The Tuesday art drop, 011

Oct 31, Halloween

I wasn't inspired on Halloween Day because for a month we had been doing Halloween- and spooky-themed edits.

Nov 1st, Mamma Mia

This one is a song where I wrote about being fed up of doing Halloween-themed edits the whole month of October.

Mamma Mia is associated with pasta, so I wanted to try a Lady and the Tramp-inspired edit. ComfyUI, which the Discord uses, is also associated with noodles. I wanted to blend the two ideas in.

Gemini and Chat, even ChatGPT, refused to do this because of intellectual property rights. However I know that Meta, and even more so Elon Musk's Grok, seem especially lax regarding blocking images for IP.

Weekly Edit Challenge #1

At my suggestion Ioan (aka Pixaroma) introduced a new weekly challenge where people are provided a photo and they have to make creative or funny edits from it.

Weekly Edit Challenge #2

This entry of mine played upon the bunny from the previous week's challenge

And this one was popular with the predominantly male Discord members. It is based on a 1960's song by Brian Hyland.

Nov 2nd, 80's mood

In 1986 I was transplanted from New Delhi to snowy Buffalo, where it's covered with snow. It's also the year I managed to buy my first computer, an IBM XT. I lived in a house. I rented a room in a house with three other people. There was a TV in the living room playing MTV all the time. I try to capture some of that mood in the image below.

Here I created a neon magenta-teal synthwave style clip popular in the 80's. I tried to combine a VHS tape unwinding into a road. For music I used an excerpt from British group Gunship, where I knew a couple of the band members, because they also created the Werble IOS animation app that I was an avid user of 8 years ago

On Discord, user srv85 shared an image of a lady in an arcade that I really liked. Discord images using ComfyUI include the workflow and prompt used to generate the image. I downloaded it to understand the model he used, and recreated a similar image shown below using Krea2.

November 3rd, Neutral

This proved to be a very challenging theme and I was not at all inspired 🙍‍♂️