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Hadi Rahnaward: 'Fragile Balance' (2023) rug sculpture created with matches

#sculpture #rug #matches #holy wow

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#vintage advertising #lamps #light fixtures #midcentury futurism #design

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#landscape #hills #bluff #green #mist

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STRETCHING SIAMESE CAT 

by Lee Sangsoo

#sculpture #cat #abstract

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FOR ALL MANKIND (2019–) ⤷ 2.01 ∙ Every Little Thing

#for all mankind #moon show

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Fiona Bates Ceramics

#ceramics #sculpture #pottery #sardines

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The case to watch on this concerns Zarya of the Dawn, a graphic novel illustrated with AI-generated images. The author’s initial copyright application did not fully disclose their reliance on AI, but the copyright office somehow learned through social media that the author had used MidJourney for the images, and they revised the scope of copyright protection to include the text and the arrangement of the images but to exclude the images themselves.

It’s an interesting example, because making the case has required the copyright office to get fairly granular about the specific elements of the work (separating out not only text and image, but also distinguishing images themselves from the arrangement of them) and to articulate some legal definitions about how generative AI is understood to operate; according to the copyright office, a work produced with generative AI has sufficient randomized and mechanized layers between human promoter and finished creation that the finished piece cannot be accurately understood as a product of individual human creativity; this is, notably, in contrast to a photograph, which can be copyrighted (which may seem straightforward now but definitely was not in the 1870s and 80s.)

The author of Zarya has talked about bringing suit, but afaik that hasn’t happened yet. Anyway you can read a pretty good writeup of it here.

Whatsapp's suggested autofills here have me laughing. Tumblr mention? Useless. No idea. They don't know anything there.

#ai #generative ai #apologies for nerding out over here #I am definitely super not an expert in copyright law more generally #but for various work reasons this is a case I am following closely

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Kazuyuki Ohtsu

Woodblock prints

Kazuyuki Ohtsu (b. 1935) served for forty years as assistant to Kiyoshi Saito.

#japanese woodblock #trees

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“As a culture we are obsessed with the notion of safety. Yet we do not question why we live in states of extreme anxiety and dread. Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.”

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (2001)

#bell hooks #safety #community #wisdom

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for the WIP title ask meme: Gordo at the picnic!

(for this fic ask meme)

So one thing I think about, every time I rewatch (or even think about) seasons 1 and 2, and especially that killer scene between Tracy and Ed in his office in 2.2, is how Tracy never really gets a fair shot at being an equal at NASA -- not because Gordo is already an astronaut but because, by the time she shows up as an ASCAN, all of her future colleagues have long since been conscripted into knowing the open secret of Gordo's "shenanigans" (to use Margo's word.) And it's so interesting to hold that together with how Gordo is so supportive of her in so many ways -- deep ways! real ways! -- and yet I can't quite believe that he's capable of giving up all of his asshole habits to make room for her as an equal, even though he's doing that in other ways that would probably be harder for a lot of other men.

Anyway, this is a not-quite-a-story-yet set at one of those backyard picnics shortly after the four female ASCANs get their pins, and the aim is to capture some of those tensions. I don't have much other than notes, but what I do have is below the cut:

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“Hey Gordo,” Deke called across the patio, “will you come help me with the burgers?”

It wasn’t an order, but that didn’t mean Gordo wouldn’t catch hell on Monday if he blew it off. He turned back to Chloe, grinning. “Duty calls. But hey, maybe I’ll talk to you later?”

“Sure,” she said, showing off those dimples again.

Gordo joined Deke behind the grill, where Deke was piling up grilled burgers onto a paper plate. The whole right side of the grill was open, so Gordo picked up the package of beef rounds and began laying them out like tiles.

“Gordo, you gotta stop doing that,” Deke said quietly, after a minute. 

Gordo didn’t let his smile change. “Doing what, Deke?”

Deke glared down at the grill then turned to look at him. “Chatting up the other guys’ wives.”

“Just being friendly,” he said evenly.

“You friendly like that with the new astronauts? Or just their wives?”

“Okay.” Gordo lifted his hands defensively. “Hands off Wayne Cobb, I promise. Look, Deke, it’s not anything. Lambert’s a cool guy.”

#for all mankind #fic ask meme #gordo stevens #deke slayton #moon show

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she’s well camouflaged 🦌🍄

#pottery #sculpture #ceramics #deer #mushroom

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JODI BALFOUR as ELLEN WAVERLY For All Mankind, Season 1 (2019-present)

#for all mankind #ellen waverly #moon show

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Recently I went to one of my favorite museums of all times, the Muskegon Art Museum, and discovered this new bronze by UK artist, Beth Carter, Minotaur Reading. When people think of the myth of the Minotaur it’s almost always in context of his violence, his lust, his impossible body. Here all that is swept away with this monstrous form reading a small golden book. This made me crazy happy to see.

#sculpture #Minotaur

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Cypress trees and California coast look beautiful today.

#California coast #mist #trees #ocean #how my heart longs for California cypress

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Ruins by Akos Kozari

#ruins #snow

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Sarah Jones as TRACY STEVENS in For All Mankind season 1

#for all mankind #tracy stevens #Tracy I love you #moon show

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Wonderful selection of eight 19th century carved angel wings.

#sculpture #statue #wings