Drawing In A Minute And Under With A サインペン(sign Pen) Https://www.instagram.com/p/BqjzI59gY1_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cf8hspdiweb8

Uploading some of my favorite photography I’ve done from the past couple years https://www.instagram.com/p/BvfRwJLge1k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12xdz1n3e8bba

For an 8ft.x 8ft. vinyl wall that’ll be on display at AnimeNYC. It’s worth the $500 if it comes out how I think it will :’ ) Spent all night vectorizing it just right (this one is a JPEG tho) 🌱

Gonna get some more sleep and enjoy Sunday a tad, hope you all are able to as well! 🖤🤖

#drawing#art#illustration#comics#animenyc#animenyc2018#scenery#漫画#background https://www.instagram.com/p/BpwzmAFASG6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sl2q8rlagu82

Was looking through art from the beginning of last year ( Reads L –> R )

Thought Forget-Me-Not #1:

I recently listened to Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes, and I read an interesting insight about it on Wikipedia. The article foremostly defines the song as "inspired by an African tradition of ambiguity in song". Reading this makes one wonder more about what makes Gabriel's prose so enigmatic.

When reviewing the following three verses, something clicked in my head with the "ambiguity" between the lines:

The grand façade, so soon will burn

Without a noise, without my pride

I reach out from the inside

Taking a look at the first and third lines, both are statements which can stand on their own with profoundness. Though, the second line at the middle seems to be adjectival/adverbial in purpose. What statement does it compliment though? The one above or the one below?

Considering the meaning behind the entire song, I found it to be both verses. Going back to the Wikipedia description I quoted, the gist of Gabriel's poetry can be illustrated as "ambiguity in song between romantic love and love of God". The very first word of In Your Eyes is just "love". We can say he's altogether singing about love, the one-word concept, and not as if both types of love are seperate in definition. If Gabriel's song overall implies two meanings of love at the same time, it's thematically fitting that his words are both a blur, figuratively and literally, between the two loves.

Returning to the three verses above, the second verse can gramatically applied to both the first line and the third line. Combining the first and second would mean that the singer will burn his concealing outer-self, without regard to his entire ego and to any self-pitying struggle. Synthesizing the second and third lines instead, would convey that the singer's true self is reaching out to his lover, absent of distractions and selfishness. Both permutations of the three verses serve Gabriel's message, while emphasizing how the the mysticism of love influences his attempt to convey it.

It's certainly hard to discretely notice this at a first or second listen of In Your Eyes, but that also adds to the intentional experience of ambiguity Gabriel gives. His technique can be paralleled to an African musical technique, termed by John McCullough as "layering". The term McCollough defines is familiar to what I can see in Gabriel's method with those selected 3 lines:

"The polyphonic texture is difficult to wrap your head around, as the drums play their own rhythm while the guitar and bass, though sharing a funk music influence, are playing two completely different musical lines. This is evident of layering, as the instruments are placed on top of each other in order to make the entity of the song."

McCullough's conception of dual meaning in the music-piece can be paralleled with my own:

"When writing the song, Gabriel was interested in the idea of there being no difference in African love songs between the love of a woman and the love of God"

For me, writing this analysis down is how I solidify my appreciation for songwriting's capabilities. I appreciate how the three-verses I keep on mentioning can be read and thought about in more than one order, without conflict in chronology and logic of reading. This poetry is unrestrained by time, the conventional way of listening and reading from left to right, and first second to last second. It's why I love it.

...With Gettyimages and Adobe; two of the most scummy companies in their fields; bringing out their own paywalled AI trained on "ethical data," (IE, officially licensed from the mountains they own) I hope we can use this opportunity to step back and stop talking about the AI art debate in terms of copyright and "theft" and more in terms of corporate exploitation and labor rights.

Because, like, the results will be the same with regards to jobs if megacorps end up using Adobe's or Getty's model in the way they'd use; say; Stablediffusion and Midjourney; without a labor pushback they'd still use it to kill jobs.

And even with the "compensation system" they talk about, which they'll conveniently use as an excuse to keep it paywalled and closed-source, I bet you my bottom dollar they're talking about a Spotify-type model. Which, if you're familiar with the music industry, you do not want a Spotify-type model.

The difference is, if Stablediffusion gets sued out of existence, you won't be able to access the tool without a paywall. And both Adobe and Getty Images have very high paywalls.

Whereas Stablediffusion, by contrast, is very much open-source and free. A lot of people run it independently online for anyone to use and if you have a PC that can run it, you can use it offline; no strings attached. Which means you can do it and tweak it as you wish, doubly so if you already have art skills.

And it's awfully suspicious in this state that Getty is in a lawsuit to try and kill SD over the "stealing" claims in a way that would leave their product as a paywalled monopoly at their whims with no Open Source alternatives.

Like... at the very least don't get played by their talk of "ethics," because even if they're licensed, in my eyes they're far less ethical than SD I'd assert, due to creating a precedent for putting this technology behind a corporate walled garden in a way that keeps other creators from using it while still killing traditional artist jobs dead if we don't push back as a collective labor force.

It’s been a whole year! Thanks for being here ❤️💛 #artvsartist 2019~ https://www.instagram.com/p/BtrcGKWAjgB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3b2zjdid9xd2

新しいアパレルだ！ 11月2018年のリリース🍂 これのようなちょっと見ることができます(￣▽￣)

New apparel! Coming November 2018!! You can see just a bit with this 🌱

#ファッション #アパレル #マンガ #fashion #apparel #manga

#threeleggedthreads #jammoapparel https://www.instagram.com/p/BpQOnYHlnkG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wsil7k9ib4s5

Would love to go back to NYC and walk through Central Park at 1AM again soon 😴

I posted this photo in the last group of NYC photos from this week but I did some editing in Lightroom and felt inclined to post this version

#centralpark #manhattan #newyorkcity #nyc (at Central Park, Manhattan, New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv5qQYxgcd8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yc8d7gy78sr6