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More Wild Styles: By Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress)

A cousin of mine is helping work on a volume of poetry and asked if I had more images specifically of San Francisco or New York City in the style…

By Mike Kupietz December 21, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12360 | Embed link

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Here's To My Sweet St. Nick: Rad Santa

Someone on social media asked for AI interpretations of Santa Claus. I couldn't resist such low-hanging fruit.

By Mike Kupietz December 20, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12317 | Embed link

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Bonus Gallery — Winter Monsters

As usual, when doing my gallery for #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — "Winter Monster", there were a ton of images left over that I liked but didn't make the cut, or weren't quite…

By Mike Kupietz December 7, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12059 | Embed link

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Baby, It's Cold Outside: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”

Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024’s #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is "Winter Monster". Here's what I did. Bonus Gallery: Leftover Winter Monster Images

By Mike Kupietz December 7, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11949 | Embed link

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Mo' Bigfoot, Mo' Betta: Bonus Bigfoots

Working on the #SaturdayMonsterChallenge "A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur's Court" I created a lot of extra images that I liked a lot, but which either didn't fit the theme…

By Mike Kupietz December 3, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11880 | Embed link

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You Can Take The Goth Out Of The Club...: Finding Goths in Ungothly Places

My friend Hellena Banner (from whom I cribbed the title of this gallery, with apologies) was doing a project where she was trying to put Goths in the least Goth-like…

By Mike Kupietz December 2, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11695 | Embed link

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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge “A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur’s Court”

Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024's #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is "Time Travelling Monsters". Here's my interpretation: "A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur's Court". Bonus Gallery — favorite extra images

By Mike Kupietz December 1, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11672 | Embed link

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Art Waits For No Man: On Time

I posted The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I Didn’t Turn 40) and Day Nights at around the same time, and in…

By Mike Kupietz November 26, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11374 | Embed link

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LinkedIn #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Mustache Monsters

One of the fun non-work-related things that happens on LinkedIn is the "Saturday Monster Challenge", a fun AI art meme where every Saturday this one guy picks a monster-related theme…

By Mike Kupietz November 24, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11317 | Embed link

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Images Of A Resurrection: May Your Tags Blink In Eternity

I had a lot of fun making the featured image for the article "Resurrecting the <BLINK> tag". Here's some of the also-rans.

By Mike Kupietz November 7, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11108 | Embed link

Photojournals Urban Exploration

Going Down...: Beneath Hawk Hill—Exploring underground Battery 129, Marin Headlands

Many years ago, around the turn of the millennium, as I was simultaneously just breaking into and away from the San Francisco underground art scene, some folks I used to…

By Mike Kupietz October 27, 2024Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10774 | Embed link

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Serious Business: A Taxing Gallery

Working 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10426 | Embed link

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Who Trails On A Leash: Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery

Painted faces, paintings of faces — an exploration of fantastic portraits and fantastic art. (Titled with apologies to the shade of David Bowie.)

By Mike Kupietz August 21, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9808 | Embed link

Hiking the rockies in Colorado, we got real close to some amazing wildlife.

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Nothing To See Here, Folks: Just Some Vacation Snapshots

Just some photos from my cross-country vacation. Funny how different vacation photos sometimes are from how you remember things being. Guess I should have used a camera instead of an…

By Mike Kupietz August 11, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9471 | Embed link

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When They Pry It from My Hip, Ironic Fingers: Exploration & Explosions, a Nevada Desert Hipster Road Trip

NOTE: 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…

By Mike Kupietz February 28, 2024Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=8209 | Embed link

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Vacation Photos: Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front

For 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…

By Mike Kupietz February 27, 2024Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7903 | Embed link

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Gallery: Raving 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…

By Mike Kupietz February 11, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7501 | Embed link

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Welcome To My Nightmare: Dream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant)

Another 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…

By Mike Kupietz January 20, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7279 | Embed link

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Beneath Berkeley: UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration

Back 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…

By Mike Kupietz January 15, 2024Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7083 | Embed link

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Digital Objets D’Art: Robyn Hitchcock fan club 50th Birthday Card

Robyn 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…

By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6832 | Embed link

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Good Day at Black Rock: 27 Photos from Burning Man 1997

Introduction, 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…

By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6797 | Embed link

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Beneath the Bay Area: Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration

somewhere 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…

By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6711 | Embed link

Photojournals Travel & AdventureRural Exploration

Subterranean Serendipity: UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole

9/30/2005 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…

By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6693 | Embed link

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Back To The Garden: A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal

In 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,…

By Mike Kupietz December 18, 2023Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9697 | Embed link

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Work-In-Progress Postview: Previsions of Johanna — preliminary experiments

As 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6226 | Embed link

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Old Sketches And Stuff

I 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.…

By Mike Kupietz September 22, 2023Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5581 | Embed link

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