Category: Thoughts and rants
Art ? , or AI playground ?
AI art, or playground for (mindless) easy replication and distortion.
I got the idea that maybe all the “AI, ready made, matlab assisted, pattern making programs, pattern recognition software is not that good for the human brain. Just occurred to me that using the “easy” button to be artistic (as a writer, poet, musician, artist) maybe be in fact “very easy” but might not increase our ability to enjoy detail, creativity, enjoyment, peace, and all things that typically make the artistic masters beloved.
Attached is a set of images that to me were just “chaotic scramblings” of some very old impressionist piece of art, (I could not easily find the original but sort of remember it, but later did find it as very likely AI on a painting by Matisse).
The original is great, but is this artwork below?, quickly created with AI = image filtering functions and distortions? It shows NO creativity whatever; it is “fake-art”. What does this easy button for artwork do to the human brain and its ability to create, record, beautify the world, grow as a craftsman, leave a legacy?
I am not impressed. (I bestowe all do respect to the person who created this fake art that required no brains at all, and also the artist that created the original required skill and patience). I have no intent to publicize or monetize this current persons 40 second-use of some canned image filters over an existing work of art.
The he/she/other who created it certainly had fun, but made little or no impact on the general human creative spirit, and did leave impact on total number of online images (not really adding to progress or creativity), and little impact on their own creativity.
The impact on me, big, and in terms reposting junk (ok, i reposted this junk, but with philosophical comments, LOL)
Thomas Arthur Turmer: cartoons – Golfer strikes Gold
My father drew this likely sometime in the 1935 range. At one point I think he wanted to be a political cartoonist. He did like golf and played it all his life. (I hope he is not annoyed that I vectorized and colored this in LOL).
As a Californian, in the early 1900s, likely this was a common joke among golfers, but dad put it to paper.
Thomas Arthur Turner: Hollywood High School yearbook cartoons 1933
Thomas Arthur Turner: Hollywood High School yearbook cartoons 1933, track runner dreaming of winning a title. My dad ran track, but I do not know if the team won that year, or just dreamed of winning. Didn’t check the records.
Thomas Arthur Turner: Hollywood High School yearbook cartoons 1930
My dad was a cartoonist. These images are from Hollywood High School yearbook cartoons that he drew and were published. The originals are brown and old, I vectorized this, and colored it in. My dad was a great guy.
Thomas Arthur Turner: Hollywood Highschool cartoons
My dad was a cartoonist from a very young age.
Thomas Arthur Turner – Hollywood High School Yearbook Cartoons
Uselessness of the diploma, cartoon by Thomas Arthur Turner, circa 1925-30, and edit.
Thomas Arthur Turner – Hollywood High School Yearbook Cartoons
Thomas Arthur Turner – Hollywood High School Yearbook Cartoons, circa the years of 1925 to 1930? Not sure when he attended. He was born in 1915 but certainly was into cartooning for the yearbook long before he graduated.
This one is obvious for the “catcher” at some point, an historic blooper, or call, who would know?. There are the original image, edited image (photoshop), and edited further (CorelDRAW). A tribute to my very talented and wonderful parent, father, inspiration.
Thomas Arthur Turner – Hollywood High School Yearbook Cartoons
Thomas Arthur Turner – Hollywood High School Cartoons circa 1920, around there, my father did cartoons for the high school yearbook. I thought i would share them, as originals, from the story boards that he glued them to for photography.
Roller skating…. obviously a face-plant. The image is as a jpg file for the Yearbook. Someone roller skating in a rink…
A Mother’s Day Rose
Just going through old stuff and I found this mixed media card I sent to her many decades ago. Lauretta Louise Milner – Turner. You were a dedicated mom. Thank you for that.
