When Google gave me free access to its AI suite, I spent the first half of the residency trying to slingshot past the pull of its aesthetic gravities. In doing so, could I make /find an image from a rare coordinate of the latent space? One that felt novel to my eyes? Try as I might, I didn’t. But in that quest, I learned a few strategies.
This behind-the-scenes breakdown is practice for a substack. I use one artifact, a dream sequence that developed as a byproduct of the residency, to dig into examples of my plight.
Steal techniques. Or share the secrets that help you resist the influence of probabilistic pulls.
Thank you @briannadoyle , @nyenver and @flowbygoogle for the opportunity to explore this infinite, alien space of AI.
For the full video, see previous post. Special shoutouts to @neil.blank for music and @visualfrisson for editing
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In films, I’ve always loved a dream sequence. Last winter, as part of the second Google Flow Sessions AI residency, I was selected as one of a small cohort of artists and given six weeks of open access to Google VEO. I used that time to sneak a two-minute dream sequence into a larger ten-minute story. This interlude takes inspiration from a disturbing, recurring dream I’ve had since I was a child. In it, my head is detached from my body. It isn’t violent; it’s a strangely practical act of decapitation—one that separates the logic of the mind from the body’s more uncomfortable realm of feeling.
My dreams didn’t look like this. I wasn’t trying to recreate them. I used the sequence as a way to stay inside a feeling of disorientation, without asking it to resolve into anything legible. I also wanted to see what I could get away with in VEO, assuming much could be censored. What kinds of symbolic violence were permitted? Where did abstraction become necessary—blood, nudity, fragmentation—and where did it oddly not? Could VEO hold onto the aesthetic logic of my original Stable Diffusion illustrations once motion was introduced?
After creating a 3-tiered prompt structure that introduced layers of chaos, I stumbled onto a particular motion and distortion that felt alive—so I stayed there. There’s nothing “new” here visually—I didn’t crack the technology or reach some distant coordinate of the latent space. But for a moment, it felt like working just outside its gravitational pull, in an orbit that made me want to keep dreaming.
That feeling carried through the edit, shaped by @visualfrisson and paired with one of @neil.blank ’s soundscapes still in development. Play with SOUND ON.
More soon: a behind-the-scenes breakdown, and the larger work this sequence lives inside.
Credits:
Director / Creator: @designcurio
Music: @neil.blank
Editing: @visualfrisson
Tools:
Images: Stable Diffusion x Lora fine-tuning, Nano Banana
Video: Google Veo / Flow
Prompting accomplice: Google AI Studio
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Clouds form. Clouds dissipate. Life is ephemeral. Featuring the @hok and @erica_klein
Behind the scenes look at the making of Etherea. Thank you @notmakeitrad@callaird@do_rai_me@visualfrisson@stlaurentjr
Over a year and a half old which is ancient in this space but it's now finally online. Watch it on Vimeo: /1151511255
EAT IT -- a kinetic experiment in ComfyUI -- @visualfrisson automated Image sequences that react to the beat, generating rhythmic motion directly inside ComfyUI.
From folders to flow -- pure procedural animation with total control.
We'll dive into the workflow live this Friday!
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