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Howdy howdy, folks! Welcome to letter #2. A special hello to our 250 new subs. Each week, we deliver a bit of levity & goodness to your inbox in the form of AI news, artist spotlights, games, memes and more.
If you’re new here, I’d love to learn a bit about you. Where you’re from, what do you do outside of AI art, what gets you excited, etc. If you’re keen, join me for a written mini interview.
A Bug’s Life
Behold, 16 submissions to the weekly theme of Bugs 🐞🐛🦋 ! Awesome start to this new event.
New theme
This week’s theme shall be: Cats doing jobs 🐈. Endless pawsibilities. Great suggestion by ManikFox.
Upload an image here by next Tuesday, May 9th: https://forms.gle/mN1F5hDaEsFquvpd6.
Other great suggestions: candy advertisements, New Zealand, cyber cars, classic Hollywood monsters, Disney remixed, storms, clay, surreal fantasy plants, moustache, dreaming, hippies.
AI Art Tournament Begins!
Once more unto the breach, dear friends! Today, right now, this instant marks the start of our third AI Art Collab Tournament. 60 artists have signed up, hailing from 15+ countries, including Australia, India, Singapore, Serbia, Morocco and more. Epic.
If you signed up, head over to Discord to meet your team, choose a name, and get started.
What’s new in AI land?
These days, a week is a lifetime in the development & deployment of AI in everyday life. A few particularly interesting stories plucked from the web…
Midjourney just released version 5.1, which contains the more “opinionated” aspects of V4 + the quality of V5. A brief article showing the differences (sent in by x0alliecat0x)
Artist creates character “Stelfie” and transposes Stelfie in important moments throughout time. Good example of a more in-depth artistic process leveraging Stable Diffusion
AI-generated video is rapidly sophisticating. Here’s a list of 10 of the most powerful current examples
NVIDIA announced a slew of AI research developments, none cooler than this real-time 3D 100,000 hairs on your head simulation (sent in by @focused.instability)
Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People's Thoughts (sent in by @iridescent_ai + @irev.on)
Writers in Hollywood want nothing to do with AI “plagiarism machines” (sent in by @barbara.chira.ai.art)
Artist spotlights
My fav section, a suite of spotlights showing what a global group this is. From Finland, Mexico City, Texas, Sweden and New York, a Jazz musician, author, student, cosplayer and creative director.
Each week, we’ll feature a handful of subscribers. Want a feature? Just reply!
Gordon Au, WorldOfDepth (New York) - Jazz musician by trade, 3D photo hobbyist, hosting #AiAniMAYtion on IG
Philippe Klein (Mexico City) - Social Media Manager / Creator Director
Starwing (Finland, originally Canada) - science fiction author + part of an Industrial Rock/Darkwave band called The Fair Attempts.
Goatsortoast (Sweden) - cosplayer & works at the front desk at a hotel
Prompt tip: Terragen landscapes
“If you want to make your landscapes better, use ‘in the style of terragen’. Terragen is a landscape developing software… holy cow it makes a difference.”
In-depth interviews
ChippyTheAI has been collecting in-depth interviews with folks in the community for many months now. Here’s a lovely interview with despair the alley cat.
Want to be interviewed by Chippy? Here here!
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Fin
C’est fini! This week’s upgrades to the letter include: adding Instagram embeddings, the “prompting tips section” and a few design adjustments. Got ideas? Just reply!
Extra thanks to our Patron Saints: Mischief, Oracular_angel, danb3ach, Midjourney.portraits, Mauriciotonon, x0alliecat0X, troplanduniverse.
See you next Wednesday 🙂
❤️ - Jackson (connect w me on LinkedIn)