squidsoup

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by squidsoup 7mo ago
> They don't pay $30K for slop art I beg your pardon, but have you heard of Jeff Koons or Kaws?
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by squidsoup 7mo ago
The art establishment clearly does. Refik has a show at MoMA at the moment. Saltz won a Pulitzer for his art criticism, so I guess the Pulitzer committee cares.
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by squidsoup 7mo ago
If everything is art, then nothing is art. Conceptual art, and everything that followed in Duchamp's wake, is mostly meaningless nonsense, sorry.
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by squidsoup 7mo ago
Demonstrably wrong. The most highly regarded AI artist today is Refik Adanol. His work was recently described by Jerry Saltz as a "glorified lava lamp".
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by squidsoup 7mo ago
> The feel of photos back then, was at least 100x stronger than now. They were a special item, could be given as a gift. I think this is still true if you shoot film today.
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by squidsoup 7mo ago
> It's like you assigning to humans divine capabilities :) . Hyperbolizing a little, humans also only copy and mix - where do you think originality comes from? Granted, AI isn't at the level of humans yet, but they improve here
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
Prosecuting the working class, sure.
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
There was a time on Instagram when artists could grow their reach organically, on the merit of their work alone, but I don’t think that’s possible today without engaging in reels and positioning yourself as an influencer, which most artists
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
Foto is good, provided you want a community exclusively made up of other photographers. If you want greater reach for your work, Instagram unfortunately is still the only option. The worst thing about Instagram today for photographers and a
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
A fan of ML, and rescript looks lovely, but sadly typescript is good enough for UI work.
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
Well aware of Hockney's work related to the use of technology in art, but there's a difference between producing purely algorithmic work and using a specific technique. Vermeer's style and work is still uniquely his. > His
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
The reality is there is very little non-individualistic art (algorithmic, AI generated etc) that has much qualitative merit. Art for the most part has always been the expression of an individual, even art tightly bound to a cultural context
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
Worth mentioning that both oxfmt/oxc are in alpha. I would put money on them replacing prettier and eslint, but they're not ready for production yet.
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
On a large codebase, eslint is quite slow.
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
You're really pulling your punches there.
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
This reads like a linkedin post - high on enthusiasm, low on meaningful content.
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
The bombs dropped on Gaza are equivalent to six Hiroshimas - I think we can safely say that Gaza has been destroyed. https://www.bradford.ac.uk/news/archive/2025/gaza-bombing-eq...
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
I'm still using an iPhone 12, and given I have a proper camera, see no reason to (ever?) upgrade. After a battery replacement, it still runs perfectly well. That seems like a problem for Apple.
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by squidsoup 8mo ago
If you're looking for literary criticism and exploration that's a bit more leftfield and nuanced, highly recommend Sam Pulham's video essays https://www.youtube.com/@SherdsTube - I've discovered some bri
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
thank you!
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
Thanks! I'm using the KIRI Engine in Blender to render splats from my photos ( https://github.com/Kiri-Innovation/3dgs-render-blender-addon ) and then process the image as I would my photography in Lightroom. There
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
Tangential, but I've been exploring gaussian splatting as a photographic/artistic medium for a while, and love the expressionistic quality of the model output when deprived of data. https://bayardrandel.com/gaussog
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
https://bayardrandel.com My photography, gaussography, and video art
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
I met my wife on IRC and migrated to New Zealand as a result. Worked out pretty well for me/us, well over twenty years later.
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
Frustrating that Photos is really not suitable for anything other than editing snaps. I'd love to ditch Adobe, but Darktable doesn't support Fuji raws, and there really aren't that many great commercial alternatives to Lightr
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
> Creativity, fundamentally, is overlapping memories of what you have seen already. Literally no different than any diffusion or transformer model. Every individual has a unique experience, and assimilates different things from their exp
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
You should read Blood Meridian.
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
> a camera lets you get a better result for less effort than a paintbrush and canvas does Only if your goal is photorealism, which is one of the least interesting forms of art.
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
Agree entirely - creativity emerges through the process of work, or is "discovered" through work. If AI does the work, it fundamentally can not be a creative process.
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
Painters don't imagine something and through shear technical skills translate what is in their head to a canvas. Their style emerges through constant, repetitive work and iteration. The work itself creates the art, not an idea. An idea

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