Real or Virtual

Rarely encourage people to against their own will but Anti-Image Generation(AI) could be one of the activities in the our creative world that might harm everyone in the end! Due to majority of the copyright benefits are operated by large corporations. George Lucas had tried to express it in his star wars movies while he was independently outside of Hollywood system which is incredibly difficult and I admire it! The anti-AI  reminds how people VOTE the power to the Dark Lord of the Sith voluntarily, although in the end even George Lucas can not avoid large corporations because Disney acquired his studio. At the moment it got acquired, the old spirit might had faded away.

The absolutely scary thing is what seems right and doing the justice at this moment could help the negative part hunting us in the end.

The definition of art is still evolving just like it has always been.

About the application of image generation, one is a photo I took with ISO 102400 which was impossible before 2010-2015, and below is a Stable Diffusion 2.1 reproduction which is not possible before 2016-2021. 

Image Generation (AI ) is NOT AI since it is a technology about Latend Diffusion (Clip+Diffusion), the dataset is by Human, trained by Human, operating the output by human instruction. It is about educating that we do not harm individual’s spirit not about stopping ALL the development. 

I always hope one day either public domain or creative common are the common goal and solution for majority society. Since only large corporations can afford to take advantage of copyright when it comes down to the cost of involvement of protecting their own pieces.

 

Staghorn Fern

 Staghorn fern was originally a sketching tutorial, demonstrating how to use iPad to draw still life, but I liked the sketches of the demonstration process, and decided to spend two more hours to improve the degree of completion.

Painting includes several aspects, 1. Descriptive ability, 2. Balance and harmony, 3. Emotional expression and message transmission, 4. Originality and influence. Most aspects about learning painting about Descriptive Ability, from calligraphy to sketching, anatomy, color, perspective are all about acquiring descriptive ability. Many contemporary art skips the study of description ability and balance and harmony, which will lead to a huge gap between the artists and the audience. The same problem exists in Manga or Anime. Learning appearance is important, but describing things really requires more understanding of the true nature. Execution after understanding the essence hugely impact the learning curve.

Disbelieve of anything and everything?

If we can not fully understand and explain the most fundamental particles, any system builded on top could be questionable, such as any applied science.
If we can not fully trust people's speech who are still live today, how can we trust someone who had passed away from 2000 years ago, and messages who brought to us. Things build on top of these messages could be questionable.

Thus, people could get isolated due to there is so few common languages, belief, and connection.

2 paintings from iPad

A landscape painting from life with iPad by Jason Juan

Treasure Island Cover on iPad by Jason Juan

A movie poster I did recently.

Murrieta Poster by Jason Juan

A movie poster recently I did for Todd Myers' movie. The story happened in East Bay, around my current office. It is about Mexican and American's conflicts in 19th century. 

One can be austere if he has no desires.

Standing on the shoulders of giants and showing the way for those to come. One can be austere if he has no desires.


Repost from an old post.

Art and Timeless

How do we know when a piece is truly art and good? We know it because it is timeless. This is a Play Station advertisement called "Mountain" Do we say it is Sony did it? or the director did it? or it is really the music? or it is the camera angle or it is the person had the original idea? or it is the Play Station creator? or it is the person funded the project? Maybe it is the FX company? Or it is all the actors in the shot? or it is the person did the marketing channel and successfully launched it? Or it is really the Youtube so we still can see it easily?


https://youtu.be/xRwgdZxYL-E

Cosmos in the hand.

Narrow the vision and it looks big; Wide open to see it small.

Vision becomes so blur. To see it clear by owning less.
Flower looks short life but last forever.

This rock is about 2 inch x 1 inch x 1/3 inch, and each photo represent about 0.5 square inches of it.