I Am The Poser

The ground swells to consume you. Do you accept your fate?

[o-craven-canto]

Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:

catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscope universe -> monostrophe

[kacarlis]

My class draws heavily on my experience at Cartoon Network, where I had the opportunity to write on 3 seasons on Victor and Valentino. CN shows were board driven--board artists also helped tell the story from the outline, and were responsible for story changes/trims and dialogue.

What I love about this class is we don't just learn about storyboards--this class teaches you how to pitch and develop your own original ideas in a way that gets you and your audience excited--especially when your audience may be a room full of executives or investors.

This class also helps you build the confidence in your own writing and storytelling--I want to help you hone your voice!

And while this course specializes in writing and storyboards for animation, I want to help you hone your story and pitching skills in ways that will apply to adjacent career paths as well.

Creative careers are always branching out, and I want you to leave this course with the skills to do that!

For instance, while most of my career has been in animation--I also work in live action as a storyboard artist and editor!

I recently storyboarded the film Chili Finger, which premiered this year at SXSW. Your skills in animation can translate to a lot of other fields in entertainment and marketing.

Online art class designed for animation / entertainment art students

I hope I will see you there! Thanks for taking a look :)

[miggsboson]

Take Kayla Class Kayla Class Good

[birdssong]

dogdog

[abbytabbys]

(Forever Together au) The difference of life and something artificial is clear as day. But when something of nature accepts the unnatural, how unusual the world may become. 

[yuumei-art]

The natural conclusion to my berrymania is blueberry pie!🫐✨🥧

I also realized that I've accidentally made a short comic about the fate of these blueberries with my 3 paintings haha

Painting process! The full hours long video will be DMed on Patreon.com/Yuumei on August 5th!

[serps-up]

so happy and free

[reachartwork]

this is going to be a silly reblog but i have kind of a fixation on animal qualia and the idea of an animal's umwelt, so i ended up wondering whether pudding was actually "enjoying" this.

which meant i went and read about snail brains.

here's the bad news, at least by human standards:

snails do not have anything like a centralized brain. their nervous system is made up of small clusters of neurons (ganglia) that mostly handle very local tasks. they don't have a cortex, they don't build big integrated models of the world, and they almost certainly don't experience things like appreciation, anticipation, or savoring.

pudding is not looking at the sky and thinking it's beautiful.

snail eyes are basically light sensors - they can tell bright from dark, but not form images. snail "taste" is done through chemoreceptors on their tentacles and around their mouth. those receptors don't produce flavor the way ours do; they just detect chemical compounds and sort them into "approach," "ignore," or "avoid."

so there's no evidence that snails enjoy food, or wind, or views, the way mammals do.

and that does sound kind of sad. but then i thought that maybe we are asking the wrong question.

snails do have valence. they detect aversive things (like salt or dryness) and withdraw from them. they detect non-aversive or beneficial conditions (like moisture) and stay extended. when pudding is stretched out like this, it means his nervous system is basically saying "this is safe; nothing is wrong."

if we define pleasure not as our human experience of dopamine and reward chemicals but instead as "the absence of aversion" - a state where the organism is open to its environment instead of defending itself - then this does count as something positive, even if it's extremely nothing like human enjoyment.

pudding isn't appreciating the wind. but his body is registering humidity, safety, and the ability to keep functioning, and that matters to him in the only way his nervous system can make things matter. he does not think "this is great, this is awesome, i love the weather", because he doesn't think in the way we do at all, but the neurological action in his ganglion tell his body that he is safe, that the moisture is an acceptable level, that it's not too dry or windy, and that there's nothing imminently threatening.

i think a lot of the sadness comes from assuming that a good life has to look like ours: full of enjoyment, meaning, and aesthetic experience. but a snail isn't missing those things. its world just isn't built to include them.

snails don't have a sense of flavor. they don't even have tastebuds. this seems like a gimme, right? but again that might be asking the wrong question about what "taste" is. biologically speaking, it's chemoreception. we taste sweet because it indicates high value, high calorie sugar molecules. we taste salty for salt, umami for proteins. so in what way does pudding's chemoreceptors differ from ours instrumentally? we can say "by our human perspective, pudding can't experience "preference" or "savoring" or "anticipation of delicious food"", but from pudding's perspective we have radically overengineered ourselves for the task at hand. pudding can tell what's salty, what's high value, what has the chemicals he needs. the functional outcome is that he can discriminate food souces based on their composition. is that not taste?

so maybe the point isn't "this is sad because he can't enjoy it," but "this is a reminder that minds come in radically different shapes, and value doesn't have to be rich to be real."

[we-all-get-hats]

“minds come in radically different shapes, and value doesn't have to be rich to be real”

[bimstown]

[ferrettaur]

So like an hour ago I just lear🪨︵︵ned that— what the fuck was that. Someone just skipped a rock across my post did you see that

[littleposer]

Can I have it back

[taurzza]

And now I'm reaching out with every note I sing and I hope it gets to you on some pacific wind wraps itself around you and whispers in your ear tells you that I miss you and I wish that you were here

[depsidase]

[ceasarslegion]

Here's some summer advice from a guy who worked in skincare:

-you need to wear sunscreen if youre going out in the sun. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. You don't need the expensive designer stuff but please just wear sun protection.

-you still need sunscreen if you are black or dark-skinned. Not only can you still sunburn, but direct UV light exposure also increases your risk of skin cancer, no matter how much melanin you have. There's tons of brands out there that are made for darker skin tones that don't leave that ashy finish behind, you just need to know the terms to look for. Look for the words "tinted, matte, mattifying," and shea butter-based sunscreens. There's also lots of brands that are formulated with your skin tone in mind. I don't have any to recommend unfortunately because I don't have experience needing that, but I know they are out there.

