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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:

"Velociraptor mongoliensis" — 2019

A reboot of a paiting I originally did in 1997, age 16. I think at the time I considered it my first sucessful oil painting. I have added all the stuff to it that I originally intended to, but chickened-out (painting over skies in oil painting is scary,... [more]:

https://johnconway.art/velociraptor_1997

#Art #Dinobirds #Dinosaurs #FeatheredDinosaurs #Mesozoic #Mongolia #Painting #Palaeo #PalaeoPortraits #Paleo #Theropods

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Abelisaurus Portrait" — 2022

Abelisaurus was a meat-eater from the Late Cretaceous of South America.

https://johnconway.art/abelisaurus_portrait

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Hesperornis regalis" — 2015

Hepserornis regalis, the Late Cretaceous toothy marine bird, takes to the sea.

https://johnconway.art/hesperornis-regalis

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Crashed Zeppelins" — 2006

The dream of the giant Zeppelins came crashing down in a lonely ocean... but no one seemed to care.

https://johnconway.art/crashed_zeppelins

john, to ocean
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A new :

“The Wave”

The captain informs us that due to slightly choppy seas the giant paddling men have been deployed, but there is no cause for alarm.

https://johnconway.art/the_wave

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Caviramus Portrait" — 2022

Caviramus was a pterosaur from the Late Triassic of Switzerland. It had a rather special nose.

https://johnconway.art/caviramus_portrait

#Art #Paintings #Palaeo #PalaeoPortraits #Pterodactyls #Pterosaurs

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Stegosaurus stenops" — 2012

Stegosaurus stenops, in classic Stegosaurus livery, taking a drink.

https://johnconway.art/stegosaurus-stenops

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Ceratosaurus" — 2019

Ceratosaurus, star of Ceratosaurus and the City looking quite horny.

https://johnconway.art/ceratosaurus

#Art #Ceratosaurus #Decorative #Dinosaurs #Jurassic #PaintingTheropods #PalaeoPortraits

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Cryptozoologicon: Megalodon" — 2013

Another image from the book Cryptozoologicon by me, C.M. Kosemen and Darren Naish. Do 60-metre megalodons roam the oceans? Well, almost certainly not, but it's nice to dream.

https://johnconway.art/megalodon

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Clidastes" — 2021

Clidastes, god of the sea and forked lightning, does not even look at the ships she sinks.

https://johnconway.art/clidastes

john, to ai
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Using to “spot” forgeries and fakes:

“In the past, it was really difficult to spot these things, because you can’t take samples from an image on the internet. But, with the new technology, it’s easy. You can just download an image and then in 10 minutes, you will know. I think that people should be warned.”

Yikes.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/08/fake-monet-and-renoir-on-ebay-among-counterfeits-identified-using-ai?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3

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john, to Trains
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This thread mirrors my experience of in Europe and the UK. Pleasant when it's working, but very expensive, unreliable, and confusing as hell.

I'd love to know what's wrong and if the situation can be meaningfully improved.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/112407848484071304

john, to random
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When I’m browsing artist's bios, I see a lot, but there's still a lot number with . It's been an exhausting couple of years, huh?

On the other hand, NFTs turned out to be a bunch of nothing in the end, and I feel like just ignoring the whole thing would have worked.

I feel like maybe this is true of AI ‘art’. It's boring. It doesn't even need a backlash.

john, to iPad
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So they've made the new Pro thinner. Great, because that's what I've always thought, you know this thing isn't bendy enough.

Urg, Apple plz.

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Triceratops horridus" — 2013

The heroic Triceratops horridus, resister of tyrants. Never Forget.

https://johnconway.art/triceratops-horridus

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

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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, 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, 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

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)

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, to random
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Somebody stop me registering this hilarious domain name for a project I'm not really ever going to do... please?

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Life-sized Pterodactylus" — 2014

Pterodactylus was a little pterosaur that lived in Germany during the Late Jurassic, about 145 million years ago. It is known from several excellent fossils, which include soft-tissue impressions of it fur, wings, and crest. It is also a very pretty little animal.
The print of... [more]:

https://johnconway.art/ls_pterodactylus

john, to art
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I am making a website of my grandfather, Raymond “Joe” Loudon’s art. Artists like him have virtually no presence on the internet, which is hardly surprising, but a shame.

The largest part of the job is getting my photogrammetry of his carvings working - they are probably his strongest work. But he was a published poet, and his paintings were pretty good too:

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john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Cloud Cover" — 2019

We can't stop the bullets and bombs, but we can hope they miss.

https://johnconway.art/cloud_cover

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