Being able to create consistent characters with an AI art generators is not easy. AI has a habit of generating completely different looking characters between each prompt.
One trick is to use variables in Dalle-3. These variables enable the establishment of specific character traits that persist across generations.
Entertrained has a novel way to teach you how to type. They let you type along to its catalog of public domain books which include: Dracula, Walden, and Leaves of Grass. Learn how to type while reading classics at the same time.
Just select your book and start typing. There’s neat little scoring/error run system that gives you an overall score and performance breakdown.
Starting with the basic idea of using a hot glue gun to form and build up a model, why not make whole objects in this way? Why not shoes? If you attach that glue gun to a robotic arm and the glue into a light filament – voila: LightSpray.
LightSpray is a technique that use a robot arm to spray a recyclable filament around a mold to create a seamless one-piece upper that is directly attached to the midsole, eliminating the need for stitching or glue. The entire shoe is fully assembled in just 3 minutes. Supposedly coming Fall/Winter 2024.
The video is pretentious – thinking they invented something new – but it does get the idea across. Like Nike’s attempts at 3D printing, and 3D printed clothing, I think it’s definitely going to change things.
Teenage Engineering makes some beautiful products. Now they’ve come up with a new one: the EP–1320 which features hundreds of built-in medieval sounds. Create your own medieval melodies with drums and medieval string and pipe instruments such as their kind of wacky intro video below.
There’s also some folks already making medieval jams on youtube.
Now on their 5th version, Light Toys Visual Poi V5 MAXI are LED light sticks that can produce some amazing patterns when swung around. Persistence of vision illusions (in this case a pair of sticks) uses densely-packed RGB LEDs and circuitry that displays a line at a time to produce complete images when spun. They are pretty amazing, but ought to be since a pair costs an eye watering $2190
Amaze your friends at the next rave for about 30 minutes – or more likely synced up as a backup dancer for the next Super bowl concert.
Despite having taken a number of salsa and swing dancing lessons, I’m afraid that I’m just not that natural of a dancer. But boy I love swing dancing when I see it. It’s definitely my favorite.
Stephen and Chanzie put on an amazing show at the Rock That Swing Festival by dancing to The Nitty Grity (by Shirley Ellis). Performed at the Deutsches Theater (February 6th, 2016)
Man – I wish our culture had a lot more of this kind of quality.
What if you re-told the movie “The Fifth Element” as a 1950’s sci-fi flick using a generative AI. Yes, everything you see is generated by AI – and you can learn the techniques too from Curious Refuge’s AI filmmaking classes.
OpenAI’s first Sora AI generated music video called ‘Worldweight’ was supposed to capture the images a musician visualized in their mind while composing the piece. It’s not particular good, more of a pretentious art student’s fever dream.
Previous attempts were better. This video from 2022 used Dall-E to create a video for the song Canvas by Resonate: