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OwlFancier posted:Also I think a lot of the "big" nfts are literally not hand drawn, they are assembled out of parts generated by a computer with quantifiable "rarities" because yes the entire point is artificial scarcity for the sake of it. I was way ahead of the curve on that one, just ask my GCSE art teacher how scarce my homework was.
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The lessons themselves were just fart about for a whole morning, maybe paint a Pomegranate which I didn't know was a real fruit and not made up until many years later, but yeah there was homework to like draw a thing every week.
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Angepain posted:covid has had a devastating effect for the whole country The original is still my computer wallpaper and is, imo, one of the finest pieces of photography ever produced
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Guavanaut posted:I like the sidebar. "The Conservatives have delivered improvements in quality of life and employment, but we can't do the green new deal stuff because people are barely making ends meet and can't afford their gas bills, anyway we need to focus on people's priorities rather than what we think they want, so more controls on immigration." THE PEOPLE I REPRESENT ARE TERRIFYING PSYCHOPATHS JUST LIKE ME. JOIN US
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I can draw, I've thought about doing some stupid little drawings and listing them; but the whole point is not the drawings, it's the receipt that shows you knew which forums to go to, which twitter accounts to follow, that you had the money and resources to inflate the sales through sock puppet accounts in order to inflate the price and scam* the eventual buyer, and you knew the right places to list. The poo poo jpg of a monkey is almost immaterial at that point. The majority of my twitter mutuals/all 3 Discords I'm on are Art ones, and everyone I know hates them with a passion and clocked there's zero chance of making money from anything resembling decent art. Best description was that tweet that just said all of it looks like the fishbulb off Simpsons but generated by a lovely ai. Only one I have heard of making bank from them (and doing it on the sly because all the 'big' artists jumping on the bandwagon lost followers) is one of the D&D concept artists, as they're a friend of a friend. I think the consensus is 'would be worth taking techbro pretend money if it didn't burn through the electrical output of Ecuador for each stupid transaction'. ETH 2.0 is supposed to solve that by being eco-friendly but I don't believe that at all.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:You had homework for art? Lol Didn't you? We usually had something like, "This week draw a train" or "Draw something that shows you know what perspective is" or whatever
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This week draw something from one of the following themes Autumn rain Animals in nature The refreshing taste of pepsi cola
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Gort posted:Didn't you? We usually had something like, "This week draw a train" or "Draw something that shows you know what perspective is" or whatever I was and still am terrible at art (thank you, lack of depth perception) but the homework was generally something I could do. Once we had to make a crowd scene using heads cut from magazines and newspapers, and there was a significant number of people in the class who could not grasp the concept of putting small heads at the back, larger heads at the front, and making sure there were no obvious gaps where the paper showed. Bobby Deluxe posted:* NFT bros and libertarians never admit they're scamming people, but making money out of anything like that requires a certain level of duplicity. Hmmm I have a colleague who seems genuinely convinced by NFTs, to the extent of flying out to a conference on NFTs/crypto and trying to our workplace (library/museum) it needs to get onto this bandwaggon with images from our collections. His reasoning made no sense when he explained it, and I've since realised that this is because the whole NFT thing makes no sense, rather than me being a poor student.
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Lady Demelza posted:Hmmm I have a colleague who seems genuinely convinced by NFTs, to the extent of flying out to a conference on NFTs/crypto and trying to our workplace (library/museum) it needs to get onto this bandwaggon with images from our collections. His reasoning made no sense when he explained it, and I've since realised that this is because the whole NFT thing makes no sense, rather than me being a poor student. Yeah I was following a discussion on a different site about them, honestly trying to keep an open mind about this new thing I didn't understand. But all the defenders' explanations boiled down to "you know sometimes rare objects are desirable due to their scarcity? What if we reproduced that on computers, where scarcity isn't a thing, so we have to play pretend and add pointless layers of abstraction?" And when people didn't buy that, it moved on to "But NFTs have other potential revolutionary applications" "Ok, give an example?" "Never!" (or vague hand waving)
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Crypto in general is just tech nerds trying and failing to solve the "problem" of needing to trust other people and organizations for society to work.
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I miss my art teacher from Tech, she got brain cancer and died after i left. Such a lovely woman, she stood out in my area as she was from Donegal, Presbyterian and spoke Gaelic natively as her first language... not the usual combination to be sure. 
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Azza Bamboo posted:This week draw something from one of the following themes I've seen your stuff, bet you never did your art homework either
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Anyone who is deluded enough to believe in scarcity of digital goods needs to play on a private MMO server and watch as an admin covers the ground in the rarest purps ever to exist in the game like so much trash.
