WordPress Sucks!

Somehow, every post with images has lost it’s media links, so none of the lightbox galleries function. WTF? So frustratingly annoying. I really dislike WP, precisely because of this kind of nonsense. 🙁

Server Changes

Changes with my server has my main site offline, hopefully that will be fixed at some point soon. The rest of my sites seem to be working well. Hopefully, I will get back to posting more regularly soon.

Some New Photos

It’s been a while, trying to set up a workflow to add proper alt text and publish widely. Still working on it.

Winter at Mad Beaver

snow with shadows and partly covered lawn ornament. — Dried bean leaves in Winter

House Sitting in the New Year

Winter scene. Leaves in the foreground covered in ice. Dog in the background.

Dog in the forest in the Winter — Winter scene. Leaves in the foreground covered in ice. Dog in the background.

Finally, A New Post

Still trying to get some kind of posting workflow happening, very much a work in progress.

I’ve been down the AI rabbit hole with Stable Diffusion, using the AUTOMATIC1111 script- keeps things relatively easy to set up and update. What’s fascinated me most is the animation extension, Deforum. I’ve created a new Youtube channel for the experiments-
https://www.youtube.com/@webmadmansstablediffusionexper

There’s also some folders in my Junk Drawer-
https://sketchbin.webmadman.net/2022/stablediffusion/
https://sketchbin.webmadman.net/2023/stablediffusion/

I just finished this video for my main Youtube channel-

In putting the video together, and other exploring, I generated large number of images. I wanted to share a few here. The captions are the artists I prompted.