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Do you truly believe yr StableDiffusion Americana is “not like what anyone else is making”? You’ve got some knots to untangle :)

williamcotton 4y ago
Oh yeah, what are those knots? What I meant by that is that there are no source images that have previously existed, and especially not in these animated latent space forms. And no, I’m not the only person to be using the tools like this and I never claimed to be. https://williamcotton.com/articles/the-making-of-distant-desert-highway-with-chatgpt-and-stable-diffusion https://williamcotton.com/articles/the-making-of-distant-des... What I think I’m doing with this is revisiting some live audio visual stuff I was working with over a decade ago, but instead of having to hand draw as I did in this video: https://vimeo.com/6110370 https://vimeo.com/6110370 Around 2:20 has some landscape animations. There’s some really low quality temp imagery in that video as well because it take a lot of time to draw stuff! I basically stopped doing this kind of stuff because it was already too much work to do on top of writing and performing music let alone all the nonsense related to getting shows and managing a band… I don’t have time to make these base visuals, animate them, program, etc. Also, I want to try to map audio inputs like amplitude to vectors in the latent space… snare hit increases (lightning:1.0) vector, kick the (ocean:1.0) vector, etc. Or maybe I don’t do anything other than explore and get inspired.
- thuuuomas 4y ago
  A dark, desert highway, huh? Cool wind in yr hair? :)))
  - williamcotton 4y ago
    Such a lovely place! Neil Young’s song Unknown Legend: Somewhere on a desert highway, she rides a Harley-Davidson Her long blonde hair flying in the wind She's been running half her life, the chrome and steel she rides Colliding with the very air she breathes The air she breathes Pedro the Lion’s Leaving the Valley Long desert highways Where the wheel stops, no one knows My sister breathing This song playing on the radio It’s a pretty common theme in American music… Wild West, cowboys, Texas, truckers, Harleys etc. But really this is annoying as fuck for one simple reason: You're talking to me like I claimed I'm some avant-garde artistic genius when all I was saying was that whatever the fuck I'm doing with Stable Diffusion has nothing to do with how any of the plaintiff's have ever drawn any images. It is original work. Just like that song that references desert highways. It might suck, it might be cliched, whatever, but it's still original work. I write songs that suck all the time. I'd say somewhere less than 1% are any good!

williamcotton 4y ago

Oh yeah, what are those knots? What I meant by that is that there are no source images that have previously existed, and especially not in these animated latent space forms. And no, I’m not the only person to be using the tools like this and I never claimed to be. https://williamcotton.com/articles/the-making-of-distant-desert-highway-with-chatgpt-and-stable-diffusion https://williamcotton.com/articles/the-making-of-distant-des... What I think I’m doing with this is revisiting some live audio visual stuff I was working with over a decade ago, but instead of having to hand draw as I did in this video: https://vimeo.com/6110370 https://vimeo.com/6110370 Around 2:20 has some landscape animations. There’s some really low quality temp imagery in that video as well because it take a lot of time to draw stuff! I basically stopped doing this kind of stuff because it was already too much work to do on top of writing and performing music let alone all the nonsense related to getting shows and managing a band… I don’t have time to make these base visuals, animate them, program, etc. Also, I want to try to map audio inputs like amplitude to vectors in the latent space… snare hit increases (lightning:1.0) vector, kick the (ocean:1.0) vector, etc. Or maybe I don’t do anything other than explore and get inspired.

thuuuomas 4y ago
A dark, desert highway, huh? Cool wind in yr hair? :)))
- williamcotton 4y ago
  Such a lovely place! Neil Young’s song Unknown Legend: Somewhere on a desert highway, she rides a Harley-Davidson Her long blonde hair flying in the wind She's been running half her life, the chrome and steel she rides Colliding with the very air she breathes The air she breathes Pedro the Lion’s Leaving the Valley Long desert highways Where the wheel stops, no one knows My sister breathing This song playing on the radio It’s a pretty common theme in American music… Wild West, cowboys, Texas, truckers, Harleys etc. But really this is annoying as fuck for one simple reason: You're talking to me like I claimed I'm some avant-garde artistic genius when all I was saying was that whatever the fuck I'm doing with Stable Diffusion has nothing to do with how any of the plaintiff's have ever drawn any images. It is original work. Just like that song that references desert highways. It might suck, it might be cliched, whatever, but it's still original work. I write songs that suck all the time. I'd say somewhere less than 1% are any good!