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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Rising Monsters”
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By the time I get there, she'll be rising: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Rising Monsters”

The Saturday Monster Challenge on LinkedIn for June 21 2025 was "Eternal Rise Monsters". I took the theme and decided to do Phoenixes (Phoenices? Phoenixen?), as in "rising from the…
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AI Success Story Images
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AI Success Story Images

These were some illustrations I whipped up trying to come up with a header image for an article I wrote on LinkedIn asking about people's real-life experiences with using AI…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Element Monsters
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Element Monsters

The #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme for March 1, 2025 was "Element Monsters". I went with radioactive elements: uranium, radium, plutonium, caesium, thorium, einsteinium, radon, and americium.
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Saturday Monster Challenge—Love Monsters
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Saturday Monster Challenge—Love Monsters

On Saturday, Feb 15, 2025, the theme of LinkedIn's "Saturday Monster Challenge" was "Love Monsters". I apologize to anybody with delicate sensibilities offended by the inclusion of a few monster…
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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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Extra New York Images
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So Much City, They Had To Give It A Second Gallery: Extra New York Images

Just a set of fun leftover from when I was working on a featured image for my Local Color: New York Stories, Which I only now realize are all about…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters
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Beware The Fog: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters

#SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn for 11 Jan 2024 theme was "Fog Monsters". .
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The Red Day
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Life On Mars?: The Red Day

2020, already a strange year due to the pandemic, had its strangest day, for the San Francisco area, on September 9. The Bay Area experienced a kind of weather that…
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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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#WrappedInPink — Pale Pink
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Isn't She Pretty: #WrappedInPink — Pale Pink

Submission for the Mood Board and Fashion categories of the Wrapped In Pink AI generative art competition, Dec 2024.
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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 GalleryThis 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 are…
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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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Rad Santa
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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.
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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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On Time
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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…
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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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May Your Tags Blink In Eternity
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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.
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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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