I was doodling with a fountain pen the other day and drew an imaginary face. I thought it looked a bit like myself but there was not much of a resemblance. I used the original drawing for an input into

Blue jay sat around in contemplation, there were so many goodies and so little time to steal them all. His alter ego reminded him that to take what was not freely given was a crime. "There are so

My first attempt at making art with an AI picture making program came as a bit of a suprise. I was intending to make something bright and cheery looking but it came out looking like this: Wild, just wild

I started playing around with an AI art generator called StarryAI. So far I have come up with a lot of interesting results. Some of them were really unusual looking. I might post them in a different post.

Funny story about a fledgling

Angel design ideas for a warning light on a hitch receiver cover.

I took this picture with my smartphone camera of some of my mom's flowers. The original photo was cropped and modified with a couple of filters in GIMP. I used the G'Mic filters, Dream Smoothing and Cartoon.

Dream smoothing filter applied to sunrise photography

Hive 5 My Favorite Coffee Mug When I'm in Colorado this is the coffee cup I use It is also the only coffee cup I use so it has become my favorite one There is a little crack in the rim but this doesn't

This morning I saw an interesting looking light pattern on the wall. I took a couple of photos of it with my smart phone. They came out looking alright but I was a bit disappointed because the camera could

I thought about calling this, "Litesplasher Rises" with a hand emerging out of the ground :D After a long break I have decided to start using my @litesplasher account again. I’m feeling like

Should banks be allowed to make money? Some process has to make money in order to keep the money supply from getting too scarce. If the supply is very limited it would become difficult to make transactions

Someone keeps moving the pot of gold In one of the scarier videos that I watched recently Professor Richard Wolff and Thom Hartmann talk about the recent events at the Fed: Some other thoughts I had after

In many parts of the world energy and air conditioning are becoming more essential. Yet brown outs and other power disruptions happen at times when the air-conditioning load gets extreme or existing power

Farming... One of mankind's greatest achievements was farming! Farming produces endless amounts of food, year after year. In the past, it enabled humans to settle in different places and create communities,

I have never been to keen on bid bots but @leo.voter has come to my attention as one of the better ones. Perhaps some of you have not heard of it or how it works. How it works You can send any amount of

If I only see in black and white, in good and bad and in wrong and right... I was riding my ebike in the forest today. In the middle of the trail there were three trees that the trail passed over. I had

On a recent ebike ride I visited one of the local golf courses around here and took a few photographs. Google Photos stitched some of them together and created this panorama. You can see the clubhouse

Just for fun I thought I would try to draw something and color it in with digital programs and then run it through a filter to see what kind of results I could get. I thought it would be easiest to use

Only a snail knows where a snail goes Okay, so after almost rage quitting after a receiving a down vote on my last post I decided to get back on the unicorn and modify my last work in hope of avoiding