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Sonic Canvas: Music x Midjourney 003 🎧👨‍💻🎨

Audio-inspired AI art featuring music by Gui Boratto, AVELLO & CRVNTIS featuring Anna-Sophia Henry, Boztown, Bikini Trill, and Ryan Shepherd featuring Caitlyn Scarlett.

Sonic Canvas: Music x Midjourney 003 🎧👨‍💻🎨
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Baby house sparrow with eyes closed in gravel.

This week we started on a sad note.

Sunday morning, my wife found a baby sparrow (still alive) that had fallen from its birdhouse that's attached to my garage. Anyone that knows me knows this isn't the first time this happened. I'm the bird dad.

As a result, Sunday ended up being a sad day with me and my kids (and, to an extent, my wife, though she's not a bird lover like me) preoccupied with what the fate of this tiny baby bird was going to be. It couldn't be more than a week old.

To make a long story short, despite what I would consider our best efforts, the baby bird died overnight in the cold dewy grass in my backyard, covered with a hand towel that my daughters and I had laid on top of it "for warmth." We knew it would die, but it could pass as comfortably and peacefully as we could manage. I found its cold body Monday morning.

That was the first thing.

Then, Tuesday afternoon (like most afternoons), I pick up my daughter from school. I arrive at her school and get told by her after-school teacher that she's playing in the park, so I go to find her there. On the way, I see a tiny poodle puppy wandering the street.

"CATCH THE DOG!" the kids yell at me.

"What?" I say.

"CATCH THE DOG!"

With that, I take off towards the dog as fast as possible, trying not to scare it so it runs away. To make another long story short, I didn't start this newsletter post with a picture of my newly rescued puppy, so you can tell how that went. I ended up chasing the puppy five or six blocks before I lost it around a corner.

When I told my daughter what happened, we decided to get on our bikes and at least do a cursory search of the neighbourhood to see if we could find it. Frankly, we had two motivations - one, to save the dog, and two, to get a new dog. This seemed like we could get two birds stoned at once.

Well, our search was in vain, and as far as we know, the little puppy (which couldn't have been more than a few months old) is still wandering around my neighbourhood, which is full of coyotes and bobcats. That's where the sense of urgency came from.

All of that to say, the lesson for me this week was that life is short. Not only that but despite my best efforts, I will not always be able to save those around me who need help. I will sometimes come up short, and others will suffer. It was a wake-up call. Had I been able to do what was required of me in either situation (feed the bird, catch the dog), my week would have been entirely different.

I'm not guilt-tripping myself. I know I did my best, under the circumstances, in both cases. But it was still eye-opening.

Anyway, these things happen. I'm moving on. I hope you have a good week.

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Set sail on an exhilarating voyage where music and art fuse effortlessly.

Sonic Canvas introduces a unique experience where curated tracks from Spotify ignite a panorama of AI-powered visuals crafted with the artistic flair of Midjourney.

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▶️ Listen on: Spotify | Youtube

With Vengeance - GOD TURNED ON US Banner
film noir scene, side profile, close up, shadows, mysterious female in a smoky jazz bar, natural skin, smoky eyes, charcoal streak in her hair, dangerous looking, full-figured, voluptuous, cherry lips, buxom, in the style of Fritz Lang films --ar 4:3 --s 750 --zoom 1.5
⌨️ film noir scene, side profile, close up, shadows, mysterious female in a smoky jazz bar, natural skin, smoky eyes, charcoal streak in her hair, dangerous looking, full-figured, voluptuous, cherry lips, buxom, in the style of Fritz Lang films --ar 4:3 --s 750 --zoom 1.5

🌿 Gui Boratto - Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe

Golden Features - Flesh Banner
neomaterialism, divergent perspective, dreamlike, colourful, glitch deconstructionism, inverse creationism, ocean, the ocean, stars, sun, curve --ar 4:3 --s 750 --q 2
⌨️ neomaterialism, divergent perspective, dreamlike, colourful, glitch deconstructionism, inverse creationism, ocean, the ocean, stars, sun, curve --ar 4:3 --s 750 --q 2 --zoom 1.5

🌊 AVELLO x CRVNTIS - Coast (featuring Anna Sophia-Henry)

