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Jasmine Art

by Medron Pryde on March 25, 2023 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The AI art craze is changing the art world. Even artists who used to do “traditional” 3D rendering have shifted over to using AI art. It just so happens that a computer rig built for high end renders can also run an AI art installation in local. Instead of spending minutes or hours twisting the dials to get just the right look, can now put in some text prompts and generate a few dozen possible shots in a matter of minutes, all via your own computer’s graphics card. My rig can’t do that, but free AI render sites are available. I run hundreds of sample renders while writing, narrow them down to a few dozen that I actually like, and then pick one or three to use as final reference pics. This is Jasmine gone anime via the dezgo dot com everything anime 4.0 engine.

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Jasmine Art

by Medron Pryde on March 24, 2023 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I have a pair of low end rendering rigs at my house. Cheap video cards, with a heavy helping of RAM and large hard drives to give them room to work. I use them to render character shots and scenes. Lighting, camera angles, and posing often takes me hours to get right. I spend a few minutes moving things around, hit render, and go do something else. Come back in an hour to see if I got it right. Repeat until I’m happy with the scene. Then I hit a long run 4 or 8-hour render to bring it out in full detail. The better rig can do it in 3 or 4, the lesser rig in 8 or 10 hours. The key is, I can get a near 1 for 1 ratio of renders I like with this practice. Here are Jack and Jasmine, rendered in DAZ Studio. They are Out of Time and Space.

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Jasmine Art

by Medron Pryde on March 23, 2023 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

DAZ Studio launched eighteen years ago, promising that non-artistic types could render images on fairly low-end systems. I tried it back then, but 3D modeling was still in its infancy, and my results were rather meh. I came back some years later when I saw that technology had improved. I was writing and publishing stories by then, and I wanted to use it to create character references. Jasmine was one of the first characters I created, by combining various free or cheap character models, skins, hair, eyes, and clothing. This model dates back to 2014, making her my oldest model still in use. I nailed her look early, and have never felt a need to improve it since. This is Jasmine, created and rendered in DAZ Studio.

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Jasmine Art

by Medron Pryde on March 22, 2023 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I never hired an artist to do a drawing of Jasmine. I had other projects and stuff going on, and my finances started getting tighter thanks to the extra costs involved in Obamacare. I just never got around to it. Though I still kept my eyes out for good artists. Shoni89 created his own models and rendered images with them, usually basing them off some game character. I don’t know which character this model was supposed to represent, but I thought she looked like how I saw Jasmine in my mind. So I asked him to render an image with this outfit. It became the first piece of art I had to represent Jasmine, and I still open up this image when writing scenes with her. The “real” Jasmine is a bit more tanned, but this is a very nice piece that represents her well.

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Big Protests

by Medron Pryde on March 21, 2023 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I have been saying since basically day one that what Democrats and Big Media reported happened on January 6, 2021 did not match reality in total. People have called me crazy for that. Some have ended friendships with me over that. The fact that I would not say that every single person who went to the protest was a domestic terrorist traitor to America and should be killed for what they did that day actually made me a terrorist traitorous sympathizer in their minds. Or just totally batshit crazy.

The reason I have made this stand is because I investigated. I read reports by people who were there. Reports that the short bicycle barricades in front of the Capitol were torn down while Trump was speaking, an hour before the main crowds even began to arrive. They talked about agent provocateurs with megaphones directing the crowd to get closer and be violent. Some talked about the Capitol Police attacking peaceful protestors with tear gas and batons, and confused members of the crowd asking them why they were doing this. They were on their side. Why attack like this? Could these reports have been lies? Absolutely. That is why I looked for video evidence.

So I watched videos that never made it to Big Media. That Democrats said didn’t even exist. I watched peaceful crowds walk through doors held open by police officers and going peacefully through the public areas of the Capitol. Taking pictures. Straightening rope lines that others had tipped over or knocked out of line. I saw peaceful protestors gathered outside the Capitol who never entered it. There were entire crowds eating hotdogs and having no idea anything odd was going on elsewhere. People who never even realized crowds on other side of the Capitol were doing anything other than a peacefully protest. People who family members called from outside to tell them that something odd was going on. I saw police throwing tear gas into one crowd, though I couldn’t tell if that crowd was peaceful or not. Not all of the videos I saw where long enough for me to be certain that I was truly seeing what it looked like I was seeing. That is why I have always called for MORE videos to be released.

Yes, I saw a riot as well. I saw people with megaphones directing the crowd closer to the Capitol. I saw black-clad groups donning Trump gear under trees before walking into the crowd and shouting to take the Capitol. I saw what looked like instigators leaning in to talk to people moments before those people then rushed forward to attack the police lines or the barricades they had set up. I saw obvious rioters breaking down doors and windows and rushing into the Capitol.

These are all things I read and saw two years ago, both the good and the bad, because I investigated. Could the stuff I read and saw be faked? Absolutely. That is why I have always said we need to investigate EVERYBODY who initiated violence that day. We need to look at the videos and see who started each fight. We need to find out who they are, and charge them for that. Because these people initiated a riot that destroyed lives. Some people died that day. Others have had their lives destroyed since then. Everybody who started that riot needs to be investigated. But that hasn’t happened.