-if youre very hairy and cream sunscreens get caught in your body hair and glob up, get a spray sunscreen instead. It'll get in all the nooks and crannies instead of getting caught in your hair. Spray sunscreens are also good for those who have troubles with the effort and time it takes to put on sunscreen. Just make sure you spray it in a well ventilated area or, better yet, under cover outside, like on a porch or balcony.

-dont believe the fearmongering about chemical sunscreens. They're much more reliably protective than mineral sunscreens are. Thats because theyre chemically formulated in lab settings to be consistently protective and keep on shelves for long periods of time, while mineral sunscreens have a bad habit of ingredient separation and uneven formula mixes. Really, unless youre swimming directly in the great barrier reef or you have a specific skin condition or allergy to the ingredients in chemical sunscreens (the only customer i actually recommended our mineral sunscreen to over our chemical one was a regular who had skin cancer), you don't need a mineral sunscreen. Your wallet will also suffer less.

-you might have to double cleanse in the shower to get all sunscreen residue off your skin. Thats a good thing actually, it means your sunscreen is really good at barrier protection, but its also annoying. The way to do this without drying out your skin too much is by doing one quick cleanse of your skin with about half the soap you's typically use just to loosen up that residue and dirt, and then another deep, proper clean like you usually would that will get it all off. While leftover residue isn't really a health risk at all, it can clog your pores over time and cause uncomfortable acne breakouts, as well as trap dust and dirt under all the gunk. It can also get on your bedsheets.

-if you double cleanse, I recommend moisturizing after because it does dry you out a bit. You don't need a big fancy designer moisturizer either, just go to the drug store and get their basic pump bottle of body lotion, and separate facial moisturizer (the separation matters, the skin on your face is a lot more thin and delicate than the skin on your body). The main thing you want to look for with any product is that you arent allergic or sensitive to the active ingredients and avoid anything that uses alcohol as a binding ingredient.

-hats, hats, hats!! They keep the sun out of your eyes and your face!! You cant put sunscreen on your eyeballs!! Wear hats!!

-go have fun!! You can have your beach days and sun fun without cancer risks!!

[rt0no]

[dinosaurkitkatz]

Some more bisque ware, trying to get it all done before I don’t have access to the pottery studio anymore!! My poor hand built kit trinket lost a leg, she’s covered in clear glaze now (as well as all the white color on the bowls)

[littleposer]

AWWW THEY LOOK SO GOOD!!!!!

I hope they turn out good during the glaze fire!!!

[kyotoprotocols]

[claypigeonpottery]

don't mind me, I'm going to ramble a little about decorating plates (with pictures lol)

one of the things I really enjoy about decorating plates is that the rim of the plate is the perfect place to put some kind of framing

(all pieces in this post are sold)

I don't always frame the images, sometimes leaving it uncarved is the best way to accent the central image

or I'll simply continue the design out over the rim of the plate

the rest I'm going to put under the cut lol

it took me awhile to get used to considering and planning out the rim of a piece while I was sketching. oftentimes I would forget about it, and once I was finished carving the central image I’d suddenly realize the piece needed a frame to feel complete. sometimes it just doesn’t look right without something on the rim! this piece definitely falls into that category.

once it was carved it just felt too open without a frame

I really like decorating the rim with little things that relate to the subject of the piece. it might be my favourite kind of framing

(the violets relate to the pigeons because the sapphic flag is pink with violets, and this is a portrait of my pigeons, who are lesbians lol)

sometimes the framing design escapes the confines of the rim lol, despite my plans. the gum blossoms just really wanted more space in this thylacine piece

framing a design works on tiles too of course, but the raised rim is more fun imo

(both of the above tiles are from pretty early on in my sgraffito experiments, so the photos are unfortunately very bad 😬 I hadn't yet learned to take nice pictures)

sometimes a frame can act a bit like a stylized background for the subject, like these trees

or a more distant set of trees to indicate a forest

or I can use the rim's design more like a closer look at the environment around the subject, their immediate surroundings; the rabbits surrounded by thorns, the jackdaw surrounded by juniper

it's also interesting to bring the carving of the background of the piece out onto the rim when it’s a different colour, like in the (above) jackdaw plate, and the (below) red winged blackbird plate. it can show the subtle background carving in a more visible way and kind of tie the design together

sometimes a simple directional pattern is the way to go. I did this a lot in 2023 especially for some reason?

I've really grown to love carving imperfect patterns, and I find it relaxing to just kind of go with it and not worry about perfect spacing or lines

it’s really an exercise in frustration to try to make a pattern exact when it’s being carved on a hand built piece of pottery that is already an imperfect shape.

I’ve never been particularly intent on being exact with my art tbh (though I do admire that quality in other artists)

I am happy with a more relaxed method lol

this one below was done really roughly and I enjoy the way some of the underglaze remained after I scratched most of it off. it follows the shape of the piece really nicely, because I let my carving tool just followed the shape of the rim without much guidance from my hand lol

sometimes I experiment with using glaze to add a little something to the rims

and sometimes, the frame is just the perfect place to put a few words

but I'd never really used framing much in my art before I started making plates! so it's been a bit of a learning experience. I've enjoyed experimenting with new ways to decorate the rims of plates. some of them don't work out lol, but that's just the nature of making art

[revivify-inn]

Low key showing off my nails

But also! Mug!

[brambledragonpottery]

How about a little ceramic espresso cup with a kitty cat on it? Brambledragon.etsy.com