optimistic nihilist

500-pound stained glass crab sculpture by the late Jackie Leatherbury Douglass and her husband John Frederick Douglass, on display in Baltimore's airport

Lichen-y rock

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

Karl Marx, 1844, Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property

Erika Stearly

the strawman version of an "ai artist" is some dude who just types some stuff into the bing ai and his entire process takes, like, 30 seconds start to finish, right? but i spent a few days a couple weeks ago messing around with the bing ai, and it's like. so stupid. it's so stupid. it's literally impossible to get that thing to generate an image of a nonwhite person, for example. i have no doubt that annoying bros who type random words into the bing ai and smugly throw up the resulting images on artstation do exist, en masse, and they're definitely making bad art, but i also have reason to believe that the majority of people who are serious about ai art are putting, like, a whole fucking lot of effort into it. once you get beyond the clean, sanitized user interfaces from corps like bing, you're getting Into The Guts Of The Computer in ways that i fully do not understand. and programming labor is labor, i don't want to see anyone going down a rhetorical route that intrinsically justifies not paying programmers, lol.

Britain 1714-1830

Top to bottom, left to right: Kawase Hasui, Matsubara Lake, 1941 [source]; Tsuchiya Koitsu, Lake Shojin, 1934 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Rain on Lake Matsume, 1932 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Nenokuchi, Towada, 1933 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Lake Ezu in Kumamoto, 1923 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Kisaki Lake in Shinsu, 1941 [source].

Finally got the chance to scan my book!🕊️

Alhambra Castle | Granada, Spain.

I-80 highway through Wyoming. nicknamed The Sisters, for the three sets of hills that create an optical illusion of the road rising into the sky