Month: May 2025

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Enter Kaiber

4-2023 A few early experimentations, now realizing that I have tons of musical clips that I made over the years. May as well use them for something. I still, toyed with some plain vanilla public domain music before that revelation hit me.

It would only be a few months later that tools like Suno and Udio put songcrafting in the hands of anyone. And then AI video, it is all pretty awesome
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Living Compartment

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Plasma Bulb

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A Flower Arranger

This AI animation is wild! Summer 2023, Kaiber would come to define the world of AI animation for the masses.

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Confounded Technology

Confounded Technology ©2023 Jay Schankman

“Alas! The battery, that fickle creature, doth drain with great haste, leaving the iPhone bereft of life at the most inopportune times. A lamentable complaint, forsooth, as the charger’s embrace must be sought all too frequently.”

“Verily, the realm of connectivity proves tumultuous. Wi-Fi signals falter, and cellular reception wavers like a tempest-tossed ship. In these troubled waters, communication becomes a perilous task.”

“The enigmatic software, though designed to enchant, oft transforms into a source of vexation. Unwanted glitches and unexpected freezes disrupt the tranquility of iPhone usage, leaving one yearning for a more stable existence.”

“The memory, dear friend, doth vanish like a wisp of smoke. Despite efforts to preserve cherished memories and essential data, storage capacity proves an eternal struggle, requiring constant juggling and deletion of beloved files.” GPT

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Just Passing Through – A Study in Herps and High Society

Ahh, more lizards. This is a favorite. I never tired of making them. June of 2023.

Lizards waiting at the train station. Midjourney 5
Lizards

I realized that I was certainly losing some followers with these experimentations, but I felt I had something to learn, though it seems it was slowly. Just waiting for the next step in the evolution of this technology that can be made artful. Surely, animations and then the creation of video on my cellular phone (early handheld mind-extension/stim device) can’t be too far behind.

Very few of this generation “Gen Z” have the need to think about it. I was at the tail end of the “Baby Boomers” generation, born in 1962. Before the advent of the cell phone, I carried a beeper. Google it. I even remember calling the operator to place a long distance call. People take the handheld device for granted. To have the world of information at ones fingertips and instead to look at pictures of women with Botox enlargements to their lips, breasts and buttocks. When humans look back, I hope some will stumble upon this.

To you I sayeth! Remember This! We were the original Cyborgs. We are the ones who are coming back!

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Kabuki

This one comes with an accompanying wiki type entry courtesy of GPT 4. A brief history of Kabuki. It is notable that these images aren’t exactly Kabuki, just Midjourneys’ interpretation. With this I begun to understand the stubbornness of generative ai. I suppose it was not so noticeable before because we expected ai to be nondescript and nebulous. Now we start to expect a reality that it can’t really deliver yet. Also, notice the garbled “signature” that would be the the bane of those who want to claim ai output their own. Not a real signature, but an interpretation of what the AI thought should appear there.

A reminder of where this art may have really originated. If I could just land on an idea that wouldn’t be exploitive of what has come before me. Another from May 2023.

My first failed experiment with the stop motion jittery output of a Kaiber animation will be left behind and notable will just be the time marking the beginning of a commercial AI product used for animation, of sorts.

workflow: Midjourney 5, Kaiber

Kabuki 2023 Jay Schankman
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Emo Kids

By request, Emo Kids. Just as expressive as the Rocker Girls, but darker, moody, Emo!

These Emo Kids can be personalized and printed one-of-a-kind for your child as a gift of wall art, a tapestry, stickers, a coffee cup and so much more. A unique one-of-a-kind gift for that special teen. Emo Kids can be purchased through my store. Contact me directly for licensing information or commissioned work.

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Rocker Kids

Midjourney 5.1 Niji – Early summer 2023 when this style was released people immediately loved them. It was around this time that I though about finding a manufacturing partner and thought the easy (cheap and safe) way to try to gauge interest was through a P.O.D. store.
I landed on www.pixels.net and have stuck with them to this day.

This sassy and rockin’ art can be custom printed for your teen on posters and wall art, cell phone cases, clothing items and more! https://jay.schankman.com

Your girl will love her personalized Rocker Kid. I personally back all sales with a full money back guarantee. Check out my Art Store for this and other great gift ideas!

Contact me here, or through the store.

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Stop Stairing

I think I lost a few followers around this time, but I swear I knew I was on to something. I would never be taken seriously again!

Stop Stairing
Stop Stairing
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Studio 51

A cross between Studio 54 and Area 51, an alien discotheque where absolutely anything goes. I actually had to delete a few, they were getting really raucous. I don’t remember what generator I used for these, but it was definitely unfiltered.

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Aliens UAPs and UFOs

Midjourney 4 (11-2022) and v5 (3-2023) saw a pair of big advances, locking David Holz Midjourney project in solid with the emerging AI art community. The images I was generating inspired the writing of a sc-fi novel. There was a certain flavor of photorealism that made these fun and appealing.