Yes, hundreds of people who attended the protest have been arrested and put in prison awaiting trial. Denied bail. Denied the medical treatment they needed for pre-existing conditions. Given cake instead of real food because the jailors needed to show they were giving the prisoners the right amount of calories. And prisoners who went through all the hurdles to see a lawyer or family were punished for it. There were government lockdowns, you know, so prisoners that had contact with anyone on the outside were isolated in solitary confinement for a week or so to make sure they didn’t let any contagions into the prison. Prisoners report being beaten, one so badly he lost an eye. Once again, any of these reports could be lies. That’s why they need to be investigated. To find out if they are lies or truth. But the jailors have refused to let congressional oversight in to monitor the treatment for years. They’ve locked congressmen outside the doors. On camera.

J6 prisoners have been kicked out of their families because nobody wants to hang around with a domestic terrorist or a traitor. Their bank accounts have been shut down. Social media memberships banned. Fired from jobs. Denied new jobs. Evicted from their homes. Told they aren’t welcome to walk into stores in their own hometowns. And I’m not just talking about people who entered the Capitol, whether they were peaceful or violent. This has happened to people who never entered the Capitol. To people who attended Trump’s speech and then went straight to their hotel or back home. People who never saw the Capitol that day have had their lives ruined. Because again and again, the Democrats have said that anyone who went to Washington to protest the election that day is a terrorist and a traitor, and Big Media and Big Brother have pressed that same narrative.

Judges have denied requests for changes of venue to courts outside Washington DC. They have limited who can listen to or attend the cases, making it harder to perform oversight. They have required that attorneys give the questions they intend to ask to the government before the trial. They have convicted people of violating laws specifically stated to NOT be applicable to political protestors. And when protestors were found guilty by a DC jury, or gave up and confessed to get a lesser sentence and just walk away, the judges have over and over again handed down sentences far beyond the norm for the crimes in question. Years or decades when months or weeks are more common.

At least one protestor has committed suicide after he realized they were never going to allow him to live a life ever again, and many others report having seriously considered it. People who went to attend Trump’s speech on January 6 have had their lives ruined by a Big Media and a Big Brother who calls them domestic terrorists and traitors, involved in an insurrection against the government. People who walked to the Capitol but never entered it. People who walked through doors held open by police officers so they could walk in. People who walked around inside the Capitol with police escorts and didn’t do any damage to anything. Some people were inside for 90 seconds or less before walking back out, and the government has thrown the book and more at them.

I absolutely agree that we have to charge the people who initiated violence that day. But carrying a flag isn’t violence. Walking through a room and looking at the statues isn’t violence. But protestors are being charged as if it is. And more than that, they are being treated as if they are guilty of the worst charges aimed at them before any trial or hearing. They are guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of Big Media. Not innocent until proven guilty. That is a rock solid foundation of our justice system, and it has been totally ignored for these defendants.

What Tucker Carlson did recently in airing some of the videos is excellent I think. He showed some of what I saw, from different perspectives of course, two years ago. The videos I saw when I searched for them and the surveillance video he broadcasted on his program show the same thing. Peaceful protests. Peaceful enough to poke a hole in the narrative the Democrats and Big Media have used. Now we need to see more. And we need to give access to these videos to the J6 Protestors that are still in jail, or those who have been sentenced. This is evidence that was denied to them, and they have every right to use it in their own defense.

Because whether they committed violence or not, their lives have been ruined. They attended a political speech and a registered, approved, and permitted political protest that President Trump asked them to come to. Some protestors died for that. Others are in prison right now. Others have gone home to shattered families and ruined lives.

And now Trump is asking people to protest if a New York City District Attorney charges him and arrests him for giving money to somebody who said they were his sidechick in exchange for her signing an NDA and not talking about it anymore. This is totally legal. People do it every day. The federal election commission checked it out and said there was nothing wrong with it. And the possible sidechick who signed the NDA violated it so badly that a court ruled she had to return the money. So Trump might be charged with giving hush money to a possible sidechick who didn’t hush and had to give it back.

And he wants people to protest in support of him if that happens. After what happened to the people who went to that last protest in Washington DC, I’m gonna say that you all should be careful about that. I say don’t go into Washington DC. Don’t go into ANY major Democrat-run city. We know they hate us. The last three years has shown us that people who attend rallies or protests might get shot dead. DC isn’t the only place this has happened. And people who go back home without ever raising a fist or anything else might be hauled back and charged with a crime. Democrat-run cities are not safe places for anybody to be right now, especially not someone who disagrees with their politics.

Look at the treatment the J6 protestors have gotten before you decide on what you are going to do next. Those protestors went to Washington DC that day to support the President and to protest against election fraud. They had no idea there was going to be violence that day, and the vast majority of the protestors did not commit violence. But that has not stopped the Democrats, Big Media, and Big Brother from destroying their lives. And when a new group of protestors shows up to protest in favor of Trump, they will do it again.

So be careful. Absolutely call out what is being done. It is wrong. But stay out of big Democrat-run cities. It’s not worth my life to go into one of them and protest, and I don’t think it is worth your life either.

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