Welcome to the submission thread for the January edition of #FairtradeMusicFriday.

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist - it doesn't even need to be new.

Just make a direct public comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

Why not make a muso's day and buy/boost their stuff 💙

Welcome to the submission thread for the January edition of #FairtradeMusicFriday.

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist - it doesn't even need to be new.

Just make a direct public comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

Why not make a muso's day and buy/boost their stuff 💙

It's #FairtradeMusicFriday! Here's a new submission thread for December.

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist - it doesn't even need to be new.

Just make a direct public comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

Buying or boosting will make an artist's day 💙

So perhaps we need to celebrate the artist-owned IP that isn’t controlled by Disney or WB or some other big corpo machine.

It might be nice to spread the word about comics and animators who do it on their own?

Anyone care to share? Because I, for one, could stand a bit more indie projects in my life. And I know it’s hard to do your own stuff and put food on the table, so it’s often a matter of choosing one or the other.

But still, it would be nice to have a thread of creative makers trying to do their own thing.

Any one have anything to share?

#comics #animation #streaming #comic #IndieArtist #Art #Illustration

So perhaps we need to celebrate the artist-owned IP that isn’t controlled by Disney or WB or some other big corpo machine.

It might be nice to spread the word about comics and animators who do it on their own?

Anyone care to share? Because I, for one, could stand a bit more indie projects in my life. And I know it’s hard to do your own stuff and put food on the table, so it’s often a matter of choosing one or the other.

But still, it would be nice to have a thread of creative makers trying to do their own thing.

Any one have anything to share?

#comics #animation #streaming #comic #IndieArtist #Art #Illustration

It's #FairtradeMusicFriday! Here's a new submission thread for December.

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist - it doesn't even need to be new.

Just make a direct public comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

Buying or boosting will make an artist's day 💙

When you use an artificially generated image to promote your stuff, I can’t help but think you’re artificially generating everything else.

If you can’t be authentic with your promotional materials, I can’t trust that your actually authentic.

Those tools are hollow. *YOU* come across as hollow for using them. It doesn’t matter what your justifications are, your budgets, or how desperate you are. Because we all know how the sausage is made at this point, and we all know it’s a *choice* to use it or not. No one is twisting your arm.

No one is forcing you to boost posts that use it. No one is threatening your re-posting auto-bot with ultimatums. Only people with their heads under rocks at this point think your crazy amalgamation with too much contrast and big eyes is actually worth the cost of its “cute factor”.

Just stop. It’s not that hard.

#art #IndieArtist #GAI #GenAI

When you use an artificially generated image to promote your stuff, I can’t help but think you’re artificially generating everything else.

If you can’t be authentic with your promotional materials, I can’t trust that your actually authentic.

Those tools are hollow. *YOU* come across as hollow for using them. It doesn’t matter what your justifications are, your budgets, or how desperate you are. Because we all know how the sausage is made at this point, and we all know it’s a *choice* to use it or not. No one is twisting your arm.

No one is forcing you to boost posts that use it. No one is threatening your re-posting auto-bot with ultimatums. Only people with their heads under rocks at this point think your crazy amalgamation with too much contrast and big eyes is actually worth the cost of its “cute factor”.

Just stop. It’s not that hard.

#art #IndieArtist #GAI #GenAI

Welcome to the submission thread for the November edition of #FairtradeMusicFriday.

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist - it doesn't even need to be new.

Just make a direct public comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

Why not make a muso's day and buy/boost their stuff 💙

Welcome to the submission thread for the November edition of #FairtradeMusicFriday.

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist - it doesn't even need to be new.

Just make a direct public comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

Why not make a muso's day and buy/boost their stuff 💙

Happy #PortfolioDay ! My name is Corey Johnston, and I’m an artist living in Eureka, CA. I do digital pieces I make by hand in Procreate on my iPad, which I put on greeting cards, stationery, and prints.

I thought I might share some of my recent work. Lately, I’ve been focusing on the local flora and fauna here in Humboldt County in northern California.

I upload all my livestream recordings and speedpaints to MakerTube: https://makertube.net/a/coreyartus/video-channels

Artist links: https://coreyartusimageryinfo.carrd.co/

#art #artist #IndieArtist #MastoArt #Birds #Birdart #ArtNouveau #PortfolioDay2025