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Memo 0xd45773cb…3ae485 on Ethereum

0xee8e21e7b0a9726f754825dfafa44febeb9188f7/1 To me a playful aleatory approach is central to anything artistic I do, so this tendency reared within my first Networked mint in a few ways. Of course, the Midjourney output itself depended on spontaneous curation and latent serendipity. There are billions of --sref (style reference) codes, you can mix them endlessly, add extra parameters atop, etc. Yet I can go many weeks without coming up with a style recipe that moves me. The curation of the style used in "Kinda AFK" and my ensuing 5 mints (I like to publish style explorations in sets of 6) came from a random aha! discovery amid one of my many Midjourney tinkering sessions. Then with the outputs, you never know what you're going to get, and you might run a prompt dozens and dozens of times to pull something really satisfactory out of the latent creative maw. That was my experience here. Then there's the title and description. I come up with these after I curate outputs I love, so I have to fit them on, so to speak, and in that regard they're arbitrary and I have total freedom with them, so I outsource them to chance. With "Kinda AFK," I heard that phrase on a podcast as I was prepping the mint, so I threw that on, and then for the description I scrolled to a random page in my "Dots of Fire" poetry volume and eyed a random line. The line I settled on in this case came from my poem "I Had To," which reads like so: into the fray into the tick of slow clocks glowing upon their mantles into the long voyage of voices into mother-of-god’s milk glass i had to i had to do it i had to go into a canoe through the last river into an alphabet of the angels writing itself upon my walls into a scarlet world bathed in sugar into a handful of fresh maggots i had to i had to do it i had to go there -------------------- The idea is that the combination of these various randomizations can make for a whole that is surreally mysterious and says something interesting beyond what I could have done if I tried to plan everything meticulously right out of the gate. I enjoy this creative mode as it lets me arrive at something quasi-mystical, that I don't understand and that surprises me, and "Kinda AFK" is one taste of this. wmp.eth