Starting today I thought it’d be fun to go through what turned out to be my top content on social media for the year. Mainly I’ll focus on Instagram but I’ll drop in a few others towards the end as when they get traction (e.g. Flickr) the stats go crazy. So, here’s number 10 posts of 2023… does that make them the BEST? Not so sure, but for whatever reason they connected with people, or the algorithm!
I was dipping back into the archives, 2014 to be exact, and stumbled across this fun silhouette shot from Burning Man.
Just another awesome Burner from the archives, doing their thing.
We’ve been playing a lot with AI lately. It’s quite fun to take them and apply them to my already-published images. Stu’s been cranking away with the new Stable Diffusion Video, and here’s a fun interpretation of that alien still image I took at Burning Man. I know it’s a little janky, but this is really early days. We’ll be able to take a single picture and create a little video story/vignette about it soon that flows even better.
(We used Photoshop AI to expand the left and right of the original image and extend the foreground so give it a bit more room and the right crop for the video. So, AI in there too…just to be transparent. 🙂 )
Here it is…
One from the unpublished archives… that’s a pretty cool look she has.
Had another one of those moments where I was searching for something in the portfolio and stumbled across an image that I thought turned out rather cool. Don’t think I shared it before… so here it is.
… that if you’re at Burning Man, head over to Prism tonight at 1am to see some of my Machine Elf fractals running behind the DJ on a massive, super cool triangular screen!
If you’re at Burning Man, be sure to head over to the Prism art car at 1am on Friday night (so really Saturday morning to catch the awesome DJ/musician/artist Alex Cruz, backed by my Machine Elf creations on a massive custom screen… a 40’W x 20’H triangular video wall!
Is this place hot?
Yes.
Did I dump a bottle of water on my head every 15 minutes?
Yes.
Was I completely dry for 14 minutes between each dumping?
Yes.
One of the more hilarious places at Burning Man is the uninteresting-sounding “trash fence.” It runs around the perimeter of the entire scene and is used to catch trash blowing in the wind. There’s almost NO trash there because everyone is quite fastidious (which is entirely unique for festivals), but they put up the trash fence anyway to minimise any chance of impacting the wider ecosystem.
When you head out to the deep playa and this fence, it can easily be several miles from your camp. So, it’s quite the trek even on your bike! I try to go along the perimeter every year to check out what is out there as you never know what you’ll find… this one gave me a good chuckle.
