@headspacedad Is this true? Because I love the concept of bunnies practically flipping the bird
this is TRUE!
Rabbits rely on body language for the majority of their communication. They also rely on manners in a way that would make the Heian Era aristocrats look uncultured. And you don’t get manner dictates like that without ALSO knowing how to be passive-aggressive with them.
Rabbit flops are super vulnerable for a bunny. Their stomachs are exposed and they’re in a position that means if danger shows up they have to waste precious seconds getting up before they can sprint for safety. A rabbit flop means both ‘I’m so happy I can’t contain it’ and ‘I feel so safe I am going to be vulnerable and really let go’. Rabbit owners love seeing it. It means that your bun really does feel that safe around you. It’s a pretty high compliment from an animal that knows everyone’s out to kill them.
However -
it can also be used passive aggressively in the ‘you mean so little to me you’re not even worth acknowledging as existing’. It’s right on the same level as walking into a room and greeting everyone but one person. An enemy rabbit would be a threat. This rabbit? This rabbit isn’t even important enough to be a threat. They’re a nobunny and so I will flop because there is nothing in the area worthy enough to bother being aware of.
To humans it can look very much the same but trust me, the bunnies know exactly which is which.
receiving major psychic damage as my hand instinctively scrawls out the term “think pan”
On a mission to prevent a cult from reviving their dark god, things go horribly wrong. After a bloody battle, Klavoth was the lone survivor. Yet, he was not truly alone- Raum the Devourer, a cursed sword that was once wielded by the cult’s fell god, has made Klavoth as it’s new host. The sacred cloth wrapped around it’s blade seals away most of it’s demonic influence, but the blade’s voice is not so easily silenced. Seeking to rid himself of the cursed blade, Klavoth sets out on a new journey to fight the forces of evil, and also find redemption for himself.
Commission done for Pymk on twitter.
~3-3.5 hr late night delirium paint. working relatively constrained style-wise lately, nice to just go at it on a whim.
There’s a big storm coming for you. I’m gonna bring all the Team Fortress 2 mercenaries to your house, and they’re going to shoot rockets at you and beat you and your dog with hammers.
the “real art” discourse just echoes the weird reactionary sentiment that anything that’s vaguely abstract isn’t Real Art, “art” is subjective enough that it can come from myriad sources including using AI
sure, you could argue that a machine has no artistic intent, but that raises the question of whether you can derive artistic enjoyment from, say, the work of an elephant given a paintbrush, or the natural beauty of a sunset
there’s a ton of things to be concerned about with the current situation around AI being used to output illustrations - the non-consensual use of existing artwork to train algorithms, the potential for businesses to use it as a way to avoid giving work to existing artists, the fucking obnoxious techbro culture that surrounds AI in general right now - but to argue that what is ultimately an inanimate tool “isn’t Real Art” is no better than some 15-year-old redditor looking at an abstract piece and going off about it “just being colors and lines”
for the love of all things holy do not DARE utter the phrase “real art”. people smarter and more skilled than us have argued over this in circles for centuries, you’re not going to convince anyone of anything now. marcel duchamp would kick your ass, and rightfully so.
my personal criteria for art surrounds intent - the nature and meaning behind elements such as stroke, medium & composition. ML does not have a good grasp on this; it can only ever holistically define wholes as having certain meanings. it cannot directly subvert the meaning of something, only clumsily through with second-hand prompts and thousands of iterations with a guiding hand. for those reasons i don’t consider it meaningfully transformative.
while people can train their own datasets, most people will simply not be tech literate nor have the time, effort or resources to do so. the medium is the message, and ML art is largely artistic expression by way of tech bro. this is my main gripe with it as a whole, and why I’d steer clear of it even with consensual use of data.
BUT
art is subjective! there are objective standards as to the fidelity of how something is portrayed, but meaning is subjective. most of what i’ve written above means fuck all to most people, at least not through layers and layers of experience many lack the language and exprience to define. someone can enjoy a sunset and find infinite meaning in it, and that’s fine - but you will not achieve anything by yelling at them that the sun and the earth aren’t actually saying anything meaningful with their cosmic dance. if someone finds meaning from astronaut pretty lady lighting realistic good hands greg rutkowski it’s their right.
do not appeal to people with elitist sentiment; that is exactly what the ML art crowd wants you to do.
interrogate the meaning behind the process, don’t just point and admonish it. to do so is like saying my work as an artist is invalid because a lot of it is digital. i do not want to be caught up on that side of the argument by well-meaning folks.
I know the modern pop art landscape is horrid and incomprehensible, but people can and often do care about the labor behind our work more often than it appears - picasso and van gogh are beloved for more than just their technical skill.
our fears and concerns are valid and well-founded, but they won’t resonate as well when put forwards first. find common ground instead. lead with the reasons you love art; the labor, the meaning, the expression.
ALT
