Tuesday, 7 January 2025

January 6, 2025

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:



Deep Dream Generator
RemoveBG
Autotracer
Gestural Drawings
DOWNLOAD: 240106__E.SVG (33.14 KB)

 Haiper
EzGif






















I would like to generate AI ART images on our own computer, like we did when Grant's computer was at Quelab since August 2, 2023.  So I have been smack-talking how we should get a cheap RTX video card and plug it into one of the Quelab computers, install PINOKIO, download some AI models from CIVITAI, and see if we can generate some AI ART again.

I expect to fail, however we could get some practice breaking the computer, by uploading the AI software.  Perhaps we could generate some enthusiasm to go forward.

Adam says that I should just work on the cloud, using Lambda.

However now I'm wondering if we should buy one of NVIDIA's cheap new JETSON NANOs instead -- as described in this YouTube video:  NVIDIA Unveils STUNNING Nano Super Computer for Only $249


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January 3, 2025

During the downtown ABQ Artwalk (January 3, 2025) we drew at the Safe House Distilling Co. again in Albuquerque -- Ben Harrison organized the event:


























 Downtown ABQ ARTWALK
January 3, 2025


Ben Harrison was featured on the cover of the
 January 2025 ABQ Artwalk pamphlet


James Black and crew
were projecting LARGE 
as part of CITY BRIGHTS

The projections were visible
from almost a block away

In 2007 someone projected my drawings on Central Avenue in Albuquerque:

June 16, 2020
My drawings projected in downtown Albuquerque
in 2007


GEM was showing at the OT Circus

GEM's artwork

Found Art was hanging at OffCenter Arts

ARRIVE hotel
not yet open for business



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Sunday, 29 December 2024

SUMMARY 2024

FIGURE DRAWING
PRINTMAKING
AI ART

I made 314 313 blog posts this year,, it was hard just keeping up with 2024:

Towards the end of the year I was going to a figure drawing sessions 5 nights a week: 
We created a collaborative print project -- EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints:
I continued my love/hate relationship with FAKE ART -- by "filling the Internet with more Low Effort Nothings" with AI  generated ART, as one YouTube commentor asserted.  I even seconded his observation with an AI song:

FAKE AI ART

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PLAYLIST 2024
of all the VIDEOS I made this year

PLAYLIST 2024

 Playlists from Previous Years


SUMMARIES INDEX

CLICK ON THE PHOTOS or Links for more in depth information:


THE PRINTMAKERS --
 BIG INK in Albuquerque
PRINTMAKING 2024 -- Part 1

June 17, 2024
BEST DRAWINGS 2024 -- Part 1



2024 HIGHLIGHTS

I spent half of the year
 in Coffee Houses in Albuquerque

January 24, 2024
2024 was the Year of the Dragon  --
print by Virgil Velasco

Veterans/ Day of the Dead
Henry Morales acknowledged in this print
that 2024 was an election year

BIG INK SUMMARY -- Albuquerque 2024
BIG INK made a big splash in April
when they came to print in Albuquerque

GPT3 Art
Future of AI ART
We got the free ChatGPT to write programs
to add lines to an image --
and also construct a javelina in a CAD program

Enhancing my FAKE KRRRL drawings
with AI

October 1, 2024
AMBIGUOUS FIGURE animation
Is this woman looking straight at you --
or looking down on the floor?

De-Quelab
Quelab moved from the old building at 680 Haines --
to the new building at 1511 Central
next to UNM

DENVER
The FAKE hipster RiNo District in Denver

October 18, 2024 -- Portrait
FRIDAY NIGHT FACES
our alpha portrait artist Barbara Endicott

November 18, 2024
Barbara Endicott puts her hands over my portrait
in one of her paintings-in-progress

January 17, 2024
My portrait, drawn by Gary Cohen --
apparently at the FUSION drawing session
on January 17, 2024

December 9, 2024
Drawn by Kirsten 
at Art Buddies

August 23, 2024 -- Portrait
Taken by Axle Contemporary in Belen, NM --
for the last leg of the E Pluribus UNUM project

Prints Crawling
Humbled by the El Paso printmakers

Robert generated these songs about me in SUNO:

GENTYPE


I went to four presentations at the adjacent UNM ARTS Lab:
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Patron Saint of Moving Lines

A moment to praise SAINT BERT -- whom I discovered/generated in July using WEBSIM:

"Saint Bert, born in the early days of the digital age, was renowned for his ability to find harmony and meaning in the chaotic streams of data that flowed through the nascent internet. Legend has it that Bert could visualize the movement of information as intricate patterns of lines, leading him to become a guide for early web developers and digital artists.

It is said that Bert's meditations on the nature of digital motion led to breakthroughs in animation techniques and data visualization. His teachings emphasized the importance of flow, continuity, and the interconnectedness of all digital entities."
"My work explores the relationship between Pre-raphaelite tenets and counter-terrorism. With influences as diverse as Nietzsche and Andy Warhol, new insights are manufactured from both orderly and random narratives.

Ever since I was a postgraduate I have been fascinated by the traditional understanding of meaning. What starts out as contemplation soon becomes manipulated into a hegemony of distress, leaving only a sense of what could have been and the possibility of a new understanding.

As intermittent phenomena become reconfigured through frantic and diverse practice, the viewer is left with a testament to the outposts of our culture."
  • I should ask the Oracle what is going to happen next year -- by calling (for free) 1-800-CHATGPT 

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