adam_y 2 days ago • 14%
Crusty old meme recycling boomer joke.
adam_y 3 days ago • 100%
OK Loomer.
adam_y 3 days ago • 100%
That's a bit like saying you can find cheaper rollercoasters outside Disney Land.
It's true, but price isn't why people go. It's prestige and experience.
adam_y 4 days ago • 100%
Controversial opinion... Not all horror has to be event horror and that a lot of what we are perceiving as Indie Horror success right now is actually just a form of mainstream-like hype.
Take Longlegs... The trailers, the casting of Cage... These are classic mainstream cinema tactics.
Novelty is fine, but doesn't that ho back to the times of free vomit bags and life insurance policies?
Maybe grabbing attention should be from well crafted films telling great narratives that resonate with audiences, and if you have to think "outside of the box" then your box isn't big enough in the first place.
adam_y 5 days ago • 87%
This is the internet. It's OK to swear here.
adam_y 5 days ago • 100%
So, like none of these folk read The Running Man then?
Or many of the hundred times this idea has been used in Sci-fi.
adam_y 6 days ago • 100%
I suspect most memes are just 1980s British mid stand-up routines in disguise.
adam_y 7 days ago • 100%
Absolutely agree. Or at least, if he wants to call himself that he can't be upset if people disagree.
adam_y 7 days ago • 100%
There's an interesting thing there about the legitimacy of the artist.
Most artists and creative I know are rather comfortable with people disagreeing with them and the value of what they make because they understand the value of it to themselves.
I'm an artist and that happens because I make art, not because someone bestows the title on me.
I think the AI crowd is touchy because they dont get that. What joy is there when it is made for you? A prompt is not craft.
I think the main condition here is that he wants to be seen as a writer when he doesn't write. He could legitimately call himself a storyteller, or someone who crafts narratives, but that isn't legitimate for him. Instead he needs the validation of a title he doesn't deserve.
I also wonder how he deals with criticism of the product. If someone reviewing his books calls the language clumsy, does he see that as his failure as a writer or the failure of the AI. The fact he will have to confront that is fascinating.
It isn't my painting that sucks, it is the image I copied it from.
adam_y 7 days ago • 100%
The devil is in the details. Different contracts state different usages.
Often, I'm hired to make things for folk, and they own it entirely. I see these things out in the world, I sometimes see other artists hired to butcher it to fit a new purpose. But that's OK, I account for that, and often I hand over the source files from the things I make... Layered documents etc.
However, there's a really disturbing trend of large companies appropriating fan art and claiming that because they own the IP any derivatives belong to them too. This is far ickier.
The main thing though is credit. You'd think that giving a nod to the original artist would be nice. It costs nothing and can have a massive impact on their business.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
In all fairness, commenting here is like reciting the specific summons to raise Contrary Mary.
/s
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
Not viruses as such, at least according to the inventor of the term, rather they are already part of our inheritable structure, our DNA (so to speak) seeking new ways to be inherited.
We are our memes.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
Thank you.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
Though that is great example of mental dexterity.
Considering something from a number of angles.
'4 kelvin essay' is also a decent name for a math rock band.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 92%
Pretty sure Gaza doesn't need the Green party declaring genocide on them, they're already dealing with one.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
I dont know if this is cool, but I recently published an essay on why generalism is a cool sort of specialist to be.
It's a slightly long read (4k), so in case that isn't your thing, the upshot is that generalism is specialising for uncertainty and that being a polymath is pretty cool.
Also, being a polymath is your default state and capitalism really doesnt like it.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 60%
Deep.
This is now classic stoner chat.
This dude took it for a spin over a decade ago...
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
I'm sorry, "lenchings" is not a word in this puzzle, or the dictionary. Watch this ad to gain another credit and gave another guess.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
I'm telling you this as someone that works in the arts, that's just not true.
You can pirate digital material and repackage it. I see illustrators getting their designs ripped off by large scale clothing manufacturers all the time.
Similarly, I know some acts that have heard their music on adverts and films and haven't been paid. It seems like it is being stolen if you ask me.
There needs to be protection or the creation of art becomes a luxury for those that can afford to not make money from it.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 75%
What's wild here is that when you talk about IP you are talking about entertainment and art and not lifesaving drugs and technologies on a global scale.
It's a very privilidged western view of copyright and IP.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
And as I said in my comment, it isn't my customers that want stuff for free, often they want to pay to support me. Those laws stop big multinational corporations from taking my work and selling it on their t-shirts.
We are social creatures, but fuck me, we need to eat and pay rent.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
I see you make art. What if I said to you, I'd like to give you some money for that art, for maybe a print of it. Not just so that I can own some but because I want to support you.
And then someone just copies your art and gives it to me free. You get no money for it.
Are you genuinely OK with that? Are you saying that everything you make is copyright free?
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
So you think that because some people chose to make things for free there should be no legal protection for people that want to sell what they make?
