Confessions of a researchaholic

2022-11-07

Early morning dream

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 9:31 pm
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I often have very vivid and strange dreams with other-worldly sights, sounds, and feels, during which my brain seems to be in a very different mental status from being awake and capable of producing novel ideas. Which made me wonder if I have tapped only a small fraction of my mental power during consciousness.

This is a dream that I partially remembered right before waking up, and quickly drew/wrote down while it was quickly fading. I completed the paintings in the evening via iterative drawing for recall.

2022-11-05

Catching the moment

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 5:54 pm
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Sometimes I need to draw very quickly to capture a moment of sight or mood before the memory fades. Here are two paintings of sunrise and sunset in the same day.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3gkc8dYpJaI

2022-10-23

The 20th national congress of the CCP closing

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:42 pm
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Inspired by some recent news, I drew a quick motion graphics and shared it when the events are still fresh.

2022-10-21

Portrait of a man whose head looks like a shumai

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:08 am
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The Chinese prompt worked much less well likely due to the lack of training data.

2022-10-17

Floor-sweeping old lady

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:19 pm
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Quick gesture sketch from visual memory of a person I saw during a late afternoon walk.

https://youtube.com/shorts/y7_yoL_a8p4

2022-10-12

I saw the moon but almost missed the cat

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 8:53 pm
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The round bright moon was hard to miss during my evening walk, in sharp contrast to Melon the black neighborhood cat.


2022-10-10

Custom bone ash urn design

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:39 pm
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Inspired by life vessels that mixed clay with human bone ashes, I envisioned a custom-designed urn decorated with drawings made by a different composition of bone ashes and clay over the base material.

2022-10-07

The faces of Ruth Asawa

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:41 pm
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I felt these faces making expressions when looking at them in the exhibition.

2022-10-02

The little cookie girl with dall-e paintings

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 10:56 am
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This is an experiment to generate images directly from texts from the little cookie girl.
Each prompt below is appended with “oil painting by Rembrandt”.

On a freezing New Year’s Eve, a happy young girl, warm and well clothed, huddles in the alley between two houses, trying to sell cookies, which she eats one by one, to keep herself occupied.

In the sweetness of the cookies she sees a series of comforting visions: the warm iron stove, the lovely roast goose, the great glorious Christmas tree. Each vision disappears as a cookie was eaten.

In munching the next cookie she sees her grandmother, the only person that also made cookies with her. To keep the vision of her grandmother alive as long as possible, the girl consumes the entire pack of cookies.

When the cookies are gone the girl is full to the throat, and she takes Uber to carry her home.

The next morning, the father finds the girl sleeping on her bed with a smile on her face, and expresses joy. He does not know about the wonderful visions she had seen, or how happy she is with all the cookies in her belly.

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