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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Sorry, I think you dropped this.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Machine that turns the Water into Colors

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Keep Making It Until You Make It

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

You buy something and it doesn't really work unless you subscribe to the service that unlocks even the most basic features. Nothing works, customer service is a waste of time, and nobody cares.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

As soon as the lawn mowers stop, the leaf blowers start. But all the while there are hobby planes flying.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

There are so many things that I don’t understand There’s a world within me that I cannot explain Many rooms to explore, but the doors look the same I am lost, I can’t even remember my name

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Difference between uninformed ignorance and idiocy is the level of confidence they disagree with you. It takes humility to learn.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We need a full-on showstopper EV Minivan from a major auto maker. Reinvent the minivan. I’ll buy one.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I’m Happiest when I’m Painting and when I’m with my Family.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

--emdash Give me a Truly Godd Time

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Somewhere_A_Dispair 8K Double Wide

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

In the shadow of Uranus is the moon of Titania, lemonade, lemonade, milk I know where the Builders Build.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Uploaded Intelligence is really fun sci-fi narrative territory. "Upload" the show on Amazon also great. Alien Earth is exploring that similar narrative territory on AMC. Both came after Pantheon in terms of when production started. (upload premiered first, but Pantheon started earlier in 2018.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Guns kill people I am people a² + b² = c² Quid pro quo wait... A=B and B=C transitive property of Pythagoras The Younger therefore, Guns kill me

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Rewatching "Pantheon" from AMC on Netflix. So good.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Dolphins (and whales) evolved from (other mammals) that were four limbed, land based animals. Boom 🤯

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

You can see the Bizarro Nega-Version in the top image. by the time I took this screenshot, the bottom one had refreshed with a newer seed generation.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

In reply to @nsousanis.bsky.social on his recent post. Not in an argumentative way, but a respectful rebuttal.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I believe AI is a tool. The electric drill certainly robs you of the calorie burn of turning the screw manually. But it also builds a damn fine house.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

So when someone types a prompt for an image, or points a camera and clicks the shutter, or decides to dance beautifully with accompanying music. Or simply decides to be an artist... They are by definition making choices. They are making decisions. They are looking into the void and screaming.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

As if... people with a passion for something wouldn't strive to learn more and dig deeper and have an undying drive to just make work and express themselves through that work. as if, right?

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

So, this is all leading to this point I want to make. That being an artist is a path everyone takes for themselves. Learning the basics will always make someone who wants to explore how to express themselves through visuals to feel more fulfilled.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It's highly technical. It's nowhere near sitting at a desk and drawing. But it's creative. It's artistic. It's the kind of work millions of people get paid for around the globe annually. It's a legit job to be a 3D artist and animator these days. But it's not the same kind of work as painting.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I used 3DSMAX and Cinema4D primarily with After Effects, which resulted in work doing animation for broadcast and streaming tv. It's not a flex, it's a path. I learned how to create something as an underlying vector structure then adding textures, bones, animation, keyframes with motion curves...

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Then I went to college for 3D Art and Animation. I learned how to model and animate in 3d, how to animate motion graphics in 2D+. I learned how to visually tell stories and used a lot of compute power to render those 3D animations.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I just don't have to pick one or the other. I'm both. Anyone else who sees these tools would likely benefit from using them. With or without a teacher. I was instructed, but I also spent so many more hours working away on my own, before the internet, in a bedroom with a desk lamp and a sketch pad.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I love the idea of being the champion for continuing the tradition of traditional media. Please don't ever stop learning how to draw. Please don't ever stop using cameras to capture beauty. Please don't ever stop sewing, filming, rapping, rhyming, dancing, shocking, and innovating.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

AI image generation is more about curation and taste than it is about skill. While that may shock and offend a lot of people, I am one of those who already has a very well developed sense of curation and a highly specific taste for my own art. I also happen to have the skill to back it up.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The A/B of that constant decision making is what evolves into my style. I can't speak for artists who haven't gone through a couple decades of learned experience. I CAN speak for someone who DID go through that and still loves AI.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

So when I leaned into the prompt technique and that very quick feedback, which has only gotten faster in recent years... I have so many decisions to make. The struggle of an artist is always about decisions. "is this what I envisioned or should I erase it? should I start over??"

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I've been using those algorithms since 2021 in the VQgan + CLIP era of notebooks running on google cloud. I was exposed to it through other artists on Clubhouse (social audio app). The models then were rough and very abstract, which is right up my alley as an abstract painter.

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Prof JEFFJAG.eth @jeffjag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I love your comic and your point of view. I've followed and loved your work for decades. So that up front, I disagree with the premise, but I'm happy to have the ability to offer my dissent. First off, I approach this from a visual image generation pov.

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