Christopher NoesselFYI, I happen to be traveling in a few days. I’m speaking at a conference, but we’re also padding that to do a little traveling. Which gave me an idea: Tourist Prompting. (Accepting suggestions for a better name.) It will work like this…
When I see something that catches my eye, I’ll pause like I might to make a sketch, and try to prompt the scene before me in Midjourney until I get something that looks right. Or maybe better. Or maybe weirder. Probably weirder.
At the end I’ll have a set of prompted images that kind of work as a document of the journey. I hope the experience will force me to look and consider the scene deeply—the same way making a sketch or writing a poem about it might.
I expect it will be a weird, meta experience, partly beholden to the pictures that people have taken and uploaded to the internet in the past, but all told a thoroughly modern travelogue.
This little experiment comes from something I’ve observed before in life, i.e., that pausing to write the poem or make the sketch causes me to deeply see (in the case of visual art) or consider (in the case of writing) the thing. It forces me to slow down and…be present (?) with the thing (?)…Real-ize it? Manifest? I don’t know what the right word is for the change it causes, but I fear prompting “gets” you art, but bypasses that “making” art that requires me to deeply consider the thing.
I am hoping “live prompting” my “tourist pictures” will take me back to that, and supply some new things to chew on, too.
No. Wait. That’s missing something. Something of the feeling. This is much better. #LivePrompting #latourex
Not exactly what I was going for but hey happy accidents. #LivePrompting
This time I put us in the “photo.” it's akin to the view. Feels right. #liveprompting
#liveprompting Bas relief detail on the doors of the Grossmünster church.
Juri Umstritzki 🏳️🌈@chrisnoessel
How could you shoot the picture so clearly (through a window)?
How could you shoot the picture so clearly (through a window)?
@JuriUmstritzki this is part of an experiment. I'm making a travelogue of images, but they are all midjourney-prompted versions of the things we're seeing, more like distorted memories rather than documentation. The real photo is attached.
Aaaah, the more you know. Impressive to see what machine learning can do...
Have a good trip!