Recent content by brianvds

Well, in that case: yesterday morning's walk:

I don't really have pics for any of those. Well, maybe breakfast... :-)

And in that spirit:

Now that's one thing I'll likely never get to see in person...

Not sure. They do claim that the entire thing is done by AI, but who knows.

Against my own better judgement, I briefly dipped into a Twitter thread on AI-created music: I tell ya, pop musicians are in trouble, or at least, pop musicians who think they're going to retire on the proceeds of a single hit song. So how can musicians still scrape a living in this new world...

I have had this idea that this board actually needs a thread for humor in general (i.e. not specifically art-related, for which there already is a thread). I think you have just started such a thread. :D

They are indeed problematic, and baboons are even worse. But people think they're cute and keep on feeding them. Of course, if you don't feed them they'll steal what they want anyway. :-) Indeed wonderfully exotic looking. And alien-looking, like something brought over from Barsoom by green...

Quite possibly, and in the end, photography didn't destroy art. If anything, it improved it. Too early to tell what AI might do, partly because we cannot predict just how good AI might become at art, or the extent to which AI art will keep on requiring skilled prompt writers. I fear many...

Yesterday I accompanied my landlady to go fetch her daughter at a fancy spa some way out of the city. Turns out the place is practically overrun with monkeys. Unfortunately, the late afternoon light, and the inability of monkeys to remain still for more than a fraction of a second at a time, did...

We'll have to get used to working in a world in which AI exists; genie is out of the bottle.

Had to attend a birthday party at an open-air restaurant yesterday. Bored as I usually am at such occasions, I wandered around a bit, grabbed some of the copious autumn foliage, and started scribbling with ballpoint pen and colored pencil - good thing I usually take sketching equipment along to...

Had occasion to watch Wyrm (2019). I really liked it not so much because it is inherently particularly brilliant, but simply because it is really weird. How delightful to see that in this age of script writing by committee, someone still has the guts to make something that's a bit out of the...