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by Daub 2y ago
Art teacher speaking. The influence of DeviantArt (and now ArtStation) on young a tists is staggering, and not always good. When I was a student, I got my eye candy from the school library, which provided context and history to the art. On
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by Daub 2y ago
I believe that Livepicture was fast because they loaded the full image as a set of tiles. I also believe that Photoshop was 'inspired' to introduce layers in version 3 in response to Livepicture's layers. It was layers which
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by Daub 2y ago
People forget that Photoshop worked on a Silicon Graphics box. It was indeed the way to go, so long as you could afford it.
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by Daub 2y ago
Agreed. I would understand such oversight from the 'common press', but from a university I would expect better. Oddly, of the 16 authors, they credit the first and the last, yet authors are usually cited in order of importance. Th
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by Daub 2y ago
Having slept rough in the middle of London for a short while, I can attest to the value of having somewhere safe to sleep. In my case it was a large, dense bush in the middle of Hyde Park (which I can still locate 40 years later on Google m
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by Daub 2y ago
Maybe. But I feel that the stuff our ancient ancestors did on walls is a different class of activity to that which we now call art. I suspect that their paintings were done as a votive: maybe as part of a prayer or a ceremony. There are too
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by Daub 2y ago
Yes... this exactly.
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by Daub 2y ago
> A chrome extension for finding citations in Wikipedia In academia, Wikepedia citations are generally a no no. One reason is their unrelaibity (the author is citing a source that they themselves can edit). More importantly, Wikepedia ma
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by Daub 2y ago
> No I'm sure you can find clear examples of painting purely for self-expression much earlier than Goya Name one. Perhaps one can mention artists like Caravagio and El Greco. But all such artists addressed themes that were common: t
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by Daub 2y ago
We can probably travel the first clear instance of such self expression to the romantic era. Probably Goya who was the Spanish court painter but whose uncomissined black paintings were uniquely personal.
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by Daub 2y ago
I have seen this more in art house movies and frankly cant understand why it is not a larger issue. I once offered this service to a director I liked, only for him to refuse it. His final subtitles were atrocious.
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by Daub 2y ago
Once or twice I have 'translated translations' of Chinese movie subtitles. The basic translation done by a Chinese native who speaks Engkish, with my contribution being to bash the English into shape. I do this in discusiion with
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by Daub 2y ago
> I always assumed it was just because "K" is the last letter in "black" — apparently not! Actually, I think that this is a better reason.
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by Daub 2y ago
One reason is that printers inks do not have very dence pigment content. Pigment is the expensive part of paint/ink. Also, printers ink is very transparent, almost like a staining agent. CMKY is basically a variant of the painter'
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by Daub 2y ago
I once had a teaching job around 100 miles away from where I lived. I taught two days in a row so it made sense to stay overnight. Rather than rent a room I hid out overnight in an windowless store room. Personal hygiene was the first victi
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by Daub 2y ago
Now the internet is full of examples of such accidents. One glance of those would have been enough.
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by Daub 2y ago
I once had an elderly student in a similar situation. His solution was to lift the mouse, move the mouse mat up then move the mouse down again. It was painful to watch.
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by Daub 2y ago
My father showed me how to use a lathe when I was around 14. He warned me to never use it unless he was present. Of course I ignored him. The very first time I used it, my shirt sleeves caught in it and my shirt was ripped from my body in a
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by Daub 2y ago
> I've always considered experts to be people who can do things simultaneously better and worse than a beginner I agree. This reminds me of the so-called school of kung fu called drunken master. There can be a can't-give-a-fuck
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by Daub 2y ago
>What can LLMs never do? Produce convincingly bad digital paintings. I teach digital painting. Some of the students have incorporated AI into their working process, which I support. Others have tried to cheat by simply copying AI generat
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by Daub 2y ago
I have framed many drawings behind glass, and I can honestly say that it is one of my least favorite jobs. Time and again, no matter how careful I am, specks of dust or smudges appear on the drawing-facing side of the glass. Of course these
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by Daub 2y ago
I think the defining factor of 'old age' is the degree of one's utility to the community. Past the point of this utility one becomes a sort of 'living paperweight' - cherished for aesthetic and emotional reasons. Wi
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by Daub 3y ago
Time to plug my dear father's book 'The Principles of Arab Navigation'. https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Arab-Navigation-2013-02-28...
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by Daub 3y ago
I had some experience writing a book that featured many images of paintings by long dead artists. The copyright issue was not the art, but the photos, which were frequently owned by a museum. From my experience, these museums were very diff
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by Daub 3y ago
I love this section of the article (edited for clarity): "I'm not motivated by application, but I know that we can find uses for fundamental work. Think about Alan Turing. He wrote a mathematical paper in logic in an obscure journ
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by Daub 3y ago
> It sounds like the most important lesson to give the students is not wasting time looking for solutions to problems that do not exist and likely never will in the future, The value of giving students such impossible speculative tasks i
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by Daub 3y ago
Few instruction manuals are as effectively designed as the Tigerfibel, designed for the crew of the Tiger tank. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerfibel From the Wiki.. Like other manuals designated as Fibel (basic p
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by Daub 3y ago
I present the long-term safety of radioactive hazards as an design task to my students. Effectively, a limit-case test of their design know-how. These are my notes on the subject: https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87
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by Daub 3y ago
A precursor of the graphite pencil is the silverpoint. A silverpoint is no more that a metal wire. It can be made of silver, gold, copper just about any metal. The lines they produce are almost identical to pencil, but also change in color
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by Daub 3y ago
Completely agree about HSL being the 'thinking' color space. As an exfersise, I get my students to define the difference in the colors they are wearing using HSL. If you think RGB is hard to conceptualize, try Lab.

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