First on WP
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Midjourney Prompt Engineering: Storybook vs. Sketchbook vs. Watercolors
I found that adding “Storybook Illustration” and “Water colors” allowed the images to be less gloomy. Was it a fluke that qualifiers such “Water colors” produced such effects? I wanted to explore a bit more.
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Midjourney 2023/10/01: The Blue Screen of Death
The blue screen of death is perhaps one of the most recognized error states in tech and pop culture history [wikipedia]. So it only seemed fitting that I tried that as the prompt for the first day of October. To make things interesting, I kept the prompt simple, but applied multiple styles. Core Prompt: “blue…
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Midjourney and Bing 2023/09/30: A farmer in space looking over his crops
Midjourney Prompt: /imagine a farmer in space, looking over his crops, the crops are growing inside a futuristic spaceship. Futuristic, sci-fi, digital art, hyper detailed. Bing Prompt: Generate an image of a farmer in space, looking over his crops, the crops are growing inside a futuristic spaceship. Futuristic, sci-fi, digital art, hyper detailed. A “Days…
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Trying a Coffee Subscription … Dreading it
Subscribing for food is strange to me. In many ways it seems perverse. In a world where people are still dying of hunger on a very, very regular basis, the stability of a subscription-backed food supply just feels wrong on many levels. It gets even more perverse in my head when I consider that it…
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Go on, tell me how “kids fall ill all the time.”
There is a common quip I have been hearing all too often from friends and family nowadays: “Don’t worry! Kids fall ill all the time!” I have run out of patience for this nonsense, because here’s the thing: kids do fall ill (or sick) all the time, but not all kids at the same time…
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Clippy is a cultural success story for Microsoft
Hate it all you want, but Clippy is the single best thing that Microsoft worked on to gain cultural relevance in the world. It is the OG of smart assistants — it was the precursor to Alexa, Google, Siri and (yes) Cortana. I never understood why it got all the hate, I loved it! (In…
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