The stream only gathers a crowd when it falls...
May 10th. Lot’s of things possible with GPT images now. Almost paid for some video credits to animate some of them but hen I’d have to get audio licensing or pay more for audio renders and we’ve been down with road where I don’t have $ for food @ the end, funny, not funny. Let’s do images for now. Here is Decades High;
9th pt 2. 32B is now a workable prototype. When making games gets boring, making a game that makes games seems like the next level; I’l probably edit this to make more sense later, very insane week in ways I cannot yet discuss…
9th touching grass
7th pt. 2
Over the past month I have used the new desktop app Codex and it feels like a glimpse of a early version of a future smart display element. I even managed to run a new terminal version on Linux when I was not home and it worked. It can handle longer tasks but still requires testing and direction. The programs I directed are about 60 versions to the point they are now. I downgraded to the $20/mo gpt sub and will see if finishing up and starting newer at a slower pace keeps within the limits.
The FUTURE part. SO this CODEX program that resides in the computer will be something like what will be in a TV. The user wont see the code and it will revise and test itself so fast it wont be noticed. This AITV will provide the user with the illusion AND FUNCTION of any visual display, be it a custom movie, game or software. It will feel and function like real but also be an illusion (with saving and creation of real files during)… a dream you can save
7th, Black and white NOIR version was approved! Color version will be up soon but they price to print was very high (268 pages) so it will be $40.
6th, Her is here… I was able to ask ChatGPT to review my years long blog and create a book from it. I did have to task it with editing itself about 4 times but did no editing myself. (posting once published about in 24hrs) Also finishing up a new 32 bit game designer.
3rd pt.2 Created an article about the things I learned while painting in the St. Croix area regarding geology in the Midwest, especially the ancient volcanic Basalt and Silica Sandstone that is just below the surface through many states flowing out of the Lake Superior Region and before that an ancient mountain rage. Article.
3rd Adding new images to the AI gallery.
2nd, Refined and posted two new apps. Trying to get a very good drawing specific app to work but more mainstream is Virtual Gallery where the user can upload their own works, choose a gallery and view it right away!
1st, chat gpt image 2.0 is going to put a lot of illustrators out of work. Here is a whole comic gpt made for me in one prompt;
April 30 Added a variety of tools, better navigation and working chain-able PORTALS! This means you can now create different areas and have it teleport you to any number of other portals on your build.
28 Started building this app (World Studio) as well as some other applications for my publishing site. Every time I think I am out of ideas a new one comes by to visit.
27 Going to try to dive deeper into Blender and 3D. Learning to cleanly extract, paint and animate. Taking a break from everything else…brb
25, Warp back to 1992 with this new app incoprea bbs (in development)
24 Going to work on the site, gather up some of the AI work I did when offline. I will tighten some of the programs and try to enjoy them before making anything new. Ideas are random, being ready to run with them is as best an attempt to capture.Recently lost a lot of ideas by going to write it down and lose the context, my brain is already elsewhere. Going to try to start annotating the heart (core) of the idea without the other supportive text and then try to work out form there, that should keep them from getting away so often.
23 Trying out the new image rendering, it is more detailed. going to experiment more after my shift tonight. Despite advice from everyone I am keeping the AI gallery up! I see it as a useful (often misused) medium and, at times, REAL MAGIC. Everything I can think to say about it is here.
21 Starting to upgrade beyond what I have seen other software do. For example, in Vector Studio, you can now enter your own java code for effects. Beyond exports I am adding saves in program native formats. Getting more creative now, here is Interstellar, a space radio receiver…
19th I may have found a way to cancel an Adobe account without paying the sometimes hundreds of dollars in fees (For an application whose tools were completed in the 1980’s) Anyway, to cancel without paying I changed my subscription to a lower tier subscription and that new subscription has a 14 day trial period, so I canceled the next day for a full refund and no cancellation fee!
11th, built an app to watch archived movies. Got my Adobe monthly invoice, going to try to complete enough tools so that I can be completely independent from a subscription while offering all of these basic standard tools and functions for free to everyone else.
1oth. Well, what a week it has been. Took vacation days M-Th to work on this site. Refined a lot of web-based programs and made it the Homepage. Getting better each time. The Castles & Caves games is my favorite and still in it’s early stages. Built in small parts (brick-by-brick). I work this evening and then have the weekend to program.
