AI Art Community Newsletter

Hey, folks! Welcome to the fourth edition of our AI Art Community Newsletter.

A hearty howdy to our 250 new subscribers 🎊. Thanks for tuning in. Every week, a bit of news in AI, a casual weekly theme, artist features, memes and more. 🤙

New to the letter? Would love to learn a bit about you! Where you’re from, what you do outside of AI art, what gets you excited, etc. If you’re keen, join me for a written mini interview.

Jumping right in with something special..

Announcing: AI Art Community Store

🚀 Exciting news, folks! The AI Art Community Store is live now. Snag a mug, hoodie, tee, hat, and more. None of that low quality stuff - best of the best of the best.

Want to sell merch with us? Yes! That is the whole intent. A one-stop-shop for AI artistry. A few folks are already queued up - you’ll start to see their collections populate the store this weekend.

Create your own collection of Whatever You Want. Tote bags, phone cases, coasters, postcards… you name it.

👉 Merchant guidelines.

👉 Get started here.

Last week’s theme

Behold 12 inspired submissions to this week’s World’s Most Casual Weekly Theme: New Zealand 🥝🇳🇿!

Top: @ai.art.erinrads, @artificial.instability, @evelynsaiart Middle: @erosxasena, @Claire_edits123 @fireflyfox.ai, @nightofneptune.ai.images Bottom: @realrobert78, @liana___bee, @gainesa_24

New theme: Jazz music 🎵

This week’s theme is: Jazz music 🎺 🎹. A perfect suggestion by @artificial.instability.

Upload an image here by next Tuesday, May 23rd: https://forms.gle/mN1F5hDaEsFquvpd6.

Other great suggestions: food photography, magicians, abandoned churches, oasis, your dream home office, candy bar.

Twitter action

Having a blast on Twitter right now. Instead of the pre-meditated prompt lists of Instagram, daily themes on Twitter emerge more organically from artists who post a tip or style or challenge. Super vibrant and lots of fun chatter.

Get in the mix!

🗞️ What’s new in AI?

The breakneck pace of innovation in AI continues. Fun to be part of. Last week, we saw OpenAI’s text-to-3D release of SHAP-E. This week…

• Two of the coolest examples of MoMA-worthy AI Art featuring Refik Anadol & Baz Lurman (from @barbara.chira.ai.art)

• Big Tech companies want to take their data out of public domain to protect business interests, which would kneecap the progress of AI as a whole (from @barbara.chira.ai.art)

• UK van equipped with AI vision detects people on their phones (from @prime_generations)

• Notable model releases: Stability AI releases Stable Animation, Google releases text-to-music MusicLM (from @focused.instability)

• Reddit summary of Senate hearing on AI regulation, featuring OpenAI (sent in by @f1uxu.s)

• OpenAI is preparing to open-source their models (to keep up) (sent in by @focused.instability)

Artist spotlights

You’ve arrived at the best section: a handful of spotlights showing off the global nature of this creative community. A world-traveler, archaeology professor, customer service aficionado, and more! From Germany to the US to the French Caribbean and back.

Each week, we’ll feature a handful of subscribers. Want a feature? Just reply!

@dsa157.art (Illinois, USA) - retired founder of acquired mobile enterprise software company, now world traveler of 64 countries!

@evelynsaiart (Connecticut, USA) - Archaeologist and Anthropology Professor, and a huge hockey fan! Also a Swiftie… seeing Taylor Swift at Gillette on Friday night 🤠 

@nephty__s (Germany) - works at T-Mobile in customer service, making sure everyone is up to date with their phones and not stuck somewhere in the 90's. Otherwise she has two black cats, loves music and sports, and has been married since Friday!!

@westkast (Guadeloupe, French Caribbean) - Art Director x Virtual Producer at his design company westkast.com.

@ai_color_project (Germany) - In highschool! Big fan of volleyball & calisthenics.

Prompt tip: “Knolling”

One of the most head-scratching, magical prompts Midjourney offers is “knolling”. In essence, deconstructing a visual to its component parts, then laying them neatly side by side. Try it with anything.

Today’s tip courtesy of @ai.art.erinrads.

Fin!

That’s all this week! Got ideas? Want to say hello? Just reply.

A big week of meaningful support - @momhugssss became a DEITY & @catsndogs.ai joined as a Patron Saint. Rockin’ 🤘

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As always, many thanks to the Patron Saint squad: Mischief, Oracular_angel, danb3ach, Midjourney.portraits, Mauriciotonon, x0alliecat0X, troplanduniverse. And now 200+ who’ve joined the ranks of Lvl 2 or Patron!

See you next Wednesday 🙂

❤️ - Jackson (connect on LinkedIn, if you’d like!)