Advertisement · 728 × 90

Posts by Melissa E

When can I get this variant cover?

1 week ago 0 0 0 0

💖

1 week ago 0 0 1 0

This is pretty typical of this industry…🫠

1 week ago 0 0 0 0

I love this…😮‍💨💖

4 weeks ago 2 0 0 0

I love this and swans! You did such a beautiful job of this piece. 😍

3 months ago 1 0 1 4
Birds on the Brain Art show at Gualala’s Art Center.

Birds on the Brain Art show at Gualala’s Art Center.

Sculptures at art show.

Sculptures at art show.

“The Quail” ceramics piece on a birds nest.

“The Quail” ceramics piece on a birds nest.

“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.

4 months ago 10 0 1 0
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.

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:

4 months ago 5418 2186 77 93

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

8 months ago 7622 6601 67 96
Advertisement
Preview
Blender Development Fund Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.

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

5 months ago 5607 4986 15 94
Preview
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!' "Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

6 months ago 5227 1578 30 245
Post image

Celebrating Indigenous People's Day today.

6 months ago 186 55 2 1
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.

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.

7 months ago 4578 1398 125 393

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.

7 months ago 4 0 1 0

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.

9 months ago 14 1 0 0

“Didn’t these AI chuds think about use permission???”
I think they did. I think they were like:

10 months ago 2820 666 32 10
Post image

Obama is the best of ‘em!

10 months ago 29692 6855 492 277
Advertisement
Post image

NO KINGS 🇺🇸

10 months ago 23390 5096 263 77
Video

"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."

11 months ago 31257 6079 305 321
Video

Carl Sagan on how humanity can create its purpose and make its existence meaningful.

11 months ago 2311 572 59 59
Video

☀️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:

11 months ago 66 32 5 7
Orange California poppy.

Orange California poppy.

Coast.

Coast.

Sun behind trees.

Sun behind trees.

A Cecropia moth.

A Cecropia moth.

Everyday is EARTH day!

11 months ago 18 0 0 0
Preview
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

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:

1 year ago 50986 10481 10808 3194
Video

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.

1 year ago 71224 14580 1192 961
Rocks and pink sky.

Rocks and pink sky.

Joshua tree.

Joshua tree.

Cactus information.

Cactus information.

Cactus.

Cactus.

Joshua Tree and it’s beauty, keep them safe. #NationalParks

1 year ago 28 0 0 0
Advertisement
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy

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

1 year ago 24309 11749 832 996
Post image

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

1 year ago 80294 34258 1176 1663
Post image

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

1 year ago 79122 17127 1287 1009
Post image
1 year ago 53 20 0 0
Video

The aurora right above me

1 year ago 15968 1212 321 89

Thank you Liya! 💖💖💖

1 year ago 0 0 0 0