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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge – 2025jun29, “Deleted Scenes Monsters” – Casablanca Uncut
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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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Code & Algorithms » Demo & Live Tool Playground
Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights (updated for 2025)
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season's geekings: Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights (updated for 2025)

/* xmas lights */ #lightrope { text-align: center; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; position: fixed; z-index: 1000; margin: -15px 0 0 0; padding: 0; pointer-events: none; width: 100%;left: 0;top: var(--wp-admin--admin-bar--height); } #lightrope > li { position: relative; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 20px 20px 20px 22px; } #lightrope > li > div { position: relative; border-left: 2px solid rgba(0,0,0,.05); border-right: 2px solid rgba(255,255,255,.5); margin: 2px 0 0 -3px; padding: 0; display: block; width: 8px; height: 18px; border-radius: 50%; transform-origin: top center; -webkit-animation-fill-mode: forwards; animation-fill-mode: forwards; pointer-events: auto; } /* Colors for different bulbs */ #lightrope > li:nth-child(5n+0) > div { -webkit-animation-duration: 0.8s, 4.1s, 3s; animation-duration: 0.8s, 4.1s, 3s; } #lightrope > li:nth-child(5n+1) > div { -webkit-animation-duration: .9s, 4.3s, 3s; animation-duration: .9s, 4.3s, 3s; } #lightrope > li:nth-child(5n+2) > div { -webkit-animation-duration: 1s, 4.5s, 3s; animation-duration: 1s, 4.5s, 3s; } #lightrope > li:nth-child(5n+3) > div { -webkit-animation-duration: 1.1s, 4.7s, 3s; animation-duration: 1.1s,…
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Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Interesting Leftovers & Bonus Galleries
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 unique enough, or didn't fit the theme. There are those.

 

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Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Interesting Leftovers & Bonus Galleries
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 quite right, or were too similar to others, or too different. Here are some of those.

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Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
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 situation possible. I took up the challenge.

 

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Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
#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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Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
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 and people make generative art monster images about it. Today, as I write this, the theme was "Mustache Monsters", for "Movember", a global campaign where men grow mustaches to raise awareness of men's health issues.

It seemed like fun. I of course, couldn't stop with just one.

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Code & Algorithms » Web
Resurrecting the HTML <BLINK> tag
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In With The Old: Resurrecting the HTML <BLINK> tag

Back in the bad old days, there was an HTML tag called [code][/code]. It did this, which everybody hated because it was annoying, and everybody's web pages looked like this:

.blink { display: inline-block; animation: blink 1s step-end infinite;} .oldschool, .oldschool * {font-family:times,'times new roman',serif !important;} .oldschool:not(a), .oldschool *:not(a) {color:#000;} .oldschool a, .oldschool a blink {color:blue !important;text-decoration:underline !important;} .oldschool a:visited blink {color:purple !important;}

Hello! Welcome to Kupietz Arts+Code This is the homepage of Mike Kupietz where you can see all his art, music, writing, and code!

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An interesting bit of history, courtesy of Lou Montulli, early Mozilla engineer and author of…

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Visual Art » Generative Illustrations
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 AI.

Still, some of them really are surprisingly accurate to how things really were.

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Writing » Fun & Humor
Report On My Weekend
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Local Color—Point Reyes, Marin County: Report On My Weekend

(Sent via email to undisclosed parties)

My god, if I knew how my little weekend of excursions was going to turn out, I would have made it an event and invited you all along. My report:

PT. 1: Cold Wind To Valhalla

On Saturday at 1430 hours I procured a late model red Chevy Cavalier. One of those self-driving models so I would be free to hang out the windows and waggle my tongue at the hoi polloi as I sped past. Although finances dictated that this would not be an extended sojourn into the greater countryside I packed for several days as a precaution. Having grilled Rick and Mike Burstein for information, I decided on a trip into Marin to locate a suitably pastoral swimming hole in which to ease away my troubles. On advice of Rick, I headed for Samuel P. Taylor State Park. Samuel P. Taylor is…

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Writing » Life In A Mikeycosm (Thoughts & Reflections)
Shower thoughts
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Even In The Quietest Moments: Shower thoughts

Idea 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 he knows how to correctly pronounce the names Shania, Tyra, and Demi.

Geezer Butler, bassist for the band Black Sabbath, came up with the idea for heavy metal music when the band drove past a movie theater showing a horror film, and there was a ticket line up the block. He thought to himself that if people like so much to be scared, what if he wrote music that was like a horror movie?

So, I wonder... what would the world be like today if the band had taken a different route, and driven past an X-rated theater instead?

What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but must use Wordpress to do it?

Ice…

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