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The ancient past and the distant futures. An artist and a machine, learning. | Replicant at @Simulon.
South Africa
Joined January 2010
Some of my work from my Midnight Gothic series, focusing on the Johannesburg inner city, 2016.
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Some quiet photographs of my most precious places on this earth.
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From my series The Dark. I have a deep love for the wild ocean. Durban, 2019.
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Midnight stop. An eerily empty town, the sound of passing trains in the distance, an inviting gas station in the fog. KwaZulu-Natal, 2017.
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@jeffvandermeer I’m so sorry Jeff. Had to let my 15 years old boy go last month, I’m still grieving in silence. Such a hard thing to do, wish they lived longer and not here only briefly with us.
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Inhabitants of lonely cities. Taken during long, cold nights.
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The General Motors Technical Center, circa 1956. Designed by Eero Saarinen. Obsessed with it and its use of light.
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Lol Turkish twitter hasn’t been itself since the last election, it truly woke up spilling these gems after today’s win. Welcome back Turkish political comedy, you deserve it.
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@spookylilpeach Stunning. Reminds me of the statue of Queen Zenobia of Palmyrene Empire in Latakia, Syria.
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Some images from my Cape Town series that I shot over the years.
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Tried Midjourney's beta with Stable Diffusion yesterday while it was on. Staggering. Here are some of the results of a character experiment, MJ/SD took the prompts a lot more specifically, with clearer outcomes. #midjourney #stablediffusion
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Fan Ho's beautiful photographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s and '60s.
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Those burning skies and all who don’t believe her. Durban, 2020.
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Finally showing my Fragments, Nightscapes: Johannesburg series together on @Behance. Shot between 2014 - 2019, the series is an ongoing, large body of work that explores Johannesburg at night. Full series:
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Turkey does not need your prayers. It needs democracy. And you don’t get to call them anti-religion just because they are the opposition. Stay in Texas. Funny how some of you love living in those democratic free countries but call for anti-democratic systems in other places.
5/ It's not rocket science. Those who are able to should try their best to bring about the 'lesser of two evils', especially when the other side is explicitly anti-religion. May Allah protect the people of Türkiye, bless the better candidate to win, & use him to help the Dīn!.
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From my work over the years. "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas."
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Soft lights and colours. A fruit and veg store at night, Istanbul.
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This genre is called hard sci-fi.
Incredible scene right now: Pope Francis praying in the middle of an empty St. Peter’s Square.
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From the series ‘The Dark’. I have a deep love for the wild ocean. // South Africa.
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Visited Turkey after so many years. Istanbul, January 2017 🌸.
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Some of the images that I’ve taken for my projects that explore cities at night. 2015-2018.
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Lives in France comfortably as a Turk, benefits from its democracy, opportunities and freedoms but votes and hopes for Sharia in Turkey. A country in a crossroad. This is probably its last chance for democracy and ending corruption. I swear these are the worst types.
Fransa'da yaşayan Türk teyzeler otobüs tutup oy kullanmaya gitti, bir teyze otobüstekilere seçim konuşma yaptı:
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Istanbul, midnight, early 2017. This city never sleeps, quite surreal. Somewhere between waking and sleeping.
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From my series ‘Time and Space’, shot at 3am in a closed train station. Durban, 2017.
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Same place, 2 years apart. 2016/2018, inner Johannesburg city.
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@sgtmus Gets a silver medal, smokes a cigarette outside, and wonders what the big deal is with it all.
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As part of my Chinatowns in Africa series, these images are exploring the community's living space in Johannesburg.
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Some of the images from my West Africa series. Ghana, 2017.
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Hahahhahaha. They did it. They fucking did it.
It would be really funny if they rename themselves Meta.
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When you are communicating with Midjourney's AI, if you write in riddles or have a poetic, abstract approach instead of descriptive prompts, it gets more interesting. Here I wrote:."Time is chaos lingering in the darkness, figures disappearing in the portal of the abyss" /thread
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My work from ‘Fragments’, as part of my Nightscapes Johannesburg series. It is based in the inner city of Joburg and ongoing since 2014.
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