Pine on a Ridge

2023-03-02 day 258 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is complete experimentation on my part. I see things I would change if I were to do it again, and yet, I still like it.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/pine-on-a-ridge/

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A digital painting of a lone pi…

Northern Lights

2023-02-28 to 2023-03-01 day 256/257 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I’m not entirely happy with this, but I wasn’t making it any better, so I said enough and I’m calling it done. No doubt I’ll try this again. Later. Sometime.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/northern-lights/

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Digital painting. In the foregr…

Mountain Mist

2023-02-26/27 day 254/255 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is another tutorial by Joel Create.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/mountain-mist/

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A digital painting of a mountai…

From 1974 to 2003, the head of the Catholic Church in the Philippines was Cardinal Sin. When he had visitors, he greeted them with the words ‘Welcome to the house of sin’.

Colorful #Spring image of a rustic cape cod barn digitally painted I watercolor effect.

#SpringForArt #SpringIntoArt #MastoArt #FediArt #CapeCod #FediGiftShop #BuyIntoArt #GiftThemArt #Coastal #Photography #BeachLife #BeachHouse #WallArt
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Full image and more here: https://pixels.com/featured/cape-cod-blue-door-watercolor-lorri-m-barry-photography.html

I love #Spring on #cape cod The beautiful dune Daisys bloom in early spring and brighten my days!

#BuyIntoArt #SpringForArt #SpringIntoArt #AYearForArt #Photography #MastoArt #mastodon #FediArt #FediGiftShop #GiftThemArt #Beach #Flowers

Full image and more here: https://pixels.com/featured/beach-dune-daisys-lorri-m-barry-photography.html

Hopped off the shuttle at Yaki point for sunset.
#NativeLand #GrandCanyon #Sunset #Landscape #Photography

sometimes I come home with leaves and petals in my hair. maybe spiders. I like spring. #photography

Judge Wyndham's Oak is well documented to be 1000 years old and it's still putting out new leaves and buds #treesofmastdon #veterantrees #silentsaturday #oak #veteranoak #dorset #tree

We have a couple of daffodils in our yard. I'm not sure how they got here. So pretty. #Gardening @plants

Cave Sunset

2023-02-24/25 day 252/253 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

I followed a Joel Create tutorial.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/cave-sunset/

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A digital painting. Viewed from…

Pink Tree

2023-02-22/23 day 250/251 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

This was a Joel Create tutorial. If you watch the timelapse, you will see that I change my mind a fair bit and redo things. I change the leaves entirely at least three times until I was happy. I’m sure there are faster, more efficient ways to get things done, but I am not there yet. 😀

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/pink-tree/

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A digital painting of a tree wi…

A striking visualisation of #climatechange: the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.

Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.

The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…

Happy to share the early online version of our new study (#OpenAccess): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acc81a

We use #machinelearning to detect the emergence of distinguishable climate patterns in a new model experiment simulating stratospheric aerosol injection relative to a moderate future emissions scenario.

I have a summary of the paper at https://zacklabe.com/climate-signals-and-explainable-ai/. More on this all soon! #OpenScience #SciComm

Various Cladonia lichen and moss landscape among rocks

#lichen #LichenSubscribe #moss #Mosstodon #LichenLandscape

Google employees are known as ‘Googlers’. New employees are ‘Nooglers’ and dogs that come to work with their owners are ‘Dooglers.

In the 1800s, some people tried to disguise toilets as stacks of books (Image: FrDr; CC BY-SA).

Andy Weir's The Martian astronaut (supposedly a botanist), played by Matt Damon, almost starved due to a misunderstanding of #potato #propagation. He waited for his #garden's first crop to make tubers before starting the next generation when, instead, he could have taken stem cuttings, or even leaf cuttings, and made hundreds of new plants.
Of course that would have killed the dramatic tension.
Learn plant propagation. It can save lives, AND it's not f*cking rocket science. /end rant
#permaculture #ScienceFiction

#silentSunday ferns on tree (also one for #mosstadon )

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alighodsi_hello-dolly-democratizing-the-magic-of-chatgpt-activity-7045014694385917952-JUVH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop "We are open sourcing Dolly, a ChatGPT-like model that can do instruction following, brainstorming, summarization. The remarkable thing is that we created it for $30 using one server for 3 hours on a small dataset using a 2 year old open source LLM model. The secret in magical human-like interactivity probably lies in a small dataset, not huge models, not training for 100,000 GPU hours." #StochasticParrots #LLM #MachineLearning