Watching Louisville/Iowa women’s basketball game and both these teams can score. Fun to watch.
📷 March Photo Challenge #26. Instrument. My wife’s ukulele. Columbia, SC.
I wrote up my quick first thoughts about Adobe Firefly, but my 11-year old has also started playing with it. Here’s his bronze steam-powered robot walking in a cityscape.
First impressions of the Adobe Firefly Beta
The beta service gives some insight into how Adobe views AI’s role in the creative process. I recently got access to Adobe Firefly, a beta generative AI system. It’s not a surprise at all that Adobe is experimenting with generative creative tools. Adobe is clearly looking at ways AI can integrate with the tools that they already offer. Thankfully, unlike an earlier wave of visual AI tools, Adobe has trained their AI model on properly-licensed images.
📷 March Photo Challenge #25. Spice. Random assortment of seasonings. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #24. Court. Basketball practice facility at the University of South Carolina. Go Gamecocks. Columbia, SC.
I just got access to Firefly, Adobe’s new generative AI beta service. It’s supposedly trained on images that they have the rights to scan. Right now, it’s limited, but I’m intrigued. I’ll write a longer post with examples later after I’ve had a chance to experiment.
📷 March Photo Challenge #23. Chance. Flipped a coin. Heads. Columbia, SC.
I came up with my silly U2 “The Fly” insect photo post for today, thinking that I wouldn’t have time to track down insect shots today because I was with a video crew on campus all day.
Our first stop, though, was a public health lab studying ticks, mosquitos and parasites.
📷 March Photo Challenge #22. Insect. Listening to U2’s new version of The Fly. Columbia, SC.
Amazon is shutting down camera review website DP Review. I always thought it was weird that they were owned by Amazon, and I guess that eventually, the cost to run the site was more than DP Review generated in sales.
📷 March Photo Challenge #21. Tiny. 1950s Hit subminiature camera. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #20. Houseplant. Up close and personal with the plant in our office. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #19. Analog. Weber Kettle thermometer. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #18. Portico. Not a grand entrance, but it’s home. Columbia, SC.
Just watched A Sort of Homecoming, the Disney+ U2 documentary/concert video with David Letterman. It’s fun and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
📷 March Photo Challenge #17. Early. Meeting a friend this morning at Curiousity Coffee. I’m early. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #16. Road. Crossing a street by campus. Columbia, SC.
As someone who once drove a VW Rabbit, I have to say that I’m interested in the VW ID.2all concept. I want a small electric car, and this would be perfect. Sadly, I doubt it will ever make it to the United States.
This laser printer “review” from Nilay Patel at The Verge made me laugh. I wanted to buy one of these during the early days of the pandemic, but they were sold out. After years of flaky inkjets, I eventually bought a Canon Laserjet M15w and love having a black-and-white laser printer at home.