AI-Storylines

AI-storylines is an ongoing collection of ai generated images using opening sentences and phrases from books. In some cases there are two version – one generated in DALL-E and the other in Midjourney.

"A fourteen-year-old girl sits cross-legged on the floor…"

Midjourney version.
Composited in Photoshop.

Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
Konstance

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."

Midjourney version.
Composited in Photoshop.

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
Chapter 1, opening sentence

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."

DALL-E version.
Composited in Photoshop.

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
Chapter 1, opening sentence

"Depending On Where I Focus and How Much Pressure I Apply to the Back of My Throat I Can Just About Blot Him Out"

Midjourney version.
Composited in Photoshop.

Yolk – Mary H. K. Choi
Chapter 1, opening sentence

"Depending On Where I Focus and How Much Pressure I Apply to the Back of My Throat I Can Just About Blot Him Out"

DALL-E version.
Composited in Photoshop.

Yolk – Mary H. K. Choi
Chapter 1, opening sentence

"Imagine living, in order of birth, through the life of every human being who has ever lived"

Midjourney version.
Composited in Photoshop.

What We Owe The Future – William MacAskill (Introduction)

"Imagine living, in order of birth, through the life of every human being who has ever lived"

DALL-E version.
Composited in Photoshop.

What We Owe The Future – William MacAskill (Introduction)

"In The Beginning.."

DALL-E version.
Composited in Photoshop.

Bible Genesis 1:1, opening incipit

"In The Beginning.."

Midjourney version.
Composited in Photoshop.

Bible Genesis 1:1, opening incipit

"Your end is a dead blue wren."

Midjourney version.
Composited in Photoshop.

Boy Swallows Universe – Trent Dalton
Chapter 1 – opening sentence.

"Nuance and detail Proclaim a different Universe With each Retelling (Mondrian/Bauhaus/Abstract)"

DALL-E version.
Composited in Photoshop.

Prompt taken from the poem, "Malleable as a Dream" from "Memory and the Construction of Histories" – a short collection of original poems also on objkt.com at https://objkt.com/asset/KT1Wgm9yUuChqqVivrufpv8Ea3PcfbZNxn4k/8

"Nuance and detail Proclaim a different Universe With each Retelling (no genre styles requested)"

Midjourney version.
Composited in Photoshop.

"Tetraptych: Night had settled in on the farm. The stars in the sky were twinkling and the sound of crickets and bull frogs could be heard for miles."