#technology am i right?

[siennahrobek]

Hey wanted to let you know your new ao3 courage has been deleted, everything okay?

Ugh. That.

So, not really getting into the whole story cause it’s insanely irritable and I’m trying not to get that way but I lost it and it’s disappeared into the ether or whatever the internet does. I spent more time trying to get it back that I could have spent trying to write and well, now I’m obnoxiously behind on my original plan.

So me? Fine as I can be at the moment.

The account…not so much. But I didn’t lose my original one sooooooo I guess there’s that plus going for me?

So yeah, it’s been a whole thing and I’m trying to play catch up. I haven’t decided exactly what I’m gonna do yet.

#technology am i right?

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Me: I’m so bored. About an hour later:  Moves a t.v. Busts a HDMI cable. Puts a new HDMI cable in the t.v. Calls the cable company to hookup a remote.

#haha #story of my life #bored #random #mood #relatable #i need a nap #technology am i right?

[pikkish]

I thought it was hilarious, at first, that everyone’s decided Doomguy is still the protagonist of MyHouse.wad. After all, it doesn’t really have much more to do with Doom than gmod has to do with Half-Life 2. But then I remembered, isn’t that a plot point of Doom II? Visiting the burnt out ruins of your hometown on your way to the portal to Hell? Why couldn’t Doomguy take a few minutes to have a nightmare of an emotional journey in a childhood friend’s home to come to terms with everyone and everything he ever loved being destroyed?

#doom #myhouse.wad #lines i did #just to be clear i still do think its very funny that its been unanimously decided that dg is the protagonist of myhouse.wad #man has been fighting demons for thirty years and what does he get for his thirtieth birthday? more demons #except this time theyre mental and emotional demons #myhouse.wad does deserve all the popularity its getting tho #like.. yeah its amazing in its atmosphere n stuff #but its also nuts on a purely technological level #stepped inside the house the first time and just had to stop for a sec bc is that a hecking. BASEMENT?? a SECOND FLOOR in CLASSIC DOOM???? #that shouldnt even be POSSIBLE. #(i mean. it obviously IS possible w clever use of various teleport effects. but still. it was a bit of a :O !!!!!!! moment) #setting a ridiculously high bar right off the bat and then following through for the rest of the game in meeting it #anyway. it was really good. #i guess in this case the good end would be more of a metaphorical/mental state? #being at peace internally as u go to voluntarily enter the depths of hell... #or something like that; anyway. idk man i am still just going :eyes: at the whole thing

[thebaffledcaptain]

hand painted turkish bowl I got in ephesus this week…. I swore I wasn’t going to get it but my mom went “but there’s a ship on it” and I was like you’re right. there Is a ship on it.

#what am I going to put in it? no clue but there’s a ship on it #modern technology is insane I cannot believe I was in italy this morning #it has been. a long day #also!! they painted the flags in the right direction!! #ough I have sea legs #age of sail #this is your captain speaking

[aurosoulart]

HEY GUYS I NEED YOUR HELP!!

ok so first off WE GOT INTO THE FINALIST ROUND FOR AWE'S FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

we're in the running to win $100,000 to help us make digital objects into a realty for everyone. this is a huge deal. I am in a daze writing this and literally cannot articulate how major this is

we need people to watch our announcement video on Twitter multiple times to help more people see it! the twitter algorithm boosts things based on watch time, so just opening the link and letting the video run a couple times will be a HUGE help 🙏

VIDEO LINK IS HERE

Figmin XR will never have a subscription based cost model, and ALL of the things shown above are FREE to download within the app right now.

when this technology becomes as ubiquitous as smartphones (and it WILL, possibly even sooner than we think), this is the future we want people to be able to look forward to... and the first step of getting to that future is proving that it's one people actually want.

#figmin xr #art #3d art #digital art #artists on tumblr #ar #augmented reality #vr #virtual reality #technology #AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! #seriously i wish i could be more coherent right now but i CANNOT #IF YOU THINK THIS IS EVEN REMOTELY INTERESTING PLS CONSIDER REBLOGGING #tumblr is still the only social media where i have a following so i'll be relying on you guys heavily for votes later on as well!! #all of this is very grassroots but if we bring this to enough people it will fundamentally change the world #and that is not an understatement #this app could be living proof that regular good people can still create something that makes a huge difference in society #and i am beyond humbled and grateful to be part of the tiny 4 person team working on this #everything you see from me about figmin is because i truly love it with my whole heart #and it's an honor to be able to share it here with people who have been following me since the beginning

[myothertardisisonthemun]

#i come at this with no agenda no not at all i definitely haven't written countless letters to MPs trying to save a similar museum no.... #there's no reason i am tagging this #powerhouse museum #i could be thinking about any #museum #like #questacon #or the #Museum of Science and Industry #or maybe im thinking of #London Science Museum #it could be any #technology museum #or #science museum #It's going to be the Tumblr #Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences #and we will never let a CEO earn half a million a year while she denies funds for essential maintenance and strips out educational content #if i had more spots i would have added in one for the history of communications exhibit and #the Emergence of AI exhibit the old founding director proposed but as you can tell #i am very much grinding an axe right now

[allonsyisabelli]

My phone did a factory reset out of nowhere and I lost ALL of my drawings. So fuck it, here are the sketches I've managed to recover by screenshotting and sending them to my friends.

