#1264: Center Yourself; Or, On Going Around Ineffective Education
Tuesday • January 31st 2023 • 11:35:15 pm • 3KB
Schools are structured to demand blind obedience, you are threatened with being held back, unfixable GPA, no job, etc. So that you pass state tests, so that the school can stay in business. All of this is very unfair, because learning is what you already...
#1263: Becoming A Philosopher Is Just Another Part Of Growing Up
Monday • January 30th 2023 • 9:58:48 pm • 2KB
Humanity is a lot more beautiful it seems. But in all the chaos and complexity, mistakes sneak in. And Humanity is not just making mistakes, it also takes to treating symptoms as stand-alone. Symptoms sometimes assemble into feedback loops, where entire...
#1262: Beautiful Cultures; Or, The Audio Pendant Of Knowledge
Sunday • January 29th 2023 • 10:48:48 pm • 1KB
We are meant to grow up in beautiful cultures, where our minds can grow and flourish. When born to poverty and lack of education, we get confused and twisted around. No child is born a criminal, or cruel, but terrors of poverty and uneducation can make...
#1261: The Prompt Hero
Sunday • January 29th 2023 • 5:24:18 pm • 5KB
Artists References & Style Guides - For MidJourney & AI Art - These are the ones I depend on. Agnes Cecile watercolor flora painting watercolor portrait - unsaid things Akihiko Yoshida A journey through Akihiko Yoshida's art style Akihiko Yoshida Artwork...
#1260: Follow Your Noblest Curiosities
Saturday • January 28th 2023 • 10:43:56 pm • 2KB
Get a beat sequencer, and lay down some beat. Let it play until you feel the need, the need for subtle variation and repetition. Sample, some tiny part of some song, and use that as your beat. Keep it simple, but keep it changing. Don’t listen to people...
#1259: Today, Art Is Calling Out To All
Friday • January 27th 2023 • 10:00:07 pm • 2KB
There is a sense of urgency in the air, because right now Art Generators are still primitive. When you prompt for some art creation, and you should always search the internet for AI prompts first… You will often see errors, a third bunny ear, Nineteen and...
#1258: Let Your Art Dance; Or, Making Holidays Even More Interesting
Thursday • January 26th 2023 • 10:41:44 pm • 3KB
This poem is not about robbing you of the status of Starving Artist, it is a great honor and privilege. When looking back at that era of your life, you will always smile with pride. In fact if I may, learn to make Sushi, and you don't have to put raw thing...
#1257: The Great World And Our Right To Meaning
Wednesday • January 25th 2023 • 11:14:24 pm • 2KB
The world is developing, and growing, it is a much wiser place than it used to be, though we still have long roads ahead of us. In 1804 there was only one billion people on Earth, in just 30 years, there will be 10 billion people on Earth. 10 billion is a...
#1256: Undulations Of Human Kind; Or, On Escaping Indoctrination And Becoming A Citizen Of The World
Tuesday • January 24th 2023 • 11:03:25 pm • 6KB
Who or what has us trapped? we do, we do it to ourselves. Richard Dawkins says, it is an evolutionary adaptation, the kids that don’t listen to adults and test the Hippo or Snake, don’t survive. We ere suffering from a genetic blight, we don’t seek to...
#1255: Speed Thy Slowly; Or, Art Is Not Really A Destination But A Road That Takes You Wherever You Need To Be Next
Monday • January 23rd 2023 • 11:26:00 pm • 4KB
It may not be very fair to call generative art, a mere product. The soul is spread thinner, but also the scope is greater. Because the point of generated art, is to make a little business go – and that is the true work of art. Every few dozen generation,...
#1254: Learning Photo Restoration; Or, Almost Almost, But Not Quite Yet
Sunday • January 22nd 2023 • 9:03:04 pm • 3KB
I got quickly overloaded by all the new technologies, and my first Photo Restoration project, didn’t work out so good. The person requesting the restoration var very kind, but more work needs to be done. I have created 100 variations of my original work,...
#1253: The AI Operator
Sunday • January 22nd 2023 • 10:28:59 am • 3KB
Please note that AI Art, is infinite. And please understand the AI does not dream those images up, YOU ARE MAKING THE AI DREAM. You can't group it all under a single category. So as long as what you generate is beautiful, it is a perfectly valid product...
