CARPET WARS

In the shaggy trenches of grandma’s living room, the battle rages on. Plastic green soldiers, forever locked in mid-salute or sniper pose, square off against their most fearsome adversary yet—a smug housecat with warlord eyes and claws to match.

Flanked by a mutant feline commander in a helmet and haunted by the eerie glow of a CRT television broadcasting feline propaganda, the brave injection-molded warriors wage a hopeless campaign across antique couches and Persian rugs.

This isn’t playtime. This is war—pet vs. platoon, whiskers vs. warfare, in a kitsch-bombed battlefield where every velvet cushion is a stronghold and every coffee table a hill to die on.

#midjourney, #GPT 4o, #udio, #capcut

Creatures Underfoot

psychedelic creatures walk surreal landscapes
Creatures Underfoot ©2024 Jay Schankman

Creatures Underfoot dwell in the molten margins of reason — radiant, wriggling things that pulse with color theory and cosmic nonsense. They bloom from spores of sound, coil around vibrations, and whisper to your soles in a language made of shimmer. Beneath every reflective puddle, every rainbow-spit swamp, they gather in parliaments of paradox: some shaped like flowers that walk, others like thoughts that bite. Though microscopic in myth, they loom large in hallucination. Step lightly, dream brightly — the soil thinks back

Midjourney 6/Luma

All the animals in the zoo now.. You are one too!

Big Boy Breakfast Weight Loss Program

Before:
“Skipped breakfast, ate six granola bars by noon, still hungry, ate breakfast and lunch during afternoon break.”

After:
“Crushed a plate of eggs, bacon, pancakes, and veggies. Oh, and black coffee at 8 a.m.—haven’t thought about food since.”

Porcelain Funhouse

These were upscaled 2x to experiment with clarity. A fun little project, the first leading me down this tunnel of exploration, occasionally raising my head to learn from some really good AI artists and with it I totally change aesthetics.

By January 2024

Dalle 3

is becoming quite expressive. This became the default image creation tool for Microsoft, marketed under “Bing Images”, and available free via app and web. It was around this time that I decided to wrap things up with Midjourney, at least for awhile, and explore Dalle3.