Pandit - Closer to the Edge Banner
An exhilarating, ultra-realistic wide-angle shot that captures the sensation of free-falling from the apex of the Empire State Building, with the vast expanse of New York City unfolding beneath. This image, taken with a Nikon D850 paired with an AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR lens, is designed to provoke a sense of acrophobia, offering a dizzying, vertigo-inducing perspective of the cityscape. --ar 4:3 --s 750 --q 2
⌨️ aerial shot of a Miami beach party, playa, white sand, turquoise waves, art deco, mansions, light pollution :: Latin house music, golden hour, laser light show --ar 4:3 --s 750 + Latin beach town, Cuba, island, white sands, palm trees, turquoise ocean, golden hour --s 750 --ar 4:3 --zoom 1.5

🏖️ Boztown - Instant Playa

  • Bandcamp: Instant Playa | €1
  • Release Date: September 9, 2022
  • Spotify Plays: 862,442
  • Plays Per Day: 2,954
  • Label: Self-Released
  • Genre: Hip-hop/Trip-Hop
  • Origin: France 🇫🇷
  • Instagram: @boztown_music
  • Twitter: N/A
Michael Wilbur - Sweat Banner
An exhilarating, ultra-realistic wide-angle shot that captures the sensation of free-falling from the apex of the Empire State Building, with the vast expanse of New York City unfolding beneath. This image, taken with a Nikon D850 paired with an AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR lens, is designed to provoke a sense of acrophobia, offering a dizzying, vertigo-inducing perspective of the cityscape. --ar 4:3 --s 750 --q 2
⌨️ scarlet begonias tucked in her hair, tight hairbun, 1970s, Brooklyn, in the style of Francis Ford Coppola, behind the shoulder overhead shot of a stunning dark haired woman in a black leather motorcycle jacket hiding, she is desperately looking over her shoulder :: New York City, drizzle, misty, bokeh --s 750 --q 2 + police cars with lights flashing in the background, rainy New York, police officers approaching from the background are blurred, Bokeh effect, in the style of 1970s films, idiosyncratic lighting --s 750 --ar 4:3 --zoom 1.5

🌺 Bikini Trill - Scarlet Begonias

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Song of the Week 🙌

Nyx - Idea Banner
⌨️ uplifting, vibrant, rebirth, sunrise from a river bridge, in the style of restored and repurposed, light colors, sunrise, blues and pinks, happenings, salvagepunk, paleocore, hikecore, raw and edgy, a. j. casson --ar 4:3 --s 750 + Sunday morning --s 750 --ar 4:3 --s 750 --zoom 1.5

☀️ Ryan Shepherd - Hello Sunday (Featuring Caitlynn Scarlet)

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Other AI Images Generated This Week

I finally went for a run and took some pictures. This is Midjourney's take on them.

Other Music Bought This Week

Whale and Dolphin Conservation: 30 Years of Protecting Whales and Dolphins
End captivity. Stop whaling. Create healthy seas. Donate.
orca, cyborg, cybernetic cetacean, dreary night, grays, dark colors and salmon color bursts, in the style of Tron, cyberpunk, HR Geiger, ultra detailed --ar 4:3 --s 750 --q 2

Tools of the Trade

  • /shorten (Midjourney 5.2): This revolutionary tool analyzes your input, suggests concise versions, and highlights keywords, streamlining the process of generating desired outputs by focusing on the most impactful elements. In a nutshell, it shows you the relative weight of each token you submit, so you can adjust their position in the prompt if you want to emphasize one thing or another.
  • Access Link | Link Reader | WebPilot (ChatGPT Plugins): These plugins effectively connect ChatGPT to the broader internet, as far as my limited experience is concerned. Without these, I don't seem to be able to use ChatGPT to reference external links that easily. If one doesn't work, it tries another. Most of the time, one of them will work. A ChatGPT+ subscription is required to use plugins.
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That's it for this week from all of us here at Steel Orca. 🚀🐬

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mount everest in nepal, in the style of charming, idyllic rural scenes, sky-blue and amber, national geographic photo, photo taken with nikon d750 --ar 3:2 --s 750 --q 2
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