Simon Jaquemet (@simonj) • Hey
Film director / writer / producer based in Zurich.
Director of CHRIEG / WAR & DER UNSCHULDIGE / THE INNOCENT
Currently editing my third feature film ELECTR
Publications
- Kitchen still life
- Met a nice guy yesterday who said there will be a crazy bull run in the Fall after Trump will win the elections. Do you agree?
- Briefly in my hometown.
- The 5K music video as a standalone collectible. Posting through Firefly + lucky drop only lets me add as a commment.
Thanks. It’s been a blast so far!
- Thanks for 5K followers on @lens/lens !!
Celebrating with a bonkers AI generated song and a weird automatic music video…
And trying the lucky drop on @lens/fireflyapp
1000 $Bonsai for 1
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- Watching a render of my film to check for glitches and flash frames.
- Winning bid made by @lens/simonj 💜💜💜
- GM and happy Sunday.
- Hi. I started writing again recently and thought it’d be nice to have a club where we could share stories. No matter if fictional or real or unclear. Personal or someone elses’s. And also encourage to post embarrassing stuff and make it a private post that stays in the club.
I have a very silly weird dream inspired story I wrote a few days ago that I wouldn’t want to share openly but maybe here and I can go first once we have 20 members. Deal?
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- Good evening
- Anyone going to Art Basel? I’m super busy but will probably go Wednesday.
- Good evening.
- Thanks a lot for 300 likes. If someone could possibly also like the original submission post on X I’d be very grateful.
https://x.com/simonjaquemet/status/1798116504845615499?s=46&t=gwEzwynRGvj-R3-iMgYyLQ
- 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
- Playing with automatic music > video.
Reddit post > Suno > my automatic music video workflow.
Honestly, it’s scary and interesting and sad.
Besides AI shizzle the text was a jokingly but intelligent reply of someone being obviously mistreated by their partner.
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- So true. What do you think?
- Surprisingly Suno can rap in the strange Swiss German dialect.
Lyrics are top ten Swiss swear words as voted by a newspaper.
Video: GIF Gen
- If you are down and need some happiness boost: Hang out at the arrivals section of your local airport.
Had to wait there for a bit more than an hour to pick someone up professionally and saw so many moments of genuine happiness sometimes slightly embarrassing moments, tears of joy, …
- So now that everyone can start clubs we’d only need sub channels in the clubs and we can slowly start to ditch discord.
- 👀👀👀
- Did you know that the legend about ‘Gummo’ (one of my favorite films) is that most of the film was shot in the last week or even on the last day while all the time before they were just getting drunk and drugged and didn’t do anything.
Sometimes I feels I do the same: procrastinating important tasks for the whole day doing something fun and interesting and then rushing the last working hour to get everything done that I should.
- That was me last year at NFC Lisbon and that is me today at home reading all the posts of everyone at NFC.
Wen speaker invitation at a web3 event?
Note to self: haircut.
- Experimenting with an idea.
Do you think AI post-photography is a valid genre of photography or not?
Would you agree that in web3 art space there is maybe too much emphasis on attractive aestethics?
- Thanks for collecting @lens/dankshard @lens/donsambaba and @lens/princetiwari !
- Something something happening with the $electric token... @lens/bonsai @lens/p00ls ?
! swap open action with reward pool enabled 25% to swappers !
- GM. Inspired by @lens/pointless team I have been experimenting with some audio reactive AI video workflows. Pretty wild. And since it’s always girls dancing in those vids I wanted to check if it also works with boys. It does.
- Found three nice printed artworks from the set design of my movie that survived the shoot. I made those with Disco Diffusion back in the day. Thinking about making them 1:1 and collector will get the physical print.
- I have been further exploring fully automatic video creation.
This one took a short story by my 6yo son as input and automatically created a storyboard from it using a local llama LLM and then rendering the shots using AnimateDiff. All in a one-click workflow using ComfyUI.
The story was actually super cute about a monster who wants to become a football (soccer) player and always destroys everything because it's too strong.
While it's a funny experiment it also has a scary aspect. On the AI panels I was speaking lately I always predict that we will have fully automatic, individual entertainment soon and cartoons for kids will be first. Since I can create this on my old computer with a 16GB GPU and it's already quite good I think this is very close. And if it will be the big studios monopolizing this it might become very tough for us creators and artists to compete.
- This is great. Pity that preview doesn’t show the video.
- This is great. Pity that preview doesn’t show the video.
- Sharing the news on @club/orb first!
We’re bringing #niceaunties’ and #SashaStiles’ @club/art to Venezuela—The Caracas Design Week will take place from June 1-8. If you’re here, let’s meet.
This event is made possible thanks to the support of @lens/lens! 🩶⚡️
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- Happy Pizza Day
- Welcome new members in our @club/electricfilm club!!
The club is open to collectors of an electric.film Genesis NFT but we do at least weekly accept join requests from somewhat active users - basically if you are not a bot you can join.
- They laughed at me for posting.
They said I was doing the “same bullsh*t.”
They said I had autism.
They unfollowed me.
They muted me.
They blocked me.
They called me a waste of time.
