Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationWebsite Deconstructionism Serious BusinessA Taxing GalleryWorking on a featured image for my writeup on How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash, I tried to create an artistic representation of tech… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10426
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative Illustration Who Trails On A LeashPortraits In Flesh — AI generative art galleryPainted faces, paintings of faces — an exploration of fantastic portraits and fantastic art. (Titled with apologies to the shade of David Bowie.) Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 21, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9808
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationFun Nothing To See Here, FolksJust Some Vacation SnapshotsJust some photos from my vacation. Funny how different vacation photos sometimes are from how you remember things being. Guess I should have used a camera instead of an AI.… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 11, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9471
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureExplosionsUrban Exploration When They Pry It from My Hip, Ironic FingersExploration & Explosions, a Nevada Desert Hipster Road TripNOTE: Some of the activities documented in this photo album, like a lot of what goes on in the Black Rock Desert during the off season (when seven different government… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 28, 2024Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=8209
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureCulture Jamming Vacation PhotosPseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, 2008For a little while I used to run the Billboard Liberation Front's website (INB4: no, don't even bother asking. I have no idea how to reach them anymore. The Old… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 27, 2024Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7903
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated Lyrics GalleryRaving And Drooling — AI-assisted lyrical illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”Introduction:Pink Floyd's album "Animals", for me, might stand alone as the most singular achievement of the rock 'n' roll era. I've always argued that Pink Floyd were not a rock… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 10, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7501
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative Illustration Welcome To My NightmareDream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant) — Generative Art galleryAnother AI generative art project. I recently was experimenting with creating some work-themed images. I didn't come up with anything I could use on my FileMaker consulting website, but I… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 20, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7279
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureUrban Exploration Beneath BerkeleyUC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban ExplorationBack around 2005-2006, as social media took off, I was a member of an urban exploration chat group, memory fails but it was probably something on Tribe or Friendster. Mentioning… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 15, 2024Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7083
Posted inImages Posted inFun With Scanners Digital Objets D’ArtRH fan club Birthday Card, 2003Robyn Hitchcock used to have an email fan club that I was pretty active in (hence his name coming up a bunch of places on this site; if you're familiar… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6832
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureTravelogue Good Day at Black Rock27 Photos from Burning Man 1997Introduction, 2023:Back when I first got to San Francisco in the mid-90s, full of youthful idealism, the first thing I did was seek out the San Francisco Cacophony Society and… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6797
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureUrban Exploration Beneath the Bay AreaBattery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Explorationsomewhere beneath the Bay Area, Aug 6 2004 Last July, my late* trubbamaking companion was trying to find a shortcut down to the beach when he noticed a hole in… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6711
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureRural Exploration Subterranean SerendipityUC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole9/30/2005 I was wandering the trails through the woods by UC Santa Cruz, taking some pictures of trees and stuff and trying to shake off a cold, when fate brought… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6693
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & Adventure Back To The GardenA Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournalIn August 2018 my mom and I decided to take a road trip from my sister's home in an un-named southern city, where I was crashing for a few months,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 18, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9697
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated LyricsOuttakes Work-In-Progress PostviewPrevisions of Johanna — Generative Art galleryAs I worked on my "Revisions Of Johanna" project, I generated a lot of images I really liked, but which didn't fit into the final project. I decided the best… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6226
Posted inImages Posted inOld StuffSketches Old Sketches And StuffI don't draw as much as I used to, these are a couple of things I salvaged from my ancient other site. I'll add more as I run across them.… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 22, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5581
Posted inImages Posted inWork-In-ProgressAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated Lyrics GalleryRevisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyric illustrations galleryI have to be honest. I don't know about this one. I set out to do another set of AI-assisted lyric illustrations, this time all of one song in its… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 21, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5516
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationConfabulated Travelogues California Deep Dreaming“Wild California” Studies — Ai Generative Art galleryWhile working on a featured image for Field Report: Briefing On My Weekend, I had the idea of extending the theme to make a whole set of illustrations inspired by… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 18, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4703
Posted inSite Info Posted inSite Images Overview Site Design OverviewFeatured Images GallerySince they're not always clearly displayed on the front page or in every post, for convenience, this is an automated scrape of all original "featured images" (the background or front… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 4, 2023Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3947
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationUrban Surrealism If You Don’t Live It, It Won’t Come Out Your ConeAdoration Of The City — AI Generative Art galleryThis is a series of generative art images I am paticularly fond of. Originally these were going to be part of my RobGAN Hitchcock project, but they kind of stand… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 22, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3075
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated Lyrics Giving It To A Soft BoyRobGAN Hitchcock — AI-assisted lyrical illustrations galleryFor a while, I had a Twitter account, @robGANhitchock, where I was posting AI illustrations of Robyn Hitchcock lyrics I created using a Generative Adversarial Network ("GAN"). This was an… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 17, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2935