I have really been enjoying these city guide posts. The imagination involved and the creative illustration have been pretty inspiring. I would like to know more about the origins of this project. Did you illustrate these and author the text of these guides? Is this city a product of your dreams? I am not all that familiar with generative art yet. I played around on ArtBreeder which was really cool.
Thanks for sharing here in the community!
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Hello,
Thank you for your warm feedback. Glad you enjoyed it.
I am planning to dedicate a post to the creative process involved in my posts as it implies the use of some technical tools in the field of artificial intelligence. But in few words, like in jazz improvisation, i took a first initial idea that i submitted to an AI generative model ( called VQGAN+CLIP) and used it as a source of inspiration for next iteration, creating step by step a world in itself. My initial idea was to picture a park with piano, but as you should have seen it, the AI produced this strange picture with piano shaped pathways. This triggered my own imagination for a new picture of a guitar tree, etc, etc. and then this world begins to be built in collaboration with this creative tooling.
I used also language models to elaborate some description from which i took inspiration to write the texts ( like the Doppler Bells).
I really enjoyed create this thing, keeping in background my own cultural references like the writing of Borges, Italo Calvino (for the invisible cities), Boris Vian ( for the piano-cocktail) or the architectural design of Peeters and Schuiten, etc. Each pictures or text produced by those tools were just true catalyzer of my imagination.
I have still a couple of places to be described and almost ready to be published, afterwards i will probably make a post explaining how the creative dynamics works for me.
As i mainly see these tools currently used to produce avatars or fake things, i wanted to exercise myself to use them as real tool enriching our own creativity, not replacing it.
Hi castleberry,
Here i wrote a post introducing the way i proceed. https://hive.blog/hive-158694/@dbddv01/my-creative-process-with-ai-generative-tools-for-drafting-the-broozel-city-guide
Feel free to ask details if you're curious.
Hey, thank you very much! That is a super awesome post and since i asked i did a little digging myself. I have been experimenting with a few of the options you mentioned in your post already and it's been really fun.
When i get a little more time to read your post thoroughly and respond i wll explain a bit more! Thanks for remembering and reaching out so i didn't miss out!