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Is There Anything Left For Me?
A hungry little mouse sifting through the garbage. Talking to someone (The Mouse King?) outside of the frame.
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Ausevika Figure Interpretation 2
This is my second interpretation of what one of the creatures in the rock carving figures at Ausevika might represent. You can see the first one here. The figure’s outline primarily resembles a deer, but some features don’t quite fit with that of a deer. Intriguingly, nearly all creatures at Ausevika possess bird-like feet. If…
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From Rock Art to AI Generated Art
My fascination with rock art has grown over the past few years. During the last year, I’ve also been struck by the output from AI-generated art as well. Sometimes I’m asked about why my project about interpreting ancient rock carvings is relevant today. With the rapid advancement of AI art generation, we’re witnessing a significant…
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Ausevika Figure Interpretation 1
I drew an interpretation of what the creature in one of the rock carving figures at Ausevika might represent. The petroglyph figure depicts a a four-legged creature with a large mouth and big claws. My first thought was that it might be a bear, but the ears are too long for a bear. Maybe a…
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Monkeybot – a simple chatbot template
Update: a slightly different version of the code is now on GitHub, and you can test Monkeybot here. I made a simple chatbot called Monkeybot for my website, and I’ll share the code for anyone who wants to do something similar. The Monkeybot simply replies with a string of random letters to any question from…
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Møllerstufossen Petroglyphs Part 2
First post about Møllerstufossen: https://andersgoliversen.com/blog/2022/05/16/mollerstufossen/ Some of the figures at Møllerstufossen reminds me of goats more than moose or deer, such as this one: Møllerstufossen is one of two areas with petroglyphs in Innlandet county, the other one being Moelv which has some figures that also look like goats to me: https://andersgoliversen.com/blog/page/5/ There is a…
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Animal heads
Some recent colored pencil drawings of a pigeon, a lioness and a bear done as Christmas gifts.
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Vingen Figure Interpretation 2
The Vingen rock carvings (Vingenfeltet) are located in Bremanger in Vestland County. It is one of the largest rock carving sites in Norway and the carvings are dated to approximately 4000-3000 BCE during the Nordic Stone Age. In this blog post, I will explore different interpretations of a figure that is typically interpreted as representing…
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Randomly display different versions of an image
I created two versions of an illustration of a letter to be displayed on the contact page of my website. I wanted which version of the image that was displayed to be random and wrote some code to make this happen. I’ll share the code here incase some wants to something similar on their website.…
