You can interrogate CLIP to see what text it associates with an input image. Then you can run that through diffusion to see what comes out, a sort of equivalent to your input in the latent space.

Every time I do this on my photos I feel kind of like I am being roasted. "Duhhh that's you, that's how dumb you look!"

That's me in front of Revolution Doughnuts in Atlanta, GA. Or Decatur? I dunno how precise I need to be.

"Revolution gave us more than doughnuts. They took us to doughnut school. They categorize their doughnuts by the method used to produce them. They separate them into yeast doughnuts, cake doughnuts, and baked cake doughnuts. Now I can say with certainty that yeast doughnuts DO involve rolling the dough out. Donut Country’s slogan (“That’s how we roll”) is vindicated."
#donuts #doughnuts

Am I out of photos of myself in front of different donut places? I am not. Here I am in front of monuts donuts in Durham, NC.

"Monuts also serves a full menu of things that “hipsters” would like, involving kale, lox, and cilantro (not in the same item) and beer. If you’re in town and need a hip-me-up, stop in. If you attend Duke, you probably already have."

#NationalDonutDay #donuts #doughnuts #monuts

At some point I stood in front of District Donuts in New Orleans, LA. And I said this about it:

"It’s possible to endlessly chase your tail about authenticity, but when you encounter something with the quality of doing the thing that it does in a way entirely consistently with itself, no evidence of spin doctoring or micromgmt of perception, “authentic” seems like a good way to wrap that idea up.

New Orleans in general gave me that impression and this place in specific did too."
#donuts

And here I'm at Gourdough's Public House in Austin, TX.

"What did I take away from this? I learned a bit about the possibilities of Austin, Texas. Where a pub can be a doughnut shop, and a doughnut can be a sandwich roll."
#NationalDonutDay #donuts #doughnuts #austin

Here I'm inside of Whoo's Donuts in Santa Fe, NM. One of the best damn doughnuts I ever ate.

"Whoo’s Donuts is a roadside doughnut shop. It is in Santa Fe, which is an arty capital city with a lot of cute-looking boxy clay buildings in it. Whoo’s fits right in – it has a definite Northern New Mexico personality. It’s covered in art. The tables are repurposed barrels. The doughnuts are made out of corn."

#NationalDoughnutDay #doughnuts #donuts #SantaFe #corn

Me in front of Welcome Chicken + Donuts in Phoenix, AZ.

"Welcome Chicken + Donuts is a fusion of Fried Chicken, asian-inspired sauces, and gourmet doughnuts. I don’t really like using the “spirit animal” metaphor, so let’s just say that a fusion-chicken-doughnut place with good coffee is my happy path. That’s Welcome."
#NationalDoughnutDay #donut #doughnut