These are amazing! I also really like the off topic one. How did you come about that invite? Would looove to get stuck in this myself.
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For your amusement (creations of Midjourney)
anti-gravity device, by Rube Goldberg
detailled synthesizer module illustration and latin text by leonardo da vinci
“electronic musical instrument by leonardo da vinci”
1920, vintage, steam punk, electronic musical instrument
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Yeah I have been seeing a lot of midjourney stuff on instagram, some of the output looks just fantastic, will see if i can get in on the beta
This software looks really interesting. FWIW Could only get to it via the link below
There is also this: https://jwildfire.overwhale.com/ It harks back to the Amiga days where it stared and dev has since made it universal Java app that works very well, and is a swiss army knife of flame and other fractals, does animation, has a randomizer and lots more stuff.
jwildfire works quite cool if you have a multicore computer (16+) and make heavy oversampling. A single 4K image costs about 30min with 32 CPU threads. here an HD video i have done some times.
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More Midjourney
sepearate electrical systems connected with wires for playing music
sepearate electrical systems connected with wires for playing music
sepearate electrical systems connected with wires for playing music
nightmarish delusion of a musical instrument --ar 39:18
Love the vibe given by the backgrounds of the vintage synths. Simple but elegant and mysterious, like a good backing drone.
So, MidJourney is very nice and easy to use (assuming you are already familiar with Discord)
Its also nice not to have to worry about your GPU melting down…
However, they have very cleverly set it up to produce the inevitable sense that you will need to subscribe.
Which I guess is somewhat reasonable given the cost of running these types of machine learning algorithms
But personally I find the restrictions a little off putting, everything you create is public by default, not the end of the world, but it means that alot of prompts/words are off limits (I quite often use the keyword “bloody” in my prompts)
When working with text-to-image I usually spend a long time tweaking a single prompt, running at a low rez to understand that direction the changes are taking. Its an iterative process.
MidJourney is not really conducive to this approach, you can create variations of a prompt with one click, but thats not changing the prompt. So the more variations you create or the more times you want to modify your prompt, the more and more likely it is that you will need to subscribe.
If you dont have the hardware to run this locally, then it still seems like a really good option.
Another really nice option I have found is https://app.wombo.art/ (it works on web but there are mobile apps too)
I find this really useful for generating init images to process with other tools (like MidJourney)
Obviously you need to edit the output to remove the border, but it is great for the iterative experimentation I mentioned above
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@dan.tilley Have you played at all with AI Jukebox? I’ve been wanting to get into that, but I haven’t had luck running it using Google Collab.
Yes indeed 
While I was playing around with it for the first time, I thought the moment I’d use up my free GPU time would be a good incentive to start preparing dinner. Narrator: Instead, he immediately spent the 10 bucks. And then the 30.
But I don’t see how I can expect this technology to be free. Also, while I have no comparison, Midjourney seems quite excellent at maintaining the library of all the things one does on there.
I made it generate a couple of “eldritch zombie astronaut” images today. They did stick out in that long thread
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No havent tried that one yet, looks interesting, I’ll see if I can find some time to investigate.
I have tried this one though, and find it can be a nice idea generator, plus being able to download the midi is nice https://creators.aiva.ai/
In case you were wondering what I mean by this, here is an example of creating an image in Wombo cropping off the borders and using it as an init for Disco Diffusion
I almost feel like churning out random stuff on Bandcamp just to have a reason to use all. these. crazy. images.
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Oh man. Somehow it reminds me of… wait.
This.
But I think it should be some kind of post-rock. Maybe Mogwai type of stuff.
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Yeah, not neccessarily these ones 
They came out after a lot iterations around a jungle scene, when I finally wondered what if concrete jungle? and switched all plant related inputs to rebar, rubble, derelict brutalism etc. with a dash of Ukiyo-e. 
of the day!
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