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Mastering the Art of Crafting AI Image Prompts: A Comprehensive Guide
In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the fusion of technology and creativity has birthed a remarkable phenomenon: AI image prompts. These prompts serve as catalysts for AI systems to generate visual content autonomously, igniting a revolution in creative AI applications. Defining AI Image Prompts:AI image prompts are carefully crafted instructions or stimuli designed to…
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#ai art#ai creativity#ai generator#ai image#AI image prompts#art inspiration#Bias mitigation#Collaborative creativity#Creative AI#Creative constraints#creative technology#Deep Learning#Digital Creativity#Diversity in AI#Ethical AI#Image synthesis#Machine Learning#neural networks#Responsible innovation
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fun writing exercise: construct a scenario where dean and cas reunite and still get together romantically without ever having a Formal Conversation about Cas's declaration of love.
#sometimes constraints and limits foster creative solutions and out of the box thinking!#(also. i think there are already So Many fics that do this. just have them get together without really Talking abt cas's goodbye)#vic.txt
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My (probably unpopular) hot take is that alien designs based off of simians is fuckin boring and ugly as hell. Like, this is 100% biased by being a simian myself, but that's just a human being that's shaped a little weird, that's not alien enough. There's millions and millions of other face shapes out there you could have picked from, but you chose the one closest to ours because you weren't creative enough to try to fabricate a sympathetic being that didn't break out of familiar and comforting forms with humanlike means of self-expression. You are boring and you are weak, I say. Go back to the drawing board and think of something else. And beforen you do, cepholopods and insects are OFF LIMITS
#note: before i hit puberty i used to think humans looked ugly and gross so that's also probs influencing this#but seriously. apelike aliens are soooo fucking boring. where are the muzzles on that thang#i feel like for sympathetic aliens they have to be monkeylike and for scary ones they have to be octopi/bugs#its irritating. wheres the creativity#(this is excluding animation/budget constraints btw but even then i still think it sucks)#(some of the budget should go to makin weirdass creatures imo)
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alrighty we're doing shenanigans tomorrow! i'll be noodling on some stuff i've had in my head while also opening up to prompts. i'm especially curious about prompts with a location + a random word or dialogue phrase (location could be as specific or as broad as you'd like)!
note: i can't guarantee that i'll get to all of the prompts tomorrow - i might try combining some, we'll see - but if there's some leftover, i'll either noodle on them throughout the week or hold them for the next shenanigans day. we'll see what happens! all of this is very new so i appreciate y'all being so open and willing to play along with me <3
#writing shenanigans with jt#been watching musicians working with creative constraints and was curious about how to translate some of those exercises to writing#hence the specific prompt for well prompts lol#but again y'all are welcome to send in whatever you'd like!#though do keep in mind that if you send in an au prompt i'm not the most uh well-read or well-watched#as shown in ant-heia's hunger games au prompt 😓#still sorry about that my friend
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The writer must impose constraints. A painter who uses a canvas rather than a wall; a composer who opts for a given key - all establish a system of constraints. So do avant-garde artists, who try to avoid constraints - they simply construct others, unnoticed.
- Umberto Eco
#eco#umberto eco#quote#creativity#creative process#artistic process#constraints#arts#music#literature#painting#culture
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Happy birthday, Yechan! 🥳
#LUCY#band Lucy#Yechan#shin yechan#kitkatart#WIP#I love him I love him I love him I—#i got overly ambitious and now I’m trying to finish up soo many projects before I see the Lucys#which !!!!#but also this drawing is killing me#I’m never drawing instruments again lol#if anyone could send me some encouragement#or even just some reassurance that this isn’t completely terrible#I would appreciate it so much#Lucy truly has my creative energy running in all diffent directions#which is so great! because I haven’t had like any creative energy for the past two years!#but also…#I definitely maybe bit off more than I can chew given the time constraints haha ha 😅#the typos in these tags are v much indicative of my current state 😂#I think Yechan turned out ok but I’m drawing Gwangil now and it’s going terribly 😔
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one of my favorite things that my husband and i do for the holidays is give each other themed gifts.
last year I received a "5 Senses" gift theme from him: a visible mending class (touch), a textiles art exhibit (sight), a candle-making kit (smell), a fancy dinner out (taste), and tickets to a Haydn concert (hearing).
