Reading 100 Years Of Solitude Right Now And So Much Happens Constantly. There's Years And Years Of Family

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

This guy is a plate

Trilobite beetle, Platerodrilus ruficollis, Lycidae

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Meanwhile, in Italy...

"Former culture undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi defends the girl who climbed Giambologna's Bacchus statue in Florence miming a sexual act. 'It is a transfiguration: when art is truer than life. An amorous exaltation. No real man can compete with Cellini's Perseus. A drunk girl performs a critical act, not an erotic one.'"

stop drawing old dad and his crazy daughter and get to work.

Beyblade heavyweight division

In short: It’s because of medieval times

I still can’t get over what brits call musical notes like bro please I’m trying so hard to take this country seriously

“The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.” ― Douglas Adams

the pre-raphaelite art is only there for the vibes of it.

Konstantin Korobov (Russian, 1985) - Sharks (2023)