Brilliant stuff. I'm a person who studied Visual Art and University, and was looking at generated art (particularly fractals) and other algos back then. I've played with Mid Journey a little bit over the last few days and I'm impressed at how well it truly understand the artistic vernacular when I give it prompts that have real "impact" within context of "capital A", academic Art.
I'm looking forward to creating some work that I've never been able to produce because my drawing skills are not what they should be. I majored in Photography and Digital Media, and if I had this tool a decade ago; I imagine my thesis would've been about this topic instead of representations of death in art, which is what it ended up being about.
Your use of the word ephemera as on of your titles is also apt, everything we produce as humans is ephemeral; and that's the very beauty of our creativity.
Thanks for sharing this post. I've followed and hope to see more from you in the future.
Thank you! I think fractals are especially fascinating/mesmerizing. I've had a lot of fun with Midjourney and I think it was an interesting experiment.
I do worry about the impact it'll have on human creativity but I can already see human creativity kicking in with AI-generated art. People are releasing tips/tricks for prompts to allow people to create exactly what they're looking for. We're in a sort of sweet spot now where AI still needs us but soon it won't, it'll be creating things all on its own without any sort of human intervention.
Thanks for reading and for your comment! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with on Midjourney!
I've got so many images and ideas floating around that it is going to be difficult to curate them in a sensible manner, but it is just like culling images from a photographic session. I must be relentless and ruthless. There's some manual adjustments I'd probably make to the outputs as well.
Awesome! I found this. It might help: https://medium.com/mlearning-ai/an-advanced-guide-to-writing-prompts-for-midjourney-text-to-image-aa12a1e33b6?source=rss-6da3ddbb7e05------2
I tried the link, it 404'ed, but it is quarter past one in the morning here, so something for me to study further tomorrow. (If the link is working)