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Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

Oh, I have that record! Got it from the always lovely LNFG in a “surprise me” bundle

Wee #pixelart #animation tribute to the final scene of #StarWars: The Clone Wars
#art

Just read the tpb of “Do A Powerbomb” by @danielwarrenart.bsky.social, @spicercolor.bsky.social and @ruswooton.bsky.social. Absolutely incredible stuff. Surprisingly touching, action-packed and laugh-out-loud funny. Cant recommend it highly enough, honestly do yourself a giant favour and get it.

Pixel art of a Scottish farmer wearing wellington boots, overalls, jacket and flat cap. He is carrying a shepherds crook he made himself and is accompanied by his border collie sheepdog.

My Papa had a farm in a small village in the #scottishborders where we spent every summer visiting when we were young. I always remember him in what was essentially his “work uniform” of wellies, dungarees, shirt & tie and battered old blazer, topped off with his trademark bunnet.
#pixelart #art

I fuckin love #HillStreetBlues, here’s some #pixelart of the early period and late period casts
#art #tvshow #8bit

The Fellowship
#pixelart #lotr #art #pixelartwork #tolkien

A monotone grey/black portrait of Atsu from Ghost of Yotei. Drawn in Procreate

A monotone grey/black portrait of Atsu from Ghost of Yotei, with a lightly distorted onryo mask overlayed in red. Drawn in Procreate

Atsu
#drawing #Procreate #art #game #ghostofyotei

Kids in 5 years shouting 'I'm sunsetting this interaction because you're at the intersection of wrong and stupid — no longer aligning with my strategic priorities' because they've used AI to reword 'fuck off'.

@slimecitymusic.bsky.social x Back To The Future #movie #pixelart poster
I think I got a bit carried away with this one
#glasgow #music #art

At this point I think it’s become an obligation. There’s no way I can keep this up. The output I mean, obviously I can keep up the stupidity.
@slimecitymusic.bsky.social x Three Amigos #movie #pixelart poster
#glasgow #music #art

No, _you_ have a problem.
Another day, another “ @slimecitymusic.bsky.social x“ #movie #pixelart poster, this time with a bonus variant!
#glasgow #music #art #Trainspotting

I could apologise for this, but you wouldn’t believe me and rightly so.
@slimecitymusic.bsky.social x Jaws #pixelart poster
#glasgow #music #art

Even by my own standards this is very niche.
@slimecitymusic.bsky.social x The Burbs #pixelart movie poster parody
#music #scotland #glasgow

Black & white drawing of a black & white cat called The Drummer. He’s in his customary pose of staring intently with his mouth wide open in an exceptionally loud meow

The Drummer.
Deaf, loud, pushy, sociable, friendly, loving, tough. Attempted thief of ice cream. Composer of epic poems.
Head #cat of the house

A black and white drawing of a damp and muddy border collie called Dexter on a light grey background. He was the best dog ever.

Another day, another drawing of Dexter. Miss you pal.

Zatanna
#cat #blackandwhitecats #art #drawing

Dexter
#dog #bordercollie #bestdogever

A digital pencil drawing of a border collie called Dexter. He’s lying in his side, head toward the point of view. His expression is happy, and his tongue is hanging out of his open mouth

A digital drawing of a border collie called Dexter. He is standing alert on a wet beach, ready to run and play

A digital painting of a border collie called Dexter. This is bright, modern work in a style that might qualify as contemporary pop art. A neon blue graffiti crown floats above his head.

A digital ink drawing of a border collie called Dexter. He is lying on his side, viewed from above. His head is toward the top of the piece and turned to face the point of view

So long Dexy, you were the best dog ever and I’m gonna miss you terribly

I honestly can’t tell you how much I love this dog. The actual King.

A drawing of the greatest dog of all time. His name is Dexter and he is a border collie.

Got to spend some time last night with the best dug I’ve ever known. He’s old, tired & very ill and it’s quite likely to be the last time I have in his company. I took him an obnoxious duck toy and some treats, gave him many pats and reassured him that he is and always will be the king of dugs. 💔

the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life

Have never known a being to dedicate every facet of his existence to the pursuit of his own comfort quite the way Artemis does.

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

in the pit

This entire weekend

Got nothing against this band, but let's just be a wee bit self aware here. This is the least organic explosion since oppenheimer.

"..the preconditions were all there: suffocating top-down control of the media, rapid technological change, let-them-eat-cake behavior among the courtier class, weaponized religious bigotry, mansions with hideously de trop ballrooms…

That story did not end well. This one may not either"

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