Proud to be your exclusive source for James Beach

From the ol’ Insta. In brief non-sculpture news, I know I got my rabbit R1 in the mail. For those who don’t know about it, it’s a device intended to be an AI assistant. And at this point, it’s a toy. :-) they’re building it from the ground up, very limited access to other services as they roll it out. But it’s neat. And his future potential is pretty grand. An assistant that could, say, automatically upload to several different social media outlets could unscrew up a lot of screwed up interfaces and workflows. As only one example. Also it came with a free year’s subscription to Perplexity AI, that I’m actually using everyday. It’s shockingly better than using Google search, or even DuckDuckGo. And unlike Google search, I don’t immediately get drowned in a delusion products related to something I was searching for on a whim. #ai #future #robotoverlords

From the ol’ Insta. Victory :) Moving forward step by step through leaning to work with LEDs, as the next phase of the sculpture. So from large metal work of wings to small metalwork of soldering wires. :) Also estimating power usage to see what battery support will be needed for the playa and elsewhere. Still to do: CNC carving and painting the figures, and assembling the sculpture. Sometimes progress is asynchronous. Always it’s great to learn and do. Thanks to Sri @upside_sf for info and feedback. #sculpture #burningmanart #pixelblaze #ledlights #doit