Confessions of a researchaholic

2025-10-18

Diwali party vultures and scavengers

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 3:05 pm
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The line for the Diwali party was too crowded earlier in the afternoon, so he went there later around the closing time, when only a few vultures and scavengers remained, to get some food.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DP9-CfUksmA/

2025-10-05

Rooftops jumping dream on October 4, 2025

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 1:13 pm
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Chased by a tiger, a lion, and a leopard.

I attempted to depict the dream by drawing it before realizing that it could be faster to collage from existing images. Idea is more important than execution, at least for this particular case.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPcSW_DgSje/

2025-09-26

Biomarker from a visitor

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 5:31 pm
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While picking up some fallen leaves in the back yard I spotted a segment of black, and judging by the softness/humidity, still fresh, coyote scat, which is a reminder that the wild animals can come in anytime regardless of the fence or other human-made boundaries.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPHSAOYD_7L/
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2025-09-06

Pulpo a la Catalana

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:43 am
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On September 2 2025 I tried the lunch special “pulpo a la Catalana” in which the octopus leg segment prompted my imagination of the whole body the leg belonged to.

Thanks to the Adobe Bon Appétit chefs who made all these delicious and nutritious meals for us.

https://www.instagram.com/kub1ai/p/DORVsHvD4G6/

2025-07-26

Pug into boiled egg

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:41 am
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I noticed that two of my recent quick sketches, one of a sleeping pug and another of an irregularly shaped boiled egg, have similar overall structures, and experimented to see how video generation would interpret their relationships.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMlSkFWSPvR/

2025-07-20

Honey Bucket

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:36 am
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Walked by a Honey Bucket portable toilet and wondered how AI would interpret the logo.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVym75yeH2/

2025-07-19

English muffin pizza

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:19 am
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“English muffin pizza” means a pizza in the size of a muffin instead of a pizza topped with muffins.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMTDXaIPvnd/

2025-07-16

Pizza with ants topping

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 4:20 pm
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After a day of jury service and before attending an evening fitness class, he bought a box of pizza from a nearby pizza shop for dinner. He ate two pieces and brought the rest inside the box to the class.

When he arrived at home after the class, he found the pizza crawling with ants, and realized that he had left the pizza out for too long without refrigeration.

After a quick web search, he found that the ants are a potential source of protein, and that the pizza is still edible, so he washed away the ants and ate the pizza.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMMCB9rsw-C/

2025-07-14

A sleeping pug

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 8:33 pm
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Chewie is a pug who sometimes sits in my place.

He follows me everywhere when I move, and stays in his beds, which I position around me, when I stay put.

He is quite content for sleeping most of the time and does not seem to care about anything else.

He likes to chew carrot sticks.

He seems to know what I need him to do, and will do it automatically, like going into his cage when I am leaving, going out for a walk when it is time for his biological breaks, and dumping his biological waste when reaching his usual area.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMTybGUy8U2/
https://youtube.com/shorts/QZC-jPEGYLY
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