Reverse Image Making using Stable Diffusion Text-Image AI
Stalker
Scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker as described to Stable Diffusion text-image AI.
Essex & Kent Coast
Textures and landscapes: The imagery Stable Diffusion generated is based on descriptions of photographs taken along the Essex and Kent Coast at Walton-on-the-Naze, Warden Point and Dungeness. In Essex the muddy cliffs streaked with red oxide, dunes and bright orange sand. It’s a Martian landscape reminiscent of Thomas Jerome’s home world in The Man Who Fell To Earth. In Kent, more mud as well as the flatness, horizontality and architecture at Dungeness. Stable Diffusion has combined, amplified and realised some of those qualities.
Essex & Kent Coast
Iterations with ‘in the style of Edward Hopper’ and ‘in the style of Giorgio de Chirico’ added at the end because the light in the first set of images hinted at that.
Enjoying an idle Christmas moment experimenting with inputting song titles to Stable Diffusion.
I picked the album ‘R Plus Seven’ by the American Musician Oneohtrix Point Never. The record sounds like it was created by an AI, half remembered pop from a distant future or parallel universe. It has opaque song titles. I chose ‘Chrome Country’ for its shortness, opposing, ambiguous and visual qualities. In Stable Diffusion it becomes terrifically volatile, throwing the algorithm into a right old state. The results are mysterious and specific. Whatever or wherever Chrome Country is, there is history and a narrative. It is an American, predominantly rural landscape full of American tropes, kludged together with copyrighted material from the internet, haunted by Google Chrome (which it probably wouldn’t have been so much in 2013 when the record was first released). Harley-Davidson’s, a chrome plated Bruce Springsteen playing guitar on the prairie, frontier territory, the West, Westworld, wild cybernetic chrome horses with wheels, indigenous people, rust belt territory, farm machinery, futuristic sculptures in the middle of nowhere, several bicycles and possibly a bike repair shop called ‘Chrome Countttry’ in a remote town, an unknown language, misspellings, weird typefaces and so it goes on down the rabbit wormhole.
Another Oneohtrix Point Never track 'Terminator Lake.'
The Rise of the Machines. Cyberdyne Systems T1000 birthing pools
James Webb 1st Anniversary Launch Banquet
RSVP
Yes I will be attending.
No special dietary requirements
I will make my own way there…somehow?
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KR-3
Just finished re-reading 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said’ by Philip K. Dick for the third time perhaps? Interesting. In the book a drug called KR-3, with its reality, spatial and time distorting properties, drags the protagonist Jason Taverner into a nightmare world in which he loses both fame and fortune although he isn't the one that has taken the drug? Also, the side effects of KR-3 aren't that great but who exactly has taken it and what is their agenda? When I first read it in the early 80's I considered it a proper MF, it still is. Its influence has resonated through literature, TV and Hollywood since it was first published in 1974.