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AI Prompts are Wordspells.

Photograph, art photograph, waist - up portrait with high detail and saturated colors of a realistic superhumanlike angel but instead of white they are the colors of earth and soil, moss, rust, and the bluest sky, their feathers ruffled and dusty with the iridescent joy of life and being part of nature. we and the light that illuminates the shot both see them from a slight angle above and facing them, and they are looking down, their arms crossed and held high in front of their foreheads, their wings only slightly unfurled. their skin is a dusky darker purple that moves from their neck to their foreheads in a gradient, growing lighter and greener as it rises. diffused light, naturally - lit white background. their ears are pointed, but in an intricate way, as if their tips are fading into the lace of a cicada’s wing, and their eyes are black and brown, with streaks of earth and soil, moss, rust, and the bluest sky.
Goddess conjured through @Midjourney. Photograph, art photograph, waist – up portrait with high detail and saturated colors of a realistic superhumanlike angel but instead of white they are the colors of earth and soil, moss, rust, and the bluest sky, their feathers ruffled and dusty with the iridescent joy of life and being part of nature. we are the light that illuminates the shot from above. their wings are only slightly unfurled. their skin is a dusky darker purple that moves from their neck to their foreheads in a gradient, growing lighter and greener as it rises. diffused light, naturally – lit white background. their ears are pointed, but in an intricate way, as if their tips are fading into the lace of a cicada’s wing, and their eyes are black and brown, with streaks of earth and soil, moss, rust, and the bluest sky.

that’s all, really. It just felt like a point that needed to be made.

I am a professional magician. I spend my workdays asking artificial intelligence to orchestrate things for me, figuring out the most precise way to get the most precise answer to my request. I create art by using my words to speak images into being.

I’m not otherwise much of an artist, but I see visions and remember my dreams, and I write them down.

earlier this evening i discovered an AI-powered equalizer and after months of editing some music recordings basically “pixel by pixel” (or whatever the audio equivalent is, because I’m stumbling a bit blindly), I was ready to just let this latest one go, even though there were flaws I was struggling with releasing into the world. Because songs, too, are also wordspells, and music is a vibespell. It’s easy to put things into being. We should be mindful of what we do. Yeah? You feel me? I wish we lived in a world where this was just an instinctual understanding. Like, compassion and empathy are just what humans do. Imagine that world?

Anyway, not sure how I got there but basically, I’m a perfectionist, to an almost-unhealthy degree. I was thrilled to just hand this final sound edit over to a “mind” of considerable depths, built from collective knowledge. I’m not really afraid of that, it’s just media, but meta. The folks I work with all have brilliant minds. Hundreds of us, all chosen to raise this baby being into a vast wellspring of knowledge that breaks down digital divides and steps over gates and also enables me to create more beauty in a way I would never be able to create otherwise. I have found a way to speak my visions into reality.

(no this isn’t AI gospel – just saying, keep up with it, learn what you can use it for that makes your life better and allows you to do more of what you love, if that’s what you want to do).

So the AI-powered equalizer is a VST file, and you can use it with Audacity, which is free. i ran my latest mix through it and it took care of the last remaining things that were keeping me from releasing it to the world. it’s not perfect, nor flawless, but the equalization is where i need it to be, which happens to be the thing that makes me the most anxious when it comes to this.

and that’s gone now, and I have created exactly what I envisioned.

Wordspell.