They mocked my dedication.
They didn't understand my hustle.
They thought I had no choice.
They questioned my freedom.
They couldn't see my vision.
They tried to label me.
They misunderstood my mind.
They couldn't comprehend my consistency.
They doubted my strategy.
They dismissed my dedication.
They didn't see the bigger picture.
They thought I was crazy.
They couldn't fathom my persistence.
They questioned my sanity.
They underestimated my resolve.
They overlooked my passion.
They couldn't see my progress.
They doubted my potential.
They mocked my ambition.
They tried to bring me down.
They couldn't see my success.
They didn't understand my purpose.
They couldn't grasp my intention.
They missed the value in my actions.
They thought it was pointless.
They questioned my motives.
They saw no sense in it.
They doubted my intentions.
They ridiculed my effort.
They couldn't appreciate my drive.
They labeled me obsessive.
They thought it was a joke.
They couldn't see the plan.
They didn't believe in me.
They said I was wasting time.
They thought I was lost.
They couldn't see my growth.
They underestimated my power.
They saw no merit.
They doubted my influence.
They overlooked my impact.
They couldn't grasp the vision.
They called it nonsense.
They thought I was foolish.
They saw no value.
They questioned my decisions.
They called me strange.
They didn't get my method.
They dismissed my effort.
They couldn't see the endgame.
They didn't value my work.
They doubted my goals.
They couldn't see the future.
They thought I was stuck.
They overlooked my progress.
They couldn't see the evolution.
They underestimated my journey.
They thought it was ridiculous.
They didn't understand my path.
They saw no purpose.
They doubted my perseverance.
They couldn't see my transformation.
They dismissed my passion.
They couldn't see my dedication.
They thought it was madness.
They doubted my ambition.
They didn't understand my drive.
They couldn't see my success.
They thought it was trivial.
They didn't get my strategy.
They doubted my vision.
They questioned my methods.
They didn't see the reward.
They overlooked my achievements.
They couldn't see my potential.
They thought it was silly.
They didn't understand my grind.
They dismissed my goals.
They thought I was wasting energy.
They questioned my creativity.
They couldn't see my innovation.
They underestimated my talent.
They mocked my efforts.
They saw no reason.
They doubted my focus.
They couldn't see my determination.
They overlooked my efforts.
They questioned my persistence.
They didn't understand my dreams.
They underestimated my impact.
They doubted my resilience.
They couldn't see my ambition.
They dismissed my resolve.
They couldn't see my evolution.
They thought it was absurd.
They couldn't see my discipline.
They questioned my vision.
They didn't see my path.
They doubted my conviction.
They didn't understand my mission.
They underestimated my strength.
They couldn't see my journey.
They doubted my growth.
They didn't see my tenacity.
Every post, every idea, every dollar - it was my choice, my strategy, my success.
To all the haters: Keep talking. Your noise fuels my drive. While you judge, I'll keep winning.
Sheshhhhhh
- First alcohol-free evening after 6 evenings at the festival (+ few cool down beers yesterday after return) was between a few and a few too many drinks at aperos, cocktails, parties every day. Always open bar. Never paid a single drink. How do you all handle that? For me it’s either no drink at all or once I start the temptation to get another & another & another is strong & social anxiety … cheers
- Wow this is so wild. Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the new ChatGPT4o. I always found it eerie how prophetic the movie HER was and finding out that Altman is actively trying to turn fiction into reality is another level of meta. Hope my own upcoming AI movie is not as prophetic or we are screwed.
- GM
From the Côte d’Azur to Swiss shades of gray.
- Unexpected last minute opportunity to present @lens/electricfilm at Cannes remotely just after returned home physically ...
- My last hours at the Cannes Film Festival. Croque Monsieur next to the trash in a cheap sandwich joint. Bye bye glamour.
- My last hours at the Cannes Film Festival. Croque Monsieur next to the trash in a cheap sandwich joint. Bye bye glamour.
- GM
A melancholic still life next to a clothes donation station.
Spotted on late way home after party in Cannes.
- Another Cannes Film Festival Party …
- Cannes Film Festival Day4: finally a short break at the beach and even went in the sea.
- Cannes
- Windy day in Cannes
- Yesterday I went to the PJ (pyjama) party in Cannes. @lens/iamtherealyakuza nicely got me an invite.
It was funny and a bit surreal. Very different crowd from the film industry events and parties. Many young people like actors, students and simply Cannes tourists. Was cool to talk with not so usual suspects for once. Today back to the film industry grind where I will have a little presentation on my upcoming film as the ‘guest of honor’ at the fantastic Pavillon.
Unfortunately only took bad photos so added a gif how AI imagined the party
50/50 revenue share with yakuza
- Day 3 @ Cannes film festival. Everything is so much nicer when the sun is shining.
Had a lunch with a Swiss federal council (like a 1:7 president because in Switzerland the government is led by a council of 7 people) and a small group of filmmakers and film commissioners and it was really nice and easy and I was surprised that there were not even bodyguards (or I didn’t see them) with the head of state.
Couldn’t take pics of the lunch. So just the beach where it was at and my house, which is quite funny from outside.