Stable Diffusion is a very fun and flexible and maddening tool, and it’s free (as long as you have a powerful GPU which is decidedly NOT free! —and time, LOTS of time, also NOT free!)
💜 these are gorgeous, but yeah, getting control of your own vision takes some input from you beyond the text prompts for sure. Does Midjourney provide a way to do that? I haven’t really dug into it.
It’s honestly a pretty interesting way of unifying a multimedia approach, and as animation and video become more approachable,…I can just imagine.
Mostly it’s a process of sketching, prompting Stable Diffusion in image-to-image and then digital painting over outputs and going back and iterating. Anything I’ve put out here has been through several iterative transformations. It’s still a lot of work to get something good. I’m ready to share about 1% of the images I make.
hey we learned by drawing the nude model, ‘tis a part of the (western) ivory tower
Let’s call it Stereo-erotomy, the idea was born from Andrew Bayer’s excellent music video for his Immortal Lover https://youtu.be/vfiL-tyMHyI
Arethusa’s Story (1/x):
‘I was one of the nymphs, that lived in Achaia,’ she said ‘none of them keener to travel the woodland, none of them keener to set out the nets. But, though I never sought fame for my beauty, though I was wiry, my name was, the beautiful. Nor did my looks, praised too often, give me delight. I blushed like a simpleton at the gifts of my body, those things that other girls used to rejoice in. I thought it was sinful to please.’
Daughters of Aglaurus bathe in Arethusa’s waters 
Yeas! Just learned about Merlin for birds, it’s kind of like waking up to this parallel world.
did you make …your mask?
It’s interesting watching when people come here from there, with some who may start out with what works there. And then seeing people quickly shift gears into a more personable exchange.
Others appear to be hungry for something different at the outset. It’s great.
can you imagine if nostr didn’t exist at this time? that place would still feel normal.
“The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat. Optimism is true moral courage.”
Sir Ernest Shackleton on #grownostr
“Fairy tales for grown-ups”
Carlo Mollino on #nsfw
#musestr says slowly and obliquely, this is a fairy tale after all
I.
Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough,
A-top on the topmost twig, which the pluckers forgot, somehow,—
Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.
II.
Like the wild hyacinth flower which on the hills is found.
Which the passing feet of the shepherds for ever tear and wound,
Until the purple blossom is trodden into the ground.
Sappho on #poemstr