#1252: A Gentle Look At Indoctrination; Or, Don't Let Schools Push You Around
Saturday • January 21st 2023 • 11:25:09 pm • 4KB
When I was signing up for college, I questioned the selection of classes forced on me. I wanted to get better at programming, I knew what classes to take... I asked why do I need all these when I wanted to be a programmer, and the lady said weirdly said ...
#1251: Oumuamua Rising; Or, Don’t Just Invent Stories, Chronicle, By Letting A Story Tell It Self
Friday • January 20th 2023 • 11:27:29 pm • 2KB
I think we will be struck by the urge to write, thrice, in out bright teenage days, magnificent middle age, and the golden, epic age. Somehow, Humanity forget that we don’t get old, that old age is a privilege, denied to all to many. Remembering that,...
#1250: A Note From A Teacher: Parents Don't Be Mean, Buy Your Little Ones A Powerful Stable Diffusion Machine
Thursday • January 19th 2023 • 10:05:14 pm • 2KB
I hope that I don’t come across as a hater, but somebody has to say it sooner than later. Don't let your child grow up as corporate knob, buy them a Stable Diffusion rig so they won't need an office job. Throw your computer out the window, because the damn...
#1249: Space Kitten Refrigerator Magnets vs. Smart Phone Applications
Wednesday • January 18th 2023 • 11:27:52 pm • 3KB
I uploaded 16 very cute kittens, to an online store, as refrigerator magnets. Priced at 6 dollars of which $2 I’d get to keep, if they ever made a sale. It is the act it self that holds great value for me, aside from some views I can’t imagine anybody...
#1248: First Steps Into Epic Art; Or Make Them Squint
Tuesday • January 17th 2023 • 7:20:59 pm • 3KB
Because of the ease with which you can generate artistic creations, you can quite easily leap into epic art, just about from the start. Here the question of transformative art and AI lawsuits is not important, because an epic scene, involving many...
#1247: Doggone It; Or, The New Tools And The New Art Renaissance
Monday • January 16th 2023 • 11:21:54 pm • 3KB
I practice Art by pursuing Hyper Realism, I stray for the sake of texture. But I am a Pop Surrealist, because Humanity will be know among the starts for its Cute Bubble Gum Lowbrow Art. The greatest, and most revolutionary, and one of the most beautiful...
#1246: The Diffusion Artist
Sunday • January 15th 2023 • 9:57:50 pm • 2KB
Take a look at Finetuned Diffusion if you wish to run some tests. Please use a stable diffusion prompt helper to instantly create beautiful things What is Stable Diffusion? (Latent Diffusion Models Explained) Is Stable Diffusion Actually Better Than Dall-e...
#1245: Do Not Follow, Rise, Do Not Follow
Sunday • January 15th 2023 • 1:05:42 pm • 2KB
There is still time, and future is still yours, but only you can open those doors. Today Humanity is locked, all our paths and progress are blocked. And, it will take a lot, to untie this powerful knot, On one end the curse un-education, on the other the...
#1244: The New Art World Order
Saturday • January 14th 2023 • 9:57:41 pm • 3KB
By statistically capturing all internet images at a price of about 10 million dollars, computer programs became able to synthesize any kind of content. You can feed it text, noise, news articles, incomprehensible poetry like you are reading right now. And...
#1243: Getting Generative Artificially Created Art Out Into The Real World
Friday • January 13th 2023 • 10:29:50 pm • 2KB
I bought a bunch of 4x4 frames, thinking it is the perfect size, for 512px x 512px images that the AI usually generates. I grabbed a random sample of about 16 Generative AI Creations, I have collected about 370 samples for lowbrow art research. And went to...
#1242: Photobashing Generative AI Into Krita Masterpieces, And A Tiny Art Challenge
Thursday • January 12th 2023 • 11:14:40 pm • 4KB
Art Generators will only get better, but real art requires a heart. Real Art, is created as a special gift, it has to be honest and lovely. Giving someone an image, generated by a computer program… Is a lovely gesture, but is a little bit too simple, to...
#1241: Where Can A Book Take You Anyway?
Wednesday • January 11th 2023 • 11:16:05 pm • 2KB
First allow me to explain, why travel is important; The molecules in your body, or jewelry, come from a sun you’ve never thought about before. We live by a third generation star, the ones that came before helped to ignite it. Gold comes from suns, that...