ZCochrane
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Artist // Hobbyist // Photography
- Dec 4, 1986
- Germany
- Deviant for 17 years
- www.ferroequinologist.de
- He / Him
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My Bio
I am a railroad enthusiast. I'm also a computer enthusiast, but my products there don't make pictures anywhere near as nice. My photography is generally amateur level. I hope to get good enough to be a "Pro-sumer" one day.
Oh, and I write way too much in image descriptions. So if you want to know more, and particularly if not, that's the place.
ZCochrane
Oh, and I write way too much in image descriptions. So if you want to know more, and particularly if not, that's the place.
ZCochrane
Favourite TV Shows
Whichever I bought the DVDs of last
Favourite Books
Way too many
Favourite Writers
Way too many
Favourite Games
I'm working on it
Favourite Gaming Platform
Mac OS X
Tools of the Trade
Canon EOS 1000D
Other Interests
Programming, Star Trek, Railroads
Nicholson Creek Bridge
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Over the past few weeks, I built a new model railroad module.
It's a tiny trestle bridge, based on plans from the Great Northern Railway. I'm calling it the Nicholson Creek Bridge, because I had hours and hours of old Jenny Nicholson videos on in the background while I was working on this.
(Actually, now that I think about this, I hope this doesn't get read as an insult, because the river here is literally not that deep.)
Anyway, some tech specs: N scale, follows the T-Trak module standard but slightly modified (58 mm distance front to edge of track bed, instead of 38 mm normally), and this time single-track. There are power connections hidden underneath.
The main point is the bridge, of course, a classic american staple. We don't have these kind of wooden bridges in Europe. Although, maybe we should?
They do look neat even with european trains on them.
The bridge is the main thing here. The main sections ("bents") are constructed out of 2x2 mm balsa wood. The long line on
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Just saw someone say "if you don't like AI you're hypocritical, posting on a site that has an AI generator". Dude, I've been on this site for over sixteen years now. It's had an AI generator for less than half a year, and I certainly did not ask for an AI generator to be added. There is nothing hypocritical, this is literally just how time works.
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I'm not sure what to think about AI art. On the one hand, it is an interesting technological achievement, and it's great for people who are doing mixed media art, giving them much more options.
On the other hand, there is the whole ethical aspect: I'm not sure if the copying that's done to generate the data will be ruled legal or not, but I do think it's ethically iffy. Not something I want to support. I've also seen quite a few posts on Twitter that were very dismissive of actual artists, celebrating them being "put in their place" or something. Now, that is not something every AI user thinks, probably not even most of them, but I don't like how it's enabling them.
On the first foot (ran out of hands), there's also the issue that a lot of AI art is just bad. Even if everything lines up and everybody has the right amount of fingers, most of it has no originality. It's all just a kind of picture we already know, just more of it. Way, way more. And also an incredible amount of porn.
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Thanks for the favorite!
You're welcome! Sorry for not adding any comments, I didn't really have anything useful to add, it was a very good overview essay on the topic.
I guess it's a year since the last time, so time's come again to thank you for all of the faves!! 
You're welcome! I can't say how active I'll be or for how long, but I was feeling a bit bored this past week, so I decided to take a look here again.
Good morning
Thank you very much for all of the recent faves!!
You're welcome! :)