What My Google Dashboard Just Taught Me from aliccia mccalla

[richardmurray]

Alicia McCalla

What My Google Dashboard Just Taught Me by Alicia McCalla

Pinterest, Power, and Publishing

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[Milton]

Good info. I know Alicia personally, so I'm familiar with her grind. Someone else recently told me about the advantages of developing a platform on Pinterest, and last year I heard some good things about it as well. I've had an account for years but didn't do much with it. That's changing. 

[richardmurray]

@Milton ahh I never had a pinterest account, if I make it then i need to delete an account I am not using . If you can, do tell how pinterest comes along

[Troy]

I used to post to Pinterest.  A lot of what is on Pinterest, indeed social media in general, is AI generated, which is fine in and of itself, but couple that with their algorithm designed to keep you on the social media platform is junk it is just not good...  The idea that Meta ads are not effective is old news. Facebook made that plain more than a decade ago. I'll pass on Pinterest.

 

Let me know how you guys make out.

[richardmurray]

@Troy 

I am  doing good improving on the sites i am on now aalbc/devianart/tumblr that is my main three, i dont add email to it. 

[Troy]

@richardmurray What do you think about the proliferation of AI generated art and content?

[richardmurray]

@Troy

Well... I will break up your question first, because the ever growing use of synthography , from corporate or personal use, influence ranges. 

So , I restructure your question, what do I think about the ever growing use of synthography in the following environments or scenarios: leisure artistic activity , tool to assist human labors, fiscal artistic activity, human artistic output overall,human communication overall?

 

In terms of leisure artistic activity, I think synthography has been a blessing for many. Now without needing to pay an artist or without needing to learn a skill of illustration, one can get emulations  that satisfy what they want to see. many of my fellow artist have suffered a financial blow because of this and hate synthography but I don't see it that way. And I will be blunt, synthography today is what the photograph was. Not every black person could paint or could afford to hire a painter but when the photograph became more commonplace , for many black people who saw daily illustrations of black people that were some form of negativity, the photograph was a blessing. Black people still learned how to paint or paid for paintings/sculpture but the photograph meant you didn't need the illustrator to see yourself while also having an affordable tool to do it and that is what synthography is today. I see how many black people especially black women get to create positive/flattering depictions of black women free from the white owned media or black owned commercial media's creations. Have i created less since synthography's recent growth in use? no. I am still creating[illustrations/literature] quite a bit.  Are some artist disheartened? yes. But the key is how you approach being an artist. I don't need people to buy my work or for my work to be considered some quality level for me to like it and embrace it. The most popular comic book is sponge bob which most artist have the skills to draw right now. The artist who cognize the illustrations non artist can make with these computer programs in synthography have to realize their self worth better and embrace people, in a humanity where media is owned by a few people or groups, get to see made what they want. 

 

As a tool to assist labors, it has been a blessing for many. Synthography tools are helping elders who are alone in this world have aids to remember. It is helping children who will never be the fastest of mind or foot have tools to aid them in learning or movement. It is helping the impoverished/poor/upper poor to have tools to aid them that they don't have the money to afford. For filing tedious or complicated paperwork, to making graphics for their websites, to making essays it is helping aid people. No one is forced to use. I only use deviantart dreamup. I have never used chatgpt, or google synthographic system. I used the microsoft system to manipulate the most recent book reviews I made because it was necessary to fit your demand. It had nothing to do with me. If I owned a magazine I would use my own grammatical + syntactical interpretation for whatever I wrote.   I have never used various synthographic tools and i only use deviantart dreamup because as a senior member I get a monthly usage for free so I want to use it up as I hate waste and they don't collate the uses. Sadly while honestly, I rarely have used up a months uses and iti s going on over two years old, but, I am no synthographer. So people are free to use what tools they want. I am content with my mind, my abilities, my comprehension. if I need to I will use synthography to adjust my work tobe accepted by those that demand. I don't see it as a problem. I am not changed. I think some people are easily peer pressured into doing things. I am not. 

 

For fiscal artistic activity, people still buy vinyl records and more and more are getting made or sold. Some artists have already realized what I said years ago and create whole works in the public view . So, making money making art is going strong in many sectors. The real revenue stream being hurt by synthographic tools are literary or illustrative commission work for unknown artist. Big time artist arguably have risen in value. I know an artist who makes beautiful work in the continent.. africa,  and she makes a living, but she is known she has clients. they know she will make something by hand and that is enough , she does. and the challenge is for artist to find different venues,and they exist. Use your imagination.

 

For human artistic output overall, synthography hasn't damaged anything and added the synthographer to the list of artist. The reason people play fewer instruments today is before recorded music, the only way to hear music was if someone played so their was a financial labor involved and so many played instruments, but when recorded music came in and even in the earliest time where it was scratchy or expensive, the ability to play at any time was huge and as the quality improved, people chose the recording over the live for most. Again popular folk were fine and making even more money with recording of them. But, nothing demanded horn players throw their horns away, nothing. Human beings poor rearing tells them to throw away that which isn't making money, as if they lost value cause no one was paying, and this is the same challenge today. Find ways to make money not using your art + keep creating art. That was the challenge of musicians in the late 1800s with musical recordings and the various artist today with returns from computer programs. 

 

For human communication overall, the flaw is human beings. During the sars cov 2 lockdown, France gave each french child three hundred euros which is like four hundred and fifty dollars then to pay for artistic content, the money couldn't be used to buy jewelry or clothes but books/music and what did most french kids buy? manga. 

What is my point? the usa heritage , what it carries, or culture, what is grows from the declaration of independence to two thousand and twenty five has always been negative in majority. yes, the usa has a positive individual heritage that gives freedom for an individual to act freely of a collective. Yes, the usa isn't inherently tied to one heritage or culture which is what many , maybe most whites in modernity, are fighting to prove not true. But overall the usa has a negative heritage or culture and in terms of human communication, the usa tops the negative list. The usa has many parents, and mostly not black ones, who inundate children into electronic technology. I will be blunt, when I went to college no one cheated more than asian students, regardless of their phenottpye [white far east asian, mulatto south east asian, black south west asian],  and asian children are usually tech addicts beyond black non asian[africa/caribbean/D.O.S.] children. i have seen asian children in the usa. the media treats them differently than they are on average. But the tech addiction parents, of all races [phenotype/religion/language/ or other] I have seen in NYC put on children is parents fault. You teach children not to think and then get angry when they rely on the crutch you told them to use, you pushed them to use. As for the internet, again, whose fault is it that people react to everything they see or hear. Stop reacting, calm down, check sources. I bet the people who are being born today will use the internet so differently. I have three main sites: aalbc/deviantart/tumblr and I use email for communication where I have many filters, which many people foolishly never did with their emails. deviantart is all arts: illustration/writing/photography/synthography/sculpture/fractals/ and more whether not safe for work or where the whole clan can view without unsettling. aalbc I have my groups each with an agenda, programming/calendrial existence/old literature , I sometimes chime in on the forum to discourse. tumblr, have some small communities of black artist and I have a soccer blog. the only thing I do that relates to the larger media is soccer. and I rarely share media posts that are unconfirmed. so I am content online. I have been from the beginning but it goes back to rearing and habits. I don't follow others, nor do I feel I have to do what everyone else does, but that comes from my rearing by my two black happily married  parents. I like myself.