Month: March 2024

Daily Creates Vegas

I did 3 daily creates this week while on travel for work and here are my posts.

The first one was to add “and then the dragons arrived” to the first line of a book and create an image. For some reason I chose harry potter and used an AI image generator…. anyway, here is the result.

The next one was to create a coloring page out of an image. I wanted to use something dark and make it colorful, so I decided to use my Edgar Alan Poe pic from a previous daily create. The Vegas lights must have seeped into my subconscious because it sems like i used those kinds of colors and patterns. Here is my post.

The third on was to make fractal art. I decided to go with the below picture because I liked the black negative space kind of cutting through the colorful areas. I named it reality tear.

It was nice to get back to the hotel at the end of a long workday and take a break from the super seriousness to be a little creative.

7th Week Summary

When I saw the assignments this week, I was really excited to get started. I did a lot of research and was trying to do some crazy things with the assignments. For starters I was going to do a deepfake video for the propaganda, but I just couldn’t find a software that was good enough for what I wanted to do. At las though I decided to do a video because during my research I found a lot of things about sensory contrast and overload. If you go to my post about it, you can see the video for yourself and see what I mean. I decided to make it against my character’s beliefs because I wanted to try and gauge how it would make him feel if he just received this in an email or something. I know he would go on some rant on his blog or podcast and I kind of want to hear it.

For the PSA assignment I had some trouble because all of the iterations I made, came out like advertisements and was trying to avoid that. The one that I decided to emulate was the AARP PSA from the archives. Talking about problems and how Aggressive Technologies can solve them and just offering more info fit into that category pretty well. Here is my post about it.

Then lastly, I did my 3 daily creates. Fun as always, especially the one with the sound dudes. Here is my post.

Again, fun week. I am disappointed though I couldn’t find a deepfake site that could do what I wanted. I have a feeling that would have been unsettling and really hammer home some of the dangers of AI. Like really, can we even trust video anymore…

TDC Not Today Warp

This week we had to do 3 daily crates and they were quick and easy. For the first one we had to do post a picture that represents purity. I went away from the standard light colors and calming vibes to my first thought which was a purity seal from Warhammer 40k. I am going to need that chaos protection if I want to stay pure from the warp. Post below.

For the next one we had to make a net art picture. I do think these things are art because it still takes a small amount of creativity to come up with a prompt that’s good. Some of my first tests were with terms like “toxic” and it only came up with toxic masculinity posts that degraded women and I am not about that ugh. So, it was an experiment to get something cool. I gave it the prompt bioweapon and it came out awesome. Here was my post.

For the last on we got to have fun with oscillators. The sounds were interesting, and I had a fw thoughts on what i thought they sounded like. Here is the post.

It was cool this week, probably going to do that net art thing a few more times.

AGT PSA Global Climate Change

So, for my PSA I had my character read a PSA provided to him by Aggressive Technologies for his pro-AI podcast. I like to think that he currently loves Aggressive Technologies for their AI advancement, but when it comes to AI rights he is still skeptical if it is all for money. Maybe he will fall prey to the money himself if he keeps working with them? I’m not going to lie I had a tough time with this, and it took me like 10 iterations to not have it just be an advertisement for Aggressive Technologies. I hope you enjoy it.

Propaganda Video… Hope Thats OK?

I had so much fun the last two weeks with my video editor (sarcasm detected) that I decided to make a propaganda commercial. There is no evidence provided that what is said is true or where they get their facts from. But it is startling to say the least. So how does this relate to my character. Well, I feel as if I was getting in too dep with what Kvin is interested in and so I decided to imagine a group that wants to counter his message. This would be like a TV commercial that Kevin would blog angrily about or go on rants on his podcast or something like that. I just wanted to make something that would piss him off and have him go off the rails. I hope you enjoy it. (Keep the volume a tad lower than normal)