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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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