#disco elysium #harrykim #cuno #kimharry #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #I am SO sad right now it's not even funny #I managed to draw this whole comic idea that I thought was so funny and well made #but I didn't post it because I was so scared of flopping and being dangerously upset about it (I'm in a TERRIBLE mental state rn) #so I was like “i'll post it when I feel confident enough” #but autodesk sketchbook is a BITCH that can't save for shit and my phone is a technological disaster #so anyway I'm crying since midnight and accepting every word of consolation + drawing apps recommendations

[symphony-calamity]

Ranking the Mechs by how well I think their Mechanisms would actually work:

1. Marius/Raphaella—prosthetic limbs should be relatively straightforward. However I'd move Raphaella to below Tim if her species doesn't naturally have wings, due to the complexity of adding limbs that she'd lack the right muscles/brain structures to control.

2. Tim—eyes feel a bit more complicated that an arm, but considering that cameras serve basically the same function I feel like they ought to work decently.

3. Ashes/Jonny—replacing an organ that's meant to be like, soft and pulsating with metal doesn't feel like it would work great. But in theory it's probably possible.

4. Ivy—brains are REALLY complicated and I reckon if you could replace one you'd end up with a fundamentally different person.

5. Brian—building a robot is definitely possible. However he gets a low rank because I really don't feel like having a human heart would do very much. Like at that point you just have a robot with no meaningful resemblance to the person he allegedly once was.

6. Nastya—absolutely not. This should go without explanation. Mercury does not do any of the things blood does.

#disclaimer: i know nothing about medicine ot anything relevant i am just being silly and may be wrong #except with nastya im pretty sure im right on that one #toy soldier doesnt count because it works on magic and nothing that even passes for technology #the mechanisms #fandomposting

[quorras]

every time i see someone call tron 'cyberpunk', i lose ten years off my lifespan

#note to self literally never read letterboxd reviews of movies i like i cant do it anymore kdjfgkdssd #say you saw the movie and the plot and visuals went right over your head without saying it #like. in what world is tron dystopic?? cyberpunk in itself is an offshoot of dystopian fiction. tron is not about an imagined future #tron is about an imagined PRESENT. thinking about our PRESENT relationship with technology in relation to the times each film was released #tron is in equal measures hopeful and critical about technology. that is NOT cyberpunk #the only CyberPunk that matters in tron is the Tron2.0 character of the same name #i will admit that tron's plot is cyberpunk derived but its. idk man its not the same thing #thematically its different. visually i think tron shares developmental artists with blade runner where the cyberpunk visual stereotype was #- established #but blade runner is more pure cyberpunk thematically than tron is. does that make any sense #and. and. listen to me. i am number one retrofuture fan. i love syd mead. i love moebius. but listen. just because they worked on tron - #- does NOT mean tron is thematically OR visually retrofuturistic either!! the visuals match the time it was made!! thats not retrofuturism! #thats normal scifi based on the every day!!! #tron is a sandbox and at the end of the day anyone can do whatever they want its all just for fun #at the same time. the entire story of tron is being severely misrepresented when labelled as cyberpunk. and it makes me sad #these are very shallow thoughts i just miss literary thematic analysis sometimes. my film studies classes cannot come soon enough #rex speaks

[lynne-monstr]

I finally switched cell phone providers so I can get on a plan my company pays for. and literally fifteen min after swapping sim cards, all these garbage game apps start downloading onto my phone. so I looked it up on reddit forums and apparently this is a thing now on all the major carriers? Ive used the same cell provider for 20 years so I guess I was never exposed to this particular brand of bullshit. anyway I hate excessive advertising I hate having stupid shit shoved in my face I hate that these companies are allowed to pull this bullsht

#also i am annoyed by the att rep who tried to convince me it was facebook or samsung phone doing it and not them #like lady i have had this phone for 8 years #and the bullshit didn't start untol right after i popped in the new sim card #it doesn't take a genius to figure it our #lynne vs technology #random text post silliness

[notetaeker]

It’s me, abt to attempt to ai/google-translate a whole show from 7 years ago for my personal viewing because why not

