#conceptual imagery

[petitpiedgalbe]

As Rico once said: "Kaboom!"

We can say that there are just "hours" left, so I can promise that when I see houses blowing away like doll houses, I will think about Barbie while eating popcorn. Just joking :)

Oppenheimer suits my movie taste much more, however, I'd love to see both of those movies. And which team are you on? Are you more like "Yes, Rico, kaboom!" or more like "In pink we trust"? :)

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

[rynli]

me: I should write the one-shot that lives in my head about Harry applying for a job

brain: you will write a whole casefic about Harry realizing being a cop already killed him once, acab applies even to Kim, and he needs to quit if he wants to get better

[lemongogo]

[skufdaddyswansea]

Thank you so much for indulging my brainrotting on this game 😭 anyway why do you think Jimmy’s nightmare sequence with Swansea involved a graveyard/mausoleum? It’s the only time where the game seems to take place “on earth”

I should thank you! You've got a lot of neat questions about things I hadn't even considered yet, I've had a lot of fun thinking about them!

This is a good example, because until you pointed it out I didn't even consider the fact that the graveyard scene is the only one that takes place outside of the ship. Even the more abstract areas in Jimmy's adVenture and Curly's evangelion blood pit have elements that tie them to the Tulpar.

I'm actually drawing a blank on this one. I'm gonna stew on it a bit more and come back to it, but I'll post this in the meantime because I'm curious to see if anyone else has any ideas.

[nowimnothing-rx]

'Give me a take'

By Casper Tricoteux, Oct 11 2024

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[mooniety]

adding onto that very obscure idea i had around a few months ago of a dragon representing mk, the feathered serpent representing gk sounds lowkey banger rn

maybe i'll finally put together all those vague notes i have about a gk gijinka design (dementia ridden, starry eyed (in the literal sense, possibly in the personality sense, depends) old man who has very fashionable walking sticks & has a...son? clone? family member? nephew (in the context that you have a friend & they have a child, thus you would be their child's uncle/aunt)? actual nephew? found family???? depends.) for 2025 since it'll be year of the snake, which very interestingly is right after the year of the dragon

the mishmash of different cultures to create a fun, interesting concept is always welcomed here

[sagradofemenin0]

“Crucificada”, by Francisco Remiseiro. (2019)

[witchblade]

the problem with being like a hyperemotional Emotions Are Physical 👍 type person is when you're sick thinking thoughts of any kind makes you want to vomit

[askshivanulegacy]

Is collage art?

Thanks for dropping by! I'm assuming this is in relation to my last AI comment, so I'm going to answer it in that context. Sorry in advance if it's not, lol.

I love the collage question. It's such a good way to contrast art with AI and to illustrate what art does and what AI fails to do!

Best to clear up first that AI is not a collage of other people's art! A collage takes large chunks of other artworks and arranges them in a new way to fit an artist's vision. The artist puts in work to select specific artworks, identify and cut out shapes, and then arranges them with intent, piece by piece. There is thought and intent behind every step: from identifying the original artworks, all the way through placement. Collage is art!

The original artworks, and the pieces of those artworks, don't belong to the new artist, of course! They still belong to the original authors of those works. Only the arrangement belongs to the new artist, and any collage offered to a public space should identify the source material. In fact, outside of personal use, you need to ask permission to use the original works in your collage! After all, it's by virtue of the original works that the new collage even exists in the first place, so not only should credit be given where it's due, but the original authors still have a say in how someone uses their stuff.

AI significantly differs from a collage. It is not the cutting up of a limited number of recognizable works to fit into a new arrangement. It's the mass copying of lines, colors, shapes, and their associations, from art that belongs to other people. That work of copying and generation is automatically done by a computer, not a person, and there's no intentional or deliberate selection of individual sources, or deliberate placement of the source material into a new arrangement. In essence, there's no "arting" being done like there is with a collage. There's only an algorithm regurgitating a massive amount of mushed data with no understanding or real knowledge of the "arrangement" it creates. Again, it's not even a rearrangement or reimagining of sources like the collage; it's just copying. Moreover, the resulting image fails to credit the original sources, and never asked permission from the authors of those sources in the first place!

Bottom line: Yes, a collage is absolutely art! However, AI images are not a collage, and are not art.

