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You know the ‘time warp’ you experience when you’re completely consumed by something?
(My earliest memories of this came from playing Pokemon).
But it can come from anything – a great conversation, a TV series, a creative project…
Whatever it is – once it’s sucked you in, hours seem to pass in seconds.
I had one of those experiences yesterday, and it was all centered around two things:
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A new approach to prompts
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A new reference image that was producing some spooky-ass results
A new approach to prompts
With each photo I’ve been directing Billy Chadison to create, I’ve asked him to depict different scenes from the human experience.
(From the mundane/everyday to the broader cultural/societal happenings).
The photos never exactly depict what you’d expect to see. Instead, they skirt around the edges of familiarity – enough to produce some intriguing photos (and that’s what really matters here).
For example, I started throwing new keywords into the prompts like:
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Airport
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Funeral
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Wedding
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Congressional hearing
Which got results like this:
