Digital Art Skeptics Gifts

Art supplies shop going out of business - 'May your cyber-art programs blow up in your face.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Evolution.

Rare Books

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

Barcode Dreams

Geek fairies

"You are running low on cloud storage space. Please upgrade your account to continue."

"It's not an actual hotdog, but digital ownership in a picture of an actual hotdog."

"No - you’re right. It’s dumb."

Mark Zuckerberg

Library door sign says, 'We have encyclopedias ... the original Facebook!'

'Never trust emails. You can't shred them.'

'I love this street...it's so real man...'

Robot Painter

"Perhaps in my next life I'll be a jpeg."

'Mom says finger painting was digital art before computers.'

"What's most exciting about NFTs is the opportunity for dynamic new content."

"I don't know what happened, your holiness! I painted the ENTIRE CEILING!"

"Turn on the news." "I will not comply." "My analysis of your viewing patterns has determined you will grow depressed after the lead story." "There is a 95% probability you will then gorge yourself on rocky road ice cream and then stay up all night googling elliptical machines and diet pills." "Who told you this?" "Both your refrigerator and your browser are gossipy."

"Nice design but you haven't quite mastered the technology!"

The Escape Key

"Any chance you could do it at a higher resolution?"

"Just right click, save as, and now you own the complete works of William Shakespeare."

Quadruple dark hot chocolate. Whoa, everything all right? Sure, yeah, great. I'm a journalist and writer in an era in which the printed word has been totally devalued by free distribution of information on the internet. Can I pay in prose? Point taken.

'Read ALL about IT! While we're STILL in Circulation!'

The other digital divide.

"Are my breasts AI? No! My cartoonist would never use AI!"

Goodnight Social Media.

'Then a window popped up and asked, 'Are you sure you want to empty trash?' I shouldn't have clicked 'okeydokey.''

The benefit of an old-fashioned newspaper.

Tha man who ventured too far into cyberspace begins to worry.

"For far too long, we've missed out on the opportunity to profit from our videos."

'Stupido Digitale! Chucka me a sloppy brush, there's a gooda chap.'

"With all the AI and deep fake technology, I'm not even sure what's real anymore."