Welcome to these pages. Since winter 2023/24 they are part of my journey away from the monopolistic social media empires, and my renewed interest in blogging and owning the place where my words are crafted and shown.
Here is a list of the most recent posts:
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Tango Snobbery?
Tags: #tangoA lot has been written about “arrogance” or “snobbery” in tango, especially felt by newcomers into tango scenes or travellers. “Why don’t they dance with me”? Read this: My primary hypothesis goes back to the notion of *trust* in tango, which is an absolute must when you intimately engage with a stranger in each others’…
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Generating tango images (part 5)
Part 5 of a series. How to use Midjourney to create tango visuals.
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Generating tango images (part 4)
Part 4 of a series. How to use Stable Diffusion via NightCafe to create tango visuals.
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Generating tango images (part 3)
Part 3 of a series. How to use DALL-E via ChatGPT to create tango visuals.
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Generating tango images (part 2)
Part 2 of a series. How to use DALL-E via Bing to create tango visuals.
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Generating tango images (part 1)
Over the last weeks, I have played with different Ai models to generate pictures of tango dancers. Sometimes with good results, sometimes with not-so-good results. In general, there are two main areas of problems with the images: Cliche and Hands.
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Between single-leader registrations and balancing a guest list
From the box of things organizers need to deal with, in case you wanted some insights about guest list management. Scenario A “Single leader signs up for a marathon, and gets in – of course. A few days later, he sends an email – sorry guys, I forgot to mention who my partner is”. Scenario…
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Fediverse and events coming from WordPress
Today, I found out about a new project that wants to bring events management through WordPress into the Fediverse (@blog). Which, if it works, would be amazing, especially because there are so many great event plugins for WordPress already… for example, RNT – Rhein-Neckar-Tango uses the excellent The Event Calendar plugin. The team is collaborating…
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Finding what was lost: the red pill of tango.
One of the blog posts that I personally am still searching for is the last post of the series “The tango matrix”, where the author spills secrets of “what really is happening at the milonga, and once you know that, you can never go back”. The series was written by Dave Donatiu (can’t find a…