September 18, 2024

We drew at Fusion in Albuquerque; Chuck Lockhart runs the session.  This is the first session in September.  They almost cancelled the drawing sessions entirely at Fusion in August:

• I edited all my drawings in the GIMP, as my laptop died at the beginning of the month, and it is an ordeal to buy Photoshop Elements 2024.

Afterwards we went to the Thirsty Eye Brewing Company, and argued about art:

Midjourney

Midjourney AI is so sexist --

it didn't include any women printmakers

arguing about art in the bar

The PROTEST 2024! exhibition is coming next month to FUSION, so they promoted it at the drawing session:

The opening for the "Protest" show at FUSION

is the first Friday, October 4th, 2024

AI

Lots of AI activity going on, but not that many programs for artists to easily use.

• The subprime AI Crisis

• (YouTube): This new type of illusion is really hard to make
• (YouTube): How can a jigsaw have two distinct solutions?

QUELAB

Quelab has to move out of their old building by the end of the month, and got serious on September 19th by moving all the big machinery to the new building:

The empty machine shop and wood shop

The humongous CNC machine is gone

PRINTMAKING

I spent all night on  September 19th printing individual tessellation prints after commandeering an empty room at Quelab: