fmx210-3 digital media

 Yesterday we presented the images we made with the Midjourney program to the class. I decided to progress my picture of armadillos wearing suits to this:  After I played with the idea of the animals wearing suits some more, the suits themselves made me start to think about, like, businessmen, and the fact that the armadillos were kind of lined up made me think of the Coolidge painting, Dogs Playing Poker, so I decided that the armadillos would be playing poker too. The suits ended up not making it into the final picture, as even though I included it into the prompt, I think it read it more as "Armadillos in suits *of armor*", which you can kind of see on their shells, and on the shells of the other images I made before this one. Also, in one of the earlier images, it generated a desert background, which I loved because of course the armadillos should be in the desert! So, I made sure to include that, and also the inclusion of cacti, in the final prompt.  I thought this a...

 This week we began using Midjourney.ai to create images for this class. I thought it was really fun! Once I created all the accounts I needed to and kind of got the hang of the program, I thought it was very entertaining and very interesting to see what the program would conjure up, especially depending on what words you used and in what order. The first image I asked it to make was a 3D cartoon of armadillos wearing suits, which was one of the cutest things ever. I was also able to make a cartoon frog in a forest hanging from a swing, and I had a fluke where I accidentally included a semi-colon instead of an "L" in one of my prompts, so while I was trying to make a forest in a comic book art style, it added a silhouette in the background that I thought was awesome, but when I tried to expand upon it, it created something totally different, so I'm going to have to work on figuring out how to best use and create prompts for certain images. Overall, it kind of slays. 

  Vannevar Bush's article, "As We May Think", details the history of technology up to that point, and how he thinks technology will advance in the future. The article is broken into eight sections, in which each of them described a different piece of technology and how it will evolve, especially through the lens of record taking (pictures, writings, etc.). For example, in the second section, he explains how photography is progressing at the time into what we know today. He explains that the process of photography is changing, that the hardware of the camera itself will change from a cord with a button to just the button on the camera itself -- basically describing today's cameras. He also predicts how images will be developed in the future, how the traditional wet developing of film will eventually convert into dry photography or the image being available immediately, and also how that will affect video media, like television and movies.  In the third section, he goe...