What Burning Man looked like in 1963, as imagined by AI

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That’s cool. I remember this all as though it were yestermorrow.

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Wouldn’t it all heve been in black & white, though?

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I think in 1963 it was mostly poor people who were still in black and white. Well-off burners had already transitioned to color.

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not gonna lie. i’m dying to take my pachinko parlor to that burn!

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Groovy

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It’s like my dreams and Zardoz mated!

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Pretty sure that scene really existed and was called the Merry Pranksters.

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I was thinking to myself “Golly this Midjourney AI is much better with faces than I am used to seeing from AI-created imagery”.

And then I saw the hands. The hands.

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DON’T LOOK AT THE HAAAAAAAAANDS!!!

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The art of making fun into work is ageless it seems.

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Kodachrome.

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Nah, that’s from 1973.

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It’s amazing they can’t get that figured out. There’s a billion hand images in the world, yet they seem to be training their software on images of shrimp cocktail.

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There was Kodachrome for color slides, and Kodacolor for color negatives/prints since at least the 1940s. Both were quite expensive (film & processing cost) Also color film speed was really slow, requiring bright outside shots, or single-use flashbulbs (more $$ per shot) indoors.

Early Kodachrome was something like ISO 8 or 10, which seems nuts now. Looking at my last interior photo taken with my iPhone, it says it used the equivalent of ISO 800 for my last interior shot!

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A desert might be the perfect spot to try out this new fangled ISO 25 film

1588×2354 370 KB

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Without FB account login I can’t see much. Anybody got a mirror?

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Back in the day (before mine), some B&W film came with a little paint set.

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How to expose in a desert/beach without a meter, (using really slow color film)

Set your camera to f/22. Set your exposure speed to the reciprical of the ISO speed (1/8 sec). Open up your aperture three stops (f16, f11, f8), and half the exposure time three times and you can take a shot at 1/60 sec at f/8. Done.

If it’s merely sunny, and not as bright as a beach, you’ll end up at f5.6, which is hardly exotic, as lenses go.

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“Wenn die Sonne lacht - Blende acht!”
– Granddad

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