There is more human-made #art out there than you could experience in a lifetime.

To suffer looking at AI slop instead is tragic, even before we consider the weighty ethical, environmental, or economic issues.

Support small creators and share things made by real humans.

#Ugh #AISlop #FuckAI

So I feel this painting really accurately reflects the direction I’ve been aspiring to in my art. So the new year really has started off great.

Dawn in a Safe Space
Oil on Canvas Paper
(Unsure of finished dimensions - will add later).

#art #artwork #oilpainting #allaprima #mastoart #fediart #coloreTonFil #figurativeArt #newyear

So I feel this painting really accurately reflects the direction I’ve been aspiring to in my art. So the new year really has started off great.

Dawn in a Safe Space
Oil on Canvas Paper
(Unsure of finished dimensions - will add later).

#art #artwork #oilpainting #allaprima #mastoart #fediart #coloreTonFil #figurativeArt #newyear

Reworking my #introduction

I am an independent scholar of various humanities. I am often distracted from those studies by writing poetry. I have lived with disability my entire adult life. I spent the majority of my life below the poverty line. I earned a master's as an adult to escape, but barely an inch.

I am big believer in community driven intra-degrowth, that is, degrowth that is more concerned with the immediate area, with each community doing the same. Degrowth is that feminist, anti-violence learning, care driven, open access anti-intellectual leader, and it is only anti-utopianism that we can find a truer utopia.

There are more and more drifting towards an idea of holistic and mutually beneficial progress and in that there is hope. Open stewardship of open, shared education is the only way to assure if progress comes in the form of open access and anti-thought leaders, more individuals will be better able to maintain that progress.

Support Human Artists

I have books of poems (and one book of essays) at Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/@rtilley4
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https://www.locate.richard.directory/
https://www.subspacewagon.io/
https://tilley.solar/
https://citizengkar.com
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rtilley4-AT-alumni.jh-DOT-edu

#disability #utopia #degrowth #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Writing #art #community #scifi #academia

Reworking my #introduction

I am an independent scholar of various humanities. I am often distracted from those studies by writing poetry. I have lived with disability my entire adult life. I spent the majority of my life below the poverty line. I earned a master's as an adult to escape, but barely an inch.

I am big believer in community driven intra-degrowth, that is, degrowth that is more concerned with the immediate area, with each community doing the same. Degrowth is that feminist, anti-violence learning, care driven, open access anti-intellectual leader, and it is only anti-utopianism that we can find a truer utopia.

There are more and more drifting towards an idea of holistic and mutually beneficial progress and in that there is hope. Open stewardship of open, shared education is the only way to assure if progress comes in the form of open access and anti-thought leaders, more individuals will be better able to maintain that progress.

Support Human Artists

I have books of poems (and one book of essays) at Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/@rtilley4
____
https://www.locate.richard.directory/
https://www.subspacewagon.io/
https://tilley.solar/
https://citizengkar.com
____
rtilley4-AT-alumni.jh-DOT-edu

#disability #utopia #degrowth #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Writing #art #community #scifi #academia

There is more human-made #art out there than you could experience in a lifetime.

To suffer looking at AI slop instead is tragic, even before we consider the weighty ethical, environmental, or economic issues.

Support small creators and share things made by real humans.

#Ugh #AISlop #FuckAI

Happy New Year!

"Was das neue Jahr wohl bringen mag?"

"Hmmm... lass es uns füllen mit Liebe, Frieden und positiver Energie!"

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"What might the new year bring?"

"Hmmm... let's fill it with love, peace, and positive energy!"

#art #mastoArt #cats #catsofMastodon #birds #watercolor #aquarelle #painting #newyear #happyNewyear #goodvibes #love #positive #peace #sketch #sketchbook #caturday #tabby #robin #handmade

There is more human-made #art out there than you could experience in a lifetime.

To suffer looking at AI slop instead is tragic, even before we consider the weighty ethical, environmental, or economic issues.

Support small creators and share things made by real humans.

#Ugh #AISlop #FuckAI

Tech-themed works, continued…



Illustration about the restoration of old PCs, made for the Dutch ComputerTotaal magazine (2008).



#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #RetroTech #tech #technology #IT #magazine #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #3D #3DRendering #CGI #Blender3D #B3D #blender #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

Tech-themed works, continued…



Illustration about the restoration of old PCs, made for the Dutch ComputerTotaal magazine (2008).



#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #RetroTech #tech #technology #IT #magazine #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #3D #3DRendering #CGI #Blender3D #B3D #blender #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

Happy New Year.
A Great Gray Owl.

See it bigger or get it here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/a-great-gray-owl-looking-back-jan-luit.html

#WildlifePhotography #Photography #NaturePhotography #fotografie #Arte #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #FediGiftShop #PhotographyIsArt #Fotografia #birdsofmastodon #Birdwatching #Birding #Birds #Vogel #Animals #Art #Wildlife #mastoart #Nature #Artwork #Fediart #Natuur #Artist #GiveArt #Giftidea

Happy New Year.
A Great Gray Owl.

See it bigger or get it here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/a-great-gray-owl-looking-back-jan-luit.html

#WildlifePhotography #Photography #NaturePhotography #fotografie #Arte #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #FediGiftShop #PhotographyIsArt #Fotografia #birdsofmastodon #Birdwatching #Birding #Birds #Vogel #Animals #Art #Wildlife #mastoart #Nature #Artwork #Fediart #Natuur #Artist #GiveArt #Giftidea

Happy New Year!

"Was das neue Jahr wohl bringen mag?"

"Hmmm... lass es uns füllen mit Liebe, Frieden und positiver Energie!"

---------------

"What might the new year bring?"

"Hmmm... let's fill it with love, peace, and positive energy!"

#art #mastoArt #cats #catsofMastodon #birds #watercolor #aquarelle #painting #newyear #happyNewyear #goodvibes #love #positive #peace #sketch #sketchbook #caturday #tabby #robin #handmade

Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness

CURTIS MAYFIELD
Super Fly
1972 Canada pressing

Happy New Year’s Eve, everybody!
Might as well make the last waning hours of this foul year of our Lord 2025 extra FUNKY.

Touted as one of the few soundtracks to out-gross the film it accompanied, Mayfield’s third album is an all-time classic of all classics.

If your body or head doesn’t start bobbing, or your walk doesn’t start turning to a glide when the title track begins, then you are already dead inside, and there is no hope for you.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #funk #soul #superfly #curtismayfield #blaxploitation