Alice: “Where should I go?". The Cheshire Cat: "That depends on where you want to end up."
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“The idea tells you everything. Lots of times I get ideas, I fall in love with them. Those ones you fall in love with are really special ideas. .................A lot of times, I don't know the meaning of the idea, and it drives me crazy. I think we should know the meaning of the idea. I think about them, and I tell this story about my first feature Eraserhead. I did not know what these things meant to me--really meant."
David Lynch - The idea tells you everything
THE STOOGES OF WONDERLANDWONDERLAND COLLECTION ON NIGHTCAFE
I used variations of prompts containing references to Wonderland - Lady in the Radiator (Eraserhead) and The Brothers Quay. Additionally in many cases I also use a second and third prompt. The outcome depends on the weight assigned to each prompt, as well as the overall weight of the seed image, if one is used.
A key component of prompts used is 'The Lady in the Radiator' from the movie 'Eraserhead' by David Lynch.
Do yo feel like watching the weirdest surreal movie ever? Here it is: ERASERHEAD 1977 Internet Archive
A secondary part of the main prompt are 'The Brothers Quay' - here is a short teaser on YouTube - Short films by the Quay Brothers
If that is not enough, add 'Bellmer dolls' Tate Museum to the mix.
WONDERLAND DRAG QUEEN VICTORIA IN DISTRESS
Wonderland Totem Pole
Moosehead Lodge in Wonderland
Postapocalyptic Wonderland
The single prompt that is part of most of these creations (some adjustments and/or additional prompts are also used):
"Post apocalyptic wonderland with Bellmer's dolls in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay stopmotion cinema photograph by H.R. Giger by Giuseppe Arcimboldo Art Nouveau intricately detailed hyperrealism fantasy imperial colors fantasy"
....or this one, which is similar:
"Hans Bellmer's Dolls meet David Lynch Eraserhead in a surreal film with scene sets by H.R. Giger with the Alien and Cthulhu, partying with the lady in the radiator on the road to OZ following a frantic rabbit and Bellmer's cat did not survive and the chicken rules"
WONDERLAND
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At one point in one of the prompts I use, I even mention OZ - maybe there is more in this yet if I get those two together, Dorothy and Alice, and all the weird stuff I got so far. There are a ton of characters in the Wizard of OZ that could be added to the soup.
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It looks like you are having a lot of fun with this AI stuff. I look forward to a bit of Prompt engineering when I get Stable Diffusion up and running on my new computer.
I am on 3 different apps, this here is Nightcafe, but I also create on Deep Dream Text2Dream and Dreamwombo.
On Nightcafe I am in a chat group called 'Open Prompt Gang' - where we share our posts, and we leave our prompts open for others to use as well. Those that 'abuse' this, like other users that take our prompts or evolve our results without credit and, as we request, leave the prompt open, those that do so but hide the prompts, we put on a blacklist (among ourselves) and block them.
I often take results from one app and run it on another, because even though they all run on SD, they are different. Like on Text2Dream, there are mode choices that (invisible to you) have modifiers built in automatically.
On Nightcafe, you are in full control over your prompts, negative prompts, modifiers, versions of SD (all in advanced mode - while in regular mode there are similarly preset modules).