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Carl Bond’s plan
for Covid-19 relief;
the Thurston County edition
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Hello and Welcome!
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I am a photographer
and I am looking for
people to hire:
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$50 an hour for
one hour of labor.
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Please see the contract
at the bottom of this page
and fill it out completely
if you are interested in
joining this revolution
of art and creation.
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Please do not fill out my
contract if you are not a
resident of Olympia,
Lacey or Tumwater.
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Due to the ongoing
concerns of Covid-19,
I will not be accepting applications
from those who live outside of
Thurston County.
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I guarantee that I will be
methodical in finding the
appropriate people for this job.
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The only requirements for qualifying
are that you must live within
Olympia, Lacey or Tumwater
or any other area within Thurston County
and you must have some sort of valid ID
AND the contract
MUST BE completed.
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What is the Plan?
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My Covid-19 Relief Plan is very simple.
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This is important. I need to know who you are.
Only when you show up, will you be paid for the
time you spent with me, an hour of your time.
Zoom is just one of many ways you can see my
computer screen as I edit your pictures.
Social media isn't just a place where your friends and family reside. It is also a place to find new relationships.
If this idea works for you, it can work for someone else, as well. Help me earn back $50, as I help you,
where I would be, in turn, helping the world.
Do you want to have more pictures taken of you? Instead of being inside, somewhere, would your next set of pictures be taken at a park or a beach?
What time and place do you want
the pictures to be taken?
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I will say it again.
My contract is at the bottom of this page.
PLEASE fill it out COMPLETELY.
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But for some people,
they might have more questions
about this process of creating
artists out of regular people.
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So I will be explaining
this elaborate process
on this page.
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And, yes, indeed.
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You read that right.
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I want to make artists out
of regular people.
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For example,
in showing the
software I’ve used,
other people may
notice this list,
on how painfully EASY
it CAN be
to get this
beautiful Earth
started on
a new way
of thinking!
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They could even use
the same kind of software
to help other people as how
I want
to help people.
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Well, I can only hope
that would be the case,
even while living
through a pandemic,
there is still more to Earth
than to experience just
grief and isolation
alone!
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As we are still
on this Earth,
STILL HUMAN,
there is JUST
SO much
to do!
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This is the software that
I will be using:
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On Mac, I have the
following apps:
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And on Windows 10,
I also have specific software.
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And some of that is free software,
where there isn’t any slick online video
made by it's creators... not even a
mildly informative video exists.
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So I recorded some video myself about
these free software programs
I installed on Windows 10.
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Indeed, I actually made these
videos on both platforms
to show that I do have these
types of software installed
as I try to demonstrate
a vision
in creating a
sustainable future
TOGETHER!
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Here, check out these clips:
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(...with apologies to you, if this is your photo
of the State Capitol in Olympia,
as these programs are always better suited for
for embellishing photography from a high quality
camera, not using the camera that is pointed
at me when I use a smartphone...)
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So, once again,
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And now, with Windows 10:
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GIMP with G'MIC:
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(Both GIMP and G'MIC are FREE to DOWNLOAD!)
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(Like GIMP, Inkscape also is FREE to DOWNLOAD!)
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AI Adjust and Topaz Studio:β
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This exists for Mac, iOS and Android,
as well as for Windows!
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But wait! There’s more!
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Yes, you might say that you don't want me to use
expensive software for your photos.
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Well, that’s fine.
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You can turn your photos into art,
even through your smartphone.
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(Yes, Painnt is a deliberate lead-in
to the transition to smartphone apps,
as it is available on smartphones, itself.)
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Even websites exist,
where I have also recorded some video
from my computer on such websites,
to upload photos to, to get inspired
with artificial intelligence.
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A full list on these websites
are linked below.
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Just stay with me.
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I have a bit more explaining to do.
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Technical processes lie ahead!
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neuralstyle.art:β
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I included this website because
it is a rare one,
this site offers high-quality renders
from their artificial intelligence-inspired
illustrations, at 15 megapixels.
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Putting a 15 megapixel illustration
on canvas, to hang on the wall,
would create a size around
16 x 32 inches
as a piece of art.
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(I will demonstrate some finished pieces
of art from Costco a little later.)
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But what if you want
to create something
larger than that?
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(Thoughts about maximizing size will
also follow a little later.)
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I deliberately showed a series of
portraits done within the above video,
recorded from this website.
