John Rushing
@jrcreative.bsky.social
Graphic designer, lettering artist, cat dad, human dad. And ADHD. And food.
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Magna Tiles are great because they clean up pretty easy. Also worth considering those "magic" drawing tools that let you draw with water or clear markers on special paper.
April 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Magna Tiles are great because they clean up pretty easy. Also worth considering those "magic" drawing tools that let you draw with water or clear markers on special paper.
9/ The internet is a miracle, and we are lucky to have a way to share and connect to one another so easily. But the ease is not the point. The connection is the point. The people are the point.
Art IS people.
Don't forget that.
Art IS people.
Don't forget that.
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
9/ The internet is a miracle, and we are lucky to have a way to share and connect to one another so easily. But the ease is not the point. The connection is the point. The people are the point.
Art IS people.
Don't forget that.
Art IS people.
Don't forget that.
8/ I want slow, difficult art. I want art that isn't exactly what I was looking for. It extends me, challenges me, surprises me. Most importantly, it makes me feel connected to the people who made it. This goes for everything from comics to Rembrandt, from commercial jingles to symphonies.
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
8/ I want slow, difficult art. I want art that isn't exactly what I was looking for. It extends me, challenges me, surprises me. Most importantly, it makes me feel connected to the people who made it. This goes for everything from comics to Rembrandt, from commercial jingles to symphonies.
7/ Without the ability—cultivated through arts education—to understand art as human dialog, one can only see art as commodity. And as with all commodities, the Market will encourage its production by the most efficient means possible, however exploitative they may be.
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
7/ Without the ability—cultivated through arts education—to understand art as human dialog, one can only see art as commodity. And as with all commodities, the Market will encourage its production by the most efficient means possible, however exploitative they may be.
6/ But AI's success, then, is predicated on the dismissal of the *innate value of the existence of a human creator.* It removes the communicative property of art, and relegates it to mere transactional consumption.
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
6/ But AI's success, then, is predicated on the dismissal of the *innate value of the existence of a human creator.* It removes the communicative property of art, and relegates it to mere transactional consumption.
5/ Without this skill, one sees only the product and not the process, which makes it easy to commodify the image (or text/song/whatever) like any other commercial product. If you just want the image and you don't care how it comes into being, then AI seems like a logical solution.
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
5/ Without this skill, one sees only the product and not the process, which makes it easy to commodify the image (or text/song/whatever) like any other commercial product. If you just want the image and you don't care how it comes into being, then AI seems like a logical solution.
4/ I am privileged enough to have had a fairly robust arts education, which, among other things, taught me how to extrapolate from a work of art the social, historical, cultural, material and economic—i.e., the human—circumstances of its creation. I can see something of the maker in the art.
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
4/ I am privileged enough to have had a fairly robust arts education, which, among other things, taught me how to extrapolate from a work of art the social, historical, cultural, material and economic—i.e., the human—circumstances of its creation. I can see something of the maker in the art.
3/ AI generated content, by contrast, is monologous by definition. Since the only human involved is the one writing the prompt, there is no communication, no dialogue, only masturbatory consumption.
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
3/ AI generated content, by contrast, is monologous by definition. Since the only human involved is the one writing the prompt, there is no communication, no dialogue, only masturbatory consumption.
2/ What I find valuable about art that I like is the sense of communion with the human(s) who produced it. Successful art communicates something and fosters connection and understanding between people. It is a dialogue.
April 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
2/ What I find valuable about art that I like is the sense of communion with the human(s) who produced it. Successful art communicates something and fosters connection and understanding between people. It is a dialogue.