AI learned from human artists, without the artists' permission. Everyone knows that. But AI is also poised to replace the artists it learned from.
Changing my Banner
Been a minute
When you’re in a high-pressure field and you have a disability, there’s a lens on you. It’s a magnifying lens; step in the wrong spot and you will burn. You are a burden. You are a liability. You have to be better; you have to be perfect. Any less and the cost-benefit analysis will fall against you.
Neurodivergence
There are many words for the many things that I am. Each of these words carries meaning, a set of other words stemming therefrom that describes certain behaviors and expectations of myself. Now, finally, at age 41, I have learned a new word to describe an aspect of my identity that I have always struggled with naming, a fundamental odd-ness that set me apart from others. I am autistic.
My Watercolors Can Drive (Or, What Happens When You Put Your Skills to the Side for 17 Years)
You don't paint the brights in over top; you paint the shadows where they need to go. You're painting the negative, not the positive space.
If you can’t go where the photos are honey shoot the ones you’re with
The "things" in a picture include both the things themselves and the negative spaces they leave behind; the foreground and the background; the colors and the shadows. If the "things" don't all work together, you don't have a good shot.
bye jeff
He was the calmest corn snake I've ever met - by which I mean he wouldn't immediately make a break for it if you tried to handle him. He was always interested in what was going on around him. He was a fun little guy.
Weekend Warriors!
Taking the time to line up a shot, to imagine how it's going to look when you're done with it, to just sit there and think about what you're going to shoot next, is an amazing exercise in mindfulness.
Can I Quit Yet????
There are times that you'll think, well, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to quit the day job.
AI can’t even put hair on a cat.
One cool thing about AI integration: it can figure out what a picture is probably about and sort out "subject" pixels from "background" pixels with reasonable accuracy. For that sort of thing, it's an incredibly useful tool that I'm glad to have in my arsenal.
How Not to Start A Blog
Are you a celebrity? No? Then no one cares that much about your personal drama. Your acquaintances might be interested in watching real-life reality TV play out in real-time but the universe as a whole doesn't. They've got actual reality TV for that.
Yndiri Creates 