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Haha yeah, I imagine that's his favorite way to pass a lot of time:
yuni.us/pierrots-selfie
yuni.us/pierres-better-half
Sadly the old pics are not as pretty as this one, I'll really need to make a good one sometime... ;D

To me, "The God of the Valley" was interesting because of the village scene happening in the background, which has been something I've always wanted to create, but never had the skills/tools to achieve until now. I tried spicing up the scene with some unusual corset, hoping that some viewers would appreciate it. However, it seems this addition has only ruined the image instead of enhancing it... Next time I'll try a similar scene with a contortionist, that should be more interesting and closer to what I originally envisioned... :3

AI is the last thing to limit my creativity - I never share pictures that I'm not proud of myself. I have quite high standards, so when I post something that means I truly enjoyed it and wanted to share it with others :3

About the website's ups and downs, I've been doing this since 2005 because I often develop the feeling of extreme disappointment in everything. This feeling does not go away until I completely erase everything from everywhere. But it's important to notice that the content always comes back after a couple of days. In my entire life, I have never deleted any of my projects entirely - I currently have at least 6 different backups of everything I have ever worked on, 2 of which are updated multiple times per day, and 4 others that are updated once a week in turn. Therefore, even if I accidentally delete anything crucial, I can retrieve it from a backup made 2-3 weeks ago. If I delete anything from the web, I ensure it is very simple to upload again - this entire website, for example, takes only two minutes to fully restore, and all of the comments have offline backups updated several times each day :D

I recently had the impression that nobody visited this site anymore, but yesterday I tried adding proper view counters that exclude bot traffic, and only count unique visitors, so I discovered that "The God of the Valley" has been actually viewed by over 1000 different people! This was quite an encouraging revelation :D So at least the site doesn't seem as abandoned as I thought, there are still real people stopping by... So now that I know for sure that there's still plenty of visitors looking at my stuff, I can feel a bit more confident about continuing my work here ;3

Sorry about these random images - it's just when "The God of the Valley" got no feedback, I got so frustrated in all this art that decided to completely wipe my site and all my other social accounts, and just change it to a random fun site without any comments. So I did all that and found a few funny pictures I made in the last couple of years... But then after a couple of days, I got over it as usual... but what to do with these funny pictures??

So I decided to keep them for now - I think they actually look interesting in a way that without them the gallery looks like a bunch of the same stuff... For me it's not the same when working on each picture separately, but when putting 20 pictures on one page it starts looking like the same stuff for some reason :/ Even though I'm trying to make every picture different in colors, style, lighting and poses, but the subjects are very similar. And these funny pictures seemed to add little breaks and intermissions here and there, so I actually liked how it looked in the end :3

Yeah, the terms people use can be super odd, for example it still makes me cringe every single time someone refers to a powerful desktop computer as a mere "device" XD

Fractals are at least pure math without data... I was going to mention wave function collapse which is a cool algorithm for procedurally generated maps for games but then realized it's probably not pure math and also requires some weight tables... ;D

I have no idea how to make a picture like this in Flux - I tried but it's unable to produce this style. I only used it to fix some small details but the picture overall looked exactly the same before Flux, just some tiny details had those random AI-like artifacts and Flux made it much cleaner. I think the picture overall is mostly a product of Reliberate and the watercolor-ish style is thanks to SeekYou Mikan and some ControlNet.

Yeah, it's pure ai, though you know how generative ai isn't really "generative" in any sense of the word.... XD I mean a true generative algorithm I think is something like fractals, perlin noise or voronoi diagrams, the stuff that generates images without using any data... But then again, I don't believe that linear matrix math based on prebuilt fixed weights has anything to do with the word "intelligence" either lol.

So "pure ai" it is, whatever that means XDD It's like "dark matter" which is neither "dark" nor "matter" but is called dark matter for the lulz. But yeah, I didn't use any real photos here, though I'm pretty sure the creators of Reliberate, SeekYou Mikan and Flux.1 Dev (the 3 models used to create this image) had vast datasets with a bunch of landscapes :3