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Posts by Melissa E
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This is pretty typical of this industry…🫠
I love this…😮💨💖
I love this and swans! You did such a beautiful job of this piece. 😍
Birds on the Brain Art show at Gualala’s Art Center.
Sculptures at art show.
“The Quail” ceramics piece on a birds nest.
“The Quail” ceramics piece on a birds nest.
I submitted a ceramics piece of a Quail at the Gualala Art Center. The nest is an actual birds nest that one of the curators found.
Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.
Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Celebrating Indigenous People's Day today.
Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
Please keep creating, that is our only hope and defense against the tyranny we and those oppressed, face in society right now.
I am also feeling this exact same way. Really depressed 😔 and hopeless. But I feel Art has always been the spear that pierces the immoral in this world.
Join to be appreciated as a scientist on Bluesky. It’s a wonderful community that cares more about science and conservation than being complicit in the destruction of our planet.
“Didn’t these AI chuds think about use permission???”
I think they did. I think they were like:
Obama is the best of ‘em!
NO KINGS 🇺🇸
"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."
Carl Sagan on how humanity can create its purpose and make its existence meaningful.
☀️We’re launching Sun Day: a day of action on September 21st 2025 to show the massive support for a clean energy future and not give in to the wealthy and well-connected who want it shut down. ⏯️ Here’s your reason for hope:
Orange California poppy.
Coast.
Sun behind trees.
A Cecropia moth.
Everyday is EARTH day!
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.
I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person
I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.
Rocks and pink sky.
Joshua tree.
Cactus information.
Cactus.
Joshua Tree and it’s beauty, keep them safe. #NationalParks
Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!!
youtu.be/hycoCYenXls
Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
The aurora right above me
Thank you Liya! 💖💖💖