Music

On occasion, I like to do stuff to do with music. I can play the piano. I can play:

• For river (Johnny's Version)
• Shelter
• After Dark

The list isn't extensive but I just can't remember what I can play right now.

I have also tried my hand at remixing music, here I am remixing Crab Rave as a ring tone:

It might sound a little weird because it was specifically designed as a looping ring tone for my phone. When I listen to it on my computer using my headphones, it sounds very empty on the lower frequencies but on the phone, it's a lot better, as the phone has less of an ability to produce lower frequancy sounds. It arguably sounds "correct" on a phone.

AI

I tried my hand at AI generation using Open AI's DALL·E. It's how I made the image to go with this portfolio page. I think the way in which the content is rather interesting. It involves a lot of trial and error, and it's not as straight forward as some people imagine, but it's a lot easier than learning to paint or getting someone else to paint your mind.

Prompting

I started off by doing some basic prompting:

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As you can see, prompting is a gradual process. It really helps if you understand what the model might be misinterpreting or misunderstanding

Refining

After prompting, you can pick an image you like and check out its variations, like you can do here:

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If you're not exactly happy with the image that you have, you can always inpaint the parts that you want to change, then run the image with a prompt. This is what I got when I made this last image:

Finished product

And here's the finished result. Unfortunately, image generation AI still doesn't know how to count. Crabs typically have 10 legs, but the AI generated a crab with 6... That's 4 too fewer. However, the crab in the image reminds me of a poison headcrab from Half Life, so maybe that's the cause?????? Regardless, I liked the picture enough to put it here.