Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inWordpress CodingPHP Used on this siteWordPress Custom “Hero Header” ModificationsThis site uses the "Sinatra" free Wordpress theme as its base. Sinatra includes a single "Hero Header" the row of 3 animated featured posts on the home page which changes… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 18, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2978
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated Lyrics Giving It To A Soft BoyRobGAN Hitchcock — AI-assisted lyrical illustrations galleryFor a while, I had a Twitter account, @robGANhitchock, where I was posting AI illustrations of Robyn Hitchcock lyrics I created using a Generative Adversarial Network ("GAN"). This was an… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 17, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2935
Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inWeb Technology Online Fact-Checking ToolThe Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) DetectorHere's a fairly old repost from my consulting site, where it got no traction whatsoever. The Bad Statements Detector is a specialized search tool designed to aid in online research… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 16, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=2856
Posted inWriting Posted inMovie Reviews Review CompendiumLiterally Hundreds of Capsule Movie ReviewsA number of years ago I started jotting down summaries of movies I've watched, just to keep track of what I'd seen. As the years went by, the list grew,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 12, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1956
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressFolk & BluesAcousticky GuitarLive Performance Album PreviewMichael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I'd met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 11, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1482
Posted inWriting Posted inSocial Media Addiction Social MediocrityKwitter, the one-user social networkI quit Twitter a while back, and sometimes even just glancing at FB consumes a full day, so I have no outlet for my amusing social-media-worthy passing thoughts, except to… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 10, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1385
Posted inSite Info Posted inLegalese The Man Is Out To Get MeSite Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and ConditionsCommencing herewith are the understandings and conditions (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms Of Use") to which you must agree to be permitted to access, view, or use the whole… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 10, 2023Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1374
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inEquipment & Tools Used Equipment OverviewBento Box Software SynthesizerI love the Bento synthesizer app. This is the kind of thing I never would have thought was worth my time, until I started to actually play with it and… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 7, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1241
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressDrone Album Previewगोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden YatraThis one is finished except for the final production and mastering... it needs some studio gloss on it. This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 7, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1236
Posted inWriting Posted inRandom Brain DroppingsFun Even In The Quietest MomentsShower thoughtsIdea for a movie: A time traveling refugee from the 1990s is stuck in another era and must try to blend in, but is found out when it is discovered… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 5, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=771
Posted inWriting Posted inPoliticsAxe-Grinding Ideology In Brief“Are you free?”, and Other Short Ideological MusingsLet's talk about sex! No, wait, let's talk about something even more taboo! These are some samples of political, ideological, or economic thoughts I've jotted down. I don't consider myself… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 4, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=769
Posted inSite Info Posted inExternal links External LinksFellow Travelers, Friends’ Sites, and other related linksMy old friend, a music professor and composer of both opera and rock music: Dan Sonenberg A ridiculously talented friend and endless font of creativity who goes by many names,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 4, 2023Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=754
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressZetetic Music Album PreviewFive Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=511
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressZetetic Music DemoMonster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5aAn early experiment in the serialist style I've been developing, which I was once told by a figure in a dream should be called "Zetetic Music". 2017. Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=509
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressSoundtrackProgressive / Art Rock Album PreviewEthay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion PictureImagine if an esteemed Pig Latin cinema auteur filmed a classic 1970s horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine if I had been picked out of my second-grade class by that auteur to create a vintage electronic progressive soundtrack to that film. Now, imagine that soundtrack was unearthed and finally saw release as an album in the 2020s. These are the work-in-progress demos for what someday will be what would have been that legendary classic film score. Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=507
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressElectronic MusicCover Songs DemoThe Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15I've been putting together an album of goofy electronic arrangements of classic tunes. Here's one I'm still working on at the moment, a medley of classic favorites, called "The Strutbutter… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 1, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds1 Comment| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative Illustration Is There Rock After Life?A Helluva Band — Generative Art galleryAngel trumpets and devil trombones, and you are invited! Here's some phantasmagorical music-themed generative AI illustrations I, well, generated. These were, by the way, generated with Dall-E 2.5, which is… Posted by By Mike Kupietz March 1, 2020Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=98
Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inWordpress CodingPHP Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in WordPressOn my IT consulting business site, I'm using a php script I've written to generate on-the-fly random email addresses specific to the browsing session looking at the site. So, I… Posted by By Mike Kupietz March 1, 2020Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=94
Utility pageall images Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 25, 2000| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7873