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Mar. 31st, 2023 01:43 pmInteresting article on the cultural biases at work in AI: AI and the American Smile.
A one-image Midjourney post...
Jul. 19th, 2022 03:48 pm....because my next Midjourney post is going to be on one specific topic, and I didn't want this image mixed up in it.
Anyway, I present to you: Space Marines by Aubrey Beardsley!
Anyway, I present to you: Space Marines by Aubrey Beardsley!
COMPLYYYY!
Jul. 18th, 2022 10:00 amLast week I posted the response from the HOA when we asked if we needed to get approval just to remove dead bushes from our yard, the ominous "You do not need to submit to remove the dead."
I'm sure that some of you were "Uh, why would you bother to ask about that, it's self-evident that they'd want dead bushes gone, right?" and others, perhaps people drifting through since most of y'all who are regulars are pretty nice about this sort of thing, were like "This is why I'd never buy a house in an HOA!!"
To answer part 2 of that: this was the compromise between cost of house and distance from work, as in if we wanted a house not in an HOA, it was either spend significantly more, drop a metric ton of cash in renovations, or spend 45 minutes twice a day on angry Texas freeways to get to and from work.
For part 1 of the question, on Friday we got an answer from the compliance coordinator of the agency that the HOA uses to manage the business end of the organization. They're the people that do the driving round snapping photos of the dead bushes in your yard and sending you nastygrams, and things like that. Said coordinator told that no, we HAD to get approval just to remove, and copied a letter sent last year from the HOA to homeowners that included the sentence "All landscape and hardscape changes in front yard must be pre-approved by the Architectural Control Committee (ACC)."
Riight. So![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
myrialux emailed them back saying that we'd talked to the board member in charge of that, and she'd specifically told us we don't need approval to remove the dead stuff. This morning the compliance coordinator emailed us back to let us know that they'd spoken to that board member and that she'd said yes we can remove the dead stuff. And said we could contact her directly if we needed additional information, helpfully telling us her name and giving us her email.
Yes, that would be the person we specifically said that we had talked to previously. GAH.
Anyway, today's ominous sentence is "yes you can remove the dead but need to submit for the replacement." I present to you, Midjourney's interpretation of both the previous Ominous Pronouncement and today's Ominous Pronouncement!
( hah I bet you didn't think you'd be forced to look at Midjourney stuff for an HOA post! UNDEAD Midjourney stuff, even! )
I'm sure that some of you were "Uh, why would you bother to ask about that, it's self-evident that they'd want dead bushes gone, right?" and others, perhaps people drifting through since most of y'all who are regulars are pretty nice about this sort of thing, were like "This is why I'd never buy a house in an HOA!!"
To answer part 2 of that: this was the compromise between cost of house and distance from work, as in if we wanted a house not in an HOA, it was either spend significantly more, drop a metric ton of cash in renovations, or spend 45 minutes twice a day on angry Texas freeways to get to and from work.
For part 1 of the question, on Friday we got an answer from the compliance coordinator of the agency that the HOA uses to manage the business end of the organization. They're the people that do the driving round snapping photos of the dead bushes in your yard and sending you nastygrams, and things like that. Said coordinator told that no, we HAD to get approval just to remove, and copied a letter sent last year from the HOA to homeowners that included the sentence "All landscape and hardscape changes in front yard must be pre-approved by the Architectural Control Committee (ACC)."
Riight. So
myrialux emailed them back saying that we'd talked to the board member in charge of that, and she'd specifically told us we don't need approval to remove the dead stuff. This morning the compliance coordinator emailed us back to let us know that they'd spoken to that board member and that she'd said yes we can remove the dead stuff. And said we could contact her directly if we needed additional information, helpfully telling us her name and giving us her email.Yes, that would be the person we specifically said that we had talked to previously. GAH.
Anyway, today's ominous sentence is "yes you can remove the dead but need to submit for the replacement." I present to you, Midjourney's interpretation of both the previous Ominous Pronouncement and today's Ominous Pronouncement!
( hah I bet you didn't think you'd be forced to look at Midjourney stuff for an HOA post! UNDEAD Midjourney stuff, even! )
An email I sent to yhlee today...
Jul. 15th, 2022 03:08 pm[Somewhat edited, but almost verbatim. Using the Midjourney AI art generator.]
i have designed new book covers for when you re-release machineries
( you have to rename some of them. sorry, i don't make the rules. )
Thanks toyhlee for always being such a good sport about me mangling the text or the covers of his books! :D
i have designed new book covers for when you re-release machineries
( you have to rename some of them. sorry, i don't make the rules. )
Thanks to
yhlee for always being such a good sport about me mangling the text or the covers of his books! :DYou have been warned
Jul. 14th, 2022 12:45 pmLooks like this blog is shaping up to be All Midjourney All The Time, so be warned.
