cavalier (@cavalier) • Hey
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Publications
- Coke and burger🍔
I'm talking about two projects😈
- I made an entry to Claire Silver’s AI art contest.
Check it out and maybe show it some love over at Twitter so she notices it.
https://x.com/simonjaquemet/status/1798116504845615499?s=46&t=gwEzwynRGvj-R3-iMgYyLQ
Here the lengthy description:
Here's my submission: QUALM KINGDOM
#ClaireAIContest
The actual piece is a web app. It has only one button: «Generate»
qualm-kingdom.rtgen.ai
Attached some images inside the low limit that Twitter allows. The idea is that the project consists of infinite images.
OK... What is this about:
My father became obsessed with photography after he retired. He took thousands of images of rather uneventful places around Zurich in Switzerland where he and me live. His images had a very understated humor in how he captured the mundane. He shared it with me and we discussed. Inspired by the contest I asked him if I could train a model on his images. He agreed and I trained an SDXL checkpoint on around 50 photos and the resulting model worked well in capturing the essence of a Swiss (probably similar to Germany or Austria) city and surroundings.
Sometimes I get an eerie feeling looking at the somewhat boring tidiness, perfect organization and wealth that surrounds me. When I see images of Ukraine, where I was several times and have friends and which is a short flight or a manageable car-drive away. Or worse the middle-east, which leaves me totally helpless in what to even think or feel I get something like survivor's guilt. The wealth and stability suddenly seems fragile and maybe it is us causing all this, or at least not doing enough or anything.
I took the model trained on my father's images and added 'war' and 'destruction' to the prompt. The result is a stream of ephemeral pictures of an imaginary war-torn alpine western European country.
One of my main interests in AI art is to create a concept and code for endless and unique, fleeting images.
Tech: This runs on a React frontend doing the whole prompt logic and calling a ComfyUI backend on Runpod Serverless. The Comfy Workflow is rather simple with a low-res image generated by my trained model and then being upscaled by RealVisXL-turbo using the great PAG (Perturbed Attention Guidance). Be patient. It still takes around 1 minute per image.
I learnt a lot. I wanted to do much more: like a page that would show an endless slideshow of new images and sound but in the end I met my limits (and ChatGPT was down today when I needed it)... Maybe will update along the way
- I'm leaving Lens now. I'll wait until it's as powerful as Farcaster before coming back.
- I'm leaving Lens now. I'll wait until it's as powerful as Farcaster before coming back.
- This song goes out to all the bots 🤖 on @lens/lens
- How can a project be decentralized if it is not inclusive? wishful thinking
- The lens cleaning robot is looking for death. You should not know that most project parties hope to get the attention of robots to show the power of the project.
- King @lens/juampi 👑
- Orb has registered Lens for free👀
- what will be next week
- As far as I know, the quality of a project is linked to the quality of the airdrop, which may be wrong🤣🤣but the market is like this now
- 😂😂
- It turns out that this is how rivers are formed
- Two people love each other, regardless of gender. An inclusive country is important
- What's this
- **Proof-of-climb ⛰️, 10,000 steps high 🥵, above and around clouds ☁️**
500 steps in and I was out of my breath already (talk about seeing all breathing techniques and still going out of breath 😅) , I wasn't able to keep up with my friend who ran up like crazy.
At 1000 steps, I was sweating like it was raining, my cloth dripping wet. 🥵, and the climate was so hot.
At 1500 steps, I sat at side thinking I can't do it, will go down back to ground. Thought for a while, said to myself, I don't want to be a chicken and go back. What's the point of getting out of my comfort room, if upon facing challenge, if want to go back to the box.
Continued the journy...
At 2500 steps, called friend to wait for me a bit, so that we could catch up.
At 4000 steps, we caught up and continued there on together. Legs were hurting really hard, but my breath was under controll, I got used to it at this point.
At 5000 steps, we reached the maximum height of the mountain and a temple called ambaji. We rest for a while there, eat something and then continued to a place which was almost along the edge of the mountain. So it was relatively easier to travel the next 5000 steps to the next stop, which was the highest peak amoung all nearby mountain chains.
At 1000 steps, finally we reached to that point, a rush of joy and satifaction and a little smile came to me. This was my most challenging and most satifying journey of my life.
If you are able to read till this you are legend 🙌, thanks for that.
https://diversehq.xyz/c/lensfit
#lensfit
- **No pizza this time 🚴♀️**
https://diversehq.xyz/c/lensfit
#lensfit
- **Proof-of-Sunset🏃♀️**
When feeling uncertain just work out and watch the sun going down lol
Gn!🌠
Xx
https://diversehq.xyz/c/lensfit
#lensfit
- **Proof Of Ride 🚲 **
Trying to make the most of these long summer days ☀️
https://diversehq.xyz/c/lensfit
#lensfit