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I just started a blog called Postcards From Pangaea on Blogger. Let's see how this turns out. Since it doesn't seem to be searchable on Google or DuckDuckGo yet, here's the link if you're curious: https://postcardsfrompangaea.blogspot.com/ Check it out and tell me what you think!

I just opened a shop on Teepublic where you can buy t-shirts and lots of other cool stuff with my designs on them! Or maybe you want to try opening your own shop and create products with your art on them. It's a very interesting option for artists to get their work on apparel, print, canvas, mugs, home goods, etc., and maybe earn a little extra money from it. Visit https://www.teepublic.com/user/paleofantasies to check it out!

Are any of you people annoyed (or at least concerned) by all the obviously A. I.-generated images that are being uploaded to DeviantArt? I have mixed feelings about this. I am not against machine learning software in any of its variants, and I feel it is always a good thing that A. I. is capable of doing more and more things as time goes on and technology progresses. Better tools are always a good thing, right? But I also feel DeviantArt is a site for artists, rather than for any art-like or art-related image content to be hosted. That is fine for an image hosting site, that's what they do. But this is a community for artists, isn't it? What is the point of it being flooded by people creating accounts with the only purpose of posting images generated by some software instead of an actual human being? What are they trying to share? Is there something to express in that behavior? What skill can machine-learning art show about the person behind it and/or their skills? I think it's an