I can see this fire hydrant across the street right outside my home office window, and recently it has been surrounded by blooming flowers.
The watercolor wet splatter brush helped me quickly create the flowers effect.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DK5-xlaOqEl/
My current employer has great on-site meal services with high quality, nutrition, taste, variety, and in a subsidized price. The employees usually use an app to order and pay for the meals.
But today, when I tried to pick up my ordered meal, I found the food stall already closed. I was then told that since the app is down, we can just take whatever they like without paying.
As expected, the popular food stalls either had long queues or were already closed due to running out of inventory.
So I just had some salad which seems less popular or better stocked.
Saw this plant in the neighborhood and fascinated by its swirling leaves.
Instead of reproducing the exact details, I tried to capture the overall feels via freeform strokes.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKYrhzLxwwu/
When learning a new skill, how well we can do at the beginning or how fast we can improve over time matter less how persistent we can be.
Sometimes the progress might not be obvious in the short term but might pleasantly surprise us in the long term.
Animated brushes (e.g., AmberDraw) and motion brushes (e.g., Adobe Fresco) are complementary ways to “draw” single-frame animations.
Recently I have had a lot of fun experimenting with the former, either creating animations from scratch or adding animated brushes over a static drawing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKJCGO5xhdY/
https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/p/DKGbzm1xMiv/
https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/p/DKGbtKgRL4l/
https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/p/DJ2lz9WSjDt/
https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/p/DJ2ljWgSpkM/
https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/reel/DJlLgXYOmWh/
https://youtube.com/shorts/NFvxPCQUG4s
https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/reel/DJkv9BOSXcr/
https://youtube.com/shorts/f9RLMBIYl34
I realized a while back (maybe during my teen years) that my brain tends to move too fast for by body to catch up, causing fast (and thus unclear) talking, hand writing, and body movements.
The instructor of one of my physical classes also made similar comments, so today I performed one these forms in a super slow motion. It was more physically demanding (as I need to hold each position longer) but also more mentally relaxing (as I can focus inside myself).
[After watching this YouTube video about people pivoting to blue collar jobs due to AI]
Let’s say AI replaces or discourages certain creative tasks (like writers or artists).
Eventually nobody is willing to or able to perform such tasks, or only a few highly skilled people can and will.
And then only the AI can create such artifacts, like novels or paintings.
Would such creations just regurgitates of the original human creations? If so, would we lose forever the capability to create something really new?
Or have the humans already lost the capability to create something new, and are just recombining existing ideas?
And/or like all past technological advancements, AI will help us open new ways to create things that we have never imagined before?
Depicting the (often very vivid) dreams I have is one way to hone creative processes and measure the advances of related technologies.
This is a dream that I had on May 2 2025 during which I saw my baby niece happily and agilely climbing the kitchen cabinet to get some snacks.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJhZH91PWwB/
Upon noticing a reminder email about upcoming reviews due for a conference 3 days ago, I realized that I haven’t received any prior notifications about the assignments and thus haven’t started reading the papers yet. It is not a good form to miss reviews, especially for a conference that I previously chaired, so I spent an intense long weekend reviewing these submissions.
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