Catcoog

It's a cat that is a raccoon and a frog

[litshu]

Tried something new and liked it

[secondlina]

It's dangerous to go alone...

[stealingpotatoes]

it's pride month, lady normalgirl. you know what that means

[stealingpotatoes]

[through gritted teeth] I love summer as a cat owner

[passionpeachy]

undersea 🫧

[stealingpotatoes]

terrible news: the only way to find out if something you create is gonna be good or bad is to actually create it

[stivkun]

Keep scrolling, there's nothing fishy going on here

[bismuth-soup]

Me starting to copy the random noises my friends make

[frogsmakehappy]

@litshu

[litshu]

All I make is random noises

[kristina100000]

[corrodedparadox]

What the hell is that thing and how is he driving

[olsonshroom]

Lots of thoughts recently. Everything feels plastic.

I could go on and on about why all that AI "art" is bad. I could mention theft, lack of creativity, it's impact on the work field and environment, but countless people have already said all that. I wanted to touch on something that to me is the most utterly wrong about all of it.

Art is more than just something pretty to look at or listen to. It's therapeutic. It's a form of communication. A tool for human connection. It's a pure, human need.

Support real artists ☀️

[j-tee]

who let this bird on the train

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Y’all I want to throw massive kudos out to the Roger Williams Park Zoo for a choice they made today: rather than joining in on a GenAI trend all the zoos are doing right now, they chose to support and spotlight an artist on their staff!

The big thing right now is these GenAI “figurine toys” of zookeepers or zoo management. And instead they shared a version drawn by one of their staff!

Go give them some love, if you’re on FB. Too many zoos are really getting into GenAI and just whitewashing the climate change / copyright issues that come with it, so I want this zoo to get as much positive feedback as we can muster for making a better choice.

[animalphotorefs]

Not my image, not part of the repository (so not available to use). But let’s celebrate a business promoting their own artists instead of using AI!

[everydaylouie]

Swamp Singers 🐊🦜

[technofeudalism]

[technofeudalism]

[mouth-less]

[vitabreva]

[thalassatea]

[muppetationalcollectables]

Miss Piggy’s Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Kermitage Collection is a picture book featuring sixteen (minus the “The Birth of Venus” parody) different muppet parodies of famous artwork, edited by Henry Beard and illustrated by John E. Barrett, and published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1984.

A majority of the illustrations were originally from the Miss Piggy’s Art Masterpiece Calendar which were all reprinted with commentary from Miss Piggy herself and new additions that expanded on the “Kermitage Collection” from the calendar.

illustrations continued:

Henri Rousseau. The Sleepy Zootsy.

Rembrant van Rijn. Arisfroggle Contemplating the Bust of a Twerp.

Jan Vermeer. Young Lady Adorning Herself with Pearls (and Why Not?).

Grant Wood. American Gothique.

Pablo Picasso. Pig Before a Mirror.

[housegoblin]

imagine if it were that easy