Inktober/DrawTober Thoughts

Merely relaxing into the rhythm of doing work for me. Already did,

It's yet another trend where a stream of attention for people to pay attention to and to grow a following.

Everybody, what a stream of attention to grow a following towards solvency. I can afford to, with all the amount.

Even when the guy who stated cleared the copyright for the makers to sell their work, It's clear there's social capital involved to help capitalise on the streams of attention again. It's to show a little spot where the SEO lays, and that's it.

You are the product to advertisement product, and the attention economy is ontologically inseparable to the conversion advertisement these platforms support, with the prosumerism intertwined with its structure.

With the reporting on this, Mary Sue seems to do honest reporting. Oh boy, another copyright troll. Of course, into the antipathy brand which has mixed antipathy as a legal concept within legalese. I have mixed feelings of it being a useful fiction.

@KrossKritical

 Posted this meme in reply. Aaaah 🛋️💤

These short-term RFPs for internet traction will always exist, for the long termers who want to be sought out by name, they will always have to ignore it. I forget everybody is in the hunt for the newcomers, and it's target audience.

We are not 100% pure when it comes to these trends, either go in for the self, or the generosity of others. I'll most likely going back into the art-fights, due to the fun'n beauty. Yet self-sustainability is more important than from self-exploitation.

If I contradict myself, only if it's important.

It's a tactic, made to get hold of an audience's attention within these social media sites, it ain't for those who could afford strategy.

Maquettes/LayFigures/Rigged-Animation

 I've been dabbling with technology with making the creativity an enhancement, with less of the procedure

Yes, I've been using digital tools to help my craft, I may be shooting myself in the foot because these are by-products of the commercial illustration Zeitgeist.

These digital lay figures, handmade maquettes and rigging to bring my ideas to life has been a tool. It's not like I was breaching copyright, yet now I'm dealing with a conflict and competition with the illustration industry complex.

I wonder if I'm going to jump the hand-made blender models next with grease pencil.

Advantages:

• Increase repeatability
• On-model Visual Refinement
• 3D dimensional playground
• Foreshortening Know-how
• Maquette formation
• Less Cognitive load

Disadvantages:

• Risk of looking like an asset flip
• Classical proportion tendency ☺ Can go limited in visual flavour of toony, graphic designy and anime aesthetics. Such specialised, specific models are needed if asked. Yet it aligns with my vision of classical-toony vision.
• Lack of straight ahead raw-directness. Nothing beats making something out of a metaphysical nothingness.
• Adapting my wabi-sabi touches will take getting used to.

It's not like the art police is going to arrest me and send me to art jail, all these tools and methods will all be placed, where the utility serves the user, not the other way around.

I know these may not necessarily be the one and only specifications I'm dabbling in, that won't have any satisfying answer. It's why writing will be another matter.

Cushy Peacock in 3 dimensions

 Drained from the sex scene I've articulated with nine pages, this blender vacation is an eye-opening of how to stimulate a new section.

Words terms circulate that I'm still understand the remarkability of such concepts:

Quads, Tri-gons and Ngons, Poles, supporting loops, voxel, booleans, solidfy, topology and retopoligized, Vortexes and edges and planes. All that in-terminology you'd now dare announce if you'd copyright to catch advertisement.

Stuff that can be categorized and used to make sense, into hard-surface modelling and sculpting for all the 3d designer to see then-

My mother called with an impromptu pub carvery visit to here birthday with her sister. It was so sudden, so I decided to polite fully decline due to it having nothing to be agreed on. Doing the best method possible to preserve the relationship. Understandable, her sister's daughter could eat anything from the carvery, despite with the ordered couldn't be eaten.

I did not miss out, They did not miss out. Did I disappoint myself, though? Later, after the carvery, there was a stuffed peacock keyring as a shared present. I look at it, as I become something else with it. In terms of what a 3d modeller sees.

Backlash of hype cycle

More data for the skeletal hull of my OC Kyros, what to do.

