#FOCUS Gallery

[focusmagazine]

"Purely AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted by US courts"

This is interesting... "Purely AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted by US courts." So does that mean that if you take an AI-generated image and alter it in any way, it can be copyrighted? Any thoughts?

This is interesting… “Purely AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted by US courts.” So does that mean that if you take an AI-generated image and alter it in any way, it can be copyrighted? Any thoughts?

[ewwww-what]

Kristen Applebees spotted staring at Fig Faeth mid-prayer again, which could mean nothing.

[writeyourdarlings]

DOES IT EVER DRIVE YOU CRAZY JUST HOW FAST THE NIGHT CHANGES?

[strawglicks]

friends :)

[horsemeatluvr23]

i can't be bothered to edit this properly so here is a bad photo of my sketchbook <3 i didn't wanna draw a person today to give myself a 'break' so instead i spent an obscene amount of time drawing wels castle (ft hypno's fireworks hehe)

[lightningidle]

Fig's line "I don't think I'm an artist, I think I'm just a good friend" has not left my head at all. Just...

You're Fig Faeth and your horns came in over the summer and you pick up the bard class as a form of adolescent rock 'n' roll rebellion, and it works! It's exactly the outlet you need! You give a guy you just met drumsticks and you start a band and it's good enough that within a year and a half you're touring. You are, in every sense, good at being a bard.

And then, finally, your junior year, you start to take it seriously. Your art goes from an outlet and a form of rebellion to a practice. A discipline. (Can rebellion exist within a discipline?) Your classmates know what they want to do with their work. They all have a thesis statement. And yeah, there's cohesion in the music you make, but you've never had to think about why you make it. You've never sat down and dissected what it is about bass that speaks to you. You've never poured over your lyrics to pick at any deeper meaning. Why should you? You don't play music for a grand design, you do it to... huh, why do you do it?

(Your art is the one form of self-expression that feels as safe as Disguise Self does, because even if you're pouring your heart onto the page and then screaming it in front of thousands of people, it's not like you're really making yourself known. You can sing I'm lonely, I'm scared, I'm furious, and your fans will sing it right back, and there will still be the distance between performer and audience to keep your heart safe.)

Now you're being asked to look inward to explain the artistic choices you're making, and you can't help but recoil at that, because you'd rather do anything than look inward. Meanwhile, your classmates have no problem with it, so you start to wonder if you're a real artist at all. Can your art be authentic if it only exists to bolster a thesis statement? Has your art been unauthentic this whole time because you've never really thought about a thesis statement before? Is that what makes it art, and not just the next track on somebody's teen angst playlist?

You can't think about yourself— acknowledging your own existence makes you want to puke. So if your music is an extension of yourself, (and it is, even if it's just because the spotlight reveals only what you want it to,) you can't think about your music. You can't. You have to. Your grade depends on it.

You're Fig Faeth, and you keep multiclassing because you'd rather be a good friend than a great artist. If introspection is what great art demands, then fuck it. You must not be a bard at all.

[mariocki]

Doctor X (1932)

"If you ask me, I think Dr. Xavier is using very unethical methods."

"Necessity has no ethics, sir."

[cowboy]

Every time I have too much fun doing something I'm like fuuuuuck I probably have to make this my career path now forever eternally

[stuffyflowers]

roaba <3

holy shit guys look it’s th!!!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖yh when’s yh the ceroba when s

[instinctsxbad]

*scratching at the walls thinking about how no one has adapted Peter’s college arcs in a consistent and satisfying way.*

[focusmagazine]

Midjourney Woman by Angela Thespian - FOCUS Magazine Via Flickr: I'm not sure how much credit I should take for these! Other than I'm getting better with prompts!

[slightlytoastedbagel]

thinks about Kohane Azusawa and photography (explodes)

[strawglicks]

Dialogue from that 1.3 hires and heroes blogpost

[tfemsparrow-gallery]

pinned post

Welcome to the Transfem Sparrow Gallery! I wanted to make a sideblog dedicated to collecting posts related to Sparrow Oak-Garcia and her being trans so here we are. I’ll include in the tags if something is fanart, fanfic, text post, whatever else for easier scrolling on here.

If you have a post relating to Sparrow being transfem that I haven’t reblogged, feel free to send it my way!

Tags:

fanart, fanfic, text post, music, meme, animatic, au, mod’s art

[feverdreamsandlucidnightmares]

As someone with chronic pain who wears braces basically everyday and will probably need some sort of mobility aid in the not-so-distant future, and as someone whose community includes disabled people, and as someone who is doing my best to work in museums I feel like it’s irresponsible to not be ferally furious when I go to museums for my coursework or for fun and they aren’t accessible or are only partially accessible.

(Or when I’m listening to a curator-led lecture on counter cultural art and zine production and there’s not anything in the entire exhibition about disability

Or when im the only one of my classmates on the tour wearing a mask)

If museums are supposed to be public community spaces and you make them inaccessible to physically disabled people or you actively don’t include disability in your preservation and display of cultural artifacts you are conveying a very specific idea of what your public and your community includes. It’s absolutely a value statement, even if it’s one born of inattention.

[justobsessedwithvic]

“How are your WIPs going?”

“…”