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john

@john@sauropods.win

I am an artist, and I post a lot of my own art. I am also the Admin here at Sauropods.win, and a lot of my boosts will be great dinosaur (and other prehistoric animal) stuff from the other winners here.

Some hashtags: #Art #Paintings #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Palaeoart #Paleoart #Dinosaurs #SciArt #DigitalArt

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john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Pneumacinonyx" — 2003

It was built for speed, but it just lays about.

https://johnconway.art/pneumacinonyx

darnell, to random
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South Dakota Gov. Noem admits error of describing meeting Kim Jong Un in new book https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/south-dakota-gov-noem-erroneously-describes-meeting-north-109911302

john,
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@darnell real Sarah Palin2 vibes.

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Felt Mountain 07: Oompa Radar" — 2012

Drawings inspired by Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain. Track No. 7, Oompa Radar.

https://johnconway.art/fm7_oompa_radar

john,
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You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNsGXzww58A

ninawillburger, to random
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The fantastic Norton Disney dodecahedron intrigues everyone. There are other complete examples, e.g., this one from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.
We still don't know what those mysterious devices were used for. Any suggestions?

john,
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@bodhipaksa @ninawillburger I like this idea. The different sized holes seem like an important feature. Holding things might explain their weight too (as opposed a size gauge which has also been suggested), the knobs act as feet..

john, to art
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A new artwork - Forest of Uncles, after the title of a poem by my grandfather. The concept is somewhat related.

https://johnconway.art/forest_of_uncles

hairylarry, to random

Professor Megalow’s Dinosaur Bones
Richard Owen and Victorian Literature
By Richard Fallon

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/richard-owen-and-victorian-literature/

Richard Owen, the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs”, claimed that he could identify an animal, even an extinct one, from inspecting a single bone.

#publicdomain #dinosaurs #itdontgetnobetterthanthat

john,
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@hairylarry weird to see Owen looking friendly.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Final Cut Pro, Logic and Xcode were the ‘pro apps’ of the Mac era, but the pro apps of the iPad are tools like Procreate. Though iPad has moved towards the Mac over time, it's unlikely to replace it. Traditionally, Apple hasn’t really provided a whole lot of dedicated APIs a high-end illustration app could take advantage of; perhaps that is one of the axes of progression Apple could double down on, and maybe a new first-party AI-enhanced, layered, pro drawing app would make sense for dogfooding?

Procreate marketing photo

john,
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@stroughtonsmith Speaking as someone that uses Procreate professionally, Procreate is an extremely streamlined painting app, and would not benefit from more features. There’s a reason people use it over more capable apps like Affinity Photo for iPad.

The problem remains iPad OS’s clunky app-centric way of handling files. It’s painful to move images between applications, arrange large numbers of artworks, have an automated backup system, etc. It was a fundamental mis-design they are stuck in.

john,
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@amonduin @stroughtonsmith Absolutely. I think it was Apple’s biggest blunder, betting on an app-centric way of doing things. It just doesn’t work when you’re creating stuff. It’s a complete mess.

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Duicat di Urbino" — 2015

Long Venus is long! I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that if Titian were alive today, he would have painted it just like this.

https://johnconway.art/duicat_di_urbino

#Art #Classics #Internet #Longcat #Octopus #Paintings #StupidJokes #Titian #Venus

john,
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@gray17 Thanks, stupid thing crashes every now and again. One day I'll learn to be a competent programmer. One day.

john, to mastodon
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You know, there are some architectural and efficiency issues with , but I'm just tooting here like I have been for 4 years, and the thing just keeps working. The clients just work. The network stays connected.

It's more stable than Twitter ever was.

(Credit to @mastohost for running it here at sauropods.win)

keesey, to random
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Paleontology’s dirty secret is that there is no “correct” way to pronounce those names. Paleontologists mostly just go with however their adviser said ‘em.

john,
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@mike @keesey you’re not the boss of us. Zen-oh-possy-don 4evah.

JoBlakely, to random
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Was in the dog park & someone said “that little dog I want to punt off a cliff.”

I said ”what?! Why?”
She said “its so cute!”
Me: “but you want to punt it off a cliff?”
I did not get it.
She said “cuteness aggression, it’s a thing.”

Is it though?!
I don’t get an impulse to harm something bc it’s so cute. Cuddle, hug tight, make feel safe above all…but punt off a cliff?
It was such a violent shocking expression she thought perfectly acceptable & normal.
Is this an allistic thing?

😬

john,
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@JoBlakely I don’t think you’re right here, there’s a destructive impulse that comes with beauty. A deep uncomfortableness with the fragility and fleetingness of it. It’s going to be taken away anyway, so people get “just get it over with” impulse, to go back to feeling comfortable.

john,
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@JoBlakely that’s fair, I don’t think I way very clear that what I don’t really agree with is the objectification angle. I mean in can be expressed like that, but I don’t think that’s what’s usually being felt or intended.

john,
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@JoBlakely I’ve gotta say, that’s not my experience of people, autistic or otherwise. Feels more like independent personal trait, or in some cases situational. Just my personal experience though, obviously.

john,
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@JoBlakely maybe so, but I still don’t think that is what’s going on with your original example. Are people who are more likely to objectify sentient things also more likely to feel the thing you’ve described? I’d say the opposite. It’s a symptom of hypersensitivity.

john,
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@JoBlakely but the animistic response, as you term it, requires a long period of unconfortablenss, and is ultimately doomed to failure (all things must pass). Killing the thing solves the problem (in an obviously ridiculous way, but that’s not the point).

john,
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@JoBlakely that seems like a very different thing to me.

mike, to Wikipedia
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One of the little joys of is the pedantry in some of the entries.

For example, about the song Chattannogo Choo Choo:

  • The train is described as departing from Track 29 in Pennsylvania Station. At the time, the facility only had 21 tracks.

  • "You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four", but The Birmingham Special departed at 12:30 p.m.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga_Choo_Choo#Inspiration

john,
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@mike Bet they didn't even serve ham ’n’ eggs. Damn songwriters, always lying to the general public.

john, to random
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Does anybody know if there’s a traditional composite material that behaves something like fibreglass? As in fibre/fabric laid up in a binder of some sort to make a stiff material in arbitrary forms.

Paper mache is one but it’s too weak (I think, maybe there's a super version?). I'm considering things like cotton or flax in casein glue or pine resin... but I doubt it will work.

(And my last casein glue experiment stunk like rotten milk for weeks!)

john,
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@felichsdakatze How strong is it?

john,
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@markno how strong is shellac?

john,
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@Wharrrrrrgarbl Yeah, I'd be worried about it melting in the sun, but if it worked for them?

john, (edited )
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@dave0 yep, that’s why I mentioned it, I’m not very clear on its properties or exactly how to do it, but someone linked to a page about it up thread.

john,
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@c_dan4th Yep, stretched canvas is something I use sometimes, but it need the wooden frame. I'm after something that has rigidity of it's own.

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