Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inWriting Posted inReviewsOpinions Review Compendium: Fragrance ReviewsUnbeknownst to anybody except Dan Sonenberg—in fact, practically unbeknownst to even myself—I occasionally write fragrance reviews. These are those. Some people enjoy them. Those of you with the nose can… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 31, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3528 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inImage Gallery Posted inAI Generative IllustrationUrban Surrealism If You Don’t Live It, It Won’t Come Out Your Cone: Adoration 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: Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3075 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inWriting Posted inMemoirs & Reflections Essay-Length Memoir: “The Light Shone On Me”Foreword: For some reason, I've always been particularly moved by a sense of loss. It's the sole valuable observation I ever got from a kindly but not particularly effective therapist… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 21, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3055 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inSite Info Posted inAbout This Site My Whole Raison D'isaster: About This Site — An IntroductionHey there! Thanks for visiting my online showcase. I'm Mr. Roarke, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Island. But seriously, folks... I've had a personal website for about 20 years, as… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 20, 2023Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2997 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inWordpress CodingPHP Used on this site: WordPress Custom “Hero Header” ModificationsThis site uses the "Sinatra" free Wordpress theme as its base. Sinatra includes a single "Hero Header" the row of 3 animated featured posts on the home page which changes… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 18, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2978 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inImage Gallery Posted inAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated Lyrics Giving It To A Soft Boy: RobGAN 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 18, 2023Tags: Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2935 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inWeb Technology Online Fact-Checking Tool: The Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) DetectorHere's a fairly old repost from my consulting site, where it got no traction whatsoever. The Bad Statements Detector is a specialized search tool designed to aid in online research… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 16, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2856 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inWriting Posted inMovie Reviews Review Compendium: Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie ReviewsA number of years ago I started jotting down summaries of movies I've watched, just to keep track of what I'd seen. As the years went by, the list grew,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 12, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1956 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressFolk & BluesAcousticky GuitarLive Performance Album Preview: Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I'd met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 11, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1482 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inWriting Posted inSocial Media Addiction Social Mediocrity: Kwitter, the one-user social networkI quit Twitter a while back, and sometimes even just glancing at FB consumes a full day, so I have no outlet for my amusing social-media-worthy passing thoughts, except to… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 10, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1385 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inSite Info Posted inLegalese The Man Is Out To Get Me: Site Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and ConditionsCommencing herewith are the understandings and conditions (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms Of Use") to which you must agree to be permitted to access, view, or use the whole… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 10, 2023Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1374 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inEquipment & Tools Used Equipment Overview: Bento Box Software SynthesizerI love the Bento synthesizer app. This is the kind of thing I never would have thought was worth my time, until I started to actually play with it and… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 8, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1241 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressDrone Album Preview: गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden YatraThis one is finished except for the final production and mastering... it needs some studio gloss on it. This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 7, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1236 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inWriting Posted inRandom Brain DroppingsFun Even In The Quietest Moments: Shower thoughtsIdea for a movie: A time traveling refugee from the 1990s is stuck in another era and must try to blend in, but is found out when it is discovered… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 5, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=771 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inWriting Posted inPoliticsAxe-Grinding Ideology In Brief: “Are you free?”, and Other Short Ideological MusingsLet's talk about sex! No, wait, let's talk about something even more taboo! These are some samples of political, ideological, or economic thoughts I've jotted down. I don't consider myself… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 5, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=769 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inSite Info Posted inExternal links External Links: Fellow Travelers, Friends’ Sites, and other related linksMy old friend, a music professor and composer of both opera and rock music: Dan Sonenberg A ridiculously talented friend and endless font of creativity who goes by many names,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 4, 2023Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=754 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressZetetic Music Album Preview: Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=511 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressZetetic Music Demo: Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5aAn early experiment in the serialist style I've been developing, which I was once told by a figure in a dream should be called "Zetetic Music". 2017. Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=509 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressSoundtrackProgressive / Art Rock Album Preview: Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion PictureImagine if an esteemed Pig Latin cinema auteur filmed a classic 1970s horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine if I had been picked out of my second-grade class by that auteur to create a vintage electronic progressive soundtrack to that film. Now, imagine that soundtrack was unearthed and finally saw release as an album in the 2020s. These are the work-in-progress demos for what someday will be what would have been that legendary classic film score. Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=507 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Articles https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/page/7Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressElectronic MusicCover Songs Demo: The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15I've been putting together an album of goofy electronic arrangements of classic tunes. Here's one I'm still working on at the moment, a medley of classic favorites, called "The Strutbutter… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 1, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds1 Comment| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1 | Embed link