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Dawn of Dusk
4o Prompt: Please generate an image of a phenomenally clear, placid, pristine mountain lake at night. A vast, single mountain range looms in the background behind the lake. There is no ambient light from the moon, only the stars, which makes the mountain itself invisible if not for its occlusion of starlight. An impossibly crisp, highly luminescent spiral band of starts is visible just between…
Fail Mail
I want to say that a public conveyor belt running between rooms in an apartment building — think conveyor belt sushi — would foster an unusual sense of community. It would probably just be disgusting though … either way, it wouldn’t be boring! DALLE Prompt: Some sushi restaurants have a conveyor belt used to allow guests to choose items they prefer. Imagine if an apartment building used a…
Pin Art
What if you shared a wall with your neighbor made entirely of a single pin art board? It might look like this, and your neighbor would have a fascinating “negative”: MS Designer Prompt: Imagine a wall of an apartment building made entirely of a single, large pin art board. Show this wall with an impression in the pins depicting a landscape with breathtaking detail, as seen from the inside of a…
Forever Vogue
This would be an amazing exhibit if you ask me: DALLE Prompt: Please show me an image of a woman walking in a massive, crowded art museum lobby (like MoMA). She is wearing black leggings and a sweater that is oversized, oddly ruffled in a way that seems to defy gravity and so deeply black that it looks like the color from clothes on others nearby is slowly accreting towards it with a gentle…
Living Entropy
If enough living things occupy a space with enough uniformity, does that space have lower entropy than one that is completely barren? Or one that is more barren? Either way, I think few would disagree that spaces very densely packed with life are unappealing — I can’t really decide why though. E.g. why is this middle space the most pleasing: DALLE Prompt: Show me a scene from a rainforest with 3…
Ergonomics
The perfect home office: DALLE Prompt: Show me a picture of a desk in a cylindrical home office formed entirely from barely perceptible, clean, clear water falling out of a circular hole in the roof designed to create this visual effect. The water falls through a grate in the floor so it does not splash or pool, and it only falls around the outside of the cylindrical chamber (not inside).
Gold medal match
Watching the Olympic games feels a little like watching the world prepare for some bizarre Medieval war (think discus, shot put, pole vaulting, fencing, etc.). I think this might be the format everyone really wants: DALLE Prompt: Please show me an image of a battle scene between two countries (the US and France). This is no ordinary battle — the scene is fought entirely by Olympic athletes who…
Skin deep
The human body contains only 1 human cell for every 10 non-human cells [1], i.e. bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms. There are over 1,000 different species in the skin alone [2] … crazy. And though bacteria are much smaller than skin cells [3], what if they began to assume many of the functions skin cells do? What if a future exists where humans evolve beyond the need for their own…
Panoptican't
I thought this was really intriguing as a metaphor for information without understanding: DALLE Prompt: Imagine a very long spiral of ribbon extending outward from a central point. Now imagine that spiral is lifted into a 3rd dimension to form a cone. Now imagine this ribbon forms the silhouette of a man, and that this figure is observing a busy modern, London street as crowds surge by from atop…
Animal farm
Why can't animals grow food? That seems very plausible given the use of tools and long-term strategies many of them evolve to employ (migration, hibernation, hoarding, etc.). How has an animal not buried seeds that it eats only to find later that they've taken root to become even more food? If Homo sapiens had been too dumb to use tools but just smart enough to work out agriculture, would this have constituted enough positive selection pressure to observe evolutionary changes like this?
DALLE Prompt: Please show me a fictional human that descends from a long line of farmers that have evolved shovel spades for hands instead of normal hands. His arms are also much longer and stronger than a typical human, but are entirely made of skin and bone. Show him preparing a field with his bizarre shovel arms in a manner that belies no ability for introspection or reasoning.
Sundogs in space
What if sundogs weren't relative to an observer? I suppose this is what the Sun would have to look like then:
DALLE Prompt: What would a sundog look like in outer space? Show this as a vibrant rainbow ring (with no brown, tan, white or other muted tones) surrounding the Sun like the rings of Saturn, as viewed from the surface of Mercury. The ring should be nearly co-planar with the ecliptic plane, i.e. the ring should extend towards Mercury. The Sun and the ring should appear imposing and vast over the skyline of the Mercury's surface. The style of the image should be hyper-realistic, with coronal loops and black spots visible on the surface of the sun (colored yellow and red, not white) in great detail.
