The episode concerning the art provokes.

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Andy and Anthony talk about “ART!” loosely as it relates to Magic: The Gathering. They talk about the role of creative work in the game, the nuances of art and illustration, how the approach to illustration has changed over the history of the game, and even the present and future of large language model generated images.

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Discussed in this episode:

• ART THOUGHTZ: How to Make an Art.
• “The Game”
• Garden Path Sentences
• Google’s new artificial intelligence can’t understand these sentences. Can you?
• Rhystic Studies: “my next video is about that painting you hate”
• Klimt
• Mannerist Painting
• Algomancy
• Midjourney
• Tweening
• The Arts and Crafts Movement
• Carly Mazur’s Portfolio
• Marina Abramovich
• Cube Map Print
• The Room Movie Poster
• Impressionism
• Episode 42: Cube, Art School, & Critical Discourse
• Tromploi
• Claude Monet
• Édouard Manet
• Jackson Pollock
• Piet Mondrian
• Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill
• Minecraft
• Robert Hodgin: Meander
• WotC statement saying they won’t use AI
• Sturgeon’s Law
• Apophysis
• Make my hot dog hotter
• Edward Muybridge: The Horse in Motion
• The Slo Mo Guys on Youtube
• Trashfuture: Big Tesco Back Tattoo ft. Tom O’Mahony
• Well There’s Your Problem: The Death of Hyperloop

Timestamps

0:00 - Introduction and Garden Path Sentence Corner

5:24 - Overview of episode

7:57 - Why is there art in Magic?

10:22 - Are the illustrations in Magic even “Art”?

28:56 - What do we think about Carly Mazur’s Faithless Looting?

34:44 - The Invention of the Camera and the Beginning of Modern Art

46:34 - On AI Generated Art

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