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Uncanny Art Generation

September 26, 2022 by sergneri 1 Comment

I’ve been working on my syntax, my commands, my interaction with my new toy, stable-diffusion. I’m like a few hundred thousand others tonight, all working away at how best to communicate with this software to get the images we think we might want, but we won’t know until the machine comes back with them, completed. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Future of Work, IT Failures, Science, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: AI, AI applications, art, computer generated, machine art, stable-diffusion

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Whose Art Made Color Move, Is Dead at 95

September 9, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Whose Art Made Color Move, Is Dead at 95 New York Times, Karen Rosenberg, Aug. 2, 2019.

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Thinking about Tagged: art, Artists, Color, Modern Art, Obituary

Francisco Toledo, Dies at 79

September 7, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In a NY Times obituary today, “President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico announced the death on Twitter, calling Mr. Toledo “a true defender of nature, customs and traditions of our people.” No other details were given.”

Posted in: Faits Divers, Obituaries, Racism, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: art, ceramics, collages, drawings, Francisco Toledo, Mexican, obituaries, Obituary, paintings, prints, tapestries, Zapotecs

The Moron’s Dozen

May 8, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

By Dirty Matt Leonardo Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, a copy of an original 4 x 6 inches in ball point pen

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: art, California, Dirty Matt Leonardo, Moron, Petaluma, Roses

The Foundation Book: Bay Hill Road Bodega Bay

May 8, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

By Dirty Matt Leonardo Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, original 4 x 10 inches in ball point pen.

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: art, Bodega Bay, California, Dirty Matt Leonardo, Petaluma, The Foundation Book

The Demon Test by Dirty Matt Leonardo

May 8, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, original 4 x 6 inches in ball point pen.

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: art, California, Dirty Matt Leonardo, Petaluma, The Demon Test

John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90

January 2, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Here is the Guardian’s announcement. Guardian’s John Berger obituary “The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Obituaries, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: art, Death, John Berger, marxist

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