happy for you I could cry 🥹

You're a monster! That's a textural nightmare food 😂

It's penguin month in the Bird Mail newsletter and this week we met the gentoo penguin, known for being a super zippy swimmer.

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season three, but you already know that!

Thanks for sharing, Sarah!

thank you for not using AI!

Fairy Penguin from yesterday's edition of the Bird Mail newsletter.

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White-Eyed Thrush from yesterday's edition of the Bird Mail newsletter.

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A four panel meme from "The White Lotus," S3, Ep,6, Panel 1: Saxton: Why can't you just like my geneative A*I art? Panel 2: Chelsea: You have to be vulnerable enough to be bad at something to be good at it, but you're too much of a coward. Panel 3: Chelsea: Because you're soulless. Panel 4: Saxton disassociating

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe

American Robin for yesterday's edition of the Bird Mail newsletter.

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yup cheesecake is the correct answer! and congrats on a second book too! i'm so excited for you and can't wait to see your books out in the world 🎉

what are you doing to celebrate turning in your first book art???

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The first bird will land tomorrow.

It’s the Spring Equinox.

A great day to get outside, talk to moss, befriend a murder of crows, barter with ents, become a swamp hag, blame Guilder for your spouse’s disappearance, etc etc.

Rufous-throated solitaire for yesterday's edition of the Bird Mail newsletter.

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New edition of Bird Mail goes out tomorrow!