I love how David Zinn @DavidZinn incorporates the environment in his chalk drawings...

A squirrel with an ice cream cone 🍦

(Good morning btw 🌄)

#StreetArt #Art #DavidZinn

Open source tractor. Open source house. Open source truck. Open source induction furnace.

Open sourced blueprints - Global Village Construction Set. 50 machines at a fraction of the cost of commercial counterparts. Lifetime machines. Modular. No obsolescence. Lovely stuff.

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it):

1) A thoughtful photo you’ve taken yourself — a nice sunrise you saw, a cool angle spotted on vacation, your pet curled up on the couch, flowers. Play with your phone photo app’s filter settings to nail the tone. It doesn’t need to be particularly related to the post, it’s related to you as a person.

2) An image from Wikimedia Commons that’s somehow related to the subject matter — there are unfathomably many, you can search by keyword. Remember to credit. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

3) A screenshot of a scene you made in a sandbox game such as Minecraft or Animal Crossing

4) A scene you made with toys such as Lego (you can also use free Lego design software such as Bricklink Studio) https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/main.page

5) Play with the effects in whatever image editor you have access to, using your own photos or free-to-use images, to create something a bit abstract and avant-garde

6) Even if you can’t draw or paint very well, you can probably make some pretty cool abstract or collage imagery with whatever art supplies you have around. Dampen some paper and randomly dip watercolor paint onto it and see what happens

7) Those stickers you stashed and never used? Yeah you can make something with them. If they’re individually cut, you don’t even need to peel them, you’ll still find the One True Way to use them one day, I’m sure

8) Shelfies. None will dare question your competence after they see you have a real paper copy of Subject Matter Tome Volumes 1 through 6

9) You can get a lot of mileage out of compositing pre-made video game assets into an image. A good place to start is Kenney’s free and generously licensed 2D assets: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/category:2D and the Tiled editor which is specifically meant for assembling images out of video game asset tile sheets https://www.mapeditor.org

10) the most ridiculously amateurish thing you can scribble on a post-it note or in MS Paint is preferable to AI imagery because it clearly signals a real human cares about the post.

#writing #writingcommunity #collage #blog

Dedicated to every trans woman feeling a bit underwater right now 🌊  ...

It's a piece by American artist Jane Fisher, b 1961.

#Art #Artwork #Artist #WomensArt #Trans

America is a gay nation.
We are secular nation.
We are a Black nation.
We are a urban nation.
We are a transgender nation.
We are a Muslim nation.
We are a nation of women, and of immigrants who don't speak English with ... outfits.
The girl with the blue hair. The one some of ya'll don't like so much because of all of her opinions and how she just won't be quiet?

She was made in America. She is as much a part of the United States as the rest of ya'll.

Anyway, a good tool I found out about is MubLoop. It's free and helps create seamless looping sounds. I tried it, works really well and is now part of my toolset for upcoming audio assets!

Check it out:
https://mubdev.itch.io/mubloop

Gosh this was a (recent) first-hand lived experience.

I'm dismayed it's more prevalent than I hoped.

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/