AI Art Community Newsletter

Threads app & more Midjourney features

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Helloo! Welcome to the 11th installment of the AI Art Community Newsletter. A special welcome to 150 new subscribers this week, which pushes us clear past the 2,000 mark 🎉 Read on for rather huge news in AI, community spotlights, memes and more.

Your first letter? Would love to learn a bit about you. Where you’re from, what you do outside AI art, etc. Join me for a mini interview here.

🧶 Join us in Threads app

Zuck just dropped a Twitter clone with butter smooth onboarding from Instagram. The vibe is right in this honeymoon phase before ads take over and profit kills its soul. May it never happen. 🙏

There we’ll host Threads-exclusive daily themes and share news in AI, memes, spicy takes and your art.

👉 Join in @ai_art_community

🏎️ More from Midjourney

Midjourney is back for more with an addendum to last week’s release.

— weird

Let’s get WEIRD! Add “—weird [0-3000]” for heightened, unconventional aesthetics. Here’s one that should be a wall-to-wall banner in a museum, from @death.milk.designs:

And an awesome tweet breaking down the full range of possibilities:

Midjourney released a new setting
--weird
It takes a value between 0-3000
🧵 A thread, let's see what it can do
— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam)
9:40 AM • Jun 30, 2023

Panning

Last week: Zoom In & Out. This week: Pan Vertical ⬆️ ⬇️ & Horizontal ⬅️ ➡️.

Midjourney has so far focused almost exclusively on cementing themselves as the state of the art text-to-image generator. It feels like we’re entering a new era in which they’re broadening their scope to create more infrastructure around the core technology. E.g. additions like Zoom, Pan, Outpainting, a better website and mobile experience, etc.

🗞️ AI News

Last week, Midj v 5.2 & new Stable Diffusion. This week: More from Midjourney & … tbh… Threads app.

Thank you as always to our trusty crew of Newsies. This week’s links powered by: @focused.instability, twilight_dreams123, @barbara.chira.ai.art.

Meta just release Threads app, a Twitter alternative. 30M people have signed up in less than a day. That is of course a new internet record. And there’s a big opportunity for you to leverage your existing community on Instagram; the two are deeply and easily linked. Come on down!
Text-to-video is in that Midjourney v3-esque era - both strange and surprisingly good. Here’s a popular Twitter vid showing Runway Gen 2 capabilities
Bias in AI art continues to be a problem and may create a one-sided & average view of art history. Inherent bias & human diversity is supposedly a renewed area of focus for Midjourney’s v6.
Article in Rolling Stone in defense of AI art
Playground.ai raises $40M
Noice YouTube video showing Disney Princesses translated into runway models

Not art, still cool

For developers, OpenAI just made GPT-4 generally available
Human defeats AI at Go (there’s hope for us after all!)

Got a link? Just reply.

Artist spotlights

You’ve arrived at best section of all, artist spotlights ✨. Celebrating folks in this global creative community on the weekly. From Guadeloupe, Australia, Canada, India and the US. Bartenders, magicians, students and cooks.

Want a feature? Let me know!

@mysti_kali_ai (Guadeloupe) - Infographiste

@nicola_higgins_ai (Sydney, Australia) - I'm a single mum of two boys and studying a bachelor of fine art at National Art School, majoring in oil painting

@danteprompts4u (India) - I study.

@dalmatian_nation_ai (Ontario, Canada) - Photographer/Bartender~waitress. Industrial Janitorial/market vendor

@twilight_dreams123 (U.S.A.) - I like cooking, watching anime, and reading books!

Twitter tips: “Orphism” “Madhubani” “Aerial photos”

Each week, dozens of folks educate and delight the masses by sharing prompt nuggets on the bird app. A few of favs from this week:

Use this trick to improve your cityscape photography in Midjourney
Prompt: an aerial photo of [CITY], sunny, beautiful lighting, stunning architecture --ar 2:3
Most people think the magic is in the prompt.
But it's not necessarily true:
After 270 experiments, I've found that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Chase Lean (@chaseleantj)
11:28 AM • Jul 1, 2023

🎨 ORPHISM ART CHALLENGE & SHOWCASE 🤖
Orphism: abstract art movement with vibrant colors, geometric shapes, and mystical symbolism, seeking spiritual transcendence.
Prompt: Orphism of a scene with [Prompt]
Have fun and share your beautiful creations!
♥️🤖🎨 http
— Umesh (@umesh_ai)
11:49 AM • Jul 6, 2023

Madhubani art is back in MARVEL🤯
* Drop your VERSION     😍
* Invite your friends     🤜🤛
* PROMPT IN ALT             ♻️
@beholdersai@LearnAI_MJ@4rtofficial
Wanna join?
#promotshare#promptchallenge#midjourney#midjourneyV52#MarvelStudios
— Aiming_AI (@Aiming_AI)
4:41 PM • Jul 5, 2023