I make jewelry, and suncatchers with my roommate, and we are selling them at two super sick markets in April!
One is Jester Fest, that is, as youāve guessed, jester themed, and we have made a bunch of chainmail Jester Inspired Collars, and the other is a 4/20 market at a gay bar with thc drink tastings. I made lowkey cigarette earrings, and we are making silly stoner pins and patches š
Sorry, shameless plug, but my roommate and I make and sell jewelry under the name Ugly Binch City and I think we make some sick shit!
You donāt even need to buy it, just look at how sick it is! š
We are big into chunky statement pieces, chainmail, whimsy, turning tackiness into prettiness, and using secondhand and found objects in an attempt to be sustainable! I linked our depop if you wanted to peruse our offerings
I get millefiori beads (my favourite thing) from the nice ladies at the farmers market and make earrings with em!
Made a pair with some old earrings that I cherished as a kid, and another pair with my wisdom teeth (neither pictured)
I like to make jewelry that would fulfill my inner childās wishlist! I also sell the jewelry and I like to do silly photoshoots and edit the pictures to show it off. Like tow arts in one
Why not go through the process of blending those images yourself? Why not use process as an experiment? Why AI? What part are you playing? What makes it yours?
I think AI is impersonal. I think it is unethical when it has relied on the theft of actual peopleās actual physical (and because of the nature of art, often time emotional) labor. I also think it is unnecessary in creating art. I also think the environmental impacts are atrocious. I also think AIās biggest supporters are being maliciously ignorant because itās a fun new toy.
Is it ease? Is it efficiency? People talk about accessibility as if children donāt use crayons and stickers! As if graffiti artists donāt use postal labels as sticker, as if sand mandalas donāt exist, as if cardboard and tape arenāt in over abundance.
Maybe this isnāt so much a fix for staff, but I feel like the reposting of things has gotten a bit lame. I donāt want the āEveryoneā feed to be the same post 20 times with nothing added, especially when the thing being re-recād isnāt even a real reccomendation in the first place. I like this app because it is different than Instagram and Twitter and tumblr and the like. I feel like people are trying to interact similarly to those other apps here. I feel like we are all drifting back into creating the same social media AGAIN.
My vote would be to remove the feature entirely, but I see how it can be used thoughtfully
