rye sourdough | as always

above you see the 1 kg loaf of bread. 100% organic rye, sourdough, salt. below is the sequence before and during baking. the bottom right image shows the loaf after half an hour of very hot and steamy dutch oven baking. the remaining hour is without the dutch oven and without steam.

artificial | art

let me show you three images, created with AI. the first one is a clichée. i used a photo of a man throwing the branch of a tree into the air. AI turned the man into a dog or wolfe-like creature and planted one or two spacecrafts into the (originally bright blue) sky.

a typical derivative of a classical photo as AI art.

the second image is not that obvious. i used the satellite view of the city of kiev and entered the keyword “hieronymus bosch”. bosch was a dutch painter born in the 15th century. the AI located a dark area in the map which depicts the dnieper river and replaced it with a bird. what the AI did with the letters in the map is not very exciting.

bosch and the kiev map

the third image is pretty amazing. i used a photo of a beach on a sunny noon, with nobody there, just waves and blue sky, and used the term “ritterkapelle” for the calculation. ritterkapelle is german for a gothic chapel or cathedral. usually the AI process likes to incorporate detailed structures like the shape of the gothic columns. not in this case. only a very dark thin horizontal line and the dark sky reminds me of a dark church:

the term “ritterkapelle” applied to a sunny beach photograph