Friday, 31 October 2025

OCTOBER SUMMARY -- 2025

I spent most of October in the south, for the SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA in Silver City, and later in El Paso.  I drew less than usual this month.  However I did manage to make AI animations with the new SORA 2:








DRAWINGS

I managed to get to a few drawing sessions, though I was mostly busy with printmaking all month:



The latent idea was to echo the DESERT TRIANGLE PRINT CARPETA of ten years ago (2015) by artists from TUCSON, ALBUQUERQUE and EL PASO.  During this SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA we combined linocuts from collections of those three desert cities to exhibit and make collaborative EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints:




I also dropped into OffCenter Arts in Albuquerque to pick up the linocut that Zimmy carved.  She is a great printmaker and runs the printmaking studio at OffCenter Arts:



LASER CUTTING SILK SCREEN

FUTURE FORGE Makerspace in Silver City was talking about laser cutting images into silk screens with the $400 X-Tools kit.  The problem is that you have to buy their $1000 laser cutter, as well as new screens every time you wanted to burn a new image.  

I made a BLOG POST about this to investigate doing this on our laser cutter at Quelab, with more of a DIY approach.

AI imagines 
laser cutting an image into silk screen




AI ART

SORA 2 came out the last day of September, and I got access to it on October 4th.  Soon it was available to everyone for free. So I got to animate in AI with it (SORA 2 adds sound), and compare it to the AI animation from Midjourney:



Animated with SORA 2 and Midjourney:


Animated with SORA 2 and Midjourney with images from Juarez and El Paso:


Animated just with Midjourney:


I did get censored by SORA 2 when I asked it to animate one of my abstract drawings. I get this warning "This content may violate our guardrails concerning similarity to third party content":

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