The only people who can choose to make things for free are the privilidged few.
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
As someone who makes minimum wage from my intellectual property, the IP laws (in the UK) have allowed me to prevent the very wealthy just taking my ideas and profiting from them.
And they have tried repeatedly.
It isn't the law, but the corruption of the law that's at issue. However, without that legal framework there would be no financial incentive for anyone but the wealthy to make IP.
Is that what you want? Entertainment by big corporations only, and art made solely by the upper middle classes?
adam_y 2 weeks ago • 100%
I use both, but honestly, some mastodon users can't help but be outright patronising and hostile to newcomers.
The whole "we don't do that here" vibe clearly puts folk off. Weirdly, it isn't the long term users that do that, bug more recent converts.
Why do you think that is?
adam_y 3 weeks ago • 100%
It could just be the focal length of the camera lens too.
adam_y 3 weeks ago • 100%
So... Games designer makes design choice?
Hold the front page.
adam_y 3 weeks ago • 100%
He's got to liberate all the speech
adam_y 3 weeks ago • 77%
"The jar was accidentally damaged by a young child visiting the museum, and the response will be accordingly."
Well, that's their nearest hospital getting bombed then.
adam_y 3 weeks ago • 99%
"What's you're biggest weakness?"
"I'm going to say my honesty"
"Not sure I think honesty is really a weakness..."
"I don't give fuck what you think.".
adam_y 3 weeks ago • 100%
Jason Lee?
adam_y 3 weeks ago • 100%
Sure you don't have condimentia?
adam_y 4 weeks ago • 90%
I like following verbal meme trends, then watching them die out.
Couple of years ago everyone described nearly everything as "spicy".
The overuse if "hear me out" before making a mid statement.
That dark period of time when people used "amazeballs".
adam_y 4 weeks ago • 100%
It's always been about context and provenance. Who took the image? Are there supporting accounts?
But also, it has always been about the knowlege that no one... Absolutely no one... Does lines of coke from a woven mat floor covering.
adam_y 4 weeks ago • 100%
adam_y 1 month ago • 94%
He's been arrested, not sentenced. That's the innocent until proven guilty bit.
Not sure where you are from, but I suspect not the UK.
adam_y 1 month ago • 100%
Dan Simmons, Hyperion... Or Carrion Comfort.
I'd love to see some modern tries at Dashiel Hammet's work too.
adam_y 1 month ago • 100%
Seconded.
adam_y 1 month ago • 80%
You don't believe in the same fiction as me!
adam_y 1 month ago • 100%
Huffing lead is just OG eating microplastics.
When I use the internet to learn, I don't want to have to spend 2 minutes watching an advert, then try to decipher an accent I can barely understand whilst a 15 year old speed runs the task whilst seemingly skipping crucial steps in a video. I want the steps written down. Maybe with diagrams. I'm old. Learning is hard enough.
Ok, not technically a pie, better puns are welcomed.
![a black and white photograph of the Barbican/South Bank](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/92b1bab3-cbcf-4916-8493-67de2c0252ee.jpeg) A 35mm black and white photograph of this beauty in London.
Sometimes it is best to look up.
I'm calling this 'West Coast Main Line' after the section of rail that passes through where I live. Again, I'm using the Pro-1, a Volca Keys and an Uno Synth. This time a Model:Samples is playing a looped section. I'm looking here about recreating the rhythm of rail using a phasing technique. There's a bandcamp version too, where the track is free to download, if you prefer. [bandcamp Link](https://competitionspeedcube.bandcamp.com/track/west-coast-main-line) As before, please feel free to share any of your experiments too.
Hello, long time listener, first time caller... I just wanted to say hi. I'm very much interested in the grain, the unplanned and the documentary when it comes to analogue photography. This one was shot on fomapan 400 and an Optima 335 that I've had in my jacket pocket for a while.
Hello! I though you might like the more nerdier details about this track. The equipment is a Pro-1, an Uno Synth and a Volca Keys (set to octave). All running through a Behringer xenyx and recorded on a tascam dp 006. I used an Sq-64 for the sequencing, which was a steep learning curve but I think it came out ok. In terms of the music I was particularly interested in timbrality changes and phasing as well as emergent patterns. I'd planned for the piece to be around an hour long, but it came to a natural conclusion at the 21 minute mark and I went with that. There's also a version on YouTube [here](https://youtu.be/QWYjpjGf9hQ), where I used the recorded midi output to create an animation. It was a bit of an afterthought, but I think it might make some great and complex visuals down the line as a technique. Ok, thank you for your time.
Long time listener, first time caller. My first post to Lemmy is a piece of modernist music I've made for three synthesizers. In this case, I used a Behringer Pro-1, an Uno Synth, and a Volca Keys. I'm very much interested in repetition and emergent rhythms. Feel free to share some of your own work if you think I'd be into it.