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Subterranean SF: Fort Mason Tunnel
This is a placeholder to remind me to post the photo album of exploring the hidden Fort Mason rail tunnel.
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Subterranean SF: Fort Mason Tunnel
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Everybody says she’s the brains behind Pa: Wendee’s Farm
This is a placeholder page to remind me to post my gallery of photos from Wendee Key's plantation.
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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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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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Gallery: Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyrical illumination
I have to be honest. I don't know about this one.
I set out to do another set of AI-assisted lyric illustrations, this time all of one song in its entirety... Bob Dylan's "Visions Of Johanna".
I got a little ways into it, and it was going well, when a few times in a row the generative algorithm overemphasized cats I had added as incidental background elements in the prompt, to interesting effect. So I had the brilliant idea: let's illustrate the whole song with cats. I backtracked and started over again.
It was an instructive lesson, one that didn't turn out as well as I had hoped.
It's just hard to get a lot of variety out of the Stable Diffusion XL algorithm when the main subject is cats. Turns out, visually, cats are really not a very expressive medium. And especially…