I got him a 'Floral' theme made up of a cherry-blossom gin, a horticulture video game on Steam, a flower jigsaw puzzle, a pack of flower-patterned socks, and a bimonthly bouquet delivery.
this year I'm plotting a 'Treasure' theme. I'm thinking a fancy compass, a set of gold D&D dice he's been coveting, chocolate coins, kohatukou (crystal gummy candy), a treasure box for his accessories, and an Exit: The Game about recovering a lost treasure.
#i can't recommend themed gifts enough! they're SO fun and provide just enough of a constraint to help you get creative#this year we're also theming our gifts to our family members around the keyword 'Rest'#so each recipient will get something tailored to them but which focuses on an idea of rest/relaxation
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Missing Common (Important) Things
What if, at a point, you found That you lack a critical thing? What if you didn’t know That said thing is missing?
What if you didn’t know it was around? You had many doo-dads and it was working Folks call you unusual as you lack a particular gizmo And you unknowingly go along, ignoring loud hissing.
You accepted the pain and assumed this was life You thought you were broken; you’re just something else Like this poem, you’re better when you use all the letters, No matter who tells you to never use your “e.”
Constrained writing: Cannot use the letter “e” until the last verse
#writing#creative writing#poem#poetry#original poem#poems on tumblr#constraints#constrained writing#my poerty#poetryblr#poetry blog#poetry by me#writblr#original poetry#poems and poetry#poetrycommunity#words words words#spilled ink
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worst experience in the world is watching one of your fave musicians get stunted musically and put out nearly identical tracks three times in a row. even worse is if the main difference in the songs is just that they're getting shorter and shorter.
like please i believed in you, i vouched for you, i was invested in you changing the industry not the industry changing yoooou let me hold your hand i will literally give you my life's vitality to make better music
#THEE worst experience like ABSOLUTELYL CANNOT BE TOPPED#is when they go indie and then their music gets worse/shorter/redundant or just stlals out#like oh... it wasn't the big wigs holding you down??#i know sometimes the difference is budget constraints#but sometimes the music gets more creatively... lacking#and thats scary
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watching the clone wars and thinking about The Logistical Problem of Barriss Offee's appearance in both Attack of the Clones and in The Clone Wars. and the ways you can solve or reconcile it as such.
She's at the first battle of Geonosis, presumably with her master, Luminara, and she's not the only padawan there with their master. presumably they only brought older, experienced padawans with them—ones nearly ready to be knighted. but when we next see her, in the TV show, she's still a padawan. they knighted anakin "full of emotions and attachments and pretty clearly not ready" skywalker before they knighted her. there's a few watsonian ways that could shake out.
absurd option: barriss experiences some kind of age regression between the very start of the war, and the middle of it where we see her again. sith artifact, separatist weapon, weird force squall erupting right beneath her, whatever. no one ever talks about it because, well, it's sort of rude to bring up. plus, barriss at any age would probably rather die than admit she's disquieted by the loss of several years of her life and self. but it would explain why she isn't knighted when they're knighting pretty much everyone.
it would also be another reason added to the pile explaining why she sort of had a breakdown before the war ends. one day you go to sleep, and the next you wake up somewhere you don't reecognize, surrounded by soldiers and war, and your master is telling you, "the last thing you remember was three years ago. get up, we have work to do." that'd knock anyone off balance
prodigy option: which padawans would you bring to a giant battle on an enemy planet? the older ones, sure, but more importantly: the ones who know how to fight. the ones who are good at it, who have a knack for it. the idea that barriss offee is too young to be knighted before the war is over, but too good with a blade to leave behind when they need their best? scintillating. tell me more.
tell me about the apprentice to a master diplomat with a level head, a sweet young girl with impeccable manners—and an uncanny and incongruous talent for defeating her opponents in spars and cutting down her enemies in the field. who even at, what, 15? moves so efficiently and purposefully through a conflict she dances. who the temple battlemaster praises as one of the incomparables of her generation.
talk to me about how the order decides to make use of her warrior's body without realizing she, as a middling-aged teen, doesn't have a warrior's mind. making use of it too young and too much and too long for her to bear, until she eventually snaps. radicalizes. decides to fight the violence that's killing her the only way she's learned how: with more violence.
interference from on high option: i'm frankly using anakin as a yardstick here, but maybe he shouldn't be. there's also the chance that she's not even that much younger than anakin, but the council is much less willing to interfere with any other padawan, in any other master-padawan relationship. And most other teenagers aren't supposed to be knighted.
