Solving the AI ART Crisis (easy-peasy)

[@eastofawesome]

Have you already found your personal answer? I would love to hear about it!

[@janepage3608]

All I wanted to know was a good way to transfer a drawing to lino and I got a beautiful man telling me how to live a fulfilling life as an artist. And it doesn’t even matter that I’ve been living a fulfilling life mostly as an artist for half a century, it is still a most wonderful video and I’m going to send it to all my friends whether they are interested or not because there is something here to make everyone’s day a bit better. And another thing - I’m glad I never tried linocut before in all those fifty years, because if I had I wouldn’t now be about to watch this fabulous video for the second time. I’ll pass on the pizza though, although I appreciate the thought, because I’ve just had spaghetti and meatballs.

[@eastofawesome]

Oh wow. Thank you so much for the loveley comment. I just managed to get a new video out after nearly a year KZbin hiatus just to find this ... very encouraging and also very much appreciated! Hope you will have a wonderful journey into the lands of the linocut. May your tools always be sharpe and your ideas always be wild! ✌️

[@richardteale3217]

Thank you sir for a very true ,insightful talk on this subject. I agree with everything you say . We live in a ridiculous consumer driven world where people are never satisfied. I am sixty nine,a carpenter and amateur boatbuilder ,and on winter evenings especially I paint signs and make the occasional Lino cut ,usually studies of plants and flowers from my summer garden. I don’t have much money(never have had) but I am Rich beyond measure because of my interests and good health. My very best wishes to you from England .

[@eastofawesome]

Thank you Richard for your wonderful comment. Don't know why but somehow reading the way you described your life really lights up my heart. Mabe it's simply that one can clearly feel the appreciation of what you have and what you surround yourself with that makes it so special. So thanks again for sharing a little bit of your story!

[@richardteale3217]

All the very best Daniel, I will look forward to your future work. Keep at it my friend .!

[@mandrewcurry9416]

Dude! You are an inspiration to old creatives like myself. I admire your commitment to craft and imagination. Thank you.

[@eastofawesome]

What a wonderful compliment to get. Thanks my friend! ✌️What creative are fields are you concerned with if i might ask?

[@mandrewcurry9416]

@@eastofawesome Daniel, thanks for your reply and question. Of course there's no simple answer, and at nearly 70 yo I tend to be pretty stoic in my outlook, but the bullet points are: Craft seems to be a dead or dying art (I teach classical guitar as well, but can barely find young people willing to invest the time when there are easier tools to master and everything they need can be found on KZbin for free- as I have watching yours and others videos), as society declines (primarily in US) only those who can "afford" it be creative are allowed to be, society in general is so use to using or getting creatives for free most are defeated before they learn how to play the game. Is that helpful? I would love to learn more about how you learn to use the iPad as your creative tool. I've tried learning it a number of times but default to hard copy because it's easier and quicker than learning a new tool. Also, I intend to purchase a copy of "Momento Mori" but there are a few other discretionary spending things on my list before that can happen. I love your web site and intend to model it when I figure out how to that this winter. Again, great work.

[@eastofawesome]

Hey Andrew, sry for the late reply. Still have not figured out a way for YT to reliably notify me about replies. So yeah, I totally get your point and of course I also see the same trends hapening here in europe. But I will still refuse to believe that art and craft is dying out. I think today we need it more than ever and I am willing to take a bet on more and more people realizing that. If every song in the world is only a snap of your finger away and if Ai can compose as many new songs just as easily, well I can‘t imagine people not coming to the conclusing that maybe picking up a guitar themselfes and expirencing music that way is the way … Anyway, thanks for sharing your your thoughts. Keep it up!

[@mandrewcurry9416]

@@eastofawesome Thanks so much Daniel! I just taught an art class yesterday t0 26 6-13 years olds! It was awesome! and totally inspiring. And I have more classes lining up this Fall. I used to not enjoy teaching kids because of certain issues that arise, but now see it as planting seeds for future creatives. I've made enough to cover expenses this month and then some so would very much like to order a piece from you. Look for that this weekend. Thanks again mate!

[@mandrewcurry9416]

Hi Daniel. I just order a copy of momento mori. Thanks for being awesome, friend. Keep up the good work!

