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2025-01-21

Boop.

It is quite a news day here in the US. I won’t toot about it, but whewwwww.

Yeah, “cliche–generating” is kinda what my spouse and I were getting at the other day, looking at various examples. So far, at least, the default responses don’t care about being perfect (or even fully correct), they just aim to satisfy the prompt well enough. I like the word used here: satisficing.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-generative-ai-and-satisficing

#creativity #art #writing

Some of the things are online here too: https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/2023/mina-loy.html

Happened to catch the #MinaLoy exhibit at Bowdoin Art Museum on Saturday. It’s her first solo exhibition since 1959 (which was curated by Marcel Duchamp). Utterly fascinating. I’ve know her mostly through her #poetry but her visual #art is varied and some of it groundbreaking. I really loved the assemblages and #collages in her later period—they prefigure Rauschenberg and directly inspired Joseph Cornell. Just wow. Up through mid September. The book is also stunning.

https://hyperallergic.com/814518/the-world-is-finally-ready-for-mina-loy/

Helen Frankenthaler on #Printmaking. (#Lithography in this case.)

https://vimeo.com/205152422

Spring has a run of my fave holidays, since they are all secular and there’s not really any shopping: 4/20, Arbor Day, and May the Fourth.

#Maythe4thBeWithYou

I don’t love doing this bit, but they do look swell in their mats.

#MastodonArt #Printmaking #MixedMedia #BirdArt

A colorful print with two blue and black tree swallows swooping over a green field with a blue mountain in the background, on which hiking trails can be made out. In the foreground are several large blooming lupines. The text in the middle says Love Where You Live. (This piece began as part of a local community mural installed in my town.) Surrounding the matted print are a box of hinging tape, a folding tool, etc.

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Pulled off Masonite panelling covering VJ walls in our queenslander and found a cool aquarium.
#renovations #SpontaneousDemolition

Vertical wooden walls in peeling blue paint across the middle of them is a strip of cream, possibly wallpaper with yellow and orange goldfish.

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#Mosstodon Gone Wild here at the pond.

#lichensubscribe #naturephotography

A close up of moss covered with small red blooms shaped like five sided cups. They’re very pretty and evoke much larger flowers.

A moss outcropping on a lichen covered rock ledge with red blooms all over it. In the background is an out of focus lake.

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Moos und Flechten und Pilze
#mosstodon
#LichenSubscribe
#Sporespondence

Nahaufnahme: geweihartig gewachsene, graugrüne Flechte, dazwischen schiebt sich rötliches Moos durch, an den Spitzen hellgrün. Alles wächst auf einem alten Knüppel, an dem außerdem kleine, hellbraune Baumpilze zu sehen sind.

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Nice hike in the ferns and redwoods on this misty muddy day. #Oakland #Mosstodon

A trail through a canyon in a redwood forest. The ground on either side of the trail is covered with ferns.

A view through trees of a forested ridge in the distance. Fog floats among the treetops.

@Judeet88 😂 cleaning wires. I think I need to clean some myself.

@abolitionbb I’m using one of the Speedball kits that I got as a gift a while back. I don’t have the right light and other things to try the photo emulsion method yet though, so that will be next. I’ve seen a few people doing small prints with embroidery hoops as the frame and plastic store cards as the squeegee, which is pretty low-barrier.

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Here’s an idea for an #Artist #Introduction - share your mediums and art styles as hashtags so we can all find each other and marvel at the cool stuff being made out there in the Fediverse! Maybe share a sample photo of your work too! Here are mine:

#Gouache
#OilPaint
#TextileArt
#Ceramics
#Sketching
#LandscapePainting
#MiniaturePainting
#ScreenPrinting
#LeatherCraft

And here’s a recent Gouache study I did! #MastoArt #ArtistIntroductions

A gouache painting of a path through the woods in greens and browns with bright light peeking through the trees and casting dappled Light on the path

@lifewithtrees Thanks! Using the Metatext app for iPad (which I realize is not supported anymore but I haven’t had time to look into an alternative yet). But Home feed is showing now that I’ve posted. I think it was a momentary glitch that just refreshing and logging in/out was not fixing for some reason.

@Judeet88 Thanks! I was wondering if a lag happened if I had not logged in for a bit. Been so busy I’ve had to restrict socials use. :) I can see the feed now after I made a post, so it does seem temporary.

April was a haul, so I didn’t get nearly as much written as I hoped. But, whelp, some is better than none! Now that May is here, I’ve been preparing for my first #Art fair of the year, which is this weekend in #PortlandMaine. I’ve also been learning #ScreenPrinting, and @bloofbooks has a new book to launch.

Announcement graphic is light olive green with multicolored blobs and text detailing the event: Sunday, May 7, Congress Square Market. Hi Water Press & Bloof Books, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Art & Book Tent, Congress Square Park in Portland Maine. Poetry Reading at 1:00 with Maureen Thorson & Zanne Langlois.. In the lower right are two circular photos of the poets.

A handful of postcards showing the cover of the new book from Bloof Books, On Dreams by Maureen Thorson. It’s a collection of lyric essays, partially about her experience with a vision disorder and the ideas of reality, perception, dreams, and so much more.

A very simple arrangement of abstract shapes screen printed in black ink on a sheet of lightly speckled paper, held in my hand with the screen-printing set up partially visible in the background.

My home feed is blank. What does that mean?

I am no where near “daily” on the drafts. I think I have 8 out of 22. I’ll try to do better after she does tomorrow, but I’m soaking up every minute till then.

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