Media Arts and Technology

Empty Textbox Jack Kilgore, December 2022 I was handed a textbox. Not sure by who. I could type in anything and receive a picture back. There was nothing I particularly wanted. I just typed in phrases I plucked off the top of my head. I typed in “Joe Biden fighting Mickey Mouse”. What I received we...

This week, I did a little training of my own using DreamBooth. Dream Booth extends Stable Diffusion by allowing users "specialize" the diffusion model for a specific subject. We perform specialization through a training process using a small data set consisting of a single subject. Specialization al...

First Try With Stable Diffusion: Hitting Too Close In this first run through of Stable Diffusion I use a couple prompts I explored in Midjourney. The results illustrate how Stable Diffusion has a higher tendency towards literal images, phone photos, stock images. Prompt: children drawings of god; c...

Midjourney Usage Report If you are looking for executing a well defined idea, do not use Midjourney. If you desire control in the way common to editing tools such as Photoshop, Grasshopper, Blender, do not use Midjourney. Midjourney is a nondeterministic text-to-image generator. The training data a...

Study 1: Halo, Drones, and Hands Initialize The first study consists of a single prompt, varied upon several dozen iterations. My goals was deep iteration to unveil local maxima the process hits upon. It started with the following set of images and prompt: iter0_halo.png Prompt: playing halo, first...

I am on the hunt for pictures of hands. Pictures of hands in the style of a first person point of view, similar to realistic first person shooter video games. Simultaneously, keywords relating to Christian imagery will pop up here and there. I like the idea of video games as theology. csgo.jpg Note:...

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