Bogswollop meme on video essays. I've got more for you to follow.

Collecting vids for more thought on the AI.
 

38 min documentary, to help make a rethink. Austin has been accused by Style jacking by Hbomberguy, yet he's the content farm like everthing else who has to build an audience.

This is going through a hype cycle.

Technology trigger to the highest visibility

It's likely there's going to be another AI push after this one, because I've been using shading assistant on my own work to streamline the CEL-shading process (with varying clumsy application) as that the ai? Is using this spell-checker AI too?

The moment you templetize a process, the moment it can be put into AI. There going to have to be skills that can't templetized, then It'd be put into ai.

This is the matter of normalization, and the Artificial generation will go through the currents, interweaving with our lives once more. The constant debate of copyright infringement will still continue, with the arguments over social status and tenures being in question once again, instead of doing the work.

To do the work, with more a better tools to the creative Zeitgeist will remain. With wabi sabi rust that will remain.

1:06 hour of the driving cause of this, convenience being served with the business model behind it, with an obvious bad guy.

Another 22 min take on the rise of junk data provided by this escalation. Leadhead, the postmodern analyst.

(Edit, fixed the links. When editing this on my smartphone it seems to delete the YouTube videos. That's some new information.)

Hbomberguy comment

A big bucket of copyright and it's murky depths.

Of course, I've seen hbomberguys new video. 3:50 hour documentary. The way he covers how the angry video nerd became a content farm, and how the internet historian hidden past and how he built his audience over trolls. Pass on that audience.

This documentary has honest reporting, with my own views of AI. All things considered.

You know, it's important why these content farms and hacks exist in the first place, despite the hollowness. They commodify streams of attention to measurable result for the direct response mass advertiser. These statistics are why they get the email and will continue to do so. Business have to continue, the show must go on and so forth, (as Harlen would say within the Glass teat.) The Flows of traffic that go before us with all the activities going forward.

So it's better to create something with honest, professional practice including the marketing. Those samples within the documentary aren't the case. All these determined streams of attention, all will pass, it's better to build something ourselves.

To quote a direct marketer Herschal Gordon Lewis which the ones who plagiarize ignored:

"Lying isn't necessary If it ever becomes Necessary, Let's all do something else for a living."

Now it's time to review what I've written before.

• Copyright/trademark is always the most fluid law, ostensibly it's meant to protect the specific expression. Yet it's been abused by big business to cripple freelancing/small scale business. It's a paradoxical law where it can't be applied selectively; it's universal. Otherwise, it won't work.

• I could establish further enforcement, yet at the same time that'd give big business a means to cripple. Then that's a no-go. No artificial DMCA takedowns, please! We've seen what happens when the music industry does it for streams. Is Hbomberguy right in this categorization? (Edit: bomberguy did hint at this at the start of plagiarism detection, so points there.)

What's the difference between plagiarism, copyright infringement, and fair use? What does it mean to publish to work in a realm of the internet arena? This question will continue to be asked because it's still open.

Now that, I'll know there'll be natty or not when it comes to my own work.

So the point of this comment, it's likely there are going to be further cases with this battleground.

Appendix:

What I've said about copyright. Seth has covered it within his podcasts, I generally agree. Especially as he's covered the part that's covered with Harlen Elison's rant of paying the writer. I have to quote him, because this blog is a yoink and twist of his format.

Lines in the sand, Generative/Derisive AI

Gurney written about it, Seth Godins, written and podcasted about it and others within my circle are having their takes. With Patrick Willems.

50 min documentary on Ai Along with a several minute read of Colin of the Bloodknife

Hopefully, this is going to be my own point of view. Nothing things from before.

The market, and the way the attention shifts, new trends and technological shifts are occurring.

Image generating search engines, and the need for an endless supply of content, whatever hackneyed to keep the show of going on.

I'll never use any of these images, myself reminded of the handcrafted pottery, and it's wabi-sabi imperfection, it can't be entered within a computer. The artwork and the process ain't there when I typed it up, it's average, middle of the road.

