Illustrations for Free to Browse
(work in progress: I am continually sharing my process and adding new illustrations on this page)
The assets are generated and detail-upscaled in Midjourney and edited/ animated in Adobe After Effects. It took many iterations to get the girl character right. Originally, she ended up having an ear on her cheek or two mouths.
Reporting and banning kids and teens from many essential web platforms is normalized.
The assets are generated with Midjourney's beta model (--test) and edited together in AE at 25 fps, each imagine lasting 3 frames.
Kid in a digital surveillance bubble that monitors what the kid can see.
The assets are generated with Midjourney and edited together in AE.
Why do we keep saying "screens"? Our digital experiences are no longer confined to rectangular objects such as laptops or phones, but blend into real life. real life, irl, is no longer confined to physical life. We are no longer confined to physical life.
This time not an animated illustration but in comic book/ graphic novel style. I have used Midjourney v3, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Literally a dialogue my daughter had with someone recently.
After both my son and hot experts in storytelling for innovation told me high fidelity images are much less relatable and distract attention from the main message, I have decided to switch gears and try some fun minimalistic cartoons. One more important plus: these can even make it into the final paperback version!
Children and teens are increasingly restricted in their freedom to organically explore the internet and harness new tech. Parents and school districts are simultaneously being sold more and more tools that limit children’s access to information and curricula that claim to help develop “21st century skills” essential for tomorrow’s success.
Adobe Fresco, Adobe Photoshop
The painful but beautiful truth is that we have no idea what tomorrow will be like, except for the fair bet that it will be digital. Yet, most of us continue recycling familiar industrial age terms and milestones that used to prepare previous generations for a predictable future, ever more meaningless today.
Adobe Fresco, Adobe Photoshop
We have instant and nearly free access to the vast library of human knowledge, catering to anyone’s individual demands, and increasingly more opportunities to engage in meaningful relationships with beings we would have had zero chance to meet otherwise…
Adobe Fresco, Adobe Photoshop
Many parents don’t see there is a problem, until they give it a proper thought.
Midjourney test model for the assets (some later corrected in Photoshop), animated in Adobe After Effects
“Despite the growing ubiquity of technology to make it easy, surveillance of young people is actually bad for them, even in the healthiest household, and is not a solution to helping young people navigate the internet”, civil liberties defense nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wrote earlier this year in a sobering report on KOSA. EFF is collecting signatures to “Tell the Senate: the Solution to Kids’ Privacy Isn’t More Surveillance”.
What is organic learning? To paraphrase Alison Gopnik, what kind of gardener are you? What is involved in creating an ecosystem that provides for resilience in the face of change? That provides for novelty and diversity?
Deforum with Stable Diffusion, Adobe After Effects
Down the Rabbit Hole, or how some kids learn:
“It’s been my experience that people that don’t focus on the here-and-now right in front of them tend to be less effective. I mean it’s not a 100%! You know, vision matters to some people, but it doesn’t seem to be a necessary motivator for me and I think that the process of getting there is usually done… again, it’s like the magic of gradient descent! People just don’t believe that just looking locally gets you to all of these spectacular things… Really some of the smartest people in the world would just push back forever against this idea that it’s not this grand sophisticated vision of everything, but little tiny steps, local information winds up leading to all the best answers.”
— John Carmack in conversation with Lex Fridman