Tinkering with Midjourney

AI programs can turn a simple photo into dramatic art.

This is political commentator Benny Johnson with his children.  AI turned them into Pixar characters.

I liked how this turned out.

Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed a wary Carole Lombard under a hair dryer.

This is Midjourney's adaptation of that photo.

In 1955, photojournalist Ed Feingersh was assigned by Redbook magazine to accompany Marilyn Monroe around New York City.  The most outstanding photographs from the magazine pictorial featured Monroe at Grand Central Station.  

I submitted these photos to Midjourney.  This was the result.   

I submitted the following prompt to three AI programs: "A homicidal ventriloquist dummy chases a man out onto a building ledge.  The image looks like a publicity photo from a 1940s horror film."  Here are the results:

Nico Mone used Grok to reimagine Ghostbusters with Eddie Murphy and Chris Farley.

Days after Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, it was reported by various media outlets that Prevost had an older brother who was a Trump supporter.  

Twitter commentator Van Ike thought that it would make a great sitcom premise to have a Pope's blue-collar brother move into the Vatican.  I took this idea further, creating a theme song for a sitcom called Bless You, Brother.

You can let your imagination roam freely with Midjourney.  Midjourney member bobsblazed submitted a simple prompt to the program: "A rapper and Mickey Mouse drink tea at Buckingham palace."

Midjourney has a "Retexturing" feature that allows you to turn an illustration into a photo.

There's a famous story of philosopher Diogenes wandering Athens with a lamp in search of an honest man.  I asked Midjourney to illustrate this story.  I was very pleased with the result.

I submitted the following prompt to Midjourney: "A funny little guy tries to sell a ridiculous invention, a self-tying shoelace machine, to a skeptical crowd, while his large slow-witted partner stands nearby. The scene is set against a bustling street."

Rembrandt was modernized by kontakoptics with the simple addition of wire-framed eyeglasses.

I modernized John Adams with a couple of "thug life" embellishments.

This interesting reimagining of Columbo was created by majgptdesigns.

This great image of the Frankenstein Monster was used as a reference photo.

Here are the results.

Wikipedia estimates that there has been 123 film adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Gothic horror novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."  By far, the best adaptation was Rouben Mamoulian's stylish 1931 version, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  

Midjourney gave me a couple of good images of Jekyll and Hyde.

Midjourney goes from menacing to cute with Winnie the Pooh.

I created many images for my recent reimagining of Taxi Driver.  Here are outtakes of Sport using his seductive charms on a young and vulnerable Iris.  

This is Travis on an awkward date with Betsy.

I asked Midjourney to show me a 1920s vaudeville comedian sitting in his dressing room.

I asked Midjourney to create a vintage comedy duo.

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