Kimberly Parker

Tattoo of a black dragon filled with stars on light skin

Tattoo of a celestial woman with a sun face and starry hair on dark skin.

A dragon tattoo on a shoulderblade on light skin

Three tattoos of snapshots of characters, collected on a thigh. Light skin and black and grey inks, with a pop of red.

Hello #PortfolioDay!!

I'm Nic, a queer tattooer in Toronto, ON. I specialize in illustrative tattoos of characters ✨ I love working with black ink & textured fills

Portfolio: www.sofarsogoodtattoo.com/nic
Flash book: www.sofarsogoodtattoo.com/nic-flash-drop
Booking form: forms.gle/PHNRSoBPPrvw...

she’s so good!!!

Graphite and charcoal drawing of a snake with a chopped tail encircling a mouse that has too many eyes, feet and tails. Matted with a thick black frame

Just put this one up today 🖤 from @kaitdrawsthings.bsky.social’s first solo show at Slice of Life

two circular cross stitch patterns hung in wood frames on a wall. The top one has blue thread on a white background and shows the Two Sisters mountains near Vancouver. The second is white thread on a black background and shows a starry sky over an island, with water in the foreground

also been slowly putting up art by dear friends here are two gorgeous cross-stitches by Kiel Murray of the Two Sisters and the night sky above Tofino 🤍

moved into a new place and finally gonna have a little space for just doing art :,)))

screenshot of some fancy winged boots

R E D W I N G S

The Games From Vancouver Steam Sale key art, indicating the sale is from Nov 21st to Nov 30th

The Games From Vancouver Steam sale is ✨ LIVE ✨

1000xRESIST is taking part alongside over 100 other games made by the incredibly talented and passionate Vancouver game dev community, with demos and discounts galore! 💙

Browse the event's Steam page here ⬇️
store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesFr...

Poems are now battlefields.

Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art.

Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.

After much anticipation, we're so proud to have finally unveiled the Greenhearth Necromancer demo!! You can check it out now -- play through the intro and then enjoy sandbox play for as long as you want! there's no end!

The two main love interests of the graphic novel Blue Hollow, Onion and Bill, share an intimate moment. Onion, a wizard, has walked down out of a gnarled oak tree to greet Bill, who pulls him close, as if just before or just after a kiss. Onion is followed by an array of creatures both normal and supernatural, butterflies landing on his footprints.

where I'll be waiting for you there

Studying trees #Procreate

Just donated! Blender is the best 🖤🖤🖤

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

This is SUCH a cool (neocities!!!) website

少年たちの探検

Blender Development Fund Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org

Hansry matching caparisons

i am staunchly against using this wave of unethically sourced, ecologically devastating AI tools, for the record.

but i think one way to look at this which is clarifying is through the lens of labor.

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.

So here:

Facebook memory. On this day 3 years ago Stella Sacco Nov 15, 2022 I am happy beyond words to say that Riot has told me the job is mine. 289 comments 2 shares

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.

2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

Another incredible JP Brammer article about music, culture, and how we find meaning in a society that consumes everything. JP you can’t keep getting away with it!!!!

Dragon painting from a little while back

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

#OC_tober day 4. Aida
"The crown you bestowed upon me"

wearing a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces (grocery stores, pharmacies, transit, healthcare) is one of the most basic forms of allyship you can offer disabled people you’re forced share space with.

Maybe we need to accept that social platforms at scale peaked and it's time to make different choices in terms of how we connect and communicate w/each other.

Unless we want to continue eating at the same restaurant that serves terrible food and complaining about how bad it is in the restaurant?

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

Coda.