167 - VinceAI 🤖🎨
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Hey there, !
Just like I told you in my life updates, I spent some time integrating myself with AI…so, let me introduce you…to me!
I got Salvador Dali to draw a portrait of me…
…as well as Edward Degas…
…and of course, Vincent Van Gogh!
(I don’t remember the prompt for these ones, unfortunately, but I think one of them was supposed to be Impressionist…?)
To reflect the cartoon-y, anime phase of my life, all I really wanted was some cartoon images of myself and…HERE THEY ARE!
VINCE AS DRAGON BALL Z
As a random cartoon character!! (I think I tried a prompt here in the style of Disney but it doesn’t really look like it at all…)
As a One Piece character!!
As a Hunter X Hunter character!! MY FAV - though I don’t know what I’m holding…
Here’s some others:
As an Avenger - FARX!
As a Pixar character!
As…um…Banksy art?
As…myself again?!
Chat soon :)
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✔️Real Life Recommendations
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The Menu - an extremely fantastic movie starring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult - a comedy horror film that serves as a satire for high end cuisine. No spoilers at all because the plot is wonderful, but my absolute favourite part was that the titular Menu was helpfully crafted by Dominique Crenn (of Atelier Crenn fame) as well as David Gelb (who worked on Chef’s Table). Highly recommended!
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - by Gabrielle Zevin, a love story where they never fall in love - two people brought together by chance navigate the world of game design together and experience the highs and lows of life over the course of the book. It’s fantastic. This book was incredibly well written from a plot and technique point of view, and even if you don’t really care about gaming it was one that I wanted to keep reading and reading and reading. Another one to be highly recommended this week!
🚌 Adventures on the Information Super-Highway
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Doodle:ai - new Wordle just dropped - this time, prompts that are trained on a Wikipedia page to create AI images - can you work out which prompts made the image?! Super fun to try and reverse-guess what the image was made up of (and I learned a lot about it trying to make the ones for this post!).
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NerveGear - if you die in VR, you die in real life - it’s not real…yet, but it’s a fascinating concept to think through. It’s based on a concept from Sword Art Online, where a mad scientist traps gamers in a VR world, and tells them they have to survive in the game, or else die in real life. CRAZY to think about!
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That Time We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online - an interesting breakdown of how a game developer running an MMORPG punished cheaters, deleting all their items, burning up their houses, and breaking up duping rings.