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  • Besides aesthetic, I think the heart of the issue is that those generative AI tools were trained on art made by humans, generally without the consent or payment of said humans. Now you’ve got an interaction where you want art, you get it from a machine made by an AI company that is effectively ripping off artists, and nowhere in this loop are the artists that made this art generating machine possible.







  • Lol you’re going to have a bad time looking for logically coherent memes. I think the implied elements here are: Exploitation of C is required for A. Exploitation of C is not possible if C is unified. B enables division of C, therefore A requires B. It may or may not be true but it doesn’t hold up to logical analysis (e.g. B is probably not the only way to divide C)









  • It’s anodized titanium - I developed a process to ‘draw’ the anodization layer. The thickness of the anodization determines what colors you see due to some cool physics of reflection/refraction. I have a lot of fun with it, but the setup I’ve built is pretty klugey so I probably spend more time improving and maintaining that than I do making prints 😅






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    Absolutely! So the metal is titanium, and the whole piece is submerged in a dilute electrolyte (baking soda is the MVP here). The entire plate gets charged up to 200V, then I use a pen plotter to bring my pen/cathode (ground) within a few hundred microns of the plate and let the current start flowing. At this point, everything affects the colors you get (temperature of bath, dwell time of cathode, conductivity of bath, spacing between my pen and the plate) because all of these factors affect how thick the anodized layer beneath the pen will be.

    The physics of what color you get from a given thickness of anodized material is pretty well characterized already, my shtick is being able to locally control the anodization to make pictures like I’ve been posting.

    Here’s a link to a terribly edited YouTube video I put up a few weeks ago on the process: https://youtu.be/xYB1iIjg5u0

    And I also have a crude website at https://www.tiprints.com/