stacked with a lora made from this series of paintings. it brings in staining and i developed a kind of extruded line to ‘catch’ rhyming data in latent space, this also holds structure at a higher denoising level without the need/distortion of control nets
stacked with a lora made from this series of paintings. it brings in staining and i developed a kind of extruded line to ‘catch’ rhyming data in latent space, this also holds structure at a higher denoising level without the need/distortion of control nets
the visconti made my favourite loras before, it’s by far the most camp and operatic book of hours. there’s a spontaneity and joy in detail where most books are quite rigid.
visconti flux lora made these 4 ornamental borders traits
the visconti made my favourite loras before, it’s by far the most camp and operatic book of hours. there’s a spontaneity and joy in detail where most books are quite rigid.
visconti flux lora made these 4 ornamental borders traits
to very simply put it: the same people that are good at painting are almost universally not the same people that are good at coding, and vice versa. very exciting that real activity is happening now in the space opened up between the two, thanks to cursor, vibecoding etc
I love this post Parker did
It's cool to see the process unpacked but it also makes me think about the legibility of everything we all do
Parker has dedicated so much of his life to painting- painting is such an ancient ur form that almost everything that can be conceived of has been either done or written about as a possibility
As I write the last sentence I realize maybe I need to shut the fuck up because if I walked into a room and saw one of Horses?7 on the wall... I'm not sure I've ever seen a composition like that anywhere... ever? In any medium?
But my point is- the conversation around painting is so hammered to shit there is almost nothing left to be said- everyone who plays that game at this point has the benefit of playing in the rubble of history with no responsibility for forward motion beyond novelty.... again writing this... seeing Parker's work recently makes me wonder if that's actually much more possible than other people are pushing for it to become in the last 20 years... really trying to show people somewhere they never conceived of before and surprise themselves in the process
But away from painting- these of course are not paintings in the most basic sense that they are not made with paint- I always think of something this pretentious dickhead I know talking about painting with oil and that it was such a unique experience and endeavor to undertake- that the material of paint was like flesh, that you were pulling flesh around on a canvas to show something
On the most basic level when talking about something like figurative painting- it's so much stranger of a proposition than we typically speak about it as- you're taking light.... which moves in rays and beams and bounces off surfaces and reflects and refracts... and you're capturing a subjective record of that in globs of wet colored paste....to translate light into smeared goop- it's so much stranger than the most basic public understanding of it which seems to identify it as a middle step obliterated by photography that people persist out of quaint sentimentality like people who buy mustache pomade. I think this is certainly how most tech people see it- I've heard so many times from people in crypto and tech more broadly that it's a huge problem that people still make paintings and place them in museums when it is obvious to them that all art should be algorithmic or robotic and engage with the technological fabric of our time directly. Which is interesting.... if you follow this to its logical conclusion I wonder if the end point is that women should never have sex and they should instead use the Rabbit vibrators that have the shaking lobster claw clit stimulator and the studded rotating shaft because this thing clearly slays whatever a real dick could bring to the table beyond warm throbbing
Sorry back to the way these aren't painting
There is almost no way to understand these concretely- the process is both too technical for a non technical person to understand (most people really never have a reason to think about probabilistic chained processes of randomization) ---- and at the same time much too subjective and poetically constructed for a systems obsessed autist to fully appreciate.... it's cool how in the same paragraphs Parker breaks down this extremely technical process and then simultaneously talks about how important the visibility of horse legs are and how much weighted decision making went into that
The compositions themselves are completely uncharted as far as anything I've ever seen? And the process is also equally brilliant... but so extreme in both systems orchestration and subjectivity the more you unpack it the more questions it surfaces
I still don't have a clear way of thinking about it yet.... there's something game like about constructing these aleatoric systems~~~~ and maybe even more game like about executing them?
The idea of more people understanding this is very exciting to me