To get a bit of variety into these error posts, here is a different Lead Image from my selfie files:
“All art is a self-portrait.
Even if you do a painting of someone else. Art helps us find ourselves.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist
DREAMING ABOUT WORKING ON MY SELFPORTRAIT IN MY NEW STUDIO
End of March 2026 I lost my Studio in Wien Meidling. I had been there for 10 years. It used to be a office and computer laboratory before. After they moved out and sold the building, the new owner, a patron of the arts, turned it into a studio space. 4 levels, with at times over 80 artists having studios in there. A few years back, the owner of the building sold it to a real estate company who wanted to tear it down and build a apartment building. All this time, the lease was renewed year by year. Then in the Fall of 2025 we were notified that the lease would not be renewed anymore. So by the end of March 2026 we had to move out. Since then, I stored some of my art work at my small apartment, but the bulk of it at my sisters country house in Nether Austria.
A 'new' studio is not within reach for me - rents in Vienna are too high, and what I had before at the 'Kunstquartier Wien Meidling' was reasonable, but something like that is rare. Since I do not have space to work in my apartment, I have since then primarily worked at my desk on my laptop, working out ideas with the use of AI. Eventually, I may, if circumstances permit, translate some of these ideas into actual analog art.
These here are produced in my AI 'Dream Studio' on my desktop at home
All of them are done on Nightcafe AI with my 'Trained Selfie Lora': I uploaded several images of myself to train the Lora, so for the most part of it, combined with various prompts, it produces a consisten character, with certain variations.
I had a much larger and more detailed post sitting in drafts, but trying to publish it resulted in Error Messages - can someone explain to me: what is a HEADER OVERFLOW ????????
SO NOW AFTER I POSTED THIS, ALL OF A SUDDEN THE COMPLETE POST I TRIED TO UPLOAD SEVERAL TIMES HAS NOW BEEN POSTED SEVERAL TIMES!!!!
I guess by adding and deleting stuff, changing pictures, etc, these posts will sort of look like they are OK
The original posting I had problems with uploading (until the Hive 'plumbing' unplugged) is here ▼
Because of that glitch, there are two more: TRAINED SELFIES LORA ON NIGHTCAFE AI - The Dino Edition and TRAINED SELFIES LORA ON NIGHTCAFE AI - the weird one - I repeat, not my fault, there was a glitch in the system, and I tried to make the best of it afterwards.
Not one, but three of me: MY THREE WISE MAN CLONES
My page on Nightcafe is here: ART OF THE MYSTIC ON NIGHTCAFE - should you be interested in what you could do on Nightcafe, here is a INVITATION LINK, this is how it would work (for both of us):
Friends will get 20 free PRO creations if they sign up through your link, and you'll earn credits as they progress through their NightCafe journey.
You can sign up to a regular free account (I am on a first level Pro Account). Before, I just had a free account, and it worked pretty well for me also. But there are many pro models now that it does make sense to eventually go pro. But just for testing it out, a regular account works pretty well, some of those regular models are actually quite good, I am particularly impressed with [Dreamshaper XL Lightning](https://creator.nightcafe.studio/model/dreamshaper-xl-lightning-sfw) and better even is [Z-Image Turbo](https://creator.nightcafe.studio/model/z-image-turbo). There are several more models available to free accounts, particularly the ones called 'Lightning' are quite good.
Visit my website
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PRINTS OF MY ARTWORK AVAILABLE HERE:
Bonus Special: VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE III
MY INTRODUCTION - ABOUT MY WORK
should you not be on the blockchain, or have no upvote power, or this post is already older than 7 days, you can always just buy me a coffee.
Final Words of wisdom and a pet concern of mine, especially about art diplomas:
I had in years past come across quite a few 'fake diplomas' that pretend to be academic credentials. Next to 'Pay to Play Galleries' they are the scourge to be avoided. The summary of a paper about this spells it out
DEGREE MILLS - THE BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY
If you google the title you will find where this book is available, but also there are many videos on this subject.