Romantic to the wabi-sabi crumbles back in my days.

I'll be alright, with my professional non-profit stuff, what's the problem is there's going to be others to understanding the grassroots process. Getting in those fingers raw.

It's here now, from chatbots to the like. What there will be in terms of work for free and professional work will change again. Jobs are going to be shuffled. Making sustainability solvency will mean difference once more.

Seeing copyright is going to be reinforced again by small businesses and commercial illustrators. It's a universal law where the copyright trolls will have a field day. Is this what creators should do? Build careers suing others? We don't want big wigs, from Disney, Warner Bros, and Sony making a DMCA AI detection system an over illustrators style, or a writer's voice.

Already, the seeds have been planted by adobe. The enemy of my enemy, ain't my buddy.

An AI detection system that will cut off Artist's living like that audio detection on twitch, youch.

From my the mutuals of my other account.

Not gonna bang on for amateurs for playing with the new tools. Neither am I going to fully publish any AI stuff without giving it the one and only edit, (then, it ain't artificial) It can only summon mass, the general mean. Mediocre. Something that a quirky couch cannot be replicated by. 

Maybe it will interweave with new ideas, in the coming years. Only as a tool to get into the creative juices. Not the other way around. So there has to be an interweaving with it.

Copyright and trademark or one of the most double-edged laws, flexible and hard to be grasped, empowering it won't be good. Fair use will be tested. The content tug between if our ideas will be cannibalized or fair used will occur. Best to work through it, even as the amoral business models change.

Don't get any funny ideas on what they will do with this.

Thoughts on Ai image generator, bing Artificial generation.

A swirling of incomprehensible image water, others use it to try to reverse engineer and go down the gameable algorithm, others feel like it's a shock.

It's here now. The ratchet as been placed with the genie out of the bottle. Competitors in the business will be using to help move them to compete with customer/audience bases. Only a matter of time.

I've entertained it, it can't capture humanity and its themes, yet it's an algorithm that ain't conscious, it does not know how to steal. Only the hackneyed will of the master, not the wabi-sabi art of a creative mind. Mere pastiche.

Regardless, the lure of free was enough to try it. Won't paste anything.

I guess it's only good at one thing, mediocre and undefinable, all average stuff. Nothing I'd use to work in my work, only the summoning to make. This is the baseline average that Hollywood, and its entertainment want with our content I guess, to feed to the masses.

Detractors (from the biggest, the commercial illustrators.) of course are pointing that this is stealing, it bogs down to making a living and getting paid. This ain't it, chief. Even though the biggest supporters there are doing it exactly for that reason. Getting paid in money and exposure being their bottom line. Creativity with a capital C and Literature does not follow that.

It's so funny that AI art folks are like "my prompts are very finely crafted, they are my art" and then the prompts are like "photorealistic, insane quality, extremely detailed, masterpiece, professionally color graded, viral on Artstation, viral on Twitter, viral photo" - Dan Olsen

They want to make a go viral, make a hit and make a living, quick rich scheme it is. Over public domain art. Calculation for traffic numbers, all programming, all depersonalization.

There's stuff one can't reverse engineer. This is all reverse engineering.

What's threatening? A dmca'd detection system that take-downs art authorized by a bully corporation, who tries to copyright a style for making a number go up, that's something to watch for. They may do it. This argumentation for more IP power will be a slippery slope.

Couch Gregor and the of home-grown artists will do it the old fashion way, with AI helping streamline the process to make art, not the other way around.

Even then, the paradigm of what it means to be paid to do creative work will shift.  They still will be couchmanity.

Dealing with bad brand/signature Recognition.

Ah! Genericide! My own weakness!

Sometimes one does self-publishing gigs within the Discord, and gets accused of freebooting for not crediting creators. Despite the self-evident benefit of the doubt, high status users here and low status product 'content' creators.

Its not good enough.

