Radio check — on every frequency
One callsign.
A thousand directions.
Alpha 515 is a callsign before it's anything else — the name I answer to on the radio, and the one every machine and project here answers to as well. This isn't a broadcast. It's the work, kept in one place: the band, the other voice, the stories, and the rigs that make them.
Everything I run answers to the same callsign. Four channels, each on its own frequency.
The band. Hard rock with modern weight — down-tuned guitars and a gritty baritone out front, fingerpicked acoustic and cello running underneath where you'd least expect them. Fronted by Cole Mercer, a road-not-taken version of the man behind the callsign. Thirteen tracks, built start to finish with AI and labeled that way.
The debut album, Gravel & Grace, was released October 2, 2026.
The other voice in the room. She sings in a smoky, chest-dominant alto with a little gravel in it — Southern rock with just enough country influence for character, never a costume. She's made her mistakes, learned from most of them, and occasionally makes another one on purpose.
Solo first, duets later. Her first single, “Favorite One Tonight” — a slow, sultry shuffle at about 70 BPM — is being built now.
Faceless storytelling. Real stories, strange cases, unbelievable twists — crime, deception, mysteries, and history, told in about a minute by no one you can see. The narrator never shows a face and never becomes the story; the cases carry it.
A new story goes out every day.
The pipelines behind the projects. A reusable ComfyUI workflow that turns a still image into a looping Spotify Canvas. A LoRA training setup being stood up on its own dedicated card, so the house style stays consistent from render to render. And a pair of Pixel Bot desktop robots going together on the bench, one solder joint at a time.
Nothing on this channel ships until it works. Then it ships the same day.
Every project on the board, with its honest status — what's live, what's on the bench, what's still an idea.
An independent AI-powered hard rock project. The debut album, Gravel & Grace, is out now.
Faceless storytelling, a new story every day — crime, deception, mysteries, and history in about a minute.
Local image and video generation workflows — the Canvas maker, Wan 2.2 renders, lip-sync tests. What worked, what didn't, and how it got figured out.
Small, single-purpose Python tools written for my own bench — batch renamers, hash checkers, media wranglers. Scripts only; that's all that lives here.
Training a consistent animated character using SDXL and LoRA — the same face, every render.
The second voice — solo first, duets later. Her first single, “Favorite One Tonight,” is being built now.
A pair of desktop robots going together on the bench, one solder joint at a time.
An aerial photography and videography showcase — the coast from a few hundred feet up.
The whole operation, in four rooms. Everything here is off the clock and built for the bench.
Models, experiments & local AI. ComfyUI workflows, LoRA training, GPU configurations — and the occasional experiment that goes completely off the rails, documented either way.
02 /Music, video & stories. Blackstop Saint, the new female vocalist, the Rocker Dude videos, and Until Proven — everything with a voice or a melody lives here.
03 /The drawer for everything that doesn't fit neatly anywhere else: drone photography, 3D printing, electronics, home networking, hardware modifications.
04 /Custom Python utilities, written for my own bench and kept deliberately small. The scripts are the hobby — nothing else lives in this drawer.
Two machines, two jobs. Spec'd honestly — this is the actual fleet, not a wishlist.
Where the images and video get made — ComfyUI workflows, Canvas renders, day-to-day building.
Status — Running daily
A retired Linux Mint mining frame, reborn as a dedicated training rig — open air, no case, no heat problem.
Status — Pre-flight done · card seats next
Not a blog. A log — dated, terse, written when something actually ships.
Open-frame rig pre-flight complete. Old mining cards out, spare 8-pins and mounting spots confirmed, power budget checked. Next: seat the Titan RTX, drivers, nvidia-smi.
Atlas Earth: 728 parcels held, two short of the top of the 6X rent bracket. Mayor of Sunny Isles Beach. The grind continues.
Canvas tuning, locked in. On the Wan 2.2 Canvas maker, CFG 6.5 is the sweet spot for cloud motion that actually reads. Punchier verbs, motion only, static camera.
Home station storage upgrade: +2 TB SSD and +12 TB HDD installed. The model library has room to breathe.
Gravel & Grace released. Blackstop Saint's debut — thirteen tracks, live on Spotify and Apple Music.
Apple Music for Artists approved. Blackstop Saint is now claimed on both major platforms.
There's no personal brand here and nothing to sell you. The callsign came first — everything else just answers to it. If you found this page, you were probably looking for one of the channels above; this is only the switchboard.
One standing rule, stated once: everything creative on this site is AI-powered, and it's labeled that way everywhere it appears. No purchased streams, no purchased followers — either it's liked or it isn't.
Sign-off
“Alpha 515, clear.”
Net closes — the work doesn't