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I believe good posts are a prime digital scarcity.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I believe good posts are a prime digital scarcity. Soon people will be selling NFT's of my good posts and they will be the official currency
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That wint tweet about logging off or got to hand it to them are I guess like legit worth the money
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I hate that I hear normal people talking about Bitcoin and NFTs now. In 2010 when it was just a thing for dumb nerds on the Internet it was funny, but now I get people standing up at work to talk about some idiot project using "blockchain" in a vaguely defined way for dubious benefit and apparently we're all meant to take it seriously.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:That wint tweet about logging off or got to hand it to them are I guess like legit worth the money
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Gonzo McFee posted:Soon people will be selling NFT's of my good posts and they will be the official currency Like he said, there’s a scarcity.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I've seen your stuff, bet you never did your art homework either Your guess is right, but I question the idea that my art would be better if I was more diligent during my GCSE years.
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I have always been disappointed in the lack of depictions of the refreshing taste of pepsi cola in your cartoons, your art really suffers from that
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Just in the cinema in an empty showing and they didn’t have any popcorn - frankly I think cinemas should refund everyone and close if somehow they run out. Also having worked in a cinema I know you literally cannot run out unless you’re too lazy to refill the big machine. Now I have to watch a film without popcorn 
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Azza Bamboo posted:Your guess is right, but I question the idea that my art would be better if I was more diligent during my GCSE years. * usually
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Angepain posted:I have always been disappointed in the lack of depictions of the refreshing taste of pepsi cola in your cartoons, your art really suffers from that 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I still maintain that the best part of an arts degree is rarely the teaching and resources, and mostly the opportunity to spend 3 years where you don't* have to work, you are supposed to be regularly doing that art thing, and the opportunity to socialise with other people who do that art thing. I don't know, I'm a rube who works in factories not someone with the money or ambition for qualifications lol. To be fair, an art degree might not have changed that.
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smellmycheese posted:I read this more that he’s saving it for when the Goves inevitably get one of their vile offspring a column in The Times Beatrice Gove has already had articles published in the Mail, just like her mum. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9129721/Telling-exams-scrapped-final-straw-says-level-student-BEATRICE-GOVE.html Knowing this makes the Sarah Vine quote seem even more weird- having stage managed her own daughter's entry into journalism via the newspaper she writes for, she's now dunking on her own daughter for going along with it. And it's as pervy as that Sun article about Charlotte Church too.
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Endjinneer posted:And it's as pervy as that Sun article about Charlotte Church too. If it's the "She's a big girl now" piece you're referring to, I'm pretty sure that was the Star. That said, the Sun have perved over enough teenagers to be top of the shitheap
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kingturnip posted:If it's the "She's a big girl now" piece you're referring to, I'm pretty sure that was the Star. The Star might have perved over Charlotte Church but it was the Sun and News of the World that was for a while the largest purveyor of child pornography in the country and possibly the world. When the Sexual Offences Act changed the age of majority to appear in sexually explicit photos from 16 to 18 page3.com (which was amazingly a paid subscribtion site) had to scrub a load of pictures - and then Samantha Fox and a couple of other models pointed out shots of them at 16 and 17 were still up and they had to sheepishly admit that while they did check IDs of models, for almost all of them all they had in their records was a record that they had been checked, but no record either of the model's date of birth or the date of the shoot, and so they had to wipe the whole lot. Interestingly almost no trace of this appears *anywhere* on the internet any more despite it getting a lot of coverage in the tech press, just in case you doubted the power of Murdoch's lawyers.
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Cuktig's continuing to make the same mistakes they made first, second and third time around. Interesting choice of twitter handles to copy into that statement too : https://twitter.com/thatginamiller/status/1477757668811059201
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StarkingBarfish posted:Cuktig's continuing to make the same mistakes they made first, second and third time around. Interesting choice of twitter handles to copy into that statement too : Why are the first two accounts she tagged part of the TBEU? Does she think they're legit? And why does Chuka get third billing? Is he actually a Grannymugger project that got completely out of hand?
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StarkingBarfish posted:Cuktig's continuing to make the same mistakes they made first, second and third time around. Interesting choice of twitter handles to copy into that statement too : They’re speedrunning CUKTIG, coming up to the part where they have to namechange because someone else already has it
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Why are the first two accounts she tagged part of the TBEU? Does she think they're legit? And why does Chuka get third billing? Is he actually a Grannymugger project that got completely out of hand? Is Chuka even actually involved?
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https://twitter.com/2012Studies/status/1477621569274925056 https://twitter.com/DrRobertZands/status/1477717322978762759 The tbeu accounts are probably tagged in because she saw them blowing up her mentions. It's astonishing how tone deaf the melts are and how good Trevor is at exploiting that.
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