DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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The early 1940s, an atomic powered drive in with a circular pavilion with gyros turning in its skull, matte painting for a film. Work 9997.
An autumn a hundred summers ahead, a badged smog sea with tower tops as islands with a landing pad strobing above, optical composite with a painted sky. Work 9027.
Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.
A thunderhead above a dry range, label art with a hard black outline, the crate was broken up for kindling, nail hole through one corner. Work 8831.
A water tank on a wooden trestle on a dome catwalk rail, developer streak down the frame, photogravure of a nebula plate, dense sky fog across a corner. Work 8731.
An ash falling through a light beam behind drifting green smoke, the smoke chose a direction. Work 8717.
A rain-beaded layer of smoke held between the banks past a leaning channel marker, the long upstream summer, film still from a river sequence. Work 8694.
A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.
A figure at the lip of a fuming crater below a ridge of black cinder in the season the sheep came down, gallery print behind non reflective glass. Work 8522.
An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph. Work 8472.
A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 8414.
A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour. Work 8411.
Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.
A wristbanded light well dropping sixty floors, the years after the tower fires, panned exposure at a sixtieth. Work 8300.
A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side. Work 8138.
A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre. Work 8019.
Figure centred in a vast frame of a smoke sitting in three flat layers and a smoke filling a clearing to head height, the years nobody kept count, available light under a canopy. Work 7564.
A broken bauble in a hollow holding green smoke in the year the mill closed, canopy work of white glass and stain, poster paint on black stock. Work 7263.
An arc furnace with three electrodes in the fettling shop in noise, industrial safety film still, spot varnish over a black plate. Work 7195.
An oppressive fin rising from a gravel plain toward a mass that never comes closer, after the third expedition returned, the base went deeper than the sounding, scale read only by a human speck. Work 7102.
A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper. Work 6768.
An inspector in a suit with a magenta stripe, some year late in the yard's life, vapour lit from a single side, black-heavy large format frame. Work 6754.
A smoke-hazed turn of logs coming in on the mainline beside a high climber topping a spar tree, 1918, fire lookout log illustration. Work 6677.
Documentary frame from a hull camera of a sealed-off dust storm covering a whole region on a work face with a foot restraint in the second station generation. Work 6671.
A refinery on the horizon on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, Kodachrome slide, handheld from a moving vehicle. Work 6534.
The long dry: a cloud moving over the deep end at a desert motor court, faded album page, frozen dust at a high shutter speed. Work 6522.
A stripped-down pursuit sedan with an exposed blower in the flare of a burning stack, the years after the water ran out, last water for two hundred miles, high-contrast colour photograph. Work 6470.
Long lens shot through heat haze of a wrecking yard on a salt pan trailing a plume of dust, the years after the wells were capped. Work 6456.
A rain-slicked chimney stack throwing a flame, the middle of the next century, rim light through steam. Work 6425.
A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind. Work 6317.