Yet is it oneself or is it the lack of brand recognition?

How to respond or react to what feels like snide legalese and courtesy, a clown within a suit? (It may not be, internalising such a response is the first step.)

1. "This is what happens, when somebody accuses of freebooting and does not check the artist's profile and body of work, which explicitly states the ownership." (React and act high status, bite back with more snide legalese.) Or..
2. "Oh, this ain't my fault or his, merely dismiss the as ignorant and misguided. Merely be polite and continue, because one needs to go back to work." (Respond with the status role if no status role.)

The latter sounds more civil, simply because. Time spent on copyright and ownership, treated like real estate, will ensure that nothing gets done. Note the status role games are being played here, then go ahead.

Which legalese should I say to make it apparent? You'll notice I'm still spending time on this.

• To the moderators, this is Couch Gregorian Brand certified, as described in the Cough Gregorian Brand of a shapeshifting couch golem by the signature in the top right/left. A circle, a couch, and initials with the date. 🛋️™️ To further verify, check my profile description of my body of work. Where nothing is non-commercially told and verified within.
• This is Couch Gregorian, one and only certified 🛋️™️
• This is the one and only Couch Gregor'd

"Thank you, I'll make creditation of the couch Gregor brand more obvious."

Middlemen persist, better or worse.

I could cut out all the formal talk altogether and then.

Sorry [moderators or moderator], I'll try to make my self creditation clearer.

Yet, what defines good creditation? Where are the gatekeepers who prescribe the rules now?

Regardless, this is the business signal for a freelancer that he needs to find better clients, if the clients simply don't care enough to do their job of treating the freelancer as the one and only with his brand. Then that's not a positive sign you're serving the right clients.

Vote with one's feet, one way to avoid these pointless legalese/formal negotiations within the commercial arena is to walk away.

React streamers!? React, responding to this.

React-to-react-respond-to-respond-to-respond.

This is another take on the never-ending fair use/copyright debate.

I remember that I did a fitness response/reaction, my views went. I ended it realizing that it's not a path well-lived for a career.

It all started with a creation of youtube, it all started here and there.

20 min

It continues, with the talk of XQX and MeatCanyons, shoutouts to come with these videos such as the right opinion. Back in 2016 as I was within the eclipse of playing games, there was another usage of their videos, to carefully crafted videos. That's meaningful usage.

30 min

Now it's means to push a number up, where there is no curation. When and others ditch their self-actualization to get paid really well by the algorithm and gate keep their audiences by adding minimal entertainment value. This is the new meta of twitch and YouTube who are openly paying them.

This nebulous content mentioned by Meatcanyon will continue to be normalized. What to do about it?

What does that have to say when YouTube promotes it and says that they're the path to success? These audiences and these 'creators'.

They're a business and it won't affect them till it effects there bottom line. It's best to self-publish to cut out these middlemen that sharecrop. To keep with, and respect literacy and creative value.

I'm not against react/commentary if it brings curation to the creatives within this ocean of content.

Take notice with the definition of content it's getting, though. The more Bill Gates it gets..

Intellectual prop nightmare

Even Ip is a hard to digest phrase

If the corporations get hold of ip monopoly, and ai dmca takedowns. That's a recipe for a toxic vortex. It's a bad idea, yet a good idea for a those selfish hustlers and the bottom.

All freelance endeavours will make moot due to the dmca take down of style.

It's better to make a contribution with the culture, indie style with crowdfunding than to sign all that away for a publisher who can demonetize on a whim. With its mercenary gang of lawyer's. Is that a battle worth winning.

Disney has been at the forefront of this, wanting to make copyright last forever.

The eclecticism and the rules need to be in place, not in doubt. If the value of quantified ip laws hold all. Then all amateur endeavours will be overshadowed all by vulgar commercialism.

Double-edged swordness is a lenient stretch of ip, that really is stretching it.

Catagory of oneness, the solution to Ai.

Looks like it's here, it's going to stay.

