Wednesday 3 November 2021

November 2, 2021

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew together online using Zoom, because of the Covid 19 quarantine.

John Tollett's drawings from the same session.





























Pushing it over a Cliff



Adric at Quelab managed to hack the above figure into a HOLOGRAM, viewed in the Looking Glass Factory Portrait hologram monitor:

hologram monitor


Adric said that he first made a depth map of the JPG using the Gimp.  Ultimately I think he used the online conversion tool that you have to pay for.

Depth map(l)
created in the Gimp

NOTE:  There is a Hugging Face online program that will convert an image into the depth map --DPT Large -- which comes from MiDaS on GitHub.


After the session I took the drawing to the coffee shop and noodled on it some more, then edited it severely before further altering it in Deep Dream Generator:





To push the image further I uploaded it to the VQGAN+CLIP program and used the prompts "Deep Dream":















PRINT





PNG



OTHER

Even though the blowers and heaters have been going since Sunday night after the sprinkler flood at Quelab, my catalogs were still damp on Thursday night:

My catalogs for worse
after the Quelab flood


EXHIBITIONS

EL PASO:  Ambos Lados opening on Friday, November 5, in Casa Ortiz, just South of El Paso:



NEW YORK CITY:  Holly Grimm had an exhibition of her NFT at Dreamverse Terminal 5:




Holly's NFT is available on OpenSea (listed at 0.5 Ethereum).

Hyperallergic about New Mexico NFTs overlooked Holly in their article



ALBUQUERQUE:  First Friday, November 5th, was a big night for openings in Albuquerque.  I went to the receptions of Erin Currier at the Sanitary Tortilla Factory, and Marian Berg at the Ricochet Gallery, and Pete McCracken at Remarque Print Workshop.








Marian Berg, Lawrence Wellborn, Barbara Endicott --
I haven't seen these artists since before Covid



Someone recommended Cloud NFT for minting NFTs cheaply.

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