#the fact that it exists dubbed in bangla but not subbed in English… is so interesting #i am so ambitious for no reason #before Ramadan I spent hours trying to find a subbed version and when I did it was Google translated and so bad #prob someone attempted it like me lol I respect the hustle #but compared to 7 years ago… the technology for translating online is so much better right the subs should come out better?? #💭.txt #InshAllah

[agentc0rn]

I finally did it!! I composed my first cover online with and on my computer ever... (+ LOUD SOUND WARNING for headphone users, the ending especially gets loud...my apologies in advance!) -> AZ's what-if battle theme

#pokemon #pokemon music #az pokemon #pokemon az #pokemon xy #pokemon x and y #pokemon legends z-a #in hindsight the pacing and rhythm is off at certain parts but honestly i am proud at how decent my first attempt turned out to be. #Anyways nothing can be truly perfect #there is always room for improvement. #he was the beginning and the end...hardest description for a character ever #i made the beginning a callback to AZ's past as a king with regal tones #then shifted to a sorrowful passage before entering a respite and changing to a more hopeful #uplifting one where it shows AZ's gradual acceptance of inner peace + discovering the thrill of battles #in other ways you could see the uplifting tone as the kinder side + noble aspects of AZ's character that could have been seen in XY #like he loved pokemon right? And he did care for his kingdom too with his technology and stuff #the rising and falling pitches also can be reflective of his stumbles and regression to his grief along the way

[krispiebones]

Wife technology!

Some of the Archie characters were good, too bad they got pendered 🤡

#sonic fanart #Nicole holo lynx #Sally the chipmunk #my art #wife technology #sallicole #random but I feel like Sally is the type of person to say she’s a gamer but then reveal that she only plays mobile games on Nicole #gamer girls am I right heh #I realized how saturated my art is when I looked on a different device then my phone help #i’m insane

[cozylittleartblog]

Would Tanisha consider Val family since she basically knew him her entire life? Or are they just like acquaintances through her grandfather?

sometimes she refers to him as "uncle val" :'^) it's said sarcastically, especially when he tries to give her any sort of advice or lecture, but nisha does mean it some. he's a long-time customer and has earned his title as a family friend, it's hard not to feel a bit of a bond with somebody you see and talk to so frequently!

#ask #anonymous #anon #static sky #val #tanisha davis #i am really slow abt answering the oc asks but listen. anon. nonnie. i love u sm for asking about them #im thinking about stuff to answer with while i like. make sandwiches and do laundry #lov them #i appreciate your interest #mwah #doodles #art #there's mutual trust and respect between val and davis (her grandfather) and they do some work for each other #he's old he's got some cybernetic parts and val works with him to make sure it's all working right #he understands the technology half of it but he's not so good with the biology part #and obvs he takes care of all val's mechanical needs #i need to draw nisha in some cute clothes i forgot she actually dresses super cute when shes not at work #and her dreads can change color so she can coordinate them to her outfits #... i need to draw my ocs more in general honestly but woe i just follow my work and my adhd around blindly

[strawberrycircuits]

i don't actually know anything about music because im uncultured BUT what's some of your favorite cd/case cover art that you have (do they have art on the cds themselves idk but why not i guess)

bwehehe!!!!! my favorite album art of them all wld probably be sgt peppers and oasis's be here now!! I'm a big fan of album art that either vaguely reminds me of contemporary art or ones that kind of go Hey let's see how much bullshit we can throw on the cover and both of those kind of fill those quotas. they both have this odd quality where the more u look at em the more interesting things u find hidden in the background .... anyways erm shoutout 2 the photoshopped car in the pool on the oasis one and the doll to the far right that says "meet the rolling stones!" on sg pep

this ask did make me go look at all the fronts to my cds (they do all generally have fronts-- some of them just have the names, minimal art, and general info like the producers/label/songs/etc-- since it does help figure out, like. which album yr listening to / what side to put it in on. i used 2 burn cds when i was like 9 and id forget to sharpie the right side a lot and it Was Not Fun) and I can honestly say my favorites are mcr's danger days and, again, oasis's be here now!!!!!!!

#i am so bad at taking pictures forgive me lmao #thank u mr fudge i appreciate u enabling me <3 #yea so cds are super fucking cool considering them as technology. like #theyre similar to records in that you have a side thats 'read' by an external machine (and if you damage that side- #then you can experience skipping or audio damage) except unlike records u cant exactly flip over a cd. its all on there already!!! #so u have one side thats not read by a player that you can smudge to ur hearts content (thats hyperbole) #some artists put cool designs on the fronts some dont. most do put Something There to designate it as Not The Part #With The Tunes #oh fun fact!! so the white album had too many songs on it so they had to release it with 2 vinyls to fit all of em #so u had like. vinyl 1 side a and b and vinyl 2 side c and d iirc #and youd think. oh compact disk they can probably put all 90 minutes on one cd right? #they didnt! they have 2 cds in there with the exact same split in songs that the 2 vinyls had. and i appreciate the consistency #even if it gives me a big clunky case that doesnt fit in w the rest of em > - < ' #oh well! makes it easier 2 find!!!!