Racing to top with the category of one is a choice.

Being a replaceable hack with this move of AI is going to be harder than ever with the expansion of mediocre work. Without encouraging the ire of the double-edged sword of copyright?

The problem with the race to the fastest and cheapest is one might win, the race to the bottom is what industrialization wants with no boundaries. It will be automated. We are seeing this within the Uber Lyft drivers being replaced.

So the pursuit of that irreplaceable human touch, to make a difference with this, is more important than ever.

It's inevitable these things are going to be more normalized as time goes on.

Also, a new episode on Akimbo as AI arises.

There's really no threat to the new tools that are involved to the artist who pursues with the category of one. Along with him looking to help with the smallest viable audience.

P.S, Oh, there's no april fools this day. I'm not that mean to my audience. Since we are being fooled by social media everyday.

Social media cargo cults

Which is more productive, being ahead of the social media trends or being a better version of oneself?

Chasing popular, the tempting a-b tested power law curve.

A fandom, fan art. Its cover band work, if a fan artist was to publish their work, there's the copyright gauntlet that big companies wield. Although I do like to see stories of these characters, can only be derivative, unlike the risk of a fresh IP.

Making something fresh fan art that won't get the ire of a big publisher like this is like winning the lottery.

I do appreciate that character design takes on Pokémon, yet they may fall in this category. Don't do piracy, don't make cool character designs.

Social media grooming projects. Are what rich people do when they feel a crisis in their status roles on the internet when it shows there money don't mean much. Fun, yet not deep. It can be a profession, that can be separate or not from doing art, art creative work that matters.

Can a living be made with this? Sure. I can't blame others for following this path if it pays the bills, yet this is where one may seek better clients.

This brings me to my own social media account.

Should I decorate my couch-sona like a doll? With people who are unsure of their professional/amateur status? The infinity of free provided by the internet is so that they can make it, so one can charge for anything, including hobbies. Open an etsy shop.

Already I'm making revisions to my character design as we speak.

That includes chatrooms and meetings, writers and speakers charge for such matters yet beginners and amateur writers are there a plenty. It's free practice, there's included with these platforms. 

Yet it's not needed, despite what social media says.

Thank you

Thank you, rule of law.

The psychological sanity wall

You protect me from all the gatekeepers for my freelance/non-profit endeavours, to be done in peace.

The status role equalizer, given by the contract. All humblebragging mean nothing past this barrier. Turtles all the way up, turtles all the way down. High school.

So I can value my time, not by somebody else. It's my little carved out sector of the net, not being share cropped by somebody else for some hopeful scraps of exposure to make a living, yet it's a land of hope that others can respect, or leave.

I can turn around, and do the work that I want to make for the community that I seek to serve.

You've got ridden of them. Because it's such a cruel lottery. This is the silver lining of all this folksnomy. Growth here means I'm making a difference.

Owning a permission asset is way more than being in the limelight of one. The double-sided paradoxical nature of free grinds to a halt with this boundary.

Thank you. Owning the copyright is the only sanctity.

Threes Avenues of the story of price, along with should you pay to work for free?

Another dream.

This has come from Seth Godin's This is Marketing. Along with his thoughts on free which I'll keep insisting others to read it. With my thoughts.

1. Free Idea's that Spread
   
   Things that aren't tethered with a price that will push through the pathways of culture. Dealing with ideas that are both paradoxically both priceless and worthless. For example, The Mona Lisa is priceless due to the owner being dead with no royalties, but it's still worth it's salt.
   
   Memes/Jokes, Fan Art are all obvious examples of all those other things that help spread ideas, but not necessarily in that format. 
   
   "The problem is not piracy, it's obscurity" Tim O Rielly has put it so eloquently in this field. Ideas that spread, win.
   
   Awareness, permission, and trust are the things those excel at.
   
   
2. Expensive expressions of those ideas that are worth the price
   
   To handle scarcity, tension, and enrolment. This is where the price will come in.
   
