Allen Bryan

a view straight up at a fall canopy, a tree with red leaves comes in from the lower left, and a tree that is still green comes in from the upper right, meeting in the middle

red and green
#photography #fall

a view directly up at a canopy of golden fall foliage

golden leaves
#photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #fall

Like, if we're generating something, it's generative. But the people I'm talking about do so with intention, and they write the systems that do the generating.

Algorithmic art is a more common term, the example I always think of is Casey Reas who does live pieces that grow organically. I was going to say demo scene stuff also qualifies, but that's usually totally deterministic even if it is algorithmically generated.

I also feel like it kind of throws genuine generative artists under the bus, ironic since AI boosters have always wanted to claim them as their own when what they do is very different.

Agreed, I also think even the term "GenAI" isn't especially helpful, a lot of people seem to have decided that's the line they're going to draw between good math and evil math, when an AI that generates proteins is just as generative as one that generates knock off concept art.

Thanks, I was getting back from work and that was the very last of the light, so just those are highlighted

I really thought he would be an immortal cyborg tbh, just too evil to die

bright orange leaves lit by low evening sun

more film fall colors today
#photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #fall

moss growing around exposed tree roots with a seed of some kind nestled in them

more moss for monday
#photography #moss #mossmonday

orange and yellow leaves and blue sky

some swirly bokeh fall colors
#photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #fall

a white ear-like fungus grows from a gap in a decaying log

It is also friday again
#photography #fungifriday #fungifriends

black and white photo of a spider on a web at night

a spider for halloween
#photography #bugsky #Arachtober

orange fall leaves backlit by morning sun

gonna keep posting old fall stuff while I shoot new fall stuff
#photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #fall

am extremely intricate carving of three angels flanking two side profile portraits of men with caps, set inside recessed hexagons, all extremely detailed

I may as well post this old favorite while the louvre is in the headlines, I usually try to avoid what I call "a good photo of someone else's art", but this one's too good. Guessing these guys are french heroes or saints or something.
#photography

two brown, curled leaves pointed towards each other on a sunny, mossy rock face

moss and leaves
#photography #fall #moss #mossmonday

a creek with almost no current filled with leaves of orange brown and yellow, in the top left ripples from a single drop of water spread across the surface

more film stuff from falls past
#photography #fall #filmphotography #believeinfilm

a row of geese on a log in the middle of an algae-covered pond, on the shore in the background trees are just starting to turn yellow for fall

one of my favorites from fall a few years ago, I always liked how the rhythm of the birds matches the trees.
#photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #nature #fall #birds

three small, light beige, gilled mushrooms grow from a mossy log, another bunch can be seen out of focus in the background

a larger group of the same mushroom

It is Friday once again
#photography #fungifriday #fungifriends

I make sure not to have a visible clock or look at my phone. It doesn't help me sleep, but it means I can ignore that dread until I see light coming in through the shades.

It's not a waste for them, they're buying future pardons, or FTC approval of their next merger / acquisition.

I think it's entirely possible for something to have rewatch value but for the first viewing to also be something special, not knowing what's coming. A spoiler shouldn't ruin something completely, but I don't agree that they shouldn't matter at all.

the stalk of a small pink/orange plant grows on a mossy hillside in the woods

posting whatever this is today
#photography

This is part of a trend I really don't understand, where posting pics is the point of doing things, rather than, y'know, the thing itself.

There are at least a few things you could maybe do with AI, just not the mass adoption that boosters are expecting. nfts have basically zero applications, they exist to introduce scarcity into a system designed for infinite perfect copies.

moss spreading over a decaying log

some moss for monday
#photography #nature #moss #mossmonday

a single brown leaf rests on a log, backlit by the sun

from the first days of proper fall here a few weeks ago

#photography #nature #fall

tiny pink flowers spouting from a thin, grassy plant at the edge of a pond

these pink/purple things have been blooming everywhere since the beginning of fall
#photography #bloomscrolling

I didn't leave Twitter because those guys were on it, I left because the algo was pushing their posts, serving me straight up racist programming every single day. Disturbing to think what a more impressionable person might take away from that.

I bet she thinks tea is British though