#Curator

[rosieandthemoon]

Faerie Haven \\\ [•via•]

[dailyclassicart]

Max Jensen - "Fishermen in the Moonlight"

[adventureswithteddy]

Teddy sat on the bank of Blue Lake and pondered if he had ever come across a clearer body of water. With the only supply of water for the lake being that which filtered through a hillside from the lake above, this lake has some of the clearest water in the world. Teddy was overjoyed to have the chance to spend an afternoon basking in the sun, enjoying the surrounding mountains and crystalline waters.

[odioart]

MR FISH x ODIO DARKSTALKERS COLORFUL

[yourdailyqueer]

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 26 August 1954

Ethnicity: Native American (Seminole, Muskogee, Navajo)

Occupation: Photographer, painter, museum director, curator, professor.

[appldino]

Doodles

[museoparticular]

Village Procession (1787) by Francisco Goya

[muffymayhem]

BOOM redesign 💯🗣🗣‼️‼️🔥🔥

[unorchido]

PRIDE MONTH BITCHES

Sighs in i have too many parables

[tribow]

Ah yes let me listen to

While I get some work done mmm I wonder what's going on here.

"...This stuff is also happening on music platforms like Spotify too, so it's not like using another musical platform is really an option."

HUH!??!?!?! WHAT!??!?!?

"And even if it was, that shouldn't be the solution."

NO. NO! NOOO!!!

You can't, you can't just dismiss the competition! Youtube and Spotify are not the only places to listen to music are you kidding me!??!?! Both Youtube and Spotify are music platforms that heavily rely on algorithms to deliver music to you. Of course bots and AI slop are going to take advantage of that! This video talks a lot about how Youtube playlists and recommendations are getting ruined by the slop. That's a shame, really, but consider what you're saying here!

There are options!!!!

Bandcamp and Soundcloud are right there!!! They're right there!!!!!

I go to the first page of Bandcamp and what do I get??? Featured Artists being promoted by Bandcamp, a list of current top selling albums on the platform, new and notable albums that were released on the platform recently, and encouragement to explore the tags.

What do I get on Soundcloud??? Music I recently played, Recommendations based on songs I previously liked, Other recommendations based on who I follow and listen to, Soundcloud's featured artists that get promoted.

Both platforms use tags that are set by whatever musician uploaded the music. They both encourage you to curate your music yourself or explore what others have curated. Yes, there's some algorithm stuff on their front pages, but these algorithms are properly built to promote real people and not just bots taking advantage of the system. Soundcloud has a feed just like other social media platforms, and that feed is only for what YOU follow.

Heck, you could even use Audius! I don't personally use the platform myself, but it functions like an alternative to Soundcloud. It has much of the same appeal. Its front page shows what music is currently trending, but guess what, it has a feed and it encourages you to curate it!

I get it, a lot of artists don't use these platforms, but what ties them all together is that they're doing what we want them to do: Actually support musicians. Artists aren't incentivized to use the platforms strictly because they're less popular, but it doesn't mean these platforms are worse than Youtube or Spotify.

Spotify sucks ass! They're literally infamous for being infested with bots, fake genres, and barely paying artists. You can buy an artists album for $5 and you would be paying them more money than they would get if you listened to them on Spotify for 5 months total.

Youtube pays a bit better, but they don't give a flying fuck about music! They're trying to have the whole cake and eat it too with movies, games, and other social media interaction. (text posts, polls, pictures, and the such.) They want people to be using their platforms and ONLY their platforms for everything. Your eyes must be glued to their screens at all times, so what if the algorithm hands you slop? You'll watch it right? It'll promote whatever keeps you there no matter who or what it is! (as long as its legal)

Don't sit around waiting for these platforms to change for the better. LEAVE. If you want to support artists then support them on other platforms if they're available on there!

And I know, I know Soundcloud had a whole exodus some years ago because whoever makes the decisions at Soundcloud is some out of touch buffoon who's getting desperate and doesn't know how to make the platform profitable, but you know what happened with almost every stupid decision Soundcloud made? They rolled it back or it didn't follow through with it. They're at the mercy of the userbase. The platform has issues, but I'd never give it up for the lack of respect and slop Spotify and Youtube have. Soundcloud's my musical hellsite (affectionate)

Bandcamp, as far as I know, has 0 controversy outside of the big companies who bought them and laid off half the Bandcamp staff. That wasn't Bandcamp's fault! They just got fucked over by Epic, otherwise they're still doing great! Bandcamp just needs to modernize their platform a little bit. (HOW IS THERE STILL NO VOLUME SLIDER)

Again, no comment on Audius, but hell maybe I'll start using that too.

And if you're SO INSISTENT on using Youtube for music, don't rely on the algorithm for your content! You can curate what you see on there you know! Subscribe to people, actually look at your subscription feed! If you want to use recommendations, you can adjust that too! Every time you see some AI bullshit click on those 3 little dots and either click "Not Interested" or "Don't recommend channel". I hate Youtube's guts when it comes to music, but they at least gave you options to if you hate what the algorithm is showing you. Use them!

Fuck!

Sorry that video got under my skin, it's not a bad video all things considered, but that one point got me heated.

[curatorsday]

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Today, I came across this great article in the Elmira Star-Gazette published on November 27, 1940. It reads as follows:

Our Youth Too Soft? If the American people are inclined to get a swelled-head complex, some one is sure to come along every so often to remind them of their soft and flabby side. This useful service was performed recently by two educators, Dr. E.A. Cross, president of the University of Colorado, and Prof. P.A. Sorokin, head of the sociology department of Harvard. Said Dr. Cross: "American youths today lack qualities of exactness, precision, promptness and all the speed-up qualities in the present emergency, and are satisfied with mediocrity." They are glib, half educated, "impatient of hard work, lacking in respect for law or any kind of authority." It is up to the schools, he said, to "turn the next generation of Americans away from the soft, the cynical, the careless and the half baked toward disciplined and virile citizens." Severe words these, yet who shall say they are not deserving of earnest consideration? Whether or not this generation is worse than those of the past, it unquestionably has special temptations toward soft and aimless living that need special attention. Nor is discipline incompatible with initiative if it is rightly taught and applied. [emphasis added by me]

I guess some things never change.

[rosieandthemoon]

[dailyclassicart]

Hermann Dyck - "Dilapidated Chapel" (1854)

[adventureswithteddy]

There is something so captivating about gaining higher ground. Teddy looked out over the braided West Matukituki River as he worked his way up a nearby ridgeline. Can you blame him for wanting to sit here watching the day drift by?

[odioart]

Yoshiyuki Sadimoto x Odio Neon Genesis Evangelion Colorful New Eva colorings from Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's manga and flat artist Odio. Available soon from Ovrthnk.