this is just what has been at the top of my rotation lately!! - wretched trajectory & self-destruct (songs) by origami angel (HIGHLY recc their somewhere city album)
- who will look after the dogs? (album) by pup
where the heart is (album) by sweet pill
- pipe dream (song) by see through person (SOO GOOD)
- technically not punk but cowboy nudes (song) by geese just makes u wanna dance
Been bumpin back & froth between Neko Case playing ”Full On“ live for KEXP & Lydia Loveless playing the Millennium Park summer concert series. The draw to alt Americana has been atypically strong here for a minute. The live sets bring the personality of the artist forward in ways the ‘shuffle artist’ just doesn’t 🤩
I hate wearing glasses. I hate feeling them on my face, but contacts would be my own personal hell. Please give me the motivation to wear them like I should
My name is Shawna. I responded “oh my god! My name is Shawn, too!” Then stuttered through saying “wait, no, that’s not my name.” and since I was so anxious I just rambled for way to long about the difference between our names.
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.