Collage: deliberate source selection, deliberate & thoughtful craft based on an artist's vision, purposeful arrangement that communicates something new as a whole. A human investment of time and effort.

AI: indiscriminate, mass source selection; blind and unintelligent copying of someone else's artistic features; randomly-generated output bounded by constraints. Zero human investment of time or effort.

The AI isn't an artist. It's a machine that spits out what it's been trained to spit out. The person who inputs the constraints/parameters into the AI isn't an artist either - the closest role that person would fill in the art world is a commissioner, which is the person who decides what should be made and gets someone else to make it (usually paying for it), even to the point that instructions are iterated to guide the outcome. Users of AI usually have to pay for the service to get the full results they want, so identifying them as commissioners is spot on. The AI commissioners are commissioning the AI company (via any platform fees and input) for the desired image, and the company uses the AI tool to generate it.

That's besides the fact that the AI image isn't art, but it's certainly a product you commission. Unethically to boot, at this point. :')

[birdmenmanga]

they were doing some real takayama shit to viktor in those recent episodes

[petitpiedgalbe]

Love is in the air!

Hey You!  Catch some positive vibes and feel the love in the air!

[crowempress]

If I were to make a fakemon region based on Canada, is it best I don't touch Indigenous myths and art for design inspiration at all? Or should I just be sure to do my dilligence on proper research and use good judgement on what is included?

[grievousomen]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐜 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲

a final farewell delivers it thrills, shivers our bones with your ghostly chill

𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧'𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐧 - 𝐎𝐳𝐳𝐲 𝐎𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞

i'm cursed with living on a goldmine, the doomsday clock was built by mankind

𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢 - 𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐋

tempted the devil with my song and got what i wanted all along

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 - 𝐙 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠

amber eyes, little lies, setting up lines; secret life, only mine, mirrors and ghosts

𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐈𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝? - 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐡

the blood runs free, the rain turns red; give me the wine, you keep the bread

[serpentface]

Hai-Taihe, a minor spirit known in the rural north of the Nekhuatseth forest, seen in the spaces between major towns and cities.

She is described as a mangy, heavily scarred bitch bearing signs of past pregnancies. She's mostly a normal looking dog but closer inspection reveals paws with unusually long fingers and distinct thumbs, and the tail and eyes of an elowey. She appears to lone travelers in the wilderness, almost exclusively on moonless nights. She will sit down at the fireside and strike up conversations in fluent (though antiquated and overly formal) Nekh, and it's usually only after she disappears that one notices that it's "kinda weird" that a dog was talking to them.

She is variously interpreted as a protective local spirit who guards travelers, and as a minor god of death that guides the living through moonless nights where the boundaries between the living and the Otherworld of the dead are thinnest. Sightings where she does not speak are regarded as omens of impending doom.

This folklore is contemporary, with the Hai-Taihe figure only showing up in stories from the past couple centuries and having no obvious presence in older mythology. Some scholars connect her to relics from the Sethym culture, extinct for almost a millenia. They left few direct records and their histories are distorted by generations of oral retelling, but motifs of a dogheaded elowey figure are common in the area, often in conjunction with sword imagery. The figure is often found on intricate metal amulets left as grave goods for high ranking clanmothers, and in stone or clay figures left in the boundaries of settlement territories (the latter commonly depicted as heavily pregnant)

[The meta reality not known in-universe: Hai-Taihe is an actual physical entity, a living god once known as [NAME FORGOTTEN] who was worshiped as a tutelary deity to the ancient Sethym. She was conceptualized as a mother to the people and the tutor of the sword, companion to the hunting god [NAME FORGOTTEN], who taught the people the spear.

The demon [NAME FORGOTTEN], a god of cannibalism and the dishonorable hunt, is said to have devoured the tutor of the spear. The tutor of the sword was chewed on and spat out half-dead while trying to rescue her, and her consumed companion was twisted in the demon's stomach and excreted as something new and terrible.

The tutor of the sword lost her identity with the cultural extinction of her worshipers and has found new life as Hai-Taihe, unable to distinguish the boundaries between her own mythology and living memory, both of which are half-remembered at best. She feels a great affection towards mortals and wanders in an endless, futile search for her companion, the devoured god now known as the spirit Arweny. She wishes to kill her, as an act of mercy.]

[nowimnothing-rx]

'Dirty parts of heaven'

By Casper Tricoteux, Oct 13 2024