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onfocus moodboard

I subscribe to a lot of visual blogs via RSS. It's probably around 100 feeds that are mostly at tumblr, some indie blogs, some mastodon feeds, some subreddits, and various others like the fun MLTSHP community. I tend to view these via a masonry layout (like pinterest) I put together that talks with my feed reader via an API. From there I can mark posts as favorites and/or publish posts to a public feed for public reconsumption.

The process of going from favorite to published is a complex, multi-step gauntlet of curation that ensures any chosen image meets the high standards of the onfocus brand. (I click a button.)

So here's the current onfocus moodboard. The caption below each image is the title as found and links to the source of the image where I spotted it. There's a moodboard RSS feed if you're into that.
404 Media
“Making surveillance tech interactive is a really good way of bringing attention to it,” Kolman told PCMag. “It's one thing to understand that cameras are everywhere but… I want to show how to live under these systems and how to resist them.”
When life gives you a surveillance state, make surveillancestateade.
Disconnect
Pitch work is basically when a director, writer, producer, or any combination of those get together with an artist and say, “We want to pitch to studios and we need imagery.” All of that has now been given to generative AI.
Fascinating interview with concept artist Karla Ortiz about the impact of generative AI on her industry.
stablediffusionlitigation.com
"At min­i­mum, Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion’s abil­ity to flood the mar­ket with an essen­tially unlim­ited num­ber of infring­ing images will inflict per­ma­nent dam­age on the mar­ket for art and artists."
Describing image models as sophisticated collage tools takes some of the mystery out of AI and makes it clear work is being used without consent. This essay has a clear description of the diffusion process.
YouTube
I'm so tired of hearing about crypto scams. This video takes the time to explain why that world of NFTs and crypto is such a wretched hive of scum and villainy. This explainer is well done and worth the time and I hope it can help our collective consciousness move on.

See also: David Rosenthal’s EE380 Talk
A record on a turntable with digitally altered colors
Summer Breeze
Photo of a leaf under running water with shifted colors
The Leaf Aquatic
A red flower with digitally altered colors
Red Flower #everyfilter
a picture of a factory colorized with gradients
industrial gradients
an old wind-up robot toy on a colorful digitally altered background
retro robot
a photo of daisy with digitally altered colors
daisy impression
colorful digitally altered photo of a sunflower
sunflower impression
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