Rust and Ruin

A lighthouse can be a sort of wizard tower

they were confreres in christ

I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

I feel like people get so hung up on the results of a thing that they don't appreciate that the process of making it is, actually, enjoyable.

It's like if you have a friend who likes to bake, asking if they'd like to just buy cupcakes from the store instead of making them. The end result of the cupcake is secondary to the joy you get from having made cupcakes.

Art isn't a slog or a chore or something I want to avoid. Art is fun. It's rewarding. It feels good to do it. You may as well be asking me if I want the AI to watch television for me, it doesn't make any sense, I'm not participating and would gain nothing from it.

“The Anatomy of Melancholy” by Laura Makabresku, self-portrait, 2020

happiness

Art by Sam Larson

Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese

“The greatest mafia movie (n)ever made.”

Anne Magill

So Greg Smallwood posted a really nice thread to twitter about referencing and tracing and just in general making things easier for yourself as an artist- things that are sometimes considered cheating, I think it's neat and informative, enjoy :)

loneliness is still time spent with the world.

richard siken a primer for the small weird loves // holly warburton making amends // holly warburton bobby // holly warburton the red jacket

Love 101 (Aşk 101) : Burcu and Kemal

Yargı : Ilgaz & Ceylin + Handholding