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New Userpic. No Specific Lyrical Reference; Just Very Appropriate General Generative Hitchcockiana, Produced Serendipitously By While Trying To Generate A Psychedelic Portrait Of Eugene Mirman Listening To Shufflmania.
For a while, I had a Twitter account, @robGANhitchock, where I was posting AI illustrations of Robyn Hitchcock lyrics I created using a Generative Adversarial Network (“GAN”). This was an interesting project, because when it started I knew next to nothing about generative art; as I worked on it I learned more about crafting prompts, and more and better tools emerged, so over the course of the full set, you can see the progression of experience and improved generative algorithms: from the first few in VQGAN, then FreewayML, and finally Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
Because the later output is much more successful, I’ve ordered this gallery in reverse order (the same order in which pictures originally appeared on Twitter.) Scrolling lower, to the earlier pieces, you can see the development of quality and styles, including a lot of early output that aren’t so striking as art but are interesting from the standpoint of seeing how the technology works.
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She's my bright fresh flower and I dream her
Have a heart, betty (I'm not fireproof) (II)
I feel like making love to a photograph (II)
I kneel before you, bearing a crown
There's a thin line between being well and being ill. That's what julia told me and I know she always will.
Have a heart, betty (I'm not fireproof)
1.) I feel like making love to a photograph 2.) I feel like asking a tree for an autograph 3.) Photographs don't smell 4.) Give it to the soft boys.
1.) Muriel's hoof 2.) The rout of the clones
Everything revolves around the sun
1.) In the aquarium, the fish went through the trees, the planes went through the seas, and you were still with me. 2.) In the aquarium, you stroked a greasy ray, just at the end of day, way down in monterey.
Janice, don't go squatting in nettles, etc. (III)
Janice, don't go squatting in nettles (II)
Janice, don't go squatting in nettles. Last week three people came in to be dignified and they all got stung.
Trevor, come and shave your playmates!
1.) Judith, come and get your apples, don't expect not to be scratched 2.) You said "hey hey hey hey, it's a mystic trip". Hey hey hey hey, why don't you try it?
1.) I something you 2.) You whatnot me
The warning on the label said, "keep away or you'll be dead"
I had one chance to stop her eggs (pronounced "eggs" or "brad")
Oh, elizabeth jade, you shake me up like pre war lemonade
She was tapering to a point in a corona of foam
A mind is a persuasive place, especially when it's dark
1.) Napoleon wore a black hat, ate lots of chicken, and conquered half europe. 2.) Napoleon was caught by the british, imprisoned on elba, he died on the phone.
1.) I'm going back into my body, back out of my dream, dressed up as a human with a routine 2.) Dressed up as a human, with a routine, that I call me
I'm the man with the lightbulb head, I turn myself on in the dark.
Oh, you boring little creep, don't say that this ain't love.
I'm the man with the lightbulb head, I turn myself on in the dark (II)
Millstream pigworker (III)
Millstream pigworker (II)
Millstream pigworker
All I want to do is be your creature.
This could be the day I've waited for all my life
Like a wedding cake festooned with leeches.
In the spiritual kingdom of love
Yesterday I saw the devil in the nude. It was embarrassing.
Let's get really mellow together, baby
The can opener still roves the gulch, with severing claws akimbo
I think I understand why you're bald and still a man. (III)
I think I understand why you're bald and still a man. (II)
I think I understand why you're bald and still a man.
Splash my cold enamel with blood, a rendezvous with stone will leave you bleeding.
How's about you, my pretty one, do you still smear yourself with jam?
1.) It don't feel much like a fish without a pond. 2.) It don't feel much like a train without a buffet car.
3.) It don't feel much like a foot without a shoe. 4.) It don't feel much like a drug without a side effect
5.) It don't feel much like a home without a dog. 6.) It don't feel much like a church without a god inside.
7.) Come on, baby, gimme your meat.
I used to say I love you, I said it as a threat
I'm alone, like a queen in bed, with a barrel of vodka and lime (II)
1.) He was white and she was white, as statues often are. Fifty years they stood there, looking stupid, by a jar. 2.) One night in mid august when the moonlight got too strong, they climbed off their pedestal and then they sang this song.
I'm alone, like a queen in bed, with a barrel of vodka and lime
I would ramble on through time and space, just to have a butcher's at your face (II)
The return of the sacred crab
@eugenemirman a bearded listener (and j.geils aficionado)
1.) I don't know why the people wanna meet, when all they know is that they'll breed like rabbits in the end 2.) Ordinary people on the street, they never know, but if they can't be rabbits, they'll be friends
I'm just a crab on a verdigris slab
Blonde on the tracks
1. Adventure rocket ship, the lover and the slave 2. The skeletons of spacemen, unzipper me with love
Hermaphrodite in style, you crash upon a star
1.) I was riding in your car in san francisco, but I'm never gonna ride with you again. 2.) A man's gotta know his limitations, briggs
I would ramble on through time and space, just to have a butcher's at your face
1.) The way you look and all the things you said 2.) If looks could kill, then baby, I'd be dead
1+2.) Ain't no way I'm gonna be anything I oughtta be. All I wanna do is be your creature. 3.) Ain't no way I'm gonna be anything I want to be. All I want to do is be your teacher.
1+2.) I wanna destroy you 3.) And when I have destroyed you I'll come picking at your bones 4.) You won't have a single atom left to call your own
Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl, so I could wreck myself in the shower (II)
Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl, so I could wreck myself in the shower
Maureen and the meatpackers (II)
Maureen and the meatpackers
The face of death is my best friend
I get run over by the cars she used to drive, they recognize me on the street
I used to say I love you
Seems like you were in a glass hotel
He's in every film, sometimes wearing a towel, and if you don't get him, you get andie macdowell.
1.) I was the pulse of it all, but there's always poison to drink alone or to share with friends 2.) Sincerely I remain, arthur kane
¡olé, tarantula!
My wife can't swim but neither could she, and deep in the sea, she's waiting for me, she's waiting for me
Whoo my, it's fine, got a zipper in my spine
The abandoned brain
Bloody red bats, squelching offal
I dream of antwoman, with her audrey hepburn feelers, and her black and white stripes
Girls were decked with flowers and violated while boys spat juice from out of their fresh young bulbs
She walks like a leopard, her feet padding down, down, down (I)
She walks like a leopard, her feet padding down, down, down (II)
Old lady bent like a question mark, with a shopping bag and skin of bark
, a reluctant scion of the postmodern age, is larger on the inside than the outside: perhaps not a composer, but a producer and arranger of sounds; nor a writer, but an avid writer-down; an occasional author of doggerel; an erstwhile urban hermit; and privately a man of very great ardor. He is, if now resigned to never succeeding at those personal and artistic pursuits he holds most dear, unwavering in his determination to fail at them as entertainingly as possible. He is currently in what he calls the "red bathrobe period" of his life. If you're wondering what all this has to do with FileMaker development or IT consulting: you done taken the wrong turn, this river don't go to Aintry—Mike's professional services are on his San Francisco FileMaker Pro consulting website.
For a while, I had a Twitter account, @robGANhitchock, where I was posting AI illustrations of Robyn Hitchcock lyrics I created using a Generative Adversarial Network (“GAN”). This was an interesting project, because when it started I knew next to nothing about generative art; as I worked on it I learned more about crafting prompts, and more and better tools emerged, so over the course of the full set, you can see the progression of experience and improved generative algorithms: from the first few in VQGAN, then FreewayML, and finally Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
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