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Saturday Monster Challenge — “Hope Monsters”
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Hopes And Fears: Saturday Monster Challenge — “Hope Monsters”

Saturday Monster Challenge for Jan. 18, 2024. Comes a time when the monsters have eaten their fill of villagers and there’s no danger anymore, so now everybody can come out…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters
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Some monsters have all the luck: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters

This week's #SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn is Lucky Charm Monsters. I always say, you can tell the lucky charm monsters, because they're the ones hanging out with the people winning at…
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Work-In-Progress Preview—#WrappedInPink
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Think... Nah, Not Gonna Say It: Work-In-Progress Preview—#WrappedInPink

They've been doing this "#WrappedInPink Challenge" generative art meme on LinkedIn. Here's just a preview of studies of some things I've been working on for it. Not entirely sure what…
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Feminine Stochastique
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Generative Mystique: Feminine Stochastique

About This Gallery This gallery deals with the unavoidable stereotypes of femininity that one encounters using some current generative art tools ca. 2024. Being trained on a society's art, there…
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By Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress)
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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…
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Bonus Gallery — Winter Monsters
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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…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”
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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
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Bonus Bigfoots
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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…
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Finding Goths in Ungothly Places
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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…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge “A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur’s Court”
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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
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LinkedIn #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Mustache Monsters
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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…
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Beneath Hawk Hill—Exploring underground Battery 129, Marin Headlands
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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…
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A Taxing Gallery
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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…
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Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery
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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.)
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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…
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Blue hits again, Harry, Jeff, Blair
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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…
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Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front
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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…
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Raving And Drooling — AI-assisted lyrical illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”
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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…
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Dream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant)
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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…
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UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration
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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…
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