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Hi, I’m KNNY, a multidisciplined artist in San Francisco. Find more about me in information.

Take a look around :)

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These are some of the tools I use/have used, and also some additional cool sites and software. It’s sort of like a webring. I use this page frequently and adding stuff to it all the time, since bookmarks within my browser are often forgotten about. This is a way they’re not forgotten.

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Art/Design

Blender: comprehensive 3D design software
Pinterest: feed of inspiration based on topics you like
Procreate: 2D illustration and animation software for iPad
Affinity Suite: Alternative to Adobe
Shotcut: Open-source video editor
Handbrake: Video transcoder
Asciiart.club: Image-to-Ascii converter
Dither Me This by Doodad: Image Dithering engine
https://tar-bin.github.io/image-thinning-processer/: Image thinning processor
DeepAA: Neural Network trained in converting images to ASCII art containing visual structure, rather than tone based (like asciiart.club).
ASCII Art by Brian Macintosh: Works like DeepAA, but with editable parameters.
Image to ANSI: Converts images into ANSI escape code characters
Oldschool PC fonts: The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles.
Constraint Systems: 29 alternative interfaces for editing images and text. Super cool.
Monodraw: Manual ascii art and diagram creation.
MoebiusXBIN: Modern ANSI and ASCII art editor
Patorjk: Can create ascii banners in different fonts
Glitchology: good resource for glitching art
DestroyPix: Glitch out photos
Glitche: Photo and video glitch editor
PNGTOICON: Converts PNG’s to ICO’s.

Design Inspiration

DoingCoolStuff: A directory of brand, motion and digital product design studios doing cool stuff.
Site Inspire: cool website directory
bookmarks.design: massive directory of useful tools for designers

Artificial Intelligence

Midjourney: generate images
Gigapixel AI (paid): upscales images
LM Studio: run LLM’s locally
Replicate: Run and fine-tune open-source models.
SwinIR: Image upscaler similar to Gigapixel, but free.
Perchance image generator: stable diffusion, up to 9 images at a time, with stylization presets.
Krea: Free image enhancer.

Crypto

Be aware: it’s advised to check the hyperlink you’re visiting when dealing with web3 and crypto applications, so as to not have your funds stolen. NEVER give anyone your seed phrase or private key, even the government.

Trezor: hardware wallet
Coinbase: crypto exchange
Reservoir: open-source NFT trading infrastructure
Reservoir Market: open-source NFT marketplace - own your own marketplace 🤯
Manifold Studio: deploy your own smart contracts
Mirror: decentralized publishing
Hug: open calls and community for web3 artists.
Joyn.xyz: Open calls for web3 artists.
Zora.energy: The zora Webring

Privacy

Standard Notes: E2EE notes
Brave: out of the box privacy-oriented browser
Telegram: encrypted group chats
uBlock Origin: best ad blocker
Protonmail: encrypted email
Privacy tools: insane list of privacy tools
Libre Office: open-source local word processor
KeepassXC: open-source, encrypted, local password manager.

Misc.

NetNewsWire: Free and open-source RSS reader. A great option for people looking to cut social media out of their life.
listed.to: blogging platform for people using StandardNotes.