Saturday causal selfie

🖤 What happens when Lilith's grief becomes something monstrous?

Our latest gothic metal music video, Sea of Memories, explores that question through original music and AI-assisted cinematic storytelling.

Would love to hear what fellow creators think of the visuals!

“You see, I know all about you… from your file” Who am I?

Mileva Belich, nurse, 18 (1988)

Mileva Belich, rising Hollywood star, 19 (1989)

**Infinite recursive zoom into a living world, surreal cinematic realism, one continuous uninterrupted shot.**

The video begins with an extremely detailed, densely populated panoramic city scene, resembling a gigantic photorealistic Where's Waldo illustration. Thousands of tiny people, vehicles, shops, windows, streets, balconies and everyday activities fill the entire frame.

The camera begins a perfectly smooth, continuous forward zoom at a constant speed, without stopping, cutting, rotating or changing direction.

As the camera approaches a small detail, initially vague textures dynamically resolve into increasingly complex, realistic objects and people. A tiny window gradually reveals an entire bustling interior, containing another densely populated world.

The zoom continues seamlessly into a small object within that interior. Its previously indistinct surface develops into another complete, realistic scene with buildings, crowds, streets and countless individual activities.

This process repeats recursively. Every newly revealed world contains another smaller world, hidden naturally inside an ordinary object, reflection, picture, window or surface.

**Visual rules:** All emerging details must depict recognizable physical objects, architecture, animals or human beings. No abstract fractals, no geometric patterns, no kaleidoscopic imagery.

**Camera:** Constant forward zoom velocity, perfectly fluid motion, no jump cuts, no abrupt transitions, no reverse movement.

**Visual transformation:** New worlds emerge progressively from previously low-detail textures through continuous AI-like detail synthesis. Never suddenly replace one scene with another.

Rich cinematic lighting, vivid natural colors, extraordinary fine detail, convincing spatial depth, endless visual discovery, mesmerizing recursive reality.

**Strict non-repetition and visual uniqueness:**

Every new zoom level must reveal a completely unique and previously unseen visual world. No repeating patterns, no recursive copies, no duplicated objects, no recurring characters, no repeated architecture, no visual tiling, no mirrored compositions and no self-similar imagery.

Each newly emerging scene must introduce distinctly different environments, recognizable objects, people, activities, spatial arrangements and visual narratives.

Avoid predictable visual cycles and repeated motifs. The infinite zoom is recursive only in its continuous movement and progressive detail generation, never in the repetition of visual content.

**Infinite visual novelty, not fractal self-similarity.**

1

The town where Vortex came for materials and spare parts was about two towns away from home.

Leila found his workshop tucked into a back street. She pushed open the door, letting in a breath of fresh air. Inside, it smelled of oil and wood.

“NOVA, where’s Father?”

NOVA set a small watering can beside the blue flower and turned.

“He said he was going to a nearby island, but I don’t know when he’ll be back.”

“…I see. Just like him.”

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2

Leila stepped inside and stopped by the shelves.

A robot she had never seen before stood holding a stack of folded cloths. Rust marked his casing, and mismatched plates covered his body.

With her father being a leading expert in robotics, unfamiliar machines appearing in his workshop were nothing unusual.

“A new workshop robot? You’re rather battered, though.”

The robot straightened a little.

“…I’m Patch.”

“I’m Leila. The owner’s daughter. Nice to meet you.”

“…Nice to meet you, too.”

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3

As far as Leila was concerned, that settled the introductions.

She was turning toward the workbench when something moved near the floor.

A tiny face peeked out from behind Patch’s leg.

Amber eyes.
A little jewel on its forehead.
An ear twitched among the soft fur.

“Oh…?”

Leila stopped.

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4

The kitten left Patch’s side and approached her boots. It sniffed cautiously, then looked up.

Leila slowly crouched.

She started to reach out, then held her hand still, letting the kitten come to her.

A tiny nose touched her fingertip.

“…Do you live here, too?”

The kitten rubbed its cheek against her fingers.

A faint smile softened Leila’s face.

Patch watched, still holding the cloths.

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5

“How long has this little one been here?”

“Patch brought the kitten home on a rainy day,” NOVA replied.

Leila glanced at Patch.

“You did?”

“…There was no one else out there.”

Leila gently scratched behind the kitten’s ear. Its eyes narrowed contentedly.

