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john

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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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ismh, to random
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Apple still thinks the iPad’s problem is hardware.

john,
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@ismh Because facing the fact that the app-centric way of doing things is a failure in anything but phones would be a really bitter pill to swallow.

john,
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@markcuban @ismh huh? I know what an application is! On iOS and iPad OS, they have massively de-emphasised files, and arranged things so applications look after the data. Procreate keeps all its files in its own sandbox, for example. Good luck backing that up with your backup system of choice. Or working on the same file in several applications.

There are much more interesting ideas from the past about how to do this stuff, but iOS chose the worst one.

john,
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@markcuban @ismh Macs are fine. I’m guessing you’re not a professional artist. The drawing experience on and iPad is the best you can get. I trade the pain of clunky file management for that.

john,
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@markcuban wow, this is some really low-grade trolling.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Just what iPad Pro needed: a spec-bump

john,
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@stroughtonsmith Yeah, srsly.

I won't be upgrading my 2018 model until it breaks I guess. Hope I have everything backed up when that happens, because who the hell knows without a filesystem.

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,
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releasing a ANOTHER pencil. That's 4 now?

I bet these squeeze and roll things are going to be accidentally triggering all over the place.

john,
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Although I think adding Find My to the pencil is pretty good.

john,
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@slothdude I use tap, but I wish they worked like Wacoms, and had the eraser at the other end.

john,
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@AggroBoy Mine bent on the first day I had it. I bent it back. I did not like that experience.

john,
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@RaethDragon They’re kinda stuck now, design-wise. It can’t be any thicker, because it would be too thick compared with the iPad. You can’t add grips because then you couldn’t pair and charge it.

That said, the drawing experience is better on an iPad than a Wacom. So we’re all stuck with it.

john,
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Instead of making the already-too-thin iPad Pro thinner they should have added more battery capacity. People rave about the battery life of iPads , but if you use processor intensive applications they don’t last all day. Far from it. From the very beginning I used my iPad Pro plugged in, because it didn’t last a days painting.

darnell, to iPad
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Wait‽ A 13 inch air‽ So does that mean that the upcoming will be slightly bigger too‽ I will have to buy a new keyboard if true. Sigh…

john,
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@darnell I want it to be as big as they dare... 16"? 20”? 32"!

siracusa, to random
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Apple built a fake house for HomeKit…and a fake train car for this video?

john,
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@siracusa I think something's up here, they feel composited-in. Are they going to say this was done with some sort of new ML/AI thing?

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,
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@aral You mean AI military targeting? That's not what I'm talking about here, I'm an artist talking about art, and is the context most artists are using it in.

john,
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@futurebird Maybe, but I think NFTs were just fundamentally stupid, and the only people that would be interested long-term were crypto-fools. The very model of a fad.

AI image generation is a bit different. I think it will have impacts, in commercial illustration. But as art, I really think people that are interested in art at all find it pointless.

john,
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@iris AI will probably have an economic impact on people doing commercial illustration, for sure. But I actually don’t really think of many (any?) of those things as art anyway.

It's more of a general labour concern that anything to do with art and it's meaning.

john,
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@mike @futurebird I really don't think it collapsed because people pointed and laughed. I think NFTs collapsed because the idea was stupid, and didn't hold enough interest to get people to stick around.

john,
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@iris Yep, if your work was done for a commercial entity, you were mostly anonymised, and it was the type of thing AI can do to the standard that commercial entity requires, you're going to be replaced by AI.

john,
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@iwein @futurebird Yes, I suppose so. Although interestingly it's hard to think of really impactful useful applications. That's not generally the case is it? That no one can think of anything much?

Indy game developers might find image generation useful to get some slick concept art/game art happening. Small companies can now afford to custom illustrations of people prancing about with idea bulbs and stuff adorning their websites. That's... all I’ve got.

john,
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@iris God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, I guess!

We’ll see how it goes on the commercial front.

john,
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@iwein @futurebird if any of that blockchain stuff was actually useful for such purposes, shouldn’t we be seeing it by now? I’m actually less down on blockchain than most of my corner Mastodon seems to be, but seriously it been around for ages now, with pretty serious money behind it, and it’s led to… absolutely nothing that’s useful in my life.

paul, to random
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I wonder if Apple is going to announce the bestest, fastestest, most expensivest iPad ever tomorrow.

john,
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@paul I just want the biggest! C’mon 20”!

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

john,
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Amazing to think this was half my life ago! Probably my favourite of the mechanical animals I draw back then. And when I really started to develop my gradients-everywhere style of vector drawing.

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