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Oddfellow Outtakes
Posted for a friend, here's all the sets of images I generated working on "You Can Tuna Oddfellow, But….", from which the final gallery was selected.
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Character Art Experiment: You Can Tuna Oddfellow, But….
These are some character studies I did of Tuna Oddfellow, the famous Second Life (and, increasingly, real life) alter ago of an old friend.
This is a bit of a long gallery, usually I'd generate a bunch of these and narrow it down to just the favorites. Haven't done that with this yet.
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Grim Grinning Ghosts Come Out To Socialize: 13 Ghosts
Some virtual spectral photography to spookify your Halloween. True fact: none of these AI-generated images had ghosts in them when I prompted them. WoooOOOOoooo! 👻
I believe I originally made these as a Saturday Monster Challenge but I can't recall when. I'll update if I run across the original info.
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Covering My Assets: Web Assets Archive — Buttons, Logos, and Other Website Graphics
.cellimglink > .mk-cell-img {border-radius:0 !important;} Buttons Kupietz Arts+Code buttons "Built During An Indieweb Meetup" buttons
I strongly suggest, if you use these buttons, that you use an [code][/code] tag to link them to https://events.indieweb.org.
Site Graphics "Life In A Mikeycosm" logo versions, https://mikeycosm.org, circa 2003-2007
For a while I had this idea that my website would be scrupulously, meticulously honest. Despite that, it was actually still pretty fun.
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But It's A Dry Heat: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Too Hot To Handle Monsters”, Uncensored
The LinkedIn Saturday Monster Challenge for July 5, 2025 was '"Too Hot To Handle" Monsters'.
After consideration, I decided not to post this gallery on LinkedIn.
The idea of a "monster"-themes art challenge on a professional site has always been a funny one, and while most people (including myself) usually create work-safe images, the fact is, as a kid raised on horror movies—I was babysat by channel 11's "Chiller Theatre" from the age of 6—occasionally I wind up, just by following my muse, doing something a little more unflinching.
Sometimes some of the images are... well, they're never terribly offensive, but sometimes I feel like they're just a little strong or perhaps a hair darker than I want to post in front of unsuspecting professional networkers or prospective employers.
That happened in this case.
They're not that objectionable, but some of the images were…
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Slay It Again, Sam: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge – 2025jun29, “Deleted Scenes Monsters” – Casablanca Uncut
This week's LinkedIn Saturday Monster Challenge generative art theme was "Deleted Scene Monsters": show the monsters that ended up on the cutting room floor.
And so, I am pleased to present these rare stills from the original cut of "Casablanca" (1942)—starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as star-crossed former lovers in a classic tale of wartime romance set against a background of mind-bending supernatural horrors, when a mysterious event causes the gates of Hell to yawn wide and the inhabitants to amble forth across the living earth. (Original tagline: "From Hell... to Casablanca... to YOUR Town!")
Unfortunately, test audiences didn't respond well, and studio executives said the macabre elements were "distracting" and ordered it recut to emphasize more of the drama and romance, and less of the shrieking souls of the long dead.
The bowdlerized re-cut became the familiar excellent but sadly not-at-all-terrifying non-monster film…
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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 ashes."
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Lord, They're Everywhere: 88×31 Website Buttons
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In the spirit of keeping up with the Joneses I've finally created an 88x31 button for those wishing to link to this site. I characteristically have two nearly-identical versions which nobody but me will probably notice the difference between, I'm not sure which I like best yet. I may make more.
"Built During An Indieweb Meetup" buttons
I strongly suggest, if you use these buttons, that you use an [code][/code] tag to link them to https://events.indieweb.org.
Download PSD template: 
built-during-indieweb-button.psd
Inspired by something said during an IndieWeb meetup*, this button is, um, a "Holla Atcha Boy" button... built during an IndieWeb meetup, earning this page one of its own buttons.
*They said, "Holla atcha boy".
"Try CLI Mode" buttons
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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 tools.
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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
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 menage-a-troises. I live in San Francisco, these things happen. Also for the sadness of the final picture, a forlorn monster left waiting alone in the moonlight for a monster love who isn't coming. Unfortunately, in the real world, monster love doesn't always work out.
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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 and enjoy a sunny day, romping and frolicking under clear blue skies and rainbows.
The time for divisiveness and fear is over. It's time to let go of the past, join together as a community, humans and monsters together, full of hope and looking forward to a bright future of fun, friendship, and happy times together.
At least until the monsters start to feel hungry again.
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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 petty crimes page. My cousin likes them.
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In The Details: The Devil In Deco
A stylistic experiment inspired by vintage art photography.
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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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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 few people ever see.
I woke up that morning thinking it was dawn… from where I'd slept, through the windows I could see the sky beginning to lighten, although it was about the reddest dawn I've ever seen. But I got up and looked at the clock—and it was after 9 AM. I couldn't understand what I was seeing. I literally got dizzy with the unreality of it.
I looked back and forth from the clock to the window several times. Finally I got online to see if the world was ending, and it turned out to be thick smoke from forest first up in Northern CA blanketing the bay area, reducing visibility to dusk levels at midday…
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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 the casino tables, as opposed to the ones slipping roofies into people's drinks at the bar, snarfing up the king crab legs at the all-you-can eat buffet, or hanging out in the bathrooms scaring the bejesus out of you.
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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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Shine, Shine, Shine: You Light Up My Life
These people are lit, yo.
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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 direction I'm going to go in yey.
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Generative Mystique: Feminine Stochastique
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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 are two possibilities for generative visual art software: it can hold an unflinching mirror up to that society, including reiterating its existing biases; or its creators can seek to consciously tilt the output to favor what they deem to be better choices, which opens the whole project up to accusations, and let's face it, perhaps the reality, of introducing other biases. The unfortunate truth is that at the time, people never thought to question making art that almost exclusively reinforced certain notions (of femininity, or anything else). They did not consider themselves to be biased. So too, despite the most admirable intentions, it's honestly a valid question whether or not current attempts to right historical wrongs are undoing bias,…
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Their Generation, Baby: Gray Ponytails
The revolution isn't over.
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More Wild Styles: By Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress)
A cousin of mine was 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 of “Wild California” Studies — AI Generative Art gallery that they could consider for inclusion. I didn't, but I whipped some up.
I'm pretty fond of how a lot of them turned out, but, as with so many of these projects, I wound up making many that are visually striking but don't really have much artistic value beyond that, and the work remains to be done to winnow down all the striking images to the ones that really are special.
Until then, I'm so fond of them, though, that I thought I'd give a preview. Here's the complete output of those experiments, awaiting the best of it being culled down into the final presentation.
Right now…
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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
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 unique enough, or didn't fit the theme. There are those.
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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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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 quite right, or were too similar to others, or too different. Here are some of those.
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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 situation possible. I took up the challenge.