So Anakin and Barriss are peers, but Luminara hasn't had the council breathing down her neck and interfering the way Obi-Wan clearly has. Anakin gets knighted, and it strikes Barriss as odd. Though she would never presume to say it, he clearly lacks necessary control over his emotions, and a certain wisdom and self-mastery Barriss thought was necessary to become a Jedi Knight. But the council has knighted him, so clearly he must be a jedi knight, and have the necessary qualities as such.
And though Barriss would never presume to ask Luminara, Luminara can see her almost-side-eye, her calculation, and wants to stop it before it turns into comparison. "Knighting a padawan before they are ready is often the result when those outside an apprenticeship make such decisions as should be left to those within it."
red flags option: or perhaps, after surviving the battle of geonosis, and being somewhat more outwardly stable than skywalker; being the picture perfect image of a dutiful jedi; the council pushes for Barriss to be knighted at the start of the war, or soon after—and Luminara says no. Luminara says she's not ready.
And when they push back, Luminara goes so far as to warn them that she won't be overruled on or convinced to let go of her misgivings about, her own padawan (the was you have convinced and overruled some jedi i could mention, is what she doesn't say, but she's very much side-eyeing everyone else for that.). Barriss isn't ready, even if her peers are. Luminara can sense it.
Perhaps, if the galaxy was not at war, Barriss would be ready. But the war, the violence...it unsettles her. Disquiets her mind, in a way a jedi knight should not be disquieted, in Luminara's opinion. She waits, she supports, she guides Barriss with a firm hand, but that unsettled undercurrent never goes away.
In fact, Barriss, over the course of the war, becomes somehow less ready to be knighted than she was at the start of it. There's a brittleness to her that Luminara can sense, for all that it never reaches the surface. It goes on long enough that Luminara becomes resigned to the idea she and her apprentice will remain stuck in this holding pattern until the war is ended.
Perhaps Barris will finally be knighted once this war is over, Luminara mulls over, as she leaves Barris behind on Coruscant so she re-center herself for the battles to come. Surely it can't be long now. Surely, I can see the galaxy to peace for the sake of my padawan.
Luminara knew she wasn't ready to become a Jedi Knight. but she never expected....never saw....
How could she not have seen?
#time is an illusion it doesn't matter that this is a decade-and-a-half old problem#barriss offee#luminara unduli#jedi order#meta#star wars#attack of the clones#the clone wars#see retconning backs us into so many interesting corners!#the odd shapes of these cannon constraints breed fascinating creativity!#(this post brought to you by me rewatching the clone wars right now)
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I've been asked to post my Personal Variation on how to do timestamp roulette, so!
the original premise is based on closing your eyes and wiggling your mouse back and forth over the timeline to select shots at random, which doesn't really appeal to me bc of the inherent biasing of landing more in the middle than on the ends
SO. my method for timestamp roulette is putting the number of minutes for the episode into a random number generator and going to that minute
from there, you could also RNG 0–59 for seconds if you really want it randomized. OR you could select a shot from Anywhere Within The Randomly Selected Minute Only, which I like because it still forces you to be creative with a random scene and encourages you to gif with shots you wouldn't typically use but still gives you a little bit of creative license
#if there's one thing my brain is good at#it's coming up with a System for how to Randomize Something to remove Too Much Decision Making#I personally like only randomizing the minute#it makes it less overwhelming to choose a shot from a minute than a whole episode#but it still makes me think creatively about shots within those constraints#also we discovered if you google timestamp roulette the One Single Timestamp Roulette Gifset I made is on the first page of results?#which is weird cause it... didn't really get notes so IDK WHAT THAT'S ABOUT
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can't wait to see choicenators bitching about how the survey had no effect for a year while completely forgetting the results of this are likely set to influence the next round of production.
#tunes talks critical#for a bunch of creatives y'all sure do forget how long it takes to create art#let alone needing to finish OVER 12 projects a year with at least 3 or 4 projects debuting simultaneously in a month#and that's without even touching research time/drafting/art assets/music composition#delegation of budgets and working within those constraints#and the worst of all: whoever is community manager on the choice insta page. worst job ever fr
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concept—hypothetical mr. robot season 5. 2d animation, akin to paranoia agent. or magnetic rose.
— includes flashbacks the fall of e-corp in the 1990s to flesh out mr. alderson a little, like what was he working on before he got fired? how does whiterose know or care? seriously I want to know!
