"Fragments Of My Dreams", from Alexandra Kipourgos
from Alexandra Kipourgos
FRAGMENTS OF MY DREAMS
Farewell To A Dear Friend
Our friend Nigel Buesst. A friendship of so many years, 62 years since we first met. Plenty of water under the bridge. Nigel at home with his minder, Jedda photo by Ivan Gaal I was just starting out in my life as a filmmaker, working at the State Film Centre in the library section. One day I was on counter duties, receiving films returning from borrowers and handing out films to other borrowers. In walked Nigel with a bundle of films under his arm, returning them from a film society he was involved with at the time. I think it was the CSIRO film group and Nigel was collecting another bundle which they would run in an upcoming programme. A short conversation of a few minutes at the counter established that we were both interested in making films and soon enough we became close friends. Nigel was about to shoot “Fun Radio” which was a real buzz for me. He asked me to shoot a few shots from his fancy sports car so I got to operate his new Bolex camera for a tracking shot or two as ...
Wild and evocative... and I feel like a rich story nestles behind each image... thanks for sharing Alexandra
ReplyDeleteI realised today that did not directly reply to you Richard and it appeared a general comment
DeleteThank you Richard! I don't think I will ever try to make sense😃 of my bizarre dreams....maybe one day I might try to make a video with the help of AI of some dream sequences!
ReplyDeleteI have been told by one of our friends that he tried to comment but was not able to post his comment. If that occurs for anyone else, please let me know. pt
ReplyDeleteAlexandra, it will be most interesting to see what you come up with if you try to make a video via Ai ! I imagine you will experience some frustration with the engines' inability to see your images as you want them to appear despite clear instructions. I know you have already experienced that in the past with still images, but in the movies the Ai models take immense liberties and don't seem to know left of frame from right of frame. In this piece I asked Luma to create an object that the girl could not open, even with the help of her father:
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But that prompt never made any impression on Luma Dream Machine.
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if that previous link didn't work try this:
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This link was fine!
Delete"Great work, Alexandra. Right up my experimental alley!" This comment is from David King but for some reason we do not understand, Blogger would not let David post it.
ReplyDeleteThank you DJK, interesting times ahead with AI but at this stage I don't have a pc powerful enough to deal with videos
ReplyDeleteFor you Aleksia, and David. I'm prepared to try one of your ideas for an AI video. My computer is powerful enough to give it a few tries. All I need is for either of you to send me a prompt in the form of an outline which I can feed into the Ai engine. The prompt you might send me can be in the form of a very descriptive short story, lets say about 4 or 5 paragraphs. I would do it in bite sized paragraphs because so far these engines all seem to work like that. We can do this in a collaborative manner through emails. I will enter the prompts you send and you will see the results as I feed them back and share with you, then if you like you can extend the prompts in a
ReplyDeletemanner of correction or redirection. Of course you can already do the same on your own with Dora, Luma or Gen-2. There's no rush, the Ai engines are all getting better every few weeks!
thank you Peter, will email you
DeleteOf course it would help if I had a computer as powerful as the ones which the Pentagon and Nasa have, but I don't!
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