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Inspired by Tyler Franklin's song (https://soundcloud.com/user-503704039/dogman) titled "Dogman"

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pointless bit of doctor who trivia of the day: when they made the seventh doctor's title sequence, one of the designers suggested it'd look cool if his face was silver. he meant that he could just recolour it silver, but no one got the memo and they literally painted sylvester mccoy's face silver for the photoshoot. and made him wink

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Elon Musk Is Stupid by KnowledgeHusk

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If you wanna feel optimistic about the future of AI-generated work and how it can't replace humans. I highly recommend KnowledgeHusk's recent "AI art was not inevitable" video.

Ai makes me sad for humans. thing about content creation is its really the one thing humans can do with no wrong answer. But we're so concerned with algorithms and money that now people think there's a mathematical answer to it. "If I just put in the right prompts and steal the right things, I win art, which js something you can and should want to do!" Instead of something you create being an unholy amalgamation of your life, influences, and what makes you you, it's just a combination of what's already been pushed on you by corporations and all the bias we have in post colonial times.

I also worry about a generations of creators who don't go through the process of creation. It's not like the whole "people are scared of the advancement of technology, we used to warn that paper would make kids not know how to clean slates!" Type fear. Art us a series of choices, both conscious and subconscious. I've even argued this in video games, how older games with more limited engines had to bake in their lighting and design instead of having it done for them, and those choices made for a different vibe, especially in horror. The more you have done for you, the less you put yourself in the piece

I had my husband spell check a comic for me a bit ago where I realized, mid reading, that I had put a LOT of my own issues in that story and character without even realizing it. So much so I had to cover my face and ears in embarrassment while he looked it over. To make something is to make choices and those choices tell you things about yourself you might not even realize, sometimes not even until someone else takes a look.

Idk if it's an autism thing, but I've always seen art as a form of communication. You're taking a little bit of you and showing it to someone, and they're taking a little bit of them and showing it to you. As someone who always felt like she was talking to people in a different language, it's freeing to be able to share things in a way I have more control over. If you're not putting that you in your work, I worry some people are never going to find that euphoria of communication in the way I did. That's so isolating.

I feel like art is a good chunk of what makes us human, and it's the one piece that lasts after we're gone and forgotten. If we stopped making new things, what's the point?

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March 27, 2023

As an artist, I don't think AI is, or ever has been the actual root of the problem.  But [What] AI has made me realize is just how little most people actually care for "art" as opposed to "pretty pictures". - Not-Fuji on a comment on YouTube Video by KnowledgeHusk

In 1839, the idea of practical photography was unveiled to the world. Nicephore Niepce followed by his associates Louis Daguerre, using metal plates, along with William Henry Fox Talbot, which used paper, both presented their refined process, using silver compounds. (Fun fact - this is the reason vampires don’t show up in photos, due to their aversion to silver. Same reason for them not reflecting onto mirrors, as mirrors use silver coating) Since then, artists and their critics have hemmed and hawed about one of the crown jewels of modern technology.

As photography started to become readily available to the public by 1900, the art world shifted to accommodate, the contention between a rejection of industry and focus on craft and realism as in the effort of John Ruskin and William Morris and the movement away from realism and the focus on ‘art for art’s sake’ - the aesthetic movement championed by people like James McNeill Whistler and the works like The Peacock Room, which is one of my favorite works of art. Let us not forget the impact of Ukiyo-e prints in the advancement of bold colors aided by new commercially available paint and colors, and invention of new synthetic pigments.

Of course, photography went on a similar journey, incorporating various features of the craft to create more aesthetical prints, from highly staged theatrical prints including the works of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (more famously known as Lewis Carroll) to bold yet sensitive natural photography, championed by people like Ansel Adams. Alfred Stieglitz’s work, combining the art-like composition to real-life events and happenings, is usually regarded as the beginning of true appreciation of photography as an artistic medium, beyond as a craft.

Of course, the difference between the Victorian Era and our own is the massive presence of multinational corporations in the world of art. They could single-handedly destroy the practice or embrace and destroy other forms of art. Our corporate overlord also limits us on the thinking of what things like AI art can provide for the artistic world. Even though the discussion seems to be about art, the arguments are overwhelmingly commercial and legal, reflecting the overwhelming influence of capital and money earning in our daily life and minds.

Photography did not end art as we know it. Perhaps realistic photographic and natural painting has become a niche subject, but art went into direction where technology couldn’t catch them, or incorporated them into producing unique experiences. Many artists and their critics dismissed the potential of photography because of its ease of use as George Eastman famously said ‘you press the button, we do the rest’. But photographers countered by providing scenes which cannot be done by paint and brush, the visceral intimacy of its subjects, manipulation of its process to create surreal images, and the new set of considerations and methods to focus.

If AI art wants to be recognized as a legitimate venture then it needs to prove that this technology can follow what photography paved, that it can go beyond simple reproduction of other art, which currently dominates the discussion regarding this technology. Photography also has been used to reproduce or repurpose artworks, much to the artist’s chagrin, but many would agree this is not a good grounds to ban the practice of photography altogether.

