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Buying art

buy your friends art or buy a strangers art. not the mass produced stuff but that weird little sketch or painting or whatever. support folks, sometimes you find out 20 years later that someone was in the whitney biennial and you have one of their drawings from when they were a teenager and that’s pretty cool. buy stuff for $25 or $2000 or whatever you can afford - give your money to artists when you can!

@mitra

Jan 30, 2024

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Uprise art

If you have the budget for it! I’ll always plug Sinziana Velicescu aka @casualtimetravel. DM her for prices for smaller prints if you like her style.

@bee1000

Jul 2, 2024

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Basquiat

Be sure to check out his stuff you can probably score a reproduction for pretty cheap. Or maybe even an imitation by an actual working artist, always good to support local

@nosferatumanchild

Mar 23, 2024

Top Recs from @ugliestbinch

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WHY THO?

Why not go through the process of blending those images yourself? Why not use process as an experiment? Why AI? What part are you playing? What makes it yours? I think AI is impersonal. I think it is unethical when it has relied on the theft of actual people’s actual physical (and because of the nature of art, often time emotional) labor. I also think it is unnecessary in creating art. I also think the environmental impacts are atrocious. I also think AI’s biggest supporters are being maliciously ignorant because it’s a fun new toy. Is it ease? Is it efficiency? People talk about accessibility as if children don’t use crayons and stickers! As if graffiti artists don’t use postal labels as sticker, as if sand mandalas don’t exist, as if cardboard and tape aren’t in over abundance.

@ugliestbinch

Apr 15, 2025

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Dear God what have i made

@ugliestbinch

Mar 1, 2025

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Tbh, i mostly hate the re-rec feature

Maybe this isn’t so much a fix for staff, but I feel like the reposting of things has gotten a bit lame. I don’t want the “Everyone” feed to be the same post 20 times with nothing added, especially when the thing being re-rec’d isn’t even a real reccomendation in the first place. I like this app because it is different than Instagram and Twitter and tumblr and the like. I feel like people are trying to interact similarly to those other apps here. I feel like we are all drifting back into creating the same social media AGAIN. My vote would be to remove the feature entirely, but I see how it can be used thoughtfully

@ugliestbinch

Mar 3, 2025