People Deserve Beautiful Things
The SDBA program introduced an interesting discussion about design standards in renovation. It happens to be something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about.
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Art & Design
Madame Butterfly at the Michigan Opera
Review of a performance currently playing at the Detroit Opera.
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Midjourney Parameters: Style & Chaos In Speculative Urbanism
Imagining cities and their infrastructure using artificial intelligence, and playing around with some of the weirder parameters in Midjourney to see what we can squeeze out of the generative AI platform.
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Unpacking AI Training Biases in Midjourney
Artificial intelligence can produce imagery of whatever you ask it for. The question is: How accurate is the AI’s interpretation? In some cases, it sounds like it’s based more on the prejudices and stereotypes held by the people who design and train the model. That’s a big problem.
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Dreaming In Isometric: Variations on Midjourney Prompts
I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with Midjourney, a generative AI platform that produces images based on text prompts (and
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Midjourney: The Imagination of the Sane, the Insane, and the Unseen
Imagining a better light switch may well first require imagining a better outlet. Or not. We’ll see.
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I asked Midjourney To Imagine The Ideal City. It Was… Weird.
Shortly after beginning my foray into the world of Midjourney AI, I came to a not terribly surprising revelation: A
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Midjourney AI: Escaping Down The Rabbit Hole
In recent weeks, I’ve done a cannonball off the high-dive into the deep end of the world of what I
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Womxn House Envisions Future for Artists, Gender on Detroit’s West Side
Erin Gold gives a talk on her stained glass installation work at a new artist residency and gallery space at Womxn House, a home on the west side of Detroit.
Read MoreThe Record Store Slash Venue: A Quaint, Necessary Reminder of Pre-COVID Times
In St. Paul, after imaging Afro Deli, I stopped into Eclipse Records, a mainstay of the Twin Cities retail music
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