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Almost every artist worth their salt (& pepper) have already taken a hard stand against AI ripping off artists to train AI models to further powerful companies' ability to, well, rip us off. Here's my statement on this: NO. I do NOT give consent for ANY of my work to be used in even a single AI training model, program, test platform - NO. MEANS. NO. And in case you haven't heard in very many different areas of life - NO is in fact a complete sentence. TikTok, Meta, any other

The one word I've heard more than any other to describe the 2020s was surreal . So much happened so fast it was difficult for anyone to keep track of everything - two years of Covid-19 lockdown, morally repulsive xenophobic white nationalism in the US including a violent insuurrection of Jan 2021 (not to mention similar extremist movements in the UK, Australia, and especially Russia in its invasion of Ukraine), hundreds of natural disasters breaking every record in frequency

Well I didn't expect to start a blog right off the bat with the new online portfolio, but given it's easily available on the new hosting service, I might as well give it a shot (along with the only good pic I ever got in college!) I'm a multimedia artist/designer from San Leandro. I have two art degrees - a BA in Art (Emphasis in Multimedia) and an MA in Multimedia (Concentration in Interaction Design), both from CSU East Bay in Hayward, CA. I earned my BA in December 2017, a