July 6, 2021

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew together online using Zoom, because of the Covid 19 quarantine.  The model was from the Washington DC area.

The colored drawings below were altered with Deep Dream Generator and edited in Photoshop Elements 2021:

John Tollett's drawings from the same session.

AI VIDEO

I used a Google Collab notebook to convert the first image in this blog post into a "javelina on a unicycle" using "text to image" AI (artificial intelligence):

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Javelina on a unicycle

• The notebook is called :  VQGAN+CLIP (z+quantize method with augmentations) 
• The instructions to use it are at this link
• I got the link from VICE:  AI-Generated Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools
• Article: We asked a new kind of AI art tool to make 'paintings' of Australia
• Glenn Marshall Neural Art examples

OTHER

• On July 1st, 2021 Covid restrictions were lifted in New Mexico.
• Adric tin plated a drawing I did on copper, during the "fireless 4th" of July demonstration at Quelab.

My quick drawing

tin plated on copper

I took the Los Limonsines bus down to T or C on Wednesday, July 7th.  This was a few days before Richard Branson was to launch into space on July 11th.

View of T or C

over a plate of enchiladas at El Faro

when time stood still