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  1. cosmicfolklore

    I Asked an A.I. Image Generator to Show me Pipe Smoking...

    I wouldn’t call them landscapes, nor botanicals. Different stuff, but he gets fine details of walls of plants, natural, like kudzu or ivy on trees. Unreal resolution… well, it’s not resolution as you would get digitally printed , but the grain of the litho gives this different kind of...
  2. cosmicfolklore

    I Asked an A.I. Image Generator to Show me Pipe Smoking...

    I sometimes see enlargers at the thrift store. You could probably find one on ebay. There are places online that still have b&w film. I used to buy bulk and roll my own. Really, it’s not very hard. Now, photo prints with a press is where magic can happen. We have an artist in our group...
  3. cosmicfolklore

    I Asked an A.I. Image Generator to Show me Pipe Smoking...

    You are a different kind of professional photographer. I am thinking more of the guy who snaps a skyline of a cityscape, or an old barn, and sends it off to be made into giclees, and then sets up a tent next to mine. I know that painters have to eat, so they make these giclees also. But, I...
  4. cosmicfolklore

    Totally Rad (Davis)

    I love his work. Rad is living down in a little community of retired folks close to me. While he doesn't carve, he is still doing blasts for artisan pipemakers. I have had to collaborate with him when making bands and such for Mark Tinsky. He is a really nice guy.
  5. cosmicfolklore

    Eight State Burley Question

    I didn't say that you said that PG is in 8 State. But, you went from "I think" to "100% most certainly" in between two posts. What makes you 100% certain?
  6. cosmicfolklore

    I Asked an A.I. Image Generator to Show me Pipe Smoking...

    Yeh, the last 25 years many photo jobs get replaced with a boss telling his secretary to use her phone to go take a picture of... whatever. My issue is going to an art fair or gallery and someone is selling $800-5000 pictures that they snapped and sent off to have giclee prints made for them...
  7. cosmicfolklore

    I Asked an A.I. Image Generator to Show me Pipe Smoking...

    The thieves are the ones who use AI to take creative jobs. No one is making any money just posting things on here.
  8. cosmicfolklore

    Rigid Black Char Forcing Harder Tamping Pressure?

    That's Rodney's, "tough crowd, tough crowd" tie tug gif. Maybe I should have used this one...
  9. cosmicfolklore

    I Asked an A.I. Image Generator to Show me Pipe Smoking...

    I hope everyone understands, AI didn't really "generate" or actually create any of this image. It steels images from real artists and composes them together. Someone out there had a photo or create an image of a guy sitting in his tux, and then the program just hodge-podged some things...
  10. cosmicfolklore

    Rigid Black Char Forcing Harder Tamping Pressure?

  11. cosmicfolklore

    I Asked an A.I. Image Generator to Show me Pipe Smoking...

    Sooooo... no one is going to say anything about his huge ugly scar on his face? Looks like he lost a fight with a bear.
  12. cosmicfolklore

    Rigid Black Char Forcing Harder Tamping Pressure?

    I'm just trying to add some levity to your thread. I tried to make it so that no one would ever read it as serious, because sometimes... you know... dumb people. I love discussing things like how larger pipes smoke cooler, but them 90% of the comments are all "stop overthinking it."...
  13. cosmicfolklore

    Some weird birds.

    mere "glitches" in the "matrix"... puffy
  14. cosmicfolklore

    Some weird birds.

    Wait, the picture says that these are "persons". I think I know one of these persons. Looks just like the guy who shit on my truck... asshole. puffy
  15. cosmicfolklore

    Eight State Burley Question

    How do you know this? Have you had a lab analysis done? I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but your comment is worded so dogmatically certain. Just because a blend is hard to dry doesn't mean that this one chemical is used. FVF takes a heat driven blower for days to dry out, and we are...
  16. cosmicfolklore

    I Asked an A.I. Image Generator to Show me Pipe Smoking...

    Computer engineers do not even understand what we want and need from technology. I don't want the computer to make art, generate music, and do my writing for me. That just leaves us all doing chores. I want technology to wash my dishes, wash and fold my clothes, so that I have more time to...
  17. cosmicfolklore

    Rigid Black Char Forcing Harder Tamping Pressure?

    I'm going to be the voice of reason here, despite what these others say. I think that you should worry more. Too much laid back, don't give a crap going on these days. I have a theory, they add stuff to the tobaccos that will keep you from enjoying yourself. But, what exactly is being added...
  18. cosmicfolklore

    Tobacco Smoke "Taste" - Taste/flavour or Aroma?

    I remember those 6th grade experiments they did in science class. Where they put salt on the salt part of the tongue, sugar on the sugar part, etc... then we looked our teachers right in the eye and we lied that yes, we could not taste salt on the sugar parts. At that point we questioned...
  19. cosmicfolklore

    Tobacco Smoke "Taste" - Taste/flavour or Aroma?

    Slower, smell instead of taste, wait, be patient, smoke more... yep. You know, if they all taste the same, and I wish I could say that, because if their was no difference, I'd just smoke the cheapest shit I could find. You've got it made. But really... slower, smell, wait, and more...
  20. cosmicfolklore

    Tobacco Smoke "Taste" - Taste/flavour or Aroma?

    Of course, PG is supposed to be indecipherable and invisible to the senses, but the "taste like ass" sensors on some people get wires crossed. Medically, this comes from never having eaten pussy. puffy
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