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[deepdreamnights]

All These Devices Are Now In Your Pocket

Select photos from the Uncanon Valley Museum's installation of the same name, intended to show youngsters just how much utility has been compressed into a single device, and how much the market has narrowed because of it.

By Row:

Martel InstaKlik Camera (1984) / Melinoë Industries GPS-2s (2001)

Fatholla Light Meter (1977) / Issac's Brand Underwater MP3 Player (2003)

Klaxaxabaxan™ Handheld Game (1994) / "Prince Adrian" Platinum Edition Speak & Spell, Tiffany's (1966)

Edison High-Freq K3030 Camera (1973) / L700 Four-Demon Chest, Panasonic (1981)

Splap-it! Game, traditional (1922) / Demiurgical Responder Engine, J.W. Welles & Company (1873)

L'l Farnsy Vacuum-Tube Radiotrox (3022), Poch Ackaoch Perpendicular Receiver (1971)

The images above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompt and/or have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain.

Process under the fold:

Lotta prompts here, so I'm going to just go over my process with these.

I took a number of pictures of consumer electronics, along with some wild card objects, and ran them through with Midjourney's /describe feature.

I then shuffled the resulting prompts, separating them with :: marks, resulting in prompts like the following example:

a gold and red medallion located on a white background, in the style of rangercore, konica auto s3, curved mirrors, shuzo oshimi :: the skull in a purple outfit is made from a plastic, orange and green, in the style of m42 mount, terrorwave, packed with hidden details, destroyed gadgets sculptures, katsuhiro otomo, toy camera effects, science academia

The :: marks are used to denote weights normally, but if you don't weight them, MJ tends to blend the concepts. So after that I just appended:

:: electronic device photograph on white background

The example prompt was for the "Edison High-Freq K3030 Camera (1973)" image.