Just singing away.
#birds #procreate #photography #art #bird #birb

#mastoart #mastodon #digitalArt #procreate #art

#Art
#MonikaLuniak

A little challenge / exercise for the photographers, whether amateur, aspiring, or professional!

Shoot a flat lay with a red theme.

'Flat lay' is where you arrange objects on a surface in a visually appealing way, and shoot them top down.

No hurry to contribute, take some time and plan it out. Maybe even document the process!

Here are some inspirational examples (all from Pexels)!

#FlatLayRed

Black Hole

2023 04 02 day 283 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). I’m doing a one art-thing every day challenge to take me from wannabe artist to something around beginner artist. I’m very much still learning and am self-taught. This series chronicles this journey.

I saw an image of a black hole on the Curiosmos site, linked below, and thought I’d do my own take. Here it is!

For more info, including seeing the time lapse, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/black-hole/

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #DigitalArt #WomensArt #ArtistsOnMastodon
An imagined vision of a black h…

Alien Landscape

2023 03 31 day 281 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

To clarify for those who weren’t with me at the beginning in May 2022, I decided to do a one year challenge to do some kind of art every day for a year so I could, hopefully, learn to do art. In the beginning, my art, or more accurately, “art”, wasn’t very good. I had not done much since finger painting in grade two or three. I considered myself a wannabe artist. But I figured that, if I worked at art seriously for a year, I could improve. I aspire to competence. So what you see here is very much that of a beginner artist learning to art.

On to the now. I seem to be developing a habit of painting otherworldly scenes. I must continue that with zero restraint.

For more info, including seeing the time lapse, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/alien-landscape/

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #DigitalArt #WomensArt #ArtistsOnMastodon
A digital painting of an alien …

Apparently Melon Husk wants to start “TruthGPT” to rival OpenAI and Google. If this is going to be anything like his “free speech” efforts on Twitter, you know that “truth” is the furthest thing you’ll get from “TruthGPT” 😛

Also didn’t Melon-boy sign a letter asking for a pause on development of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least 6 months? So why is *he* going ahead with development of new systems? Doesn’t the pause apply to him?

Or was the pause only so that he (and others) can catch up? 😛

The way these people do u-turns is likely to give whiplash to people if anybody actually paid attention 😀

#MachineLearning #DeepLearning #GPT

#AmazingWorld
#ArtOfEasterEggs

Hennig Brand, who discovered phosphorus in 1669, found it while boiling down gallons of urine to try and make gold.

Review of journal articles found 400 studies on menstrual effluent (blood); 15,000 on semen/ sperm. The lack of research on women's reproductive organs=lack of interventions & widespread use of the hysterectomy (2nd most frequent operation for US women).
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/what-we-still-dont-know-about-periods

'Osprey in the Blue Sky' in soft pastels and charcoal pencil. I'm happy with the fierce look captured in this bird portrait.
See this artwork in my online gallery at https://mm-anderson.pixels.com/featured/osprey-in-the-blue-sky-mm-anderson.html #PastelArtist #ArtistsOnMastodon #MastoArt #BirdArt #birds #CreativeToots #art

My wife pointed out something a couple of days ago that I hadn’t actually noticed myself — that we’ve seen a number of Indian movies and TV shows that dealt with the pandemic, but that there were hardly any shows from the west that incorporated the pandemic into their story.

It’s almost as if the pandemic does not exist in the fictional worlds of western movies/TV 😛

In fact, the only show I can think of where I remember the pandemic being dealt with extensively was “All Rise” … and there was a movie called “7 Days” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14494586) but it had an Indian director and Indian cast (but the movie was in English) and so I think it only counts as half a point 🙂

And that was since the pandemic began!

Compared to that, just in the last week I’ve seen at least 2 - 3 Indian movies which centered around the pandemic and wasn’t just referring to it as a passing thing.

I just find the contrast interesting …

#Pandemic #Movies #Reflections

#Photography
#ThickTrunkTuesday

Cityscape Skyline
By Willem Haenraets

#art #painting #mastoart

This rainy night scene was based on a 1937 photograph of New York City.

See it here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/empire-state-building-1937-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print

#DigitalArt #Painting #MastoArt #NYC #NewYork #Manhattan #ArtMatters #Rain #Night #MarkOnArt

If you know somebody who knows somebody who KNOWS somebody associated in any way with the ICA Boston (Institute of Contemporary Art)...

My eldest is applying for a job as Curatorial Assistant. She would be PERFECT in this role (AND it would also be her dream job).

Often, it's not what you know but who you know. So I'm hoisting the Mastodon Marquee.

Anybody? Know someone there? Know someone who knows someone there? Knows someone who knows someone who [infinity game of telephony]?

After an hour of working with her, I swear, the ICA would declare a national holiday to celebrate their excellent decision to hire her. She is outstanding.

Egg with a pearl earring.

The artist is Aravis Dolmenna.
https://instagram.com/aravisdolmenna

It's my birthday today! ✨I think this means that you are socially obligated to pass my art around so your friends can see it. #art #MastoArt

http://patreon.com/annalandin
http://annalandin.itch.io
http://annalandin.tumblr.com

London and River Thames
By Altin Furxhi

#london #painting #art #mastoart

#WildLifeWednesday

This is “my” young male resident Anna’s #Hummingbird. Fortunate to have them here, in the #Seattle area year round.

These little winged wonders flutter their wings at a remarkable 80 times per second! They do NOT flap their wings, they rotate them in a figure 8.

#Birds #BirdsofMastodon #Photograph #AYearForArt #FediGiftShop #PNW

#PRINTS, Cards .. 👉https://pixels.com/featured/beautiful-anna-s-hummingbird-ez-lorenz-imagery.html