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Posts Tagged ‘artists’
It’s Good to Have Goals, Book Edition
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, artists, creativity, genre fiction, illustrators, inspiration, writing on June 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Do You Doodle?
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, art, artists, creativity, technology on October 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
This is for the artists out there.
New tool lets artists fight AI image bots by hiding corrupt data in plain sight
From Hollywood strikes to digital portraits, AI’s potential to steal creatives’ work and how to stop it has dominated the tech conversation in 2023. The latest effort to protect artists and their creations is Nightshade, a tool allowing artists to add undetectable pixels into their work that could corrupt an AI’s training data…
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Art as Time Travel
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, artists, creativity, inspiration, Rijksmuseum, Vermeer on January 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Hello! So nice of you to stop by and see what’s up on this Mondayest of Mondays. I’m a little busy and I don’t want to bore you, so perhaps you might enjoy a bit of cultural enrichment? Maybe learn a bit about a master like Vermeer?
I just discovered that the Rijksmuseum has an online tour of Vermeer’s work and world narrated by Stephen Fry. Sounds fun, right?
Closer to Johannes Vermeer – Rijksmuseum
I enjoy Vermeer’s paintings because 1) that light, so amazing, and 2) he captured the details of regular people doing regular things. Not always, of course, an artist still has to pay the bills, but enough to pass on the sense of real people doing real things.
Art as time travel, is how I like to think of it.
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Tuesday, It Is
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2022, artists, creativity, genre fiction, inspiration, sff, star wars, The Mandalorian on May 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Another Tuesday, another day when I am both inspired to reach dramatic new heights* and, after an intensive tour of the data mines, reduced to the mental status of a child. How appropriate, then, that today we have a Baby Yoda coloring book by the talented Martin Gee.
The Unofficial Baby Yoda Coloring Book
Enjoy!
* A girl can dream.
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Mashup Monday
Posted in Funny, tagged #briankesinger, artists, awesome, calvin and hobbes, fun, inspiration, star wars, Thoughts, work, yay on March 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Here’s hoping you have a good day, even if it is a Monday:)
Happy Happy!
Posted in Holidays, tagged artists, inspiration, love, Ontario, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, yay on February 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Stories to Tell, Futures to Build
Posted in Writing, tagged 2016election, artists, Brexit, creativity, Fiction, Ian Warren, inspiration, Motivation, persistence, science fiction, sff, speculative fiction, storytelling, Thoughts, work, Writers, writing on November 14, 2016| Leave a Comment »
It occurs to me that one of the things we really need now is storytelling. With a Republican-dominated government in the U.S., dissenters won’t have as many direct political options to make change via laws. That leaves hearts and minds.
And what’s best for changing hearts and minds? A compelling story.
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As I see it, an important part of our job right now as writers isn’t to bombard with facts and figures (or not only, of course there’s a place for that). Fiction writers have a special place in society. We imagine other futures, other paths, other worlds. We bring those experiences, those feelings*, to readers.
Our challenge is to inspire, to engage, to help others envision a better world. With a nod to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, to make them long for a kinder, more hopeful, and more just sea.
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* And as Ian Warren argues, at least part of what has happened with Brexit and the U.S. election seems to be that “what data and polling often misses, is how people think and feel” and that “the communication of effective emotional messages is currently beating data alone.”
Do It On Purpose
Posted in Funny, Likes, Writing, tagged artists, awesome, creativity, Dolly Parton, Fiction, funny, inspiration, persistence, quotes, science fiction, sff, space pirates, speculative fiction, Thoughts, work, Writers, writing on June 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I realized that I have been trying to write a serious version of what is clearly a goofy, rollicking space pirate adventure. Obviously!
That led me to recall the following wisdom from a modern-day sage (who should know):
Figure out who you are. Then do it on purpose.
― Dolly Parton
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