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palaeosinensis · 26 days
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EVERY artist who uses the internet to find photo reference could use this plugin. It's legit and I now have it on my machine.
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palaeosinensis · 1 month
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I am so incredibly deeply tired. Just exhausted. You can't delete anything off tumblr forever it's ever been reblogged. This data isn't theirs to sell; I gave my permission for tumblr to handle the files so the site would y'know WORK but I never gave them permission to sell this data. It's. Not. Theirs. I am genuinely not sure what to do. I love the tumblr format and the people here; I love their feedback and their honesty. People really interact with your work here rather than just consuming it and moving on. I guess all posting on tumblr itself is paused until a solid decision can be made. I'm genuinely sorry. I'm feeling crushed on all sides. The internet is where I do business, it's where I meet with my friends, it's where I forge connections with other artists...it's in a way my life. I can attempt to forge art connections locally but that's very situational with how well it works.
What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.
A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.
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palaeosinensis · 2 months
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Practicing inks. I wanted to see what a jaguar would look like in one of my boxier styles.
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palaeosinensis · 2 months
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Testing out some small block print square ideas. I’ve got some rubber scraps to either use up or make stamps with.
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Palaeo forging through the deep snow.
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The prospective red deer doe oracle card.
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The Smilodon prospective oracle card.
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palaeosinensis · 2 months
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I was trying this morning to distill what makes paleolithic European cave art...well cave art! And then apply it to an animal not seen in Europe. The technique was more important here than the results; I think the big bodies & smaller heads yet otherwise accurate features are a result of the artists having a sort of tunnel vision while working. As one drifts part to part lifting up the implement as little as possible the parts appear in proportion to their immediate neighbor. They are also distilled to their most important details & for the body that's a wide rectangular space. If you picture yourself working on a heavily textured wall as tall or taller than you are with the equivalent of a tea light (oil lamps) or a flickering torch you can imagine how easy it would be to get that kind of focused tunnel vision. While we see tunnel vision as a bad thing while learning art today in terms of cave art I just sort of see it as a natural consequence. You're going to focus really hard on what needs it; there are no erasers. Additional paint can't be bought at the store. Stone walls have limited access. You're going to make the best of every resource while you're there. Besides who said the animal had to be proportional anyway? You know exactly what you're looking at! Artist commentary: it was challenging deciding what was most important but also representing that important thing as accurately as possible. I feel like that's a common thread in all cave art from peoples across the world: draw what's most important. The rest will work out.
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palaeosinensis · 2 months
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I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.
It's right-handed
I am right-handed
There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly
I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.
There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.
I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.
A homo erectus made it
Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.
Who were you
A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?
Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?
Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?
Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?
Who were you?
What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?
What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.
Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?
Or has it always been divine?
Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?
Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.
The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.
Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?
I'm not religious.
But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine
I don't know what is.
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palaeosinensis · 2 months
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...I haven't given up yet. (In spite of the character's design this is indeed positive.)
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Now ain't that always the way?
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The pleistocene wolf skull card from my maybe-maybe-not oracle deck.
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palaeosinensis · 2 months
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Seriously if you ever think “that looks easy” then try to do it. And then again. And again. Maybe six or seven times. Consider it a series. Maybe it’s abstract art. Maybe you’re sewing cute bags. Maybe it’s writing a short story. Six or seven of them.
Then imagine making more of your thing-to-imitate. Every day. Weeks. Months. Years. Decades.
It’ll change how you see all art. But especially art that looks “easy”.
People who don’t do or create shit are always the most critical because they have no frame of reference. They severely underestimate how much energy it takes, how much fear and other psychic burdens need to be overcome, the sheer amount of relentless persistence, faith and self-belief it takes to put something, no matter how feeble and shitty, out in to the world.
It seems so easy just looking. “I could do that”. “I could’ve made that”. Well then do it. Look at the most feeble and easy looking creative work and then replicate it in your own way. And with no irony or hiding or joking- in all sincerity put your name on it - and show it to others. People you know in real life. As a representation of yourself. See how it feels. You’ll have a new appreciation and softness towards creative friends and strangers.
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palaeosinensis · 2 months
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Two cave art inspired Megaloceros bucks creating their own thunder in the grass. This is a subsection of something bigger I was trying, but this is lovely on its own.
The noise and swirling faint patterns are anti-AI measures and are not present on the actual art print.
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