Welp. It's curtains for Adobe Animate. Another sacrifice to the tech gods. Here's one more animated piece to remember it by.
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Welp. It's curtains for Adobe Animate. Another sacrifice to the tech gods. Here's one more animated piece to remember it by.
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#adobe #graphicdesign #designsky
I'm thinking about how social media platforms started out connecting people who already knew each other along with others who had like interests. They later broke from broader connectedness to manipulate aggression and spectacle for both financial and political profit. And now…
In south Louisiana, live trees are collected and used for wetland restoration projects. At least that's what they tell us.
*Sprinting after Wordle editor*
I JUST WANNA TALK
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
I cosign every single word of this
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
A small, wooden artist's model of an articulated human hand standing on a desk with its fingers positioned so as to serve as a storage stand for a digital tablet stylus.
Maybe my favorite little aesthetic touch at my desk right now.
In a shocking twist of irony, my ad blocker has just launched an un-closable popup asking me to pay for a premium version.
#capitalism #irony
Attention please, all advertisers everywhere: If you stick a 1 minute+ OTT spot on a YouTube video, I will simply click away and not watch the video. Every time.
New portfolio site is live, and the job search is well and truly underway.
johnrushingdesign.com
#GraphicDesign #designsky
Gorilla?
Magna Tiles are great because they clean up pretty easy. Also worth considering those "magic" drawing tools that let you draw with water or clear markers on special paper.
a book excerpt from 'how to be a design student (and how to teach them)" by mitch goldstein that reads: "Many people will disagree with me on this next bit, but I do not accept the practice of harsh critiques. You should not get torn apart in a critique. Critiques should not be brutal; critiques should be honest and useful. If you walk away feeling like garbage or like you were beaten up, it was not a useful critique. It was a belittling one. You should walk away from getting a critique feeling empowered and excited to make the work better, not defeated and miserable from the experience. 90 | how to be a design student It is up to both the givers and the receivers of the critique to make this happen. Last, remember that a critique is not a competition; nobody wins the critique. Everybody is there to learn and grow, and often you can learn as much from giving a critique as you can from getting one. This is why you should always pay close attention to critiques of work by other students, as there is much to be learned from discussing work beyond your own."
a note about critique in #art and #design :
9/ The internet is a miracle, and we are lucky to have a way to share and connect to one another so easily. But the ease is not the point. The connection is the point. The people are the point.
Art IS people.
Don't forget that.
8/ I want slow, difficult art. I want art that isn't exactly what I was looking for. It extends me, challenges me, surprises me. Most importantly, it makes me feel connected to the people who made it. This goes for everything from comics to Rembrandt, from commercial jingles to symphonies.
7/ Without the ability—cultivated through arts education—to understand art as human dialog, one can only see art as commodity. And as with all commodities, the Market will encourage its production by the most efficient means possible, however exploitative they may be.
6/ But AI's success, then, is predicated on the dismissal of the *innate value of the existence of a human creator.* It removes the communicative property of art, and relegates it to mere transactional consumption.
5/ Without this skill, one sees only the product and not the process, which makes it easy to commodify the image (or text/song/whatever) like any other commercial product. If you just want the image and you don't care how it comes into being, then AI seems like a logical solution.
4/ I am privileged enough to have had a fairly robust arts education, which, among other things, taught me how to extrapolate from a work of art the social, historical, cultural, material and economic—i.e., the human—circumstances of its creation. I can see something of the maker in the art.
3/ AI generated content, by contrast, is monologous by definition. Since the only human involved is the one writing the prompt, there is no communication, no dialogue, only masturbatory consumption.
2/ What I find valuable about art that I like is the sense of communion with the human(s) who produced it. Successful art communicates something and fosters connection and understanding between people. It is a dialogue.
1/ It seems to me that the rise of exploitative AI content generation and the decline of art education are linked. This is all just personal musing with little-to-no literary support behind it, I admit freely, so take it as you will.
It's clear that *most* big corporations that have made a lot of progress in recent years with DEI did so purely for PR reasons. When prevailing attitude shifts or a greater threat to their stability emerges, the switch flips right back. Was never about values.
www.businessinsider.com/adobe-ends-d...
Not for nothing, but you could run a game of D&D via filibuster.
"Will the Senator yield for a question?"
"I yield for a question without yielding the floor."
"Can I shove the gargoyle?"
"Roll for strength."
"9".
*17 minute description of the gargoyle not moving after being shoved*
People with trust issues (*raises hand*) need a way to opt out of April Fools Day.
O Hai ❤️
That's about the fastest I've ever finished Strands, which says more about me than about Strands.
Whoa
That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!
Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
Nice.
Helped design some super-fun visuals for this insight video and report from my agency.
#designsky
www.peteramayer.com/insights/unl...