   Enough to keep playing the game, and to do what one loves.
   
   The third way is not one who will put all their chips in.
   
   
3. Getting picked by a big publisher/celebrity; a gatekeeper
   
   This is work that one may pay to get the opportunity, Like Oprah Winfrey picking somebody for her book club to become a hit. Its effect will help spread those ideas and then some. This really ain't in any freelancer or influencers favour mathematically speaking. It could happen, yet no.
   
   This is Ellen Picking a fitness influencer to be published in her mega-show, giving him a car in the process, with the revealing over hundreds and thousands. Work on the short head of distribution.
   
   I wish the obesetobeast (John David) the best, along with his channel on twitch. He did not stare a gift horse in the mouth. Yet, do you want to rely on such wild circumstances? You have to pick yourself with cable television going away.
   
   Look at the contract, so you don't sign away one's copyright. Best know the legalese and taxonomy of law.
   
   It requires a gatekeeper with an immense amount of power for the creator to leverage. Yet the internet opens up. Cable television is being replaced.
   
   The publicity is expressing a point of view, probably to annoy the 99.9% who don't get picked. The opportunity is distinct, though, valuable exposure that glimmers on a oasis.
   
   I'd still recommend self-publishing.
   
   So that's it, three opportunities.

Ai art - a threat?

Kuroshi tries to express himself within his wasteland plane.

Compiling responses from Seth on artificial intelligence. James Gurney also has some posts, discussions have been firing up right now. Seth has commented on it.

Some things are in our favour, Regardless how much AI art advances. Objections that have resonated to me are:

1. Wabi Sabi
   Vinyl records are still in, when a blacksmithing does blacksmithing the natural, hand-made quality of it all brings novelty. It's how the old becomes new again. Old rpg game aesthetics walking into a realm of new.
2. Becoming the one and only
   Creativity and ideas are all the more important, bringing that individual touch that will make an art director not “Get me a generic book designer”. You want them to say, “Get me Chip Kidd, that book designer.”. Then you want them to say, “Get me a somebody who looks like a Chip Kidd”. Using all the processes of the disciplines and eclectic fashions. All the more vital to summon that creative magic.

Is it going to threaten our work? Including freelancers out there which I have my sympathy towards?

There's discussion of copywriting the prompts if possible, but I'm not sure how much that will satisfy copyright vultures like Disney. That's another discussion for another time!

All the more for the artist to make something that is worth sharing, and to make a difference. Merely having a style of specific expression is not enough, bringing their everything into the mix. Organization, leading, and community is what's going to be on his side of such a loving touch.

I'm going to keep making art and stories regardless.Tools and their advancement won't stop one to becoming a category of one.

The chasm of crickets

A long chasm, yawning, waiting of flickering non-noise. Some people have added some construction to it, giving it worship.

Quiet of the long dawn, of the market of sweet embrace. Nothingness, a blissful companion that heads off opportunity leakage.

Even when I network, I still face its sweet comforts as I stream. Copyright free music and an awkwardly placed mike.

I stare into it.

Grades of reference

Study of Ed Corney in the encyclopedia
 of bodybuilding.

Wow! If I was to be reductionist to help you not fall into the trap of this How-to industrial complex. It's to simply use reference for your own goals, all to get help with your work. Then auto-regulate accordingly!

Tiers of reference.

• Better spec Tier: One that speaks to your autonomy and personal projects. Making you accomplish what it's for and who's it for clearly. (Example: What you and the client want.)
  
• Okay spec Tier: Muddier in intent. Less closer and could only be partially used. (Example: Obscure searches online where the idea is in the rough.)
  
• Be Careful Tier: More of a time sink, makes one pass the time rather than spend it. An overload of inspiration with knocking productivity out of balance. (Example: Playing too many video games. )
• Whoopsie Tier: A copyright strike and, when used, makes you look like a hack. (Example: Tracing over other people's artwork then claiming it's your original, merely serviceable.)