When I was walking by the car wash on 7th Avenue and 20th Street in Brooklyn, this Jurassic Park themed jeep made me do a double take. Zoom in for its dino surprises on the cargo rack.
Category: Art
-
Japanese Style Cat Mask Hanging on a Park Slope Door
I saw this cat mask hanging on a house door near Prospect Park awhile back. It reminded me of kitsune masks. Despite thinking the mask is cute, I was a little creeped out when I first saw it from a distance in the dark.
-
Pierrepont Family Monument in Green-Wood Cemetery
The Pierrepont Family Memorial designed by Richard Upjohn is one of my favorite hilltop sites to visit in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. It’s surrounding by trees, but you can easily see the undulation of the ground upon which this great city of the dead rests. I took this photo last Saturday when the snow was lightly falling.
-
Cyberpunk Brain in a Box Image Created with Stable Diffusion
These images are called Brain in a Box 1, 2, and 3. The idea behind them was a electronic-organic computer assemblage that fit into a 19″ server cabinet. The brains are modeled on my fMRI scans, and the background cabling and box perspective come from another controlnet layer using a snapshot of a networking setup with bundles of ethernet cables. The lighting details and computing element details varied based on my prompt.
I liked how #2 seems like a universe of constellations of lights and wires beneath a transparent brain-shaped cover.
Number 3 is the brightest of the series. Its brain combines the previous two aspects–transparency and brain folds.
-
Cyberpunk Brain Connections Image Created with Stable Diffusion
This is another image from the series that includes this previous post. I call it Brain Connections. I made it with A1111 and controlnet configured with an image from my fMRI scan. Thinking about how generative AI systems are building up different expert combos to best respond to queries and how they are linking together different kinds of systems that handle different multimodal aspects of advanced systems (e.g., STT/speech recognition > input > generative AI > TTS > output), it reflects how many such brains will make up the generative AI systems we will be using going into the future. This is opposed to singular, monolithic AI systems depicted in films like WOPR in WarGames (1983).
