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.

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

Standard issue pre dawn jetlag. #LivePrompting

#liveprompting Dawn at the Grossmünster kirche.

#liveprompting Bas relief detail on the doors of the Grossmünster church.

Seen in the window of an art shop. #liveprompting

#LivePrompting #travelogue

Oh yeah I forgot about street smoking. The air is thick here. #LivePrompting

#LivePrompting critical mass alive and well in Zurich.

Not at all what the production looked like, but that's part of what made it powerful and defamiliarizing (h/t @manalive for the new vocabulary) and hard to prompt. “Take my Blood and Write on the Soil,” Neumarkt Theatre. #LivePrompting

Medieval truss painting on the Chapel Bridge in Luzern, one of about a dozen, depicting images about the city’s rich history. #LivePrompting

#LivePrompting the bird sign in Kriens.

#liveprompting the gondola to Pilatus peak.

What the peak view would look like if it weren't covered in snow fog. #LivePrompting

Zürich at night from Uto Kulm. Took 9 different public transit conveyances from Pilatus peak to get here. #LivePrompting #travelogue

Hello, light snow! #LivePrompting #travelogue

#LivePrompting the Museum für Gestaltung permanent collection.

#LivePrompting from the Landesmuseum.

We're pretty far down from the first posts where I mention this, but let me here remind anyone following this thread that these aren't pictures of real things, they're just *like* the real things we’re experiencing. The intentions are to make a travelogue that is interesting and uncanny, gets me to focus intently on the experiences, to build a set of memory anchors for the real thing, and you know, to try something novel. #LivePrompting

Walking to dinner. #livePrompting #travelogue

The kitchen cooked too much spice at once and filled the restaurant with spicy haze. *hust*hust* #LivePrompting

Spot of tee and some surprisingly great (read: my speed) live music at Kweer bar. Hats off to Lewis Larke. #SpeakeasySunday #LivePeompting #travelogue

Surprise unicyclist along the Bleicherweg. #LivePrompting

This is nothing close to the expressiveness and even childlikeness of Chagall’s stained glass windows in Fraumünster church. But still I highly recommend seeing it if you can. #LivePromptimg

This woodcut was referenced in the interpretive text in the Fraumünster crypt, so I have no idea how close it is to the real thing. There's a graphic with a crop of it, so I have a sense of the style but can't wait to see the real thing. #LivePrompting

#LivePrompting Lake Zürich.

Well I didn't expect to be #LivePrompting this.