I’m in a bit of a gumption trap over at the studio right now. For a while, things were proceeding nicely, but then I had problems with the electricity. For someone who hates doing painting and wiring as much as I do, I sure seem to like starting projects that involve painting or wiring!
Deer are born with natural ghillie suits. It’s like evolution in action, or something.
Today I offloaded a big bag of trash from the garbage can in the basement. Which meant that the can sat empty while I was over at the studio working on the electrical wiring.
Mano Singham posted a pretty funny cartoon about appeasing the CEO [mano], framed as The Wizard of Oz.
I used to post a lot of stock photography on deviantart [da] and over the course of a few years I managed to accrue 10 million page-views with 75,000+ followers.
Coming in over Iceland, I had turned my cell phone off and stowed it; I had a window seat over the wing so “why bother”?
Icelandair, the original “hippie express” used to offer flights between the US and Europe for about half what the other air carriers charged. Their strategy was pretty cool – they used less expensive jets with shorter range, and did a brief stopover to refuel at Keflavik Airport in Iceland.
So, what’re you reading?
This appeals to my sense of the absurd. Instead of taking an AI and training it to turn photographs into converted images “in the style of” some training set, what if we plug the pipeline in backwards?
All my life I’ve been embarrassingly lucky. Ever since I did such a fantastic job of picking my parents, I just seem to stumble into the things I need when I need them. I don’t kid myself that it’s anything to do with skill or merit but I’ll take it. Some of you may hate me by the end of this posting, but I’ll try to make it up to you.