Intermittent Dispatches

Occasional thoughts, updates, and things I feel like sharing. --- 31 | He/Him | USA

[awanqi]

"St Michel"

Speedpaint and tutorial on my Patreon.

Prints

[pngblog]

[ouiouhie]

intruder 👁️

[faithschaffer]

These are my pieces in the 'Knights of Guinevere' show that's up now at Gallery Nucleus! I had a lot of fun with these.

[intermittendispatches]

so i’ve lost 100lbs in the past year. go me, i guess.

[kosmogrl]

don’t take my defeatism too seriously I will always begin again and again no matter what

[kosmogrl]

I might sound miserable most of the time but at my core I’m a very hopeful person

[1five1two]

'Taniec Jesieni (Dance of Autumn)'. Piotr Stachiewicz. 1917.

[wildmansters]

The thing that really boils my potatoes about AI in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist.

But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this AI generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the AI Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building.

I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

[intermittendispatches]

A project I've been working on for the past few months have been these leather journals! I wanted to make some inspired by my favorite paintings and made both A5 and A6 sizes for variety.

I also got to use my makers mark on something so I'm very proud of that!

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

(in the universe where capitalism never happened and we're in the sun eating fruit topless all day long) fuck i wish i had a credit score

[assignedmale]

[devildaisies]

the plastic dress crow man booktok erotica is going to be the thing that finally ends fast fashion everyone say thank you plastic dress crow man booktok erotica

[devildaisies]

[lesbonoi]

[randomencounters]

Encounter: dangerous crow boy whose job it is to destroy plastic

[saywhat-politics]

“Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated, but I’m overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an unapologetic racist.”

– Pastor Howard-John Wesley, Alfred Street Baptist Church

[depsidase]

[animentality]

[balaclava-trismegistus]

That homeless camp shooting in Minneapolis is, I think, a great example of how reactionary rhetorical "gun violence" is. This has happened a number of times in Minneapolis, where somebody walks into a camp and shoots a bunch of people. I don't know that anyone has been caught for it in any of the instances. The working assumption seems to be that these incidents are gang-related due to the incidence of drug use in the camps.

The official response has been for the city to clear these camps in the name of "reducing gun violence." The camps existing is generating "gun violence", so these people who already have so little need to have all their shit destroyed in the name of public safety. They will not provide special services to help these people, they will not even have a cop car watch a camp. We are justifying anti-homeless measures by invoking the moral panic of "gun violence." Of which these people are victims.

This most recent episode is also interesting because it surrounds a land owner who has been trying to protect this camp. The city has been trying to force him to clear it for some time now and he's refused. So now, in the name of "stopping gun violence" and "public safety" they're terrorizing these poor people. After something so horrific. And they're suing the fucking land owner to get back the money they spent on the operation to clear the camp.

You need to wake up and recognize how liberals invoke "gun violence" to elicit a reactionary impulse.