I've been teaching cats to ride bikes, errr, I mean prompt engineering

Working behind the scenes on a thing, will share more soon

Can cats ride bikes forever?

Ancient erotic temple art of the queer varieties #midjourneyV5 testing of edgier themes (I was surprised this came without prompting for much beyond ancient fertility art)

Selling #antiques and art is quite fun, it gives me a lift to match people and their future relics

This #victorian cranberry #glass and silver mustard pot would have held sauces like mustard on the table - this one I have with a stein spoon for the true style nerds. One of 20 silver & silverplate items going up for sale including serving plates, sugar bowls & gravy boats, spoons for berries, sauces and special occasions

There were special spoons from old Worlds Fair that I'm so enamored with!

Yeah, it's been raining so much here there are now ducks on the highway instead of cars in downtown Oakland

See the 🦆😹
https://youtu.be/Gyx4PIXT9UI

This area has a rich history as the US first wildlife preserve and let's just say the 🦆 know what's up

In my twice-yearly check of LinkedIn I discovered this lovely newsletter from @evolove about new tools and ideas. Evo is one of the people I regularly look to for sensitive and wide ranging explorations of our future.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gen4-creating-new-worlds-xr-generative-worldbuilders-evo-heyning/

A thing about Mastodon that I didn't realize I'd missed from pre-algorithm Twitter is the sheer randomness of the content. No longer honed to be hyper-engaging (usually by being scary or enraging) I now see weird experiments, fun scientific papers, random shitposts. Of course it's not all exactly in my wheelhouse, but that makes it simultaneously more *interesting* while being less *addictive*. The whole experience feels a lot healthier for my brain.

Gonna go live in my lil design cave 😁

Hibernating.
Atmospheric rivers be damned

Explorations of the day, also /blend #experiments with my older works

What are you exploring today?

#AIart #midjourney #concepts #WIP #generative #GenAI

Put a bunch of real & rare useful serving & design #antiques with early 20th c #uraniumglass up for sale today

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/513876307588074/?mibextid=dXMIcH

I will list a few pieces on my site as well as share a few #NeRF experiments for #lightfield #3D art based on these #glassart pieces

Next up, #carnivalglass for the #maximalists

Quote by Kate Raudenbush, on Transfix:

She’s tired of being told that displaying her monumental works for free will provide valuable “exposure,” and is eager to create even bigger and more ambitious projects as Transfix takes off.

“I’m already dreaming up new ideas!” Raudenbush said.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/transfix-immersive-art-experience-las-vegas-2262410#.ZAFKQ0C5-vE.facebook

So excited to see Dr. Morris celebrated for her work at Morehouse bringing the #openmetaverse into classrooms from history to science: https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/morehouse-college-class-teaches-black-history-using-the-metaverse-164137029946

“One of the major problems with salesbros is that they think “always be closing” is a mantra to live by because they didn’t understand the point of Glengarry Glen Ross, which is that salespeople are nightmares. That’s why there’s always some silly pop-up chat at the bottom of every website now.” - @elizabeth_lopatto https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell

I love it when people send me pictures of them reading my new book!

Had a great call today with a new collaborator for a musical project

You can pick up #Promptcraft the guidebook at https://a.co/d/iQlRExH

@ioloro a few of them still work with our shop in LA, there's a few left

today's experiment notes and newsletter summary of tools on the desk, testing video gens

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gen3-video-remixing-reworking-stories-media-new-works-evo-heyning/

Still creating and thriving here, what are you making this week?

Still creating and thriving here, what are you making this week?

New interview and demo on #AIart and #generativevideo #conceptdesign tools with Jeremy Toeman of AugXLabs drops at 2:50PST today at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0hpHm6RV4

Today's cast includes a 30 min interview with Jeremy as he walks us through the #publicbeta available of #AIvideo #generative tools for work or educational uses

This vid is part of the ongoing #Realitycraft #Realitycast series of videos -- if you have a tool creator I should interview next, get in touch, DM me or HMU http://evo.ist

Connecting with you in the virtual world has been nothing short of incredible. Next week, my team and I are launching something I hope will be an exciting, more authentic, more meaningful way to engage with you all. Stay tuned. This is going to be BIG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_aYPROQjIg&t=317s

What if consciousness is not "within" us but something that we access?

Changes the nature of the AGI conversation completely