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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 8d

She's thinking about buying more pearls

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 27d

When that Peruvian pan flute hits, hellll yeah

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 28d

haha no, but maybe my teacher was a fan

Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · 29d

My grade 3 teacher told us: "If you're bored, you're boring." And I think that was a succinct way to redirect an 8 year old's whine of, "I'm bored!" But I've since come to believe that boredom is incredibly important and as this video posits: The path to creativity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BImK...

If you wish you felt more creative, watch this.

YouTube video by Jon Talks Beats

www.youtube.com

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Aug 31

Absolutely gorgeous illustrations!! I could stare for hours ✨

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ahhh, what a gorgeous colour! Breeeee what are you doing to my wallet

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Aug 25

🙏 thank you!!

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Aug 22

So lovely! Is the double cotton gauze top self drafted? I'm always on the hunt for patterns with big sleeves

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Jul 20

OH BANANA

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Jul 20

Look, I love it as much as the next gal. It's just that the soft Herzog monologue in my right ear makes it hard to focus on punching bananas

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · Jul 6

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Jun 4

Grateful I got to experience the wonderful space you created at Teddy's and I'm really glad your health is climbing into the front seat

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · May 12

I found a free (functional!) drafting table on the side of the road when I was younger. The way I SPRINTED home to ask my dad for help loading it into his truck

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · May 8

A poobble

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · May 5

A perfect little lad

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Apr 27

🥰 <3

Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thank you! It's fun mashing styles together

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Apr 26

close up for texture

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Apr 26

The king never requested statues of himself, though that didn't stop the sculptors. Their beloved king was immortalized in the woods where small creatures were inexplicably drawn to the simulacrum, just as his human subjects were drawn to the original.

For the April True Ref challenge #TrueRefDT003

A textural illustration of a kingly statue (center), detailed with gold, over grown with moss and ivy, and standing in a forest grove. There are dark silhouettes of trees in the foreground where birds perch. The statue is facing the viewer straight on, resting his hands on a sword in front of him. Birds have taken up residence on the statue, making their nests in the mossy crook of his neck and arm.

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Apr 25

Such a simple powerful moment. So lovely Nick

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Apr 14

HECK YEAH! That was awesome!!!! The expressions are so perfect and the flow of everything is 😙👌
Can't wait to see more some day!

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Mar 29

I absolutely love all of these. Your masks are incredible!

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Mar 27

correct, this faerie owns my back

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Mar 26

I wish I could turn my head like an owl and look at her more often

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Erika @erkshnrt.bsky.social · Mar 26

it's too late