THIS IS JUST A PORTION OF THE TREAD I AM TRYING TO PRESERVE BY COPY/PASTE
because I suspect that since ones comments are editable, the remarks made could well be changed, but here I want to preserve EXACTLY what was written at the time.
The time copied is 4 PM Central European Time on February 29th 2020
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whom are you talking to? are you talking to me or @midlet in the tread with @guiltyparties ? and who do you assume you are - WE ? Now you pretend to be Anonymous? You are not a jaguar either, more like a sailcat (look it up, since you are so good at research).
OCA Bad Cop - lmao - you are so pretentious!
When I issue a comment in reply to another comment, Im (obviously) talking to the person who made that comment, in this case you, its not quantum physics....
OCA Bad Cop - lmao - you are so pretentious!
If you don't like the name of the role you can talk to the person who created it you fucking imbecile, which is (again, obviously) the founder of the community.
So now you are resorting to cheap insults - again, are you talking about the founder of the community @midlet ? or maybe you should clear with @guiltyparties if your conduct and language is acceptable to use when you (pretend?) to speak for @steamcleaners
If you don't like the name of the role you can talk to the person who created it you fucking imbecile, which is (again, obviously) the founder of the community.
When something is within quotes that implies that the person quoting it did not create the text, Mr. imbecile.
are you talking about the founder of the community midlet ?
Yes Mr. imbecile, obviously the name of the roles in a community are set by the community admins,
who did you think set the names of the roles? The users? the pope? your mom? Britney Spears or who?
When something is within quotes that implies that the person quoting it did not create the text, Mr. imbecile.
you know everyone can see who and what kind of infantile troll you are. So if you put something into quotation marks it is OK to use and not considered plagiarizing? Now you really lost it, but if true, then I could just put entire scraped posts within quotation marks and @steemcleaners would have to accept that? You obviously totally lost your marbles. Have a nice day, and don't put yourself deeper into the hole by commenting further.
I also posted a separate blog on Steemit that talks about this:
Quoting some of the text - for the entire post, click the image above ▲
At one time, after having one account locked by Facebook (long story, check it out HERE) I opened a second account in order to be able to administrate my commercial pages, using this as my avatar (at first, I changed it since then). I described my profile as such: Mr. Hyde - the evil twin
I am using some from that post, and also from my Website Page DEEP DREAM and Blog DEEP DREAM AND GIF CREATOR. So here is a summary of it all, with some updates and new images created.
As if I had nothing else to do -some time ago I was surfing the net
and found these sites where you can create great stuff with your photos.
Deep Dream I had used before, when it was in beta, but now you have to
sign up/sign in. It is free, and there are many more effects to chose
from now.
below is the original image from Hawaii
on the right is another more sophisticated Deep Dream portrait,
using one of my own paintings as a filter.
Of late I had made use of the Deep Dream Generator quite often. It is almost addictive, once you get started. I had been trying it when it first was introduced. At that time, it was a simple site with basically one Deep Dream style. I think I found the site via an article like this: Google robots dream up crazy psychedelic pictures using 'inceptionism' AI neural networks. Trying it out, I was hooked! For a time after that, I was not using the site and found when accessing it again, you had to create a account and log in. It is still free to use, but vastly improved since its early days several years ago. Because now, in addition to pre-set styles, you can upload your own styles as well.
SOME EXAMPLES OF DEEP DREAM Images I created to see them all, check my DEEP DREAM SITE.
And here it is - the ULTIMATE DEEP DREAM FREAK SELFIE
I blogged about this, as well as a GIF Creator Program in September 2016: DEEP DREAM AND GIF CREATOR.
At that time, I had combined photoshop images of my portrait with Deep Dream and created a GIF using this GIF GENERATOR WEBSITE
Making animated GIF images is a little complicated in Photoshop, so when I was looking for a tutorial, I found this website where it is easy to create animated GIF: all you have to do is upload your images, select the parameters and voila, done! This one here is also my first test, using images I had on hand (some of which were photo-shopped, some previously created in Deep Dream).
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eventually, I put together many different Deep Dream images of a close-up of my eye and created this
VIDEO - ARTISTS EYE
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But there are other sites where you can create fun GIF images to use as Avatars, for example.
I sorted through these sites and found the best AVATAR site, such as the NEWTON CRADLE which I had used for a while now as a funny closing pic on my Steemit and WeKu blogs.
Using the same image,
a more subtle "Starry Eyes"
the possibilities are almost endless - and playing with it can indeed become addictive!