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The potential to personalize
art gets easier and easier with
each passing year.
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Maybe 2021 will be the year that
personalized art is to become
something of a widespread,
mainstream thing.
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Perhaps I will be the one to help
kickstart that movement into action?
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More information about me also
follows a little later.
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At any rate... maybe
someone is able
to see the potential,
a portrait of a modern-day
Van Gogh or Mona Lisa
within the video I just provided,
featuring those AI-styled portraits.
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I just want to show
you more about what
is possible.
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“Okay, but… Carl, I am
self-conscious about
how I look and…”
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Wait, wait, wait.
Hold up.
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I am not saying you need to use
your own face, a portrait for an
ongoing art project,
as you work from home.
This, as this pandemic
continues to rage.
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Oh no,
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Not at all.
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I just mean to
empower you with
photography.
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You see, there are other
options to use this aspect
of photography if you are
uncomfortable with your
own body’s image.
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Both this website and this
website are featured in a list
further down on this page.
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Those are just two websites that can
generate a different portrait for you,
but there are other sites out there...
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I am just showing these websites now
so that you understand that you do not
need to use your own face to make
works of art from them.
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You can use anything
your heart desires.
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ANYTHING.
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That is what art is anyway.
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It is subjective.
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And since those two sites generate
a model with artificial intelligence,
you do not get $50 from me and a
photoshoot with me at the camera.
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But you can still work
from home on this...
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And, as a backdrop to keep that art
interesting, you can use ideas created
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And while it may be cheaper and
easier to use art created from a
mobile or an online interface, the image
quality can also be poor.
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Yes, I use online, mobile and desktop
artificial intelligence programs
in artistic creation.
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Artistic exploration is what it is
all about in being an artist.
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I don’t just rely on desktop applications
like Topaz Studio and Studio Artist to
get a “painted look.”
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I use the programs I showed you above
(such as the program GIMP)
to sharpen and smooth the pixels
on the images I am working on,
so they are not fuzzy, washed
out or distorted in any way
AFTER I enlarge the image,
as the art made by online or mobile
artificial intelligence
would shrink the
image more than
what I want it to be.
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You cannot put “small” sized images
on “large” sized canvas frames.
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But any image on Mac and Windows
would stay the same size,
when any of the programs
listed above are used.
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This is not true with all of the
programs and websites below.
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Some of them will reduce the size
of the image automatically,
so I may use these following links
FIRST, THEN
I would enlarge the images and
distort them, perhaps
enhance them with
Luminar AI, Topaz Studio, etc.,
but ESPECIALLY
with GIMP.
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Mobile applications:
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Online applications:
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being developed right now,
however you choose to go
about finding what works
for you is also
something I leave
for you to decide.
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that you discover,
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You might have never heard
anything about it before,
but dropshipping is a business model
that is worth exploring,
especially if you want
to work from home.
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It might be hard at first
to start yourself up,
but the payoff in getting
what you want out of life
will be a huge thing
for anyone’s accomplishment.
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So.
As you can see,
no matter what tool you use,
a smartphone or a computer,
vector or raster illustration,
a website or an app,
selling for bitcoin or actual currency,
you can join this revolution
in art creation
with artificial intelligence.
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Since you’ve read this far,
maybe you just need to
get started in being
involved in this?
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Who am I?
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By now,
I’m sure one of (at least) two things are
coming to mind for many people:
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EITHER
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“Holy cow! He will do all of this and
he will pay me $50 to get started?!”
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OR
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“This is a total scam.
Nobody will pay anyone $50
to just stand or sit
for the camera, just for someone to
take pictures of them.”
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Well, actually...
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I have been
waiting a long time
to gather the effort
to do this
very exact thing
that maybe you’ve
arrived at my page
to know about,
“How does one go about
the grandiose goal of
eliminating poverty?”
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It is simple, actually.
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It will be easy,
it will be far too easy
to give attention to non-profits,
civic and social organizations
our time, if not our money,
to change the world
into what we
want to see.
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I give money because I believe in
the idea of giving money will
make the world a better place.
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You might not believe me or
believe in my goal in this
particular moment.
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That is fine.
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But there will be
no mistaking
the energy
that giving will create
for the rest of the world,
in doing this work
of service.
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You will see the
transformation.
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You will learn
what will come
when you give as
an expression of
being genuine.
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This is yet another step
in our global human
development to
become what
we are fully
meant to be.
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Creators.