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Nicotine Birds
Another old idea I found, from 1994. Just one of those things that comes out of a bored mind. Now this one’s strange, but it was one of many strange things that I said when spending the afternoon with my friends in the Fisherman’s Wharf area of San Francisco. The idea evolved out of a…
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Fish & Chips
Digging back into my archives, I found this scrap of an idea from a file from 1994. This was an idea that developed from a request by a friend of mine who was working on a short film. The film was a spy thriller to take place in the offices of a microchip company. His…
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Please Be Patient
Looking through lists of old ideas, I found this one: Whatever the “be patient, student driver” stickers say, but change to “be patient, never learned how to use turn signal” I figured I’d try creating this with Gemini. Can’t say it was very easy. Gemini was doing whatever it wanted to. I even tried asking…
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Ballzac
Another experiment, this time using Davinci to try and turn text into video. As with any tool, what you use for your experiments will determine not only with what you get for your efforts, but how interested and motivated you are to use the service more. There is such a range of intro experiences with…
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Data Centers in the Community
As I have been playing with AI to generate imagery, I’ve been listening to all the reporting online about the flood of data centers being planned and built all over the US and the world. There has been talk of data centers being built in far off places as well as in built up places.…
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Puppet Matte
Finally, the use case I always hoped to use AI for has come to fruition – making Matte (myself) too whatever I command. (add in evil laugh). Playing around with VEED, I managed to take a photo I uploaded of some handsome man and made them do all sorts of things: Have the man in…
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Boo Yay, Baby!
My daughter had an assignment for English to identify a word that was foreign to her that she would define and present to the class. She asked me how to pronounce “Ebullient” and I wasn’t entirely sure. So, we looked it up and were surprised it was e-bull-yent. Immediately the phrase “Boo yay, baby!” came…
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William Shakesbeak
I am doing a day of experimenting with generative AI tools. I’m seeing what is possible, how hard it is to do, and of course, what barriers or costs are involved. I found a site, Syllaby, that allowed me to make one free video from text prompts. It didn’t end up exactly how I envisioned…
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Ego Boosting SPAM
I’m not really writing any of these entries expecting to get commentary. I don’t think I have any commentary displayed, but that doesn’t stop people from submitting them. Most are the obvious SPAM that anyone who has had a public-facing website with feedback/commentary functionality have seen: ads for services and websites, often in foreign languages,…
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Static Goodbye
This experiment has involved multiple tools and quite a few days to come together. I’m not sure if it hit all the marks I was hoping for, but as a first go, perhaps it’s exactly what one can hope for. If it was any easier, then it would really devalue the creativity and experience that…