[aurosoulart]

Hey, sorry if this is bad(?), but I was wondering if you had any advice for getting into the xr world/career. I think I've seen you mention the topic (encouraging others to join the field?) at least once, but I don't know how to even get started. Thank you for your time!

(If you could answer this not publicly I would appreciate it, but it's fine if you do, or like, if you don't answer at all)

not a bad thing to ask at all! I've actually been in the middle of writing a guide about this for some time that I will.... hopefully finish sometime soon ghskgh.

I hope you don't mind me posting this publicly - I ended up writing a short novel and figure it might be useful to others who are curious as well! anyways, the advice I give to people with a background in illustration is to start out with a Quest 2 headset. they retail at $300 new, but you can get them used via eBay, Craigslist, FB Marketplace or someplace like that for around $200 or under. the Quest 2 works without needing to be plugged into a PC, though you will probably want to buy a more ergonomic head-strap to make it more comfortable. (the head strap that Meta sells is overpriced, but this third-party one is really good) if you're interested in working with augmented reality (the type of work I do!) and have the ability to save up some extra money, I'd recommend waiting for the release of the Quest 3, which will launch this fall and cost $500. totally not a requirement at all to start learning, though.

other than that, I'd recommend starting out with free art programs like Open Brush and Gravity Sketch to familiarize yourself with creating in-headset. both of these programs have a large amount of tutorial videos up on YouTube - as well as an active community of other artists who are all generally very friendly and eager to help people learn. VR Art Live and The Spatial Canvas's Discord servers are the communities I'm part of. :)

after that, it all just comes down to posting your new artwork online to as many platforms as you can mentally handle (this is the hardest part for me, ghsghs), and also looking at paid XR artist programs/gigs. Mozilla Hubs, Horizon Worlds, and Figmin XR (that's me!) all have some creator opportunities where they pay people to create things on their platform.

you can also find work doing XR concept art, art performances, and I've even seen grant programs for XR artists from art galleries. these things are harder to find, but if you make a LinkedIn page and a modest portfolio of your XR art, chances are high that you'll get some eyes on it.

it's ridiculously easy to be a big fish in a small pond right now if you have any kind of skills with these programs. I will say that there does seem to be a push towards people who can create things that are interactive and can be shared with others (like AR Snapchat/TikTok/Instagram filters, experiences created and published to platforms like Mozilla Hubs, Figmin XR, etc.), so that's something to keep in mind while learning - but not something that should stop you!

going from 2D illustration to creating things in 3D space is a whirlwind of learning new skills that can often feel overwhelming, but the most important thing is that it should feel fun and enjoyable to you. I started out by just listening to music while painting in Tilt Brush (Tilt Brush was the original version of Open Brush, before Google made it open-source) and creating whatever felt the most fun in the moment. everything else just came from natural curiosity and connecting with other artists in the space.

lastly... I have no technical (coding, traditional 3D modeling) skills. I am a 2x college dropout with chronic mental illness, and prior to my current employment I was never able to hold a job for longer than 3 months. and yet....... this new industry has changed my life completely, and at 29 years old I finally feel like I have a purpose. I'm somehow a software developer now, without needing to know anything about software development. that's wild!!!

this is why I'm so excited for the future. if this brand-new technology (still in its infancy! viewed as frightening by so many!!) was able to help me in such a radical way... what will that mean for even more people discovering it as it becomes more accessible?

I don't know the answer to that yet... but I do know how wonderful it is to see people learning about all of this for the first time. helping with that alone is more than enough for me 💖

#auropost #also if any artist who sees this wants a free key to download figmin xr on the quest store i can give that to you #you can just dm me for it #i would give headsets away too if i could... but alas i don't have THAT many connections. yet. #i am just!! so enthusiastic about encouraging other people to make this type of art!!! #xr #vr #virtual reality #augmented reality #and lastly #apple just announced their headset #it's coming out next year but has like no interesting software yet #so there is about to be a huuuuugeee demand for people who know how to design spatial experiences/worlds/art/ANYTHING #things are changing so fast in the digital art world right now #but despite everything i think the demand for artists is only going to increase #people will quickly realize that ai cannot create anything new #and art made by humans will only become more valuable #more than anything i want people to use all this new technology to create what they personally love #because that's what will carry us forward