{"attributes":[{"trait_type":"Artist","value":"LEGIO X "},{"trait_type":"Artwork","value":"PAUSE BUTTON PORTRAITS (UNPAUSED)"}],"description":"*Earlier this year I made over 90,000 images that were based off of the album cover art for* Hall \u0026 Oates *hit album* Private Eyes *which was released in 1981 -- Pipi Universel insists that he was not the art designer for this album but I have yet to see any proof of his claims -- in my mind the album cover is a prime example of some of his earliest design work.*\n\nPrivate Eyes *yielded two #1 hits on the USA Billboard charts -- both the title track and* I Can't Go For That (No Can Do). *Another track* Did It In A Minute *reached #9 on the charts.*\n\n*My main attraction to this album art in particular was seeing how Stable Diffusion would recreate and reinterpret the halftone patterns and hand-rendered stipple-ink patterns from the pre-digital era of graphic design. This led to some interesting discoveries as many of the outputs I was getting had textures unlike anything I'd ever seen before -- and the compositions were wild as well. So I just kept it running 24/7 for several days while inputting various different reference images and prompts and settings -- and in turn running those different combinations into different custom models that I had created.*\n\n*Here are 51 images culled from those experiments -- when I showed some of the pieces to Shaun Keenan he commented that they looked like pictures of a tv screen that was showing a paused frame of a VHS tape -- I really liked that description because that's exactly what some of the textures remind me of -- a certain quality of pre-digital era glitch \u0026 grain. So, thanks to Shaun:* PAUSE BUTTON PORTRAITS, *it is...*\n\nLegio X\nMay 12th, 2025\n\n.png \\\n3072 x 1728 \\\ncreated with sd 1.5 using custom models in neural frames \\\nupscaled using topaz giga \\\n2025\n","hash":"0x98ec0f6310ea0532cfda5825add7a6a041f3a032f75a7b329111b293e7c70a95","image":"https://0prod.infura-ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeieffwnl64joz6y3sqk3pvnhtnf6rbbxc27amndkmfu4cywsiqwcmu","ipfs":"https://0prod.infura-ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeieffwnl64joz6y3sqk3pvnhtnf6rbbxc27amndkmfu4cywsiqwcmu","license":"","name":"GET THE BALANCE RIGHT"}