3rd several new programs and games on the Software page. Some features I could not get in Canva (stoke color and thickness) I was able to achieve in these simple utilities. The goal being to upgrade and customize enough webtools that I would no longer have to pay monthly software subscriptions, like Adobe.
The fact that I can now draw and export my own animated .gif files on my website WITHOUT a 3rd party to me is insane! Maybe it’s because of all software corporations trying to profit immensely even though it is a virtual copy of a copy of a copy of data. Some profit, for the development is justified but you know what Microsofts do. I heard the creators of spreadsheet were hippies and they just gave it to the world for free, people were like that once.
March 31st Adding more interactive elements and (potentially) virtual assistants to the VR gallery that can build/script.
30. Here are three oil paintings I have been working on. I feel like the larger (top) could be done, I have overworked things in the past…
29 Working on the three black and white abstracts, one very large. Will post an update this evening. I have about 20 drawings to add to the $5 page and I am working the 3D page on this site and adding elements from that to the VR gallery. *fell asleep, will post today (mon)
23 Forgot how much I actually love making things in 3D. Blender is free and very capable. When I first got into it 3D Studio Max was $3,000 and Maya was 6-9k. I literally paid $300 for a 10 VHS tape series on how to use 3D Studio Max to watch on tv until I could find someone with a hacked version that didn’t require a dongle (a physical device that came with your 3D Max Software). A friend of a friend that worked at Best Buy had a hacked version and we got the CD-ROMS from him, I paid $60 and we almost left before the guys co-worker stopped us and gave him shit about giving out his hacked version. I got home, installed it and it worked! Yeah, so Blender wow. NEW 3D page;
[3d_viewer id=10570]
21 Working the AI models through blender to the VR Gallery as a necessary filter. I did remember how much I loved Blender (3D max before that) but always got frustrated. I can do most modeling in it and have been for the past couple of days. Below is a model from an AI text to 3d (meshy) then imported and lighted in Blender;
20 Creating 3d assets in AI and importing into Blender. May do more of this over the weekend and see what I can add or build upon for the VR gallery.
13 Pausing the painting and everything else to try this; 2026 envelope art fundraiser $5ea! I will add numbered originals over the weekend and will hopefully raise a bit of funds and get more practice in this style. This project feels natural and affordable with low number originals. A good start to get back on track.
12 This is what I was talking about (not complete), it’s abstract but tapestry that it is purposefully formed/evolved. I can make ∞ of these, they come easy and flow in any size. They are new shapes and forms. It is in a universal language, a representation of the undefined flow of the creative universe. Evolved after years of sketching. 3 canvases total, working on more than one gives me something to do while other dry.
10 Looking through everything I have done and focusing one what, if anything, I can contribute to the art world. Something old, unique and flowing. My abstract drawings over the years have come to form unique forms but consistent in style . The new large abstract I am working on is showing this well. I will post it and two more I have planned soon.
9 I asked ai (anonymously) to analyze all of my work . It said that Incoprea was a niche artist, not likely to find commercial success. It went on to say incoprea is a ‘world builder’ maybe its because of my vr work or hopefully that my wider body of work represents a surreal alternate reality. Asking it to clarify might eliminate the later potential… maybe take more time for myself, maybe paint.
I spent what I had to make the last batch of AI videos and was able to go though most of the publicly available tools, new workflow below. Accounts are paused for now. Keeping VR gallery up.
8 new paintings (wip) *not completed
AI VIDEO WORKFLOW: Instead of pre edited work, you can curate images then animate them in your own way. Rendering images gives you total control through Leo (unlimited option is not bad) lower tier (banana is affordable). Rendering video in Hailuo 2.3, if money is no limit then Kling or Seedance (Veo is too formatted and similar in style to be original IMHO) *great for commercial uses tho.
Not a great enough difference in quality to pay the premiums for top of the line right now, but I will throw in a few higher end renders to try it out, i.e. the car scenes (0:57) in this; *new kilng 3.0
*To make the appearance of movement over many scenes. When importing clips, trim the front and back (the front seems to hang a noticeable amount, that can disrupt flow) The back part is generally more distorted. (Of course, use all the clip if it fits well)
I have also switched from my older video editor to capcut, neat transitions, good rendering.
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half that price. Unsure what to do, a luxury rn.