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Will Sharp
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Last year, when AI was big and trending (it still is, but I was just discovering it...) I set up my ChatGPT account and used Dall-E to create an image of a "Handsome late 50's older man".
Why I would do that is beyond me, there are mirrors...
Anyways, I plucked a suitable handless image and, suspicious of a lot of mine own friend requests on Facebook created a profile for my AI generated image.
I'd like to introduce you to my ridiculously popular AI friend Will Sharp.
I subsequently spent the next couple of days adding every friend Facebook suggested. I had to answer a very few messages - "How do I know you?" - or merely ignore them, or pretend briefly to be a wealthy man heavily invested in Crypto or Banking or something else equally absurd.
...and people got interested and started asking questions and I got bored of the deception, felt guilty anyways, and logged out of that account and forgot my password.
Now, when logged into my own Facebook profile I get alerts for him. It's been almost a year, and this 'man', who posts nothing, does nothing, has proven to be ridiculously popular. Dozens of friend requests a day, and when I left him (after a couple of days) he already had a few hundred friends. His throwaway email account fills up with friendship requests, status and photo updates from people neither he nor I have ever met (and probably other AI's), and occasionally concerned emails wondering where he's been. People that accepted without question the friendship request.
Nobody knows he's my imaginary friend, he's far too handsome and popular.
It's gotten on time to kill him, and I tried, only I forgot his Facebook Login information, it was on a whim, after all, and so I continue to get these little Facebook bubbles telling me how much is new in his world, what's going on, all of what his friends are up to, and while I'm glad he's doing well I can't help be a little envious because everyone I know on Facebook is a Wing-Nut or Doodle...
La Femme Damnée - Tassaert
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And this is a rather amazing painting.
On that note I attempted - and completed a flower painting yesterday.
No, I'm not posting a picture so you can laugh, I'd sum it up to loved the colors, shapes need a bit of work.
I figure if I do 100 more paintings I'll start to see some progress, and then I'll inundate you with my results...
Ginotti & Catullus
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Above, sculpture by Giacomo Ginotti, abbreviated in English to "Slave". I love the detail, the way he's carved her both straining against her chains/cuffs and trying to shield her modesty, and yet...
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And Catullus, whom I'll add to the list of authors I'd prefer to read in print, but I'm in love with his opening line to "Catullus 16": "Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō", which I won't translate for you here (thank you Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16 but does leave me rather wondering how the rest of the poem goes...I mean, how do you top that?
Otherwise, ...
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Otherwise, in news from the hood, other than stressing over a freaking broken (and very slow and time consuming repair/migration/upgrade) this is what I've been up to.
A new series, Netflix, Guy Murchie's "The Gentleman". Nothing for substance, amusing for style, he's a knack for dialogue.
One thing that I notice is that while he's busy portraying gangsters and posh aristocrats none of the portrayals are even remotely accurate, more just confirming the audiences best prejudices about the circumstances displayed.
And I rewatched "Into the Wild" - which, surprisingly emotionally affected me. The character of Chris McCandless, the people he meets - the young girl filled with longing, the hippy couple, the old man who helped him to make his belt.
That was the beauty of it, and the frank depiction of the relationships that he forms, I think I enjoyed it more on the second watching. I especially enjoyed the line "new experiences without which we grow old", for I've been growing old all winter.
Then there was "Burn After Reading" - the lightest of the Cohen brother's films by far, their idea of a rom-com or spy movie. Stellar performances by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, actually, pretty much everyone. Not my favorite of theirs, but even their worst movies are better realized than most Hollywood dross...
And I started a couple of new paintings, which I'd post here but there's a learning curve here that I'm not yet on top of. Suffice it to say that I primed a canvas and then got scared of it ending up like my website...
Facebook, lots of nuttiness up there. I've saved a lot of great "AI" images of Jesus and stewardesses for you. I think they can't get any more absurd, and then they do....
Wing nut shitposting that she wants a "Strong Male Leader" like they "Have in Russia". Hmmm. Facebook, the repository for all the 'friends' you'd never speak to in real life...
She (Wing Nut) also posts links to videos....'rumble.com', which is like the free-speech alt-right white-supremacist alternative to YouTube.
It's pretty bad. I warned you.
And of course, the US Election, Climate Change, The myth of Donald Trump as Christ, his crucifiction, now, in the media, in the courts, foreshadows for the Christian Right his resurrection, and never mind that he's shown his hoof, waved his tail, worn his horns, I am greatly worried that he's coming back...
And for the moment that catches us somewhat up.
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