Dynamic Subspace

Tag: Art

  • DIY LEGO Display Stand for Holding Heavy Objects On My Desk

    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk, 3/4 view

    This past weekend, I dug through my LEGO to build a display stand that could hold two heavy objects on my desk between my monitor and keyboard. It has a wide, lower space and a narrow, higher space for the two objects. To add some visual details, I used window panels along the front with transparent red cylinders in each window center, illuminated by ambient light entered through the top of the front.

    I’m including more photos below of all sides to inspire others. Since it was a trial-and-error build, I didn’t create instructions for the build.

    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk
    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk
    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk
    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk
    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk
    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk
    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk
    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk
    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk
    DIY LEGO Display Stand for holding two heavy objects on a desk

  • College Cat Studying in the Stacks, and Video Card Downgrade

    Anthropomorphic cat wearing a hoodie, sitting in a library, studying two open books. Image created in Stable Diffusion.

    I decided to sell my NVIDIA RTX A6000 video card and downgrade to an RTX 4060 Ti with 16GB GDDR6.

    I’ll miss loading large LLMs on the A6000’s 48GB of memory, but between the 16GB of memory on the 4060 and my computer’s 128GB DDR4 RAM, I can get my work done–it’ll just take some magnitudes longer in some cases.

    The college cat studying image above was one of the last that I generated with Stable Diffusion on the A6000.

    Swapping out the video cards was completely painless on Debian 12 with NVIDIA drivers 525.147.05. I pulled out the A6000 and its power adapter, and installed the 4060 and connected its single power cable.

  • Cyberpunk Help Desk Cat Made with Stable Diffusion

    A chubby anthropomorphic cat wearing a hoodie jacket is working at a cyberpunk help desk.

    When I saw this image of a cyberpunk computer technician anthropomorphic cat that I generated with Stable Diffusion, the first thing that came to mind was the Bastard Operator from Hell. Having worked at a help desk, I think it would be an interesting experience to be his co-worker. It certainly wouldn’t be boring!

  • Bronze Angel Memorial for Benjamin Franklin Romaine in Green-Wood Cemetery

    Benjamin Franklin Romain memorial with bronze angel statue in repose. In Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

    While walking in Green-Wood Cemetery, I recently approached this beautiful memorial for Benjamin Franklin Romaine. A bronze angel holding a hammer and chisel sits in repose of its completed work creating this monument.

    Jeff Richman discovered the name of the angel’s sculptor as Raffaello Romanelli. He explains how he worked it out in this blog post on the official cemetery’s website.

    Below are close-up photos of the sculpture.

    Benjamin Franklin Romain memorial with bronze angel statue in repose. In Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
    Benjamin Franklin Romain memorial with bronze angel statue in repose. In Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
    Benjamin Franklin Romain memorial with bronze angel statue in repose. In Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
    Benjamin Franklin Romain memorial with bronze angel statue in repose. In Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
    Benjamin Franklin Romain memorial with bronze angel statue in repose. In Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

  • Japanese Style Cat Mask Hanging on a Park Slope Door

    Kitsune-style cat mask hanging on a wooden exterior door of a house in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York

    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.