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

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.

AI Image Generators and Self Portraits

Ai image generator photorealistic of a combination of celebrities

Reading Time: 8 minutesAI generated faces look amazingly real but are entirely synthetic. More figurative images seem to possess the same sensibility and style as those of well-known artists. Others present the format and perspective and scale of common art forms like character design and movie concept art. The cliché is, “I don’t know what art is, but I know it when I see it.” With AI generated images, people are seeing it a whole lot of images they like. But is it really art? I tried creating a self-portrait to answer the question.