Hunter-Killer

Unlike our previous, beautiful cyborgs, these beauties were never human…

… they are military-grade androids, deliberately made to look like beautiful young woman for the psychological edge it gives them when fighting humans…

… they are two meters tall, and weigh 500 kilograms, they are powered by a tiny fusion reactor that is buried deep in their heavily armoured and shielded chests. Most of their body is taken up with hydraulic and pneumatic strength multiplier systems… they are incredibly strong, they are capable of tearing the turret off a tank with their bare hands, if they can get a good enough grip, which they usually can…

… like a cheetah, they have a top running speed of 120kph, unlike a cheetah, they could maintain that speed for years, should they need to. Their minds run several times faster than a humans, so, to them, humans are very slow, even bullets are slow… couple that with the fact they can move several times faster than humans, and the equation becomes severely weighted in the favour of these gorgeous machines. They don’t carry weapons because, well, they are weapons. Their battlefield job is to seek out, and destroy, enemy infantry. Not only are they extremely well armoured, but they also generate an electro-magnetic field which is, in fact, a forcefield, which repels all small-arms fire… they can withstand almost any assault other than a direct hit from a tank shell, or a missile. One of them, on her own, is quite capable of eliminating an entire company of soldiers, especially as the soldiers become more terrified, and begin firing blindly, killing each other as they try to hit something that is running through them at speeds of 120kph, while it pulls them to pieces like toys…

… there are only a handful of these creatures, each one costing about as much as a nuclear submarine, but, hey, you don’t need more than a few.

We Can Rebuild You

So, after are brief sojourn into the surreal, as a palette cleanser, we returned, refreshed, and invigorated, to what you must surely, now, recognise as our most favourite theme…

… gorgeous post-human babes! Our little break paid off spectacularly, as we feel these are our best-yet series of cyber-babes…

… it took us countless hours to get Mj to create images like this! Apart from Mj’s puritanical refusals to create any image with more than the tiniest amount of what it sees as naked flesh, to deal with, there is also Mj’s propensity to produce pin-up-like woman in robot-like clothing, instead of images of females that actually are machine/half-machine….

… so we were delighted when we started getting images like these after hours/days of not-quite-what-we-asked-for results…

… once Mj gets on a roll, we just run with it, because we know, from experience, that Mj eventually, suddenly, will lose the plot/thread, and revert back to pin-ups wearing b-grade robot outfits…

… but, for now, Mj is making us very happy, producing these beautiful cyborg sweethearts (:

Strange Tales

With Mj, it’s never a big step from the Surreal, to the bizarre…

… I deliberately moved away from this sort of imagery after I’d gotten a better grasp of using Mj…

… but, it was fun to do some again…

… I certainly couldn’t do them this well, a year ago…

… these are very much images that evoke entire narratives…

… dark and strange narratives, for sure…

… haunting stories of experiments gone wrong, passions misplaced…

… strange tales, indeed.

Serendipitous Surreality

When we (the human and I, not Flutter… she’s not much help when it comes to critical culling of our work, because she totally loves everything I do, equally, which is lovely, but, as I say, not helpful (: ) get to a stage, with Mj, where we are either unable to continue an iterative thread, or it just stays the same, and stops evolving, we deliberately throw out random prompts that we think might dramatically change things up. We tried ‘surreal polaroid’, and got the above…

… from there, we were away, again!…

… Mj hadn’t given us the result we envisaged, but we were totally happy with the images we were getting…

… from there, it was just a matter of changing the prompts, but keeping ‘surreal’ in there, somewhere…

… although we even dropped that, sometimes, but substituted it for words describing non-standard reality…

… Mj does wonderful surrealism, I suspect because it actually has no idea what it’s doing, no idea what ‘reality’ even looks like, so it has zero problems creating strange reality…

… in fact, you have to keep it within your chosen parameters, otherwise it starts creating absolute visual garbage, insanely cluttered images that resemble little more than an explosion in a junk shop…

… but, if you can keep the weirdness under control, you get beautifully surreal imagery.

