#synthography

[robsheridan]

[Update: Apocalypse in Pink part 2 is out now]

Before Barbenheimer, there was “Apocalypse in Pink,” the August 1983 theme of fashion/culture magazine SPECTAGORIA. The issue’s controversial imagery of Barbie-esque models attempting to stay gorgeous and glamorous amidst nuclear annihilation sought to, in the words of editor/photographer Sera Clairmont, “revel in the morbid absurdity of the new American condition,” an “anxiety vibrating underneath all our plastic smiles.”

“It’s The Hot Pink Cold War,” Clairmont wrote in her introduction. “It’s ‘Material Girl’ on the radio and ‘WarGames’ at the drive-in. It’s ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ interrupted by the emergency broadcast signal. We’re told to look sexy, dress fashionable, make money, and spend money, but be sure we’re just the right amount of terrified about the bomb. Get that Malibu dream home, keep working on that perfect body, sip cocktails by the pool in your little pink bikini and watching the stocks go up — but STAY VIGILANT! and for God’s sake vote Republican, because that dream home could melt into a pink plastic inferno at any given moment. Just don’t stop smiling as the blast liquefies your skin into bubbling ooze like a Barbie doll in a microwave - it’s bad for the economy.”

***Continued in PART 2***

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NOTE: This is a work of fiction created by me. This alternate reality horror story is part of my NightmAIres narrative art series (visit that link for a lot more). NightmAIres are windows into other worlds and interconnected alternate histories, conceived/written by me and visualized with synthography and Photoshop.

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[quaintcrow]

[the-male-synthographer]

[xj4x]

[404gallery]

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[lexart-io]

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[misanthropic-wolf666]

Neon Dreams

[coffeenuts]

[worldofpromptopia]

Monsters

[robsheridan]

The Great Collapse (photography/synthography, 2007-2023).

A transformation of old memories, experimental synthographic destruction and recomposition of old film photographs from the desert and old abstract photographs, reinterpreting them to capture a feeling rather than a setting:

Seeing other versions of reality flicker in the light; a fleeting quantum mirage; a double-exposure photograph of a memory happening before your eyes, just as the sun is setting and the car is moving fast enough that you look back and it's gone, and you wonder if it was a trick of light or if you maybe glimpsed through to something else, somewhere else, briefly, before it collapsed.

[latentplace]

Webcrawler

prompt:score_9, (rating_safe), feral twilight sparkle, magic, unicorn, floating, white eyes, pixel art, oil painting, psychedelic, surreal, detailed fur, impasto, datamoshing, glitch art width:1024 height:1024 scale:7.5 steps:25 sampler: K_EULER_A strength:0.8 image_hash:eaa18b4feaf2a246ee97d2bc335e96bf model:PONY_V6_XL seed:2114454039

[the-male-synthographer]

[xj4x]

[lexart-io]

〄 LEXart.io ⑀ ɪɢ: @lexmartin.ai ⑀ ᴡᴇʙ: lexmartin.ai

[misanthropic-wolf666]

Living horror

[coffeenuts]