6-hour Bicycle Tour of West Oakland

Map of Bike Tour of West Oakland

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m moving to Oakland this week. I’m also working with a startup that’s building a marketplace for travelers to connect with “localites”, experts in the area they are visiting. To get a feel for the value of a locality, I put together an itinerary that I would take my friends on to get a feel … Read more

Platform

Platform diagram for Burningman art project

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMidway up the structure, we need to have a platform to support the power systems. This platform can also stiffen the structure serving transfer tension and compression forces around the helix. I wanted it to be able to support several hundred lbs. of weight that a person and a generator might add up to. At … Read more

Custom Stable Diffusion Model with Two Tokens

Reading Time: 10 minutesI had put together a list of iconic couples, and my goal was to come up with prompts and processes to get good images where our likenesses were substituted into the scene. One significant departure from my previous trials is that I have started incorporating negative prompts into the renderings.

AI Generated Portraits of Two People

beautiful, notmeighen woman and attractive debonair 55-year-old man, Text reads “Schatz” Campy romantic comedy movie key art by Bob Peak, drawn by Drew Struzan, by Richard Amsel, by John Alvin, By Norman Rockwell, trending on artstation, film noir, San Francisco, detailed, photorealistic, psychedelic 40 steps, 7 cfg, Euler a

Reading Time: 8 minutesMy instagram feed is full of AI generated self-portraits. Often surprising and evocative, a passel of sites have quickly spun apps which let people stylize a headshot. More figurative images seem to possess the same sensibility and style as those of well-known artists. I have been doing a deeper dive into the world of generative art. This is my four experiment . Unlike the online apps, which stylize a single image, I have diving deeply into Stable Diffusion to create a model that can generate images of multiple specific people in a wide range of scenes.

Cash for grass – public programs to eliminate thirsty lawns

Fully sheet mulched former lawn

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn California, we love our lawns. But now we’re learning that these green carpets are not only expensive to maintain, but also use a lot of water — up to 40 percent of all residential water use in the state each year! In a state that is increasingly concerned about the environment, more Californians are putting down the lawn mowers, digging up their grass and replacing it with drought-friendly rocks and plants.