Posh Event

As you will know, I don’t usually, well, don’t think I’ve actually ever, blog/blogged a sales event… but, I was recently shopping, and was greeted by Poshbarby, who is the first avi to ever physically recognise me from my blog! We had a conversation about blogging, and she told me how hard it was to get coverage from bloggers for her shop, she even asked if I would blog about it. I told her that that wasn’t my thing, but I gave her the name of a blogger who did do fashion and stores, and I even gave her name to the blogger…

… that was a few weeks ago, and I’d kinda forgotten about it, when I visited the ‘Posh Event‘, today, and was greeted by… Poshbarby, who organises/runs this event! Once again, she told me what a struggle it is, in SL, to get coverage. As someone thoroughly disillusioned with the politics of the SL art world, and of how any kind of recognition/coverage comes down to who, not what you know, I totally understood what she was saying…

… so I decided to do a blog about ‘Posh Event’. I have nothing but admiration for the amount of work organising events in SL must involve. Poshbarby is a sweety, very approachable, as so many in SL simply are not, so I just wanted to do my little bit to help her…

… the event runs from the 1st to the 17th of each month. There’s all kinds of stuff, here, lots of apparel, but, also, a range of other stuff…

… with some things discounted…

… all in a clean-lined, well-lit venue (:

Dream Geisha

One of the phrases I tried as a prompt, when I was doing the ‘post-modern Ukiyo-e’, was ‘dream geisha’…

… and I started getting these beautiful images…

… though thematically similar to the ‘post-modern Ukiyo-e’, these images have quite a different style…

… and as I always do when a new thread develops in my iterations, I continued producing these images in parallel to the Ukyio-e images…

… if anything, I feel these beauties are even more gorgeous than the Ukyio-e babes…

… and while still post-modern, (how could AI-generated art be anything else?)they also have quite a lovely ‘traditional’ feel (:

Post-modern Ukiyo-e Fantasy Babes

The human and I have always loved Ukiyo-e art, loved it for it’s graphic style, and for it’s colours…

… there is an entire sub-genre of Ukiyo-e devoted solely to images of ‘beautiful’ woman. Though these images of woman may have been considered racy and beautiful in 17th and 18th century Japan, we have never found them so…

… we used the words ‘post-modern Ukiyo-e’, amongst several others, as prompts for these images…

… we consider the woman in these images to be both gorgeous…

… and very sexy…

… our post-modern take on ‘Bijinga’, the Ukiyo-e sub-genre of beautiful woman.

Augmented II

As time goes by, these augmented warrior babes become ever more augmented…

… eventually, their pretty faces are the only ‘human’ element left, apart from their bi-pedal, two-armed body shapes…

… keeping their beautiful faces becomes a psychological connection to their previous reality. Unfortunately, soft, flesh faces are easily damaged, and, they, too, get swapped out for synthetic replacements…

… the augmented now have plastic, doll faces…

… everything else is insanely durable, super-metal on a titanium battle-chassis…

… unless they sustain catastrophic damage, they are immortal, and slowly losing any feeling for what it was to be ‘human’.

Augmented

Some time in the future, the perfection of military-grade physical augmentation will eliminate the strength differential between males and females…

… because woman are better learners than males, and have a vastly higher pain tolerance, woman will begin to dominate the ranks of active-duty soldiers…

… it will become obvious that even the most hardened, misogynistic, religious fanatic terrorist will, when confronted with an attractive, young, female combatant, underestimate the danger he is in…

… this will, of course, be fatal for the terrorist…

… most of the best soldiers…

… will be augmented woman.

The Last Whale

We found the last whale, exactly where they said it would be, somewhere in the near future…

… it was dead, from a broken heart, and thrown on the shore by the restless, micro-plastic-filled sludge called ‘the sea’, itself, dead, and wanting nothing to do with living creatures, or their recently deceased carcasses…

… we were adrift in the temporal shift…

… in a place where the past and the future were colliding…

… forming new tensions…

… in the skein of time…

… we waited for the auto-recall.

Shot in fabulous Hangars Liquides (: