Just having a bit of light-hearted fun with some AI tools.
The Ballad of the Lathered Doom
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A video on the various Schick Repeating Razors
Courtesy of Razor Emporium.
Come to think of it… does anyone have a user grade Type C they want to sell me?
Year in review – looking back, looking forward
Another year has rolled by, almost before I noticed. Fifty two weeks and two days… one hundred and fifty eight new posts on my blog.
The world at large is still, like last year, in a downward spiral. But all is not doom and gloom in the shaving den at least – this year I actually finished a soap and accidentally bought a couple of antique razors. The AutoStrop turned out to be a lovely razor which I ought to do a full on review of one of these days… while I am still in the marked for blades for the Christy. I might have to break down and see if I can modify a GEM blade to fit… although I am not too hopeful on that count.
All in all this has been another of the “not great, not terrible” years… but I remain optimistic for the future, since being pessimistic is no fun at all.
So I guess all that is left to do is for me to wish all of you a happy, prosperous, and above all peaceful new year!
God Jul, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Frohe Weihnachten, Joyeux Noël, Buon Natale, Il-Milied it-tajjeb, Wesołych Świąt, Веселого Різдва, and so on and so forth
Norwegians, being a sensible people, have the big Yuletime celebration on Christmas Eve. So before I eat myself into a food coma and opens presents with my family, allow me to wish you all the very best for the midwinter holiday – or midsummer, for those south of the equator!
May your holiday be peaceful and restful, and I do hope you all get what you wish for under the tree – if you have a tree, that is. May you stay safe with your family, be it the family you’re born into or the one you choose.
Stay safe, stay sane, and stay shaving.
Just a short PSA
I realised I haven’t been on Twitter in a long time, since it has been turning into a cesspool after it was bought and renamed.
So I decided to ditch it completely, deactivating my account.
After all, Reddit, Tumblr, Mastedon, Lemmy, and Bluesky ought to be enough – in addition to my blog, of course
The Village Barber
Possible a little out of the ordinary for this blog, but it made me smile when I found it.
Continue readingConfess to the crime skeleton!
A spooky repost from two years ago.
After coming across a meme on the internet, I recently spend some time tracking down the patent for what I can only think of as the Crime Skeleton. It is a perfect example that the line between genius and insanity is blurry at best. I’m not quite sure which side of that line Helene Adalaide Shelby’s invention falls under, but I am inclined to go for “genius”. And a somewhat spooky and misguided genius at that.
So let’s take a short break from weird shaving patents and look at a plain weird patent.
Continue readingGlory or nothing – another project of mine
I also dabble in creative writing, and lately I’ve been messing with AI generated text and music too.
So I just wanted to share this – the first video on my new YouTube channel that combines those two things.
Continue readingAi meets shaving, part two
A couple of years ago I wrote a little piece about why – when you came right down to it – AI could ruin articles about shaving. Or at least the articles you’ll find in glossy magazines, which – as we all know – are seldom worth reading.
More to todays point, that blogpost included an AI generated drawing of a man shaving.
Today I tried generating a similar image. And the new image is… way much better.
I mean, there are some issues still.
Like.. why is the razor floating in the air?
Shave of the day 12th August 2024
A new week means a new razor. The Mergress is a gift from an acquaintance, and it is a pretty good shaver.
- Razor: Mergress “Bling”
- Blade: Astra Green
- Brush: Brush Experimental Alpha
- Pre-Shave: Proraso Pre Shave Cream
- Lather: Pereira Sample
- Aftershave: Barber No3 Marmara
- Additional Care: Alum Block