One of the more artistic endeavors in the AI art scene are people creating a series of images regarding an ethereal theme, like Sailor Moon as an 1980’s Dark Fantasy Film. Not only do we have a varied expression of the models, the endeavor presents an addition to the contemporal tendency of atemporal nature, not to recreate the past but our vision of the future as seen from the past. Many people saw Corridor’s ‘Anime Rock, Paper, Scissors’ as an affront to art and anime, but as Corridor explains the intention was exactly what early photographers like Julia Margaret Cameron, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Henry Peach Robinson, and Peter Henry Emerson were doing, using the new technology to go above and beyond what the current tools are capable of, or least recreate the practice in a new creative way. This experimentation can even be reached far before stable diffusion became realized, with Google’s DeepDream, which manipulated their machine learning process to create surreal images, much like Man Ray and the Surrealist used experimental films. Of course, AI videos are coming soon as well…

It’s these above efforts that should stand against the halcyon wishes of the current artists. Perhaps many only care for pretty pictures rather than art, but that does not dismiss art, nor it shouldn’t. AI art does not dismiss the notion of art through its proliferation of pretty pictures, it is the capitalistic society we live in that dismisses the pursuit of art, far before AI art was even a thing. Struggle against capitalism was present as photography was becoming readily available and it is here now, and artists have been fighting the struggle using whatever tool at their disposal. We might believe AI art is a tool of only greed, but if AI art can live up to the challenge that photography surpassed, it is important to understand how photographs were deeply influential in bringing civil rights to black Americans from Matthew Brady to television broadcasts of civil war protests, then we should look back at these early worries as foolish.

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I’m one of those weirdos who make massive playlists of video essays/reviews/whatever for background sound, so I’ll put a cut before my recommendations list, because it’s long.

Also these reccs are based on the content produced, if the people who made them did something awful or something, I’m probably not aware of it, and this isn’t an endorsement of them as people, just that they make good background stuff. Video Essayists/Reviewers (In no particular order): - Ross’s Game Dungeon (CW for outdated terminology sometimes) - TehSnakerer - ThorHighHeels (CW for gunshot sounds during outro) - Noah Caldwell-Gervais - Grim Beard (Opening skit is not representative of video quality overall) - Errant Signal - Designing For - Avalanche Reviews - Transparency - Matt McMuscles - Rerez - KingK - RagnarRox - AesirAesthetics - Raycevick - Whitelight - CyanLime - Micah Edmonds - MandaloreGaming - NeverKnowsBest - Strat-Edgy Productions - The Salt Factory - Austin Eruption - Indigo Gaming - I am Error, Charlatan Wonder - Liam Triforce - AntDude - Nafan - Leadhead - Patricia Taxxon - Lord Ravenscraft - I Finished A Video Game - Boulder Punch - Stop Skeletons From Fighting - thesummerofmark - DEMENZA'S GATE - Jacob Geller - Pim's Crypt - Warlockracy (CW for outdated terminology) - hazel - Bad Ghosts - Sophie from Mars - BadLad - The Nth Review - Caddicarus - Last Minute Essays - Jonii - CloudConnection - Paper Will - Marsh - Yuriofwind - Night Mind - coldcrashpictures - David J Bradley   - James Somerton - Phelan Porteous (CW for outdated terminology) - AdequateEmily - Xiran Jay Zhao - Style is Substance   - Ladyknightthebrave - Billiam - BREADSWORD - Big Joel - Overly Sarcastic Productions  - Nyx Fears - We're In Hell - ToonrificTariq - STRANGE ÆONS - Study of Swords - Negative Legend - iilluminaughtii - KnowledgeHusk & Whimsu - Slope's Game Room - MarcosHouses - Maggie Mae Fish - James Tullos - Skyehoppers - Bonsai Pop - CJ The X - BennettTheSage  (CW for old videos that have not aged well) - José - Mia Mulder - Technology Connections - Josh Strife Hayes - jan Misali - Folding Ideas - TREY the Explainer - Isaac Arthur - Tale Foundry - Curious Archive - E.D.G.E - Todd in the Shadows - Kim Justice  - Caelan Conrad - Sheep In The Box   - Thought Slime - Lace and Steel - Pamphleteer   - CritFacts - Shaun - Cass Eris Podcasts: - Well There's Your Problem Podcast - Srsly Wrong - Byte Marx - Flash In The Pan - It’s (Probably) Not Aliens - Kill James Bond

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All of u following me who happen to see this post, please reblog or reply with your favorite video essays or like… soothing videos (people making things or cooking things), or anything that’s nice to watch when I can only lie still like a pupating caterpillar holding a mug of tea. I could keep rewatching my favorite videos and the full series of the Japanese version of “How It’s Made”, that’s been going good so far, but I should get some variety. Thank you!

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