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These are from when I just got my new camera, The Fujifilm X-E4. I really fell in love, but that day I was just roaming around, testing some film sims and trying to get a feel for it.

#FUJIFILM #PHOTOGRAPHY #FUJIFILM X-E4 #27MM #NEW YORK #2022

draintheblood

heard porn bots might be following you guys again. sorry about that. but in some good news i have been gaining many new followers who are real stunningly beautiful women. welcome ladies :)

ex0skeletal-undead

Did you hear the news? by Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza

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gayvampyr

i don’t know what else to say except that AI art is no longer simply a source of creativity or a wonder of human creation. it has become actively hostile and destructive toward the very thing it pretends to uplift and celebrate. it is void of any human element, any soul or ounce of emotion or self-expression. continuing to use AI art knowing that it comes from theft and robbing artists of their livelihood is disgusting. we need your support now more than ever. stop giving these thieves your money and admiration.

rainboq

We've spent the past 20-30 years enjoying a brief time where artists were able to share their art with the world for little to no cost to themselves to audiences who never would have been able to see their works before. Artistic talent and creativity have exploded thanks to the web, with people are to share techniques and tools that would have been kept behind financial and academic barriers and create audiences in entirely new ways.

And now tech bros are out to plunder that wealth of artistry we've come to enjoy through brute force statistical modelling so they can cut the artists out of the business of selling art. Why would a company bother employing rosters of artists to produce for them when they can hire a handful of people to run the models and tweak the outputs to suit their needs?

There is nothing benevolent or celebratory in this, it is purely about theft and exploitation. It's about violating the copyright of artists in order to churn out content that's Good Enough to suit the needs of capitalists. Do you think that the publishing industry will continue to pay authors for their works if they can just hand an algorithm a prompt and get a completed work in a handful of minutes or hours, and then pay someone to edit it into something coherent (if they even need to)?

This is the end result of the commodification of art. The artistry of the works do not matter, only that they can be sold and generate profit. Capitalism has always been existed in opposition to art, Capital requires steady growth of returns and regular output, art demands innovation and risky endeavours to push the boundaries. Art is of use to capital only in so far as it is able to generate direct sales and intellectual property that can then itself be turned into a commodity. The moment Capital is able to cut artistry and artists out of the equation so that it can further maximize it's profits, it will. And what's worse, the art it produces will be stale and recycled.

Brute force statistical modelling by it's very nature is recycling, it will continue reusing old ideas and old techniques in new configurations. It is an artistic ouroboros, incapable of anything but accidental innovation through sheer volume of output, that will then be re-consumed and reconstituted all over again.

loish

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.

atlt

I agree.

UPDATES + NAME CHANGES

I haven’t posted in a while, I’ll try to start posting again. I’m tired of the rest of the internet so I’m trying to get back to using tumblr again. 50th times the charm. I have a lot of music to add and links to update. I’ll get right on that. Also plenty of photography.

I changed my stage name for the last time. Formerly known as Nico Moon, I will now be calling myself After The Last Time as I produce music and art. I like this one because it’s not a “name” and I feel like there’s room to breathe as it not attached to my identity like an actual name is. And I’m finally in love with it, which is good.

You can google me and search me on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube if you want to check out my music.

#journal

Kith New York / Nike ACG

Snaps by ATLT

#photography #sculpture #fashion #nike #nike acg #kith #new york

Kith New York AF1 Installation.

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#photography #new york #af1 #sneakers #fashion #sculpture #kith

It’s my bday but... RIP Syd.

Image compression on the internet has got to step it’s game up. Tumblrs photos are getting fuzzy and terrible. Totally counter-intuitive.

ON WEED & TOXIC PEOPLE

This was supposed to be about why I don’t smoke weed anymore, just to clarify things, but I guess it has to be about more than that.

So about five years ago I was in Toxic friendship with a narcissistic sociopath.

All we did was smoke weed while I listened to him talk shit about his coworkers, everyone he knows, and everything he thought was important to bitch about (aka everything). DAILY! AD NAUSEAM! He lived in my house and frequently invaded my space, so he wasn’t easy to ditch.

I’m really chill and easy going so I don’t even like gossip and shit-stirring vibes around me. I prefer peace and I’m too sensitive to negativity to be around it too long. I just had a bad habit of being too kind, too patient and too sacrificial.

He would gaslight me, make me feel like my every thought and opinion was invalid and relish in my misery. He would steal my ideas and sell them back to me like I wouldn’t notice. He was extremely comfortable watching me deteriorate and extremely upset anytime I was having fun, enjoying myself, or feeling good in any way. And I did in-fact deteriorate mentally and physically. I was rapidly losing weight and lost about 30lbs. While my mental health took a turn for the worse. [c. “stagnation”]

It got to a point that all the relentless weed smoking combined with listening to him drone on and on, made it so that weed wasn’t even doing anything for me but making my eyes water. I wasn’t getting high anymore. I was burnt out. My serotonin was shot.

[ Keep in mind, I still had ambitions and goals in life while he seemed totally complacent sitting at home, talking shit, and smoking weed. I am not a wasteman. ]

After getting my head on straight, finding out more about narcissism, and sociopathy. I realized it was time to cut the cord. Nothing about this situation was going to change and I didn’t know why I thought it would. [c. “getaway”]

I thought he might’ve had asbergers or something. Or I guess I was under the impression he operated like I did and would eventually see the error of his ways but, you live and you learn. He’s hopeless.

So first I quit smoking weed... with him. But, I still had a habit that was harder to kick than it had ever been. I’m usually good at quitting shit, like cigs, and going long periods of time without smoking weed. Now I was operating on very stuck system where my brain was traumatized and could only think of smoking, sun up to sun down. I needed to be smoking, all the time. It was the worst. Knowing what was in the way and how to fix it without actually being able to do the thing that would make it better. Trapped in impulse. It was god awful.

With some help, I finally quit. I felt like I climbed a fucking mountain and could finally see the sun. The world had never looked so bright and air never smelled so fresh. I started meditating, going for walks in nature, dancing in my room, and getting to work. [c. “yes yes”]

This is also why there are little to zero drug references on “winter” as I wasn’t doing any, and when I was, I didn’t want to glorify it when it was ruining my life.

As for the drug references in “No Good”, they’re pretty old songs, some I even started before going through this debacle. And while I might not have felt like I was still in that place, I thought they were good songs that still had value to me.

One of the worst things about this situation is how it wasn’t even loud or aggressive, it was just neurotic and obnoxious while still being traumatic. But having gone through that, I can only imagine how bad it is, when it IS loud, aggressive, and/or physical. Now that I know how bad it feels when the abuse is only verbal/emotional. My tolerance is super low for those types.

So NO, I do not fuck with your abusive favorite rapper. It’s QUIET for that breed of demon. Thanks.

& I’m off the tree. That’s nuff for me.

_Bri

#personal #journal #narcissism #toxic friends #sobriety