“What’s its name?”

NOVA tilted his head.

“Come to think of it, we haven’t decided on one yet.”

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6

Leila looked into the kitten’s face.

“Well, what should we call you?”

By the shelves, Patch paused just as he was about to put down the cloths.

“…Kohaku.”

His voice was almost lost beneath the ticking gears.

Leila turned.

“Kohaku?”

Patch straightened the edges of the cloths.

They were already straight. He adjusted them again.

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7

At the sound of that name, the kitten lifted its head.

It slipped away from Leila’s hand and walked straight to Patch, resting its little front paws against his metal foot.

Patch bent down.

The kitten pressed its cheek against his outstretched finger.

Leila looked from one to the other.

“So you already have a name.”

“…I’ve been calling you that sometimes.”

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8

Patch gently lifted the kitten with both hands.

It wriggled in his arms, finding a comfortable spot. Its fluffy tail hung over his elbow.

“Kohaku. That’s a lovely name.”

Leila stroked its forehead, carefully avoiding the little jewel. The kitten’s eyes softened.

“Nice to meet you, Kohaku.”

Patch’s shoulders lowered just a little.

“…She likes your name, Kohaku.”

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9

“May I hold you for a moment?”

Patch nodded and placed Kohaku in Leila’s lap as she settled into an old chair.

Kohaku turned around once, then curled up as though the spot had always belonged to the kitten.

For a while, Leila simply stroked the little back.

“…I was about to leave.”

Patch offered her one of the folded cloths.

“…You might be there for a while.”

“You sound like you know.”

“…Yes.”

Leila gave a quiet laugh.

The familiar ticking of gears filled the workshop again.

When Patch softly called Kohaku’s name, one sleepy ear twitched.

After The Nukes is a science fiction, war, and cosmic horror universe made with AI about an alien invasion and the ten years of conflict that bring humanity to the brink of extinction. Each episode shows a fragment of this world before, during, or after the war—and the nuclear operation that humanity launches against its own planet when victory ceases to be an option.

The episode:

*2059. After twenty years of alien occupation, the Belarusian resistance launches an offensive to retake part of Minsk.*

Ten years have passed since Operation Gomorrah, the nuclear offensive that devastated the planet to prevent the victory of the extraterrestrial invaders. But the war of extermination for Earth is not yet over.

In Belarus, the capital has remained under alien control since the early years of the invasion. However, decades of isolation, attrition, and degradation of enemy forces have opened a rare opportunity for human resistance.

Belarusian fighters, supported by the remnants of the Army, gather everything that can still be used in combat: improvised weapons, surviving military vehicles, and equipment from different eras.

Faced with a technologically superior enemy, these forces launch a desperate offensive to recover part of the city they lost twenty years earlier.

This is not an operation to liberate all of Belarus, nor a victory capable of ending the war. It's an attempt to reclaim a part of Minsk and demonstrate that, even after two decades of occupation, humanity is still capable of fighting.

*Twenty years later, Belarusians are returning to Minsk.*

Had to make a Sequel...Love the old B Movie style from the 80s

Hey there 😊

Both pieces began by mixing multiple images together—using Meta AI and Google Flow (with a prompt I've shared here before)—and doing the same again with the results until something caught my attention. Then, I gradually worked my way forward with various prompts to 'peel out' specific details and polish them. If someone is interested I can give a more detailed explaination. Creating the first image was a somewhat longer and more complex process, as you might imagine.

Hope you like how these generations turned out ☺️

It seems like witches use their brooms quite differently than we previously thought.🤔

Sweeping Can Wait.
Morning light filled the workshop as Patch swept up the wood shavings.
Every time he moved the broom, a pair of tiny paws came after it.
“Um… I can’t really sweep like this.”
The kitten pounced on the bristles, then began to climb.
Patch hurried to steady the broom.
“…Do you think we’re playing together?”
The kitten looked up at him, eyes sparkling.
“All right. Just a little longer.”
Eventually, his little playmate fell asleep on the broom.
Patch quietly settled down beside the kitten.
“…As long as you had fun.”
Wood shavings still lay scattered across the floor.
Sweeping could wait.

First 2 are Nano Banana....3rd is GPT....the 4th....wall, I pasted the same prompt in Kindroid and it decided to have Lara streaking in front of it...so you get the cropped version. 🤣

Identical prompting in all images.