Days on Market
All is well with Cardiff. She was spayed earlier in the week and just about ignored the fact she had surgery. It’s been work to keep her from being too active. Wouldn’t do to pull a suture or end up with an injury from pushing too hard. Tough explaining that to her though.
I’ve started looking at places to move, and there’s a helpful bit of information they include in many house listings: Days on Market. This gives an idea of how long it’s been up for sale. I’m sure there are ways to game the system, but when you see ‘10 months’ the first thing you think of is not “I need to see that right away!” Typically, there’s a bad foundation or neighbor with a shotgun in the equation, and the house is still for sale because it hasn’t been addressed.
Coincidentally, I also just created a profile on a dating site. I think a similar metric of “Days on Market” would be helpful there too.
Last week Cardiff and I took a trip over the hill to Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz. I was hoping to see some surfers, but the water was flat flat flat. No one was surfing. She did, however, enjoy playing in the water and trying to chase birds. BTW, if you decide to visit Cowell Beach, dogs aren’t allowed. Just sayin’.
I also continue to play with AI image generation, which gets more and more attention both technically as well as in the press. Personally, I don’t know the right answer to the whole “who owns the artwork” in the grand moral sense. I understand the software has been trained on a gazillion images from the internet - very notably without consent - and it’s possible to mimic the style of a particular artist. Is this substantively different than practicing drawing or painting based on another artist’s style?
I don’t believe artists should be withheld compensation, but I also know that many people draw “in the style of” for their own profit. I honestly don’t know the best answer to the whole issue.
That being said, I’ve made some weird stuff, in the same smattering across multiple genres and mediums. For those who don’t know, the overhead shot of a bunch of objects laid out is called a Knolling, or “Knolling style”, named for a janitor that always laid out his tools at right angles to each other so each could be seen at a glance. You’ll see examples of this (even for Batman), as well as Fremen from Dune, abstract stuff, cowboys, papercuts, and even a spaceship.
