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slow car

A Nintendo hope thar helps

jesus fuuuucking christ this manifesto is nuts. of course they can just say "we didn't say anything it was someone else's words!" but yowzers

working with an extremely limited art tool that has a 1bit 96x96px canvas, should I recreate...

1. a disco elysium portrait
2. a view from outside the submarine in Iron Lung

Our skills and all the things we have made will remain when this all crashes and burns and we inevitably move onto the next form of media.

Making long form videos as my primary creative output now has both contributed to “turn every part of my art into content” but simultaneously allows me to just log in like twice a month.

None of us can win right now but we can at least try to tailor the poison we must drink.

These are arriving today! like 2 weeks earlier than expected! That means they’ll start going out next week~

The cover of The Zium Digest

The painting featured on the cover of The Zium Digest is by the indubitably fantastic Cat Graffam. One of my favourite pieces from the Object Permanent series, and in general, one of my favourite works by Cat.

Thank you @catgraffam.bsky.social for your lending us your beautiful art.

Thanks for lovely conversation! ❤️

Let's Chat with Cat Graffam - MacPaint enthusiast and art person! YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos

This week's guest knows art when she sees it. In fact, outside art is a bit of her specialty. @catgraffam.bsky.social is a voice for digital art!

This week for MacPaint enthusiast and art person - Cat Graffam! youtu.be/GFaUG4WHxyM

you are truly the sweetest <3 <3 <3

thank you!

An illustration surrounded by the program ui of Kid Pix Studio Deluxe. The drawing is a recreation of Artemisia Gentileschi's "Jael and Sisera" painting. The right figure is a trans woman in a yellow dress with white sleeves on her knees looking down at the male figure. She is raising a hammer with her right hand and holding a tent stake against the male figure's head with her left hand. The male figure is wearing blue and red garments and is laying asleep on his side with his head in the lap of the woman. In the bottom left corner is a red smart phone with the logo of Grindr visible on the screen. Behind the figures is a pair of red glasses sitting on a nightstand.

"No Baroque Boys (after Artemisia Gentileschi's Jael and Sisera)" done in Kid Pix Studio Deluxe on an iBook G3 using an Apple Pro Mouse from 2000.

photo of a desk mat on top of a colorful checkered pattern background. The desk mat has a thick ultramarine border with a art program window that is pink and reads "untitled - catpix" across the top with pixel art of a cats face. down the left side are a toolbar, across the bottom is 7 boxes with the colors used in the mat's design. The canvas area is light blue and white checkered pattern and has a real mouse and keyboard sitting on top of it.

Close up of the desk mat program ui at a 45 degree angle on a blue checkered background.

photo of the desk mat showing the rubber backing being folded over the design.

I made cute retro art program inspired desk mats! All the ui was designed to resemble things like MS Paint, MacPaint, and Kid Pix. They are 24x14", 1/8" thick, dye sublimated, and have clear stitched edges with a rubber back.

You can pre-order them here > www.catherinegraffam.com/shop/retro-a...

Artist Recreates 17th Century Baroque Masterpiece On Kid Pix With five days and 112 colors, Cat Graffam commits to rendering Artemisia Gentileschi’s violent masterstrokes on software best remembered for zany sound effects

Thank you for the write up in Kotaku @zaaack.bsky.social ! kotaku.com/artist-recre...

Can I Recreate a 17th Century Masterpiece in Kid Pix on an iBook? | CAT COPIES YouTube video by Cat Graffam

new video is live: "Can I Recreate an Artemisia Gentileschi Masterpiece in Kid Pix on an iBook?"

youtu.be/aV-hUM-JKCk

signed 11x14in archival giclee prints available in my shop! catherinegraffam.com/shop

An illustration surrounded by the program ui of Kid Pix Studio Deluxe. The drawing is a recreation of Artemisia Gentileschi's "Jael and Sisera" painting. The right figure is a trans woman in a yellow dress with white sleeves on her knees looking down at the male figure. She is raising a hammer with her right hand and holding a tent stake against the male figure's head with her left hand. The male figure is wearing blue and red garments and is laying asleep on his side with his head in the lap of the woman. In the bottom left corner is a red smart phone with the logo of Grindr visible on the screen. Behind the figures is a pair of red glasses sitting on a nightstand.

"No Baroque Boys (after Artemisia Gentileschi's Jael and Sisera)" done in Kid Pix Studio Deluxe on an iBook G3 using an Apple Pro Mouse from 2000.

The anti-LGBT-pro-Israel groups rallying around "protecting kids" from social media and the big tech companies who can afford to weather lawsuits and crush competition will skip into the sunset happily knowing they are suppressing us and dems are too stupid to see they are getting played.

Every news outlet claiming the recent social media lawsuit verdicts are a huge win AGAINST big tech makes me feel like I'm going crazy. If ya'll really believe this will not directly BENEFIT big tech in the long run you are either a short-sighted idiot or fell for propaganda.

You think I don't understand how hard it is for farmers in the US right now? Ok well, this year I was only able to harvest 4 gold quality pumpkins instead of 5 before fall ended and now all my crops are all fucking dead and I won't be able to get a greenhouse for another year.

instead i downloaded some digital pet games for when i want to be on my phone (i think hank green has one specifically for this purpose), or keep my switch next to my bed so I can play stardew, or use my e-reader. adjusting habits instead of throwing them out whole cloth tends to work better imo

forming a slightly less-bad-but-similar habit to replace the old doomscrolling one instead of just trying to go 'no screens' or something helped me. like in the morning when I dont want to get out of bed immediately, replacing going on tiktok with just 'getting up' wasnt going to happen in reality.

Yooooooo

will be on view at 13forest in Arlington, MA for their 'material self' show, opening this saturday.

acrylic painting of a POV of a hand holding a butcher knife on top of a small plushie of Bluey laying on a white cutting board upon a dark background.

'not for real life!' - acryla gouache on wood

Most of what I make now is under a completely different handle & identity, and I can't tell you how much happier I am not dealing with the weight of everything being associated with my real name.

If you are feeling suffocated by professionalism, join other weirdos in making weird art privately.

I still love making long youtube videos so that is probably all I'll continue to do on the internet apart from sporadic art posts.

Disengaging has cost me relevance and income, but I am much happier for it and recommend you try to adjust your internet diet if you feel miserable too.

The last 2 years I changed my internet diet to cut out all short form video content and most short form text content, replacing it with long form videos, newsletters, podcasts, joining niche communities and groups, and playing games with my partner.