One main reason that I would like to be able to draw is to share what I saw in my dreams which tend to be vivid and unusual. This is difficult enough due to both the required skills and the ephemeral nature of dreams. But how about visualizing other people’s dreams based on their descriptions?
https://www.behance.net/gallery/192128691/BakeryHouseDream
Based on a (human-sized) monster sculpture by Takashi Murakami that I saw in a recent exhibition I did a quick rough drawing via Fresco with outlines and color-fills in separate layers, and then fed the outlines-only and color-fills versions to an image-to-image ComfyUI workflow. The results are very interesting and capture the style of the original artist quite well.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/191299777/TakashiMurakamiMonsterSculpture
As part of the lab offsite, we took an urban hike between 601 Townsend Street and the Mission-Dolores Park. The weather was unusually nice for January in San Francisco, and this is actually the first time I walked through the neighborhood between Mission and SoMa which has this interesting industry-under-the-highway feel.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/190359367/ExteriorMotoGStylus/modules/1076608513
After finishing a demo in the morning, I drove to San Francisco, listening to Edvard Greig’s piano concerto (A minor, opus 16) on the way, and went to the Legion of Honor to see Boticelli’s drawings, which I finished on time by avoiding reading all the descriptions.
It was a beautiful day, with the sun shining and Golden Gate bridge visible from the museum.
Rainy Saturday, writing, drawing.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JWvLbMC-kI4
https://www.behance.net/gallery/189507309/SleepingProfileSofa
I avoid Duolingo Pro so that I won’t have enough hearts to to too many exercises.
The dog slept a lot and thus remained stationary for a good drawing subject.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/188961613/ChewieJan2024
I spent the evening on some manual household installation/repair tasks and felt a visceral sense of satisfaction of using my body, which tends to be missing for sitting in front of a computer all day.
Given that our bodies are designed (or more precisely, evolved) to be moving around, I wonder if there are ways to structure our work routines so that we can use our bodies more.
The existing design for “spatial computing” is mostly for content consumption and authoring tasks that are inherently spatial (e.g., 3D modeling).
How to extend that for more abstract tasks (like programming) is an interesting question (personally I doubt if spatial manipulation of node graphs or the like is the right answer).
This is by far the longest PhD defense I have ever attended, and I have attended many.
The first half was spent on the presentation, with the second half on discussions (among thesis committee members and later the candidate) about how to deal with the lack of publications.
I enjoyed the first half much more than the second.
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