Make a Name

[Cera Sizzle]

FWIW, I don't begrudge anybody who was fascinated by image generation in the early DALLE era when the stuff was novel and barely holding together.

I found the early stuff really quite interesting. Very messy and surreal images that vaguely looked like real things. I remember first coming across the concept when someone trained a network on the art from Magic the Gathering art to produce very ethereal images that didn't look like much I'd seen before. This was never a possibility but I wish ai had stayed a novelty for producing wholly inhuman and bizarre art 

I like the last piece you went over in that video where you used some video editing and gif optimization software to produce some stuff -- very resourceful.

thanks  a lot of my glitch art type stuff was made like that. It was almost like finding an art piece by throwing a wrench in a machine and taking pictures of the sparks and gears as it falls apart

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Laundering Andre

Laundre

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the part ~16:30 about writing stuff down randomly hits me pretty hard. most of the brain garbage thread stuff over the past year was stuff i had written down on pieces of paper that i thought of while i was working or something. i don't have an active project right now so i feel like i'm stagnant on that, no writing right now.

i miss having actual muse moments, i've felt pretty blank for awhile. stuff still happens, but not like it used to.

anyway, this is super good and i'm always down 2 look at your art, or talk about art, anytime. if i'm awake

I don't tend to have them as much as I use to and they mostly stopped after a year or so after I moved and went through some relationships ending. I get the sense I could try and relax to let things happen again but I'm warry of what might happen give how distressing I find some of my work.

and thanks  I'll definitely take you up on that

sometimes the art that scares u is good actually. but yeah don't fall into a brain pit. those are bad. stay brainsafe 

[Cera Sizzle]

Very true. Often there's a lot of personal growth on the edges of discomfort and art is the same way. The balance is leaning in but not falling over

[RT-55J]

Came up with some superheroes (?) on whim:

Himbow Jimbow – Kind, dumb as rocks, and capable of murdering you from 20000 feet away without a second thought (with a bow, of course).

Turnstile Myles – Can only rotate his arms forwards, not backwards. Has developed an idiosyncratic martial arts system taking advantage of this fact.

Harry Jane – Grows marijuana from his hair follicles.

Pokey Porker – A pig so fat and so slow that people can't resist looking at him. The perfect accomplice for any task that requires distracting security guards or creating a traffic jam.

Rent-a-Bog – Bog monster for hire. Very competitive hourly rates.

[RT-55J]

From the news: Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead - BBC

The legal action was brought by digital rights campaigner Vicki Shotbolt

Thatsa good name right there.

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Esther Z. Yardbread

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Emily Brontësaurus

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Juniper Frostwood

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Dorothy Woolcost

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Polly Goodcrumb

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Mary Ann Full of Sand

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Barbara Queue

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Hunter D. Wumpus

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and his father, Grumper B. Wumpus