[@craigduddles5650]

Thanks for this video. I'm a graphic designer videographer trying to regain some of the natural media skills I had before digital media became common. I have too many things going on but the one I'm most excited about is designing prints as you do with iPad and computer and making physical prints with lino and woodcuts. The AI panic feels far away from me. Perhaps if I was a working illustrator or painter I'd be more concerned. I'm always concerned that our late stage capitalism facilitates disruptive technologies (like AI) but government protections seem to almost never catch up in time to prevent financial capture of law makers.

[@eastofawesome]

Thanks Craig! Seems to me that we have gone a very similar route. And at the beginning of all the AI Stuff I thought: Well maybe there will be not so many Illustration jobs anymore, but hey: I can always focus on the graphic design stuff when the going gets rough. Now I have seen the first examples of AI-Design stuff I am not very optimistic that this field is going to hold much longer to be honest ...

[@craigduddles5650]

@@eastofawesome Sigh, it seems inevitable that AI will take over graphic design as well. Where there is money to be made, code will be written, AI will be trained. One company of maybe a few dozen people could destroy thousands of livelihoods. Video editing also eventually. When that happens I will still have my farm to eat from and to feed others from. AI can't make REAL vegetables, black currents or hazelnuts or maple syrup or furniture. The new (digital everything culminating in AI disruption) becomes old and the old (food, farming and not-digital products/assets (eg Bitcoin vs land)) becomes new (opportunities to make a living and "new" economies and communities).

[@eastofawesome]

awesome, that's what I call a solid plan-B! Is the farm hard to maintain, while you work fulltime in other fields?

[@craigduddles5650]

@@eastofawesome I work about half time on my good paying client work. Because of that and wife working full time, and lots of construction projects, the farm has not gotten the attention it will need to succeed. Working to change that in coming years.

[@phillipstroll7385]

I have the answer: do better! Create art people want to buy instead of the scribbles you want to call art. Do better.

[@eastofawesome]

that's definitely something we should always aspire to do ... but don't you think that it might become harder and harder to outperform Ai with just skill and dedication?

[@phillipstroll7385]

@@eastofawesome No. Most so-called artists can't draw anyway. They are already AI dependent and have been for years. They trace, use projectors, copy and paste, go digital, etc. This people may become obsolete but there are things real artists can do that AI will never be able to achieve. Take the DaVinci surgery machine for example. Meant to replace surgeons. Every surgery it was involved in resulted in infections, improper closures, etc. I wouldn't worry so much about AI replacing artists as much as I worry about wilfully ignorant imbeciles making being a human being illegal with their imbecilic environmentalism and leftist Marxist attitudes. For example: humans are 20% carbon. There was more carbon in the atmosphere during the height of Roman empire. Yet, their Temps were cooler. We, as a global civilization, built HARP to prevent any climate disasters. We can create rain, cause and direct hurricanes, stop rain, create deserts, create earthquakes, one of which we used to destroy North Korea's underground nuclear facility. So there is absolutely zero truth to climate change nonsense. The earth has sped up its spin and it has nothing to do with climate. People pretend to be vegan but breathe air created from the death of animals, use watercolor paper which wouldn't exist without the death of animals, the sizing wouldn't exist, the clay in their pencils wouldn't exist, the very plants they eat wouldn't exist without animals. Stop worrying about AI and start worrying about wilfully ignorant leftist imbeciles. Before being human itself is a crime. Worry about Jeffery and gates creating a company to mine DNA from people in order to create dna targeting specific diseases and AI to deliver them. Real artists will always have a place as long as humanity itself exists in a free society.

[@janepage3608]

@@eastofawesomeYes. AI is even worse than photography, which sent art hurtling through the Isms (Impressionism, Fauvism, Pointillism etc) because Realism could be bettered by a photograph. Up to a point, and then some artists went for Surrealism and hyper realism. I’m rather fond of surrealism myself, but I’ve just decided that craft is an appealing direction and that’s why I’m here. But yes, the counter to AI is the grin you get on your face at the end of a session when things have gone well, and you look at the result and think Did I do that? I’m not bad at all. (British understatement; translation for Americans: I’m frickin awesome)

[@eastofawesome]

beautifully said.