— a few glimpses to the "real" elliot's childhood growing up (a la the opening flashback from 2x04 or 2x01), maybe from darlene or angela's pov, complete w/retrospective voiceover
— all the actors reprise their roles in a style where they would record prior to animating (to keep in spirit with the original format) kinda like how the original dub of beastars worked
well, as long as I'm dreaming -u-
I'll think of more stuff as I rewatch s3-4 for the third time
#idk how to tag this#season 4 of mr robot feels like a truncated version of something spectacular#it's not bad! just not finished and it drives me bananas#especially going back to s1 and s2 I really feel there were plans to expound upon a lot re: the ecorp scandal and the aldersons in general#and they just couldn't bc of time constraints or something like that#musings#mr robot#I might be wrong of course#this is taking the show at face value w/o interviews from the creative team etc.#also a lot of wishful thinking on my part haha
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I think I posted about getting a Remarkable? Worst name ever I feel embarrassed even writing it so I will call it the rmk.
it’s surprisingly pleasant to use as that infinite notebook, and I’ve found it astoundingly useful at work, like writing/drawing/mapping matrix shit out (or difficult emails) before going to computer.
for writing, though, I’m of two minds. I picked an old concept one shot (a 9k txl) and managed to long-hand write a full zero draft soooo easily. No distraction, good flow, no pain; the ability to add notes at random times; the ability to add a sentence or two in boring overlong meetings…so the zero draft one shot felt like a pure success, such absolute ease of writing. but then I get stuck: the only thing I can do to get that draft a step closer to a post is fully re-type it out on the computer, which took me three of my available night blocks anyway and with very little improvement/edit.
I could possibly improve my handwriting, ‘text to type’ it in the rmk, then email my computer a PDF and copy-paste into word…but then I’m stuck on the computer again anyway.
I could ‘text to type’ it in the rmk and *only* edit it within the rmk , then do the pdf copy-paste only when I’m ready to post - but tbh the editing capabilities for word processing are fairly poor.
and then comes the issue of multichaps. I thought, ‘all right, my handwritings a lost cause on this one for text to type to test that ‘edit and finalise on rmk’ workflow…so let’s try fixing one of these languishing unfinished chapters I have…’ but I can’t get an editable doc from computer to rmk. Only PDF. So I’m not gonna fully re write something just to edit it on the rmk, and you can’t split screen so you can’t even flick back and forth to make that rewrite on the device easier.
then the final issue being, I have no idea how you’d actually write a multichap on this, because I neeeeed to flick back and forth. Does this idea belong here or there or in the future? Did I say that already? Idek! And so again: limited ability to deal with complex story structures.
so yeah, a success at work, a success at actually giving me *back* some time for writing (it’s such a delightfully comfortable thing to use with longhand, and that zero draft really was a fluid pleasure to write - can use at playground, at table, on couch watching kids) but *only* limited to well defined, well visualised one-shots that can be zero-drafted, and at some point there’s a duplication of effort or a transfer barrier that causes delay anyway.
#adventures in creativity generation versus workflow optimisation versus physical limitation versus time-resource constraint#V good on 2.5 points but shitty on the final 1.5 points#I could use a paper notebook but it’s more painful because of the effort put into the pen. The digitised ink softens the impact.
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Form is not a mere lopping off of meaning that you don't have room to put into your poem; it is an aid to finding new meaning, a stimulus to condensing your meaning, to simplifying and purifying it, and to discovering on a more universal dimension the essence you wish to express.
— Rollo May
#quotes#quote#wisdom#lifequotes#light#quoteoftheday#rollo may#poem#poetry#discovery#necessity#meaning#imagination#meanings#deeper truths#profound meanings#creation#creativity#creative process#constraints#limitations#limits#expression#purification#simplification#stimulus#essence#universal#dimension#universal dimension
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Why can’t I write with voice notes?! When I get into a good flow of writing, I type at about the same speed as I speak, if not a little faster. And yet, when I try to take voice notes for writing, they turn out so stupid, literally not how I would phrase things at all.
I’m sure it’s a perception bias, like. When I write, I can backspace and fix a word here and there but when I speak, it feels more permanent. Still, I think there’s an element of repressed creativity here. Like I feel some kind of shame when I speak my prose style out loud?!
Bananas.
#hag life#been stuck on the same fic chapter for almost 4 months jesus christ#some of it is time constraint. less time 2 write#but a lot of it is creative constipation. very interested in doing SOMETHING to remove that block
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