the forest for the trees

trans | 30s | she/they I primarily reblog visually striking artwork and photography.

[sneatergrub]

[arte-artem-artibus]

Aaron Morse - Cloud World (Shepherd with Wildflowers), 2016, acrylic and oil on canvas, 48 x 38 in

[holespoles]

This image shows a printed circuit board (PCB) featuring unique trace routing in the shape of a cat.😼 While artistic, it serves as a functional foundation for connecting electronic components.

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[huariqueje]

Upside Down . Pompon (Detail) - Olivier Neuray , 2025.

Belgian , b. 1962 -

Oil on panel

[artofmaquenda]

Colors :>

[vonkarn]

try not to think about it.

(it/its for both)

[ph418c]

[the-science-llama]

Butterfly and Moth Wings

[pmamtraveller]

"Cats on a Plane" by artist Kelly Pringle.

[taurzza]

Inktober - day 5 - deer

[huariqueje]

Cherries - Kaj Bernstone

Swedish , b. 1946 -

Watercolour

[night-the-starfish]

Hunter and prey, markers on paper.

[liemi3]

[puppygirllaika]

every AI work tool out there is like "did you know you're wasting up to 90% of your time on pointless busywork that could be automated away? and i look inside and the "busywork" is like. learning how something important works or double checking the reading on the safety valve. AI companies love to say "why would you waste time learning that in the moment when, instead, you could always ask me about it later?" and it's like. the point isn't to "have access to that information", the point is to know it. The AI can only tell me how to fix that air compressor if i can tell it what the problem is, and even then its instructions might not warn me of potential hidden dangers or might not see that i've got my screwdriver on the wrong screw or might not even be telling me the truth. I need to know how the pump works. I need to know which lines lead where. I need to understand the system I am working with. If something goes wrong I need to know how to fix it, because by the time something tells me how to fix it, it might be too late.

[puppygirllaika]

someone please add the abigail sims poem chatgpt fucks my wife i am too high to deal with the results that duckduckgo search is giving me to sift through right now.

[houndmother]

[puppygirllaika]

Fail Safe (1964) never stops being relevant.

[puppygirllaika]

Also if you've never seen Fail Safe please go watch it. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen, it remains a personal favourite to this day, and especially if you are of the conviction that old movies tend to be stuffy and boring, this is legitimately one of the most tense, gripping, edge-of-your-seat suspense dramas you will ever watch. Even having seen it a dozen times before i find myself white-knuckling the arm of my couch through certain scenes, and on top of that the direction, cinematography, sound design, and action are all amazing. This movie uses close-ups and the power of silence better then any other I've ever seen. I think about this pair of shots all the damn time:

It also just. Has a lot of relevancy still today, and it's one of the things I recall most frequently when thinking about the efficacy of AI in the modern day. It's not about AI, it's about war, and weapons, and posturing of nations, and the way that secrets and hatred and dehumanization of our enemies and the increasing reliance on systems and automation, not just by machines but by humans told to act under orders and stripped of their agency, lead us into a future that no one is prepared for nor capable of preparing for, with the potential for devastating consequences. And it's a movie where you want to watch the credits all the way through to the end to feel the full impact of what you've just seen.

also +1 for having a character using forearm crutches throughout the movie who isn't a villain or treated as lesser, but instead as a highly respected, thoughtful, and considered leader. the crutches are never commented on, just treated as a totally normal part of his character. better disability rep then a lot of shit today tbh.

Anyway, you can find it for free on the internet archive, here:

Fail Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet : Sidney Lumet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet

[my-only-daydream]

I've been meaning to give this a go for months! Silly lil guys. clown animals. with ripped patterned paper and pencils. Finally got to it and I'm quite pleased with the results. Below is my first test, before I decided I liked pencils better than pen for the details.

[proshokk]

The enchanting sound of the shamisen, and you've fallen into the paws of a nekomata 🎋🐾