Casually Making Stuff

Hey, I'm Vin! Brazilian design student, lover of everything handmade, overall making enthusiast. I'll be posting here the little projects i make over time.

[luwupercal]

@thecasualmaker replied to your post “Why.”:

You can make the ork warboss twerk in that game by spam clicking

​fucking huh

[thecasualmaker]

More like throwing it back actually

[thispreciousthing]

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

[thecasualmaker]

my friend, i loooove craft and that sorta things a lot, everything you can touch and feel the weight of after it is finished, that makes me so happy. and you, doing these tiny masterpieces from junk? amazing. incredible. keep going

Thank you so much, it means a lot! I totally agree with you there, to be able to hold in your hands something that was once just a thought is a feeling like no other.

[thecasualmaker]

This is the opposite of those sobriety chips

[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. 

[scribefindegil]

Tips for baking with brain fog

Brain fog in the kitchen can mean anything from forgetting an ingredient to accidentally skipping a recipe step, plus much more. Here's how to bake successfully, even when you're feeling foggy.

A useful article from King Arthur Flour (my beloved) on baking while disabled.

[capt-coffeebitch]

This genuinely might make me cry. I already deeply appreciate King Arthur for making the best GF 1 for 1 flour. And having good recipes. But an article posted by them from someone with disabilities about how to do the thing even with disabilities? That’s just genuinely lovely. I know that my bad there is low, but it’s low for a reason and hopefully stuff like this can continue to raise that bar for disabled people like me.

[ilsa-fireswan]

I love to see this! Another of my favorites is the baking with arthritis post.

Tips for baking with arthritis and other hand-related chronic pain

With some changes to techniques, a careful selection of kitchen tools, and tips from fellow bakers, the joy of baking can live on.

[claudiagray]

King Arthur Flour is great flour with an even greater website. (I say this as someone who is expected to make their pumpkin bread for the family every Thanksgiving.) 

[yayxstitch]

Not needlework related, but this is a very good resource for people who need it.

[moodyskeletonart]

Heres a google drive folder filled with art book pdfs, if anyone has some others that you'd like me to add to it thats missing, please let me know and send me the link

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Honestly I don't remember the dream itself but it ended with Matpat doing a goddamn Manscaped ad. I woke up so pissed.

[dukeofash]

Howdy newbies and welcome to Tumblr, it takes a bit of setup to get this site running well so here’s what works for me. One of the neat things about this site is that its a different experience for everyone, so tailor these settings towards what you want from this site. 

New XKit 

[the-art-of-dieselpunk-war]

[knifesquidblr]

Here's this Rebel Grot war machine I made.

[thecasualmaker]

WIP junk-bashed imperial knight armigers

Getting matching bits to make 2 models has been a pain but we're getting there

Used knockoff lego bits for the weapon joints so i can swap em out if i ever want to

[thecasualmaker]

Lettering work i did for uni

[thecasualmaker]

"Thousands of standard years before the rise of the Imperium, Mankind reached out to the stars and settled many far away worlds. Among the apparatus of colonisation were formidable war machines known as "Knights," which existed to protect the settlers from any threat"

My scratch-built dark age of tech knight. 480 parts and some 40ish hours of work, i'm super happy with this guy. The idea is it's primary purpose being a heavy mining suit, but it can be used for battle when the situation needs it. Might make a whole army with the theme, who knows

Some snapshots of the process

[cthelmakes]

All finished!

[ctheldraws]

Mechanicus pistol concepts

Possibly one will be my next prop pistol project…

[thecasualmaker]

Converted one of those toy story soldiers as sculpting practice. These guys are great for that, as they are fairly large and have some interesting poses