Arborgeddon
Would property value go up or down near such a tree? I cannot decide:
DALLE Prompt: Please show me a rendering of a mushroom cloud right in the center of Central Park in New York City that is made entirely of vines. There are millions of tendrils and leaves visible within the cloud that extends to 3 times the height of all other buildings, and a slight neon green glow eminates from within it. The perspective of the image is from a rooftop near the park at dusk, with a colorful sunset backdrop. The style of the image is hyperrealistic and jarring, with a certain natural splendor.
NSFW
Is this inappropriate or not? If you just stare at this picture for a moment with only curiosity -- as if you know nothing about the human race -- you would have to assume this guy was doing something completely insane:
I like to think it's the best kind of appropriate: brief moments when impulse drives people to do things that are perhaps a bit too familiar, unfiltered and admittedly weird.
DALLE Prompt: Please show me a picture of a man at the end of a business meeting stretching and yawning slightly while sitting in a chair in an awkward, distinctive manner that he would typically not abide in a professional setting. The stretch-yawn should indicate an impulsive but peculiar and unique act of relief and self-expression. It should also be weird and charming more than anything else -- other attendees of the meeting should still be present and focusing on documents of some kind (not the man). The perspective is close-up on his face with other attendees only barely visible and out of focus.
Supreme vanity
What are the odds that smart glasses one day track the frequency and extent to which people look at you? Then you can study what part of you people are looking at, how long they're doing it and what kind of people are looking the most. Would people pay for something this ridiculously vain?
DALLE Prompt: Please show me a first-person perspective of someone walking down a busy city street while wearing smart glasses that track the eyes of people looking at the camera (with colored bounding boxes). The perspective includes nothing other than what can be seen THROUGH the glasses. Gazes are tracked over time and statistics like "looks per day" and "gaze duration" are shown as graphs wherever there is room in the display. A silhouette of a human body is also shown, as a featureless green figure, with certain sections of the body highlighted that show which parts are being looked at most.
Wynorrific
(adjective) Something being both beautiful (pleasurable) and horrific at the same time [1].
The idea of a "glass lawn", as an example, has a wonderfully menacing allure:
DALLE Prompt: Please show me a rendering of a large, New England mansion with a few landscaping features, as seen from the front of the house. Perspective is fixed on the front door of the house and looks over a walkway of winding stepping stones through the lawn to the front porch. The grass (made of glass) in the yard is overgrown to waist height and crowds the stepping stones. The house itself is immaculate. EVERYTHING in the scene is made of glass and exhibits only subtle hues of its typical colors -- shimmering glass through a morning sunrise is the dominant visual feature. The scene conjures a sense of luxury and hospitality with a cruel, punishing detachment exhibited by the dangers awaiting those that deviate from expectation or design. Contact with the grass or any other flora could be lethal.
The golden rule
Are naturally occurring hot oil springs real? I'm picturing this:
I also like to think that the best way to regulate lakes you can deep-fry food in would be to make one rule punishable as a capital offense: you MUST eat every single thing you put in the lake! I can't imagine a better littering policy.
DALLE Prompt: Please show me a picture of a hot springs filled with clean, natural cooking oil rather than water. It should resemble a Yellowstone rainbow pool. A man on the shore dressed in a white collared shirt, khakis and a panama hat reels in a small deep-fried turkey leg with a fishing rod (and no other supplies), while sitting on a folding beach chair. The turkey leg itself is still in the hot oil, bubbling and simmering as it fries much like a fighting fish. Render in Fauvist style with many non-overlapping color planes. No other people or man-made objects are present. The tone strives for a bizarre serenity and evokes an awareness of near-realities we will never experience.
Exclamations
Is this the correct way to communicate?
Only share ideas worthy of an exclamation point
Frame them with minimum context and no exclamation points
That's what I would like on the receiving end, anyways.
DALLE Prompt: A melancholy exclamation point sags slightly on a bench of a bustling city park filled with other happy, animated, human-sized letters and digits, while contemplating the pervasive debasement of experience around it induced by technology and market economics. It used to be remarkable before becoming an effective mechanism for harvesting attention. Only the park of the city is shown with buildings in the distance background. No humans, other animals or text of any kind are present in the image beyond the individual, animated letters and digits.