....... and this makes me wink at you:
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Are you ready for more crazy stuff?
here is another video, where I went totally off the rails and got extremely silly - at the end, it uses progressions of a Deep Dream.
Warning: Mindbogglingly stupid content!
OTTO FREAK
the distortion effects are from a app on my computer called Cyberlink YouCam.
Minds appears to be a haven for some copyright violators who scrape images off the internet and post them without attribution, trying to profit from other peoples work.
If you want to know about Copyright and related issues, I operate a website, Visionary Art Gallery, where I dedicated a page to this issue. Also, a link to that page appears in the footer and thus on each and every represented artists page (there are well over 500 artists represented). Check it out here: https://www.vagallery.com/copyright.html
I usually dislike getting involved in this sort of a thing but was made aware of this site (https://www.minds.com/) that is ‘The CRYPTO SOCIAL NETWORK”, which states: “We are an open source and decentralized platform for Internet freedom. GET PAID IN CRYPTO FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION to the community”. Someone, unknown to me, (https://www.minds.com/Ricky168) created a page called “Visionary Art’…”https://www.minds.com/groups/profile/666722386204172306” and posted my work as well as the work of other artists without asking permission nor giving us proper credit. So I tried to post the following comment below my art on his page: “This image was published on this site WITHOUT MY CONSENT, and while I really do appreciate that the creators of this page did mark the fact that ALL OF MY WORK IS COPY RIGHTED, which makes it subject to my specific consent for any form of usage or second-party publication, they still did not respect it. They also neglected to add the proper title and name of artist next to my GODDESS TRIANGLE BY MARTINA HOFFMANN. My work is all over the net and performing a google search in order to gather all necessary information is not rocket science. Thank you for rectifying this on all of my images as well as on those by all other ‘un-named artists’ published on your page!”When I tried to post this comment below my art, I received this message: “The comment couldn’t be saved because @Ricky168 has blocked you.”
WOW!
So to make my complaint very clear: I DO APPRECIATE people sharing my art but I’d l’d like to be credited appropriately and feel ripped off when my art is used, without my consent to collect voting points to earn crypto currency while I’m (the artist) being compensated for the publication of my art….Thoughts anyone?
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOUR COMMUNITY and DOWN WITH THE PIRATES!!!
I have an account on Minds as well, which until now, is mostly idling: https://www.minds.com/TheMystic, but following this, I began some research, and after exhaustive scrolling came up with a large list of violations perpetrated by the user Ricky168.
MINDS – COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS:
The first link on my list below is the Austrian Artist Fritz Aigner
and the second one is by my personal friend Vesna Krasnec, and I own this painting:
This list contains just the artists I know and, for the most part, are personal friends of mine. The list covers less than a 3 week period of September 2018, and the ones I list are among hundreds of other scraped images that are also uncredited rip-offs.
Reacting to Martina Hoffmann: https://www.facebook.com/martina.hoffmann.547/posts/10158205260354896
My Facebook comment:
Martina Hoffmann if you are a member of Minds (I don’t know if you can if you are not), you can flag each individual piece – down arrow drop down menu – and mark it copyright violation. What happens next is that they give you a e-mail address:
Please submit a DMCA notice to copyright@minds.com
Anyway, I scrolled around for a while on that users account https://www.minds.com/Ricky168 and between Sept. 23rd and September 4th I found 62 copyright violations of artwork by people I know very well – not counting oodles of photos and tattoo artists. It seems he is scraping a eclectic variety of websites to steal images, i.e. those 62 I copied the URL’s I must have scrolled through hundreds of images within that short time period, so we are looking at the tip of the iceberg!
as I said, this list is just the tip of the iceberg, it is just ONE OF THE USERS ON MINDS that stuck out like a sore thumb, but a cursory scrolling of the posts on this MINDS Visionary Art Channel would reveal several more.
how to kill Minds? by having users on there that blatantly violate copyright, scraping images off the net and posting without attribution. Here is a comment I added to one post (you can see the post, I shared and pinned it to the top of my page) – and this is my comment: “a quick search between 22.9. and 4.9.2018 I found 61 copyright violations alone of artists works that I know personally, not counting possibly hundreds of others, photographers, tattoo artists etc. within just such a short time period alone. There appears NOTHING to be the work of the user @Ricky168 himself. None of the posts bear any attribution! Even so, copyright work can only be displayed with the permission of the copyright owner, particularly if the use of it is monetized! To clarify: If the artist himself posts a image, you are allowed to “share” it by re-blogging because then the image link will point back to the artist, but you are NOT allowed to scrape a image from the internet, even if you credit the artist!
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