Among other things, I've been experimenting with putting two disparate artist names into the prompt, to see what comes up.
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Among other things, I've been experimenting with putting two disparate artist names into the prompt, to see what comes up.
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Midjourney!
Jul. 14th, 2022 09:55 amI believe Midjourney might be based on DALL-E2, or a subset derived from it... [edit: someone in a conversation elsewhere says that they think it's not DALL-E2 as researchers for that aren't allowed to show much of what they do with it. They think it's from an independent lab.] ...but they're not particularly forthcoming about it. It works wonderfully on art prompts, not so much on ones that force it to pull from photographic-based stuff. I admit I almost exclusively add "artstation" to my prompts because it gives me concept art type images, so I haven't explored too much beyond that. The FAQ says to try different artist names or combining different artist names, so I think Midjourney may be a DALL-E2 variant specifically fine-tuned on artworks.
It is also BLINDINGLY FAST, in that it will give me 4 variants of my prompt in less than a minute, and I can get it to do more variants or to upscale one of the variants, and that also takes only a minute or two.
As far as the art it produces:( Read more... )
It is also BLINDINGLY FAST, in that it will give me 4 variants of my prompt in less than a minute, and I can get it to do more variants or to upscale one of the variants, and that also takes only a minute or two.
As far as the art it produces:( Read more... )
Experimenting with image prompts this time in the Midjourney AI...not prompts for images, but prompts of images. You give it the URL of an image to use as its base, then if you want you add a text prompt and whatever parameters.
This one is fabulous and I want to paint it.
Prompt: https://s.mj.run/2ubnqV8_7c4 veiled woman sitting on a crescent moon --iw .75 --ar 8:10
"--iw" is Image Weight, how much you want it to weight the image, "--ar" is Aspect Ratio.
This one is fabulous and I want to paint it.
Prompt: https://s.mj.run/2ubnqV8_7c4 veiled woman sitting on a crescent moon --iw .75 --ar 8:10
"--iw" is Image Weight, how much you want it to weight the image, "--ar" is Aspect Ratio.
I CANNOT STOP WITH THIS
Jul. 11th, 2022 09:59 pmMOAR MIDJOURNEY AI IMAGES
Prompt: portrait of an early modern mercenary woman holding a rapier and wearing a big hat with a white feather in it. painted by caravaggio --ar 8:10
(ar = aspect ratio)
( Results of prompt #1 )
Prompt: portrait of a renaissance mercenary space marine painted by rembrandt::1.5 artstation::0.5 --ar 8:10
The "::1.5" stuff is weighting--you can tell it to do it more like Rembrandt and less like Artstation.
( results of prompts #2 )
Prompt #3: rembrandt's night watch with space marines artstation::0.5 --ar 16:9
( results of prompt #3 )
Prompt: portrait of an early modern mercenary woman holding a rapier and wearing a big hat with a white feather in it. painted by caravaggio --ar 8:10
(ar = aspect ratio)
( Results of prompt #1 )
Prompt: portrait of a renaissance mercenary space marine painted by rembrandt::1.5 artstation::0.5 --ar 8:10
The "::1.5" stuff is weighting--you can tell it to do it more like Rembrandt and less like Artstation.
( results of prompts #2 )
Prompt #3: rembrandt's night watch with space marines artstation::0.5 --ar 16:9
( results of prompt #3 )
Experiments with Midjourney (see previous post), using a prompt I pulled from my Fantasy Art Prompt Generator: "a tarot card titled the paladin of mediocrity."
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These are all SO AWESOME I don't know what to do. XD
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These are all SO AWESOME I don't know what to do. XD
Midjourney: AI Art Generator
Jul. 11th, 2022 04:32 pmMidjourney is a Discord-based AI art generator. You use Discord commands to give it a prompt, then it gives you a grid of 4 images generated from that prompt. You can regenerate the grid, or pick one or more of the images to either generate larger, or to generate variants on. Some people are getting fabulous results.
A basic membership gives you the ability touse 25 prompts generate 25 images. After that, you'll need to subscribe. I'll probably end up throwing $10 at them for a month to mess around with it.
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A basic membership gives you the ability to
( cut for art plus an invite link good for the next 24 hours )