ICYMI: Chevy feeds its original photos into an AI to create an NFT series (and documents it all here). Follow on IG And Twitter for first glances.
Staff!
I’ve fallen backwards in meaning (and can’t get up).
This is what happened:
When I started this I didn’t intend to have a clear direction or work on a particular theme. The point was to tinker.
I had no intention of attaching any significance to the photographs I helped take.
No! The plan was simple: find a style I like and end up with 30 photos to save as NFTs. That was it.
But I quickly learned that if I wanted to take 30 shots, I belovedI should make hundreds that just kindameh.’
And the more trial and error I went through, the more I began to recognize an overarching theme with everything old Billy Chadison pumping out…
Fair warning: This comes across as insane, painfully high concept, or both.
In fact, it’s pretty much a sci-fi dork’s wet dream.
… but you’re talking to the guy who was making replica lightsabers by hand at age 16 (rather than, idk, dating?), so it’s kind of fitting…
This is the concept I came across by accident:
What if aliens landed on Earth in the middle of the last century and gave us technology that solved just about… all of our problems?
It’s starting to feel like the Midjourney of the photo is spitting back at me, portraying that alternate future.
Wait – no, don’t go – I swear I’m not crazy! Think about it:
The technology looks like it’s straight out of the 50’s/60’s, there are alien gods in some of the pictures and all the people look like they’re bored.
Which would make sense in this world, because:
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If technology couldn’t move forward anywhere, the look and feel would probably stay the same.
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If aliens with divine technology appeared on Earth, some of us would Certainly end up worshiping them.
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And if there were no more problems to solve, life would get a little boring for us humans. Nothing would ever be that bad, nor would it be that good – it would just be right.
See what I mean?
