Rand Holmes turned me on to Laing 'round about 1977 or 78, courtesy of Harold Hedd comix, and Carolyn Whitford's head shop Seeds and Stems - which had a bit of a reading room setup.

The artist lives in an ice cold windowless building filled with endless rows of rack mount cabinets, has never seen sunlight and does not even know what that is.

Photographer or AI prompt writer? If the former, take care to avoid duplicating common AI tropes... or no one will believe you did that. Make the keyboard 'artists' come to YOU.

Anyone who hopes to make a dime making art will soon have to compete with AI prompt writers. Reference is the /only/ thing AI has, and from what I see on FB and here that works TOO well. So use it as part of your foundation, but go one giant step beyond. Or lose out to this competitor:

Great work! This guy can't even come close:

Peel back the ugly, garish computer generated "nature scene" and here's what you're really looking at: Floor after ice cold floor in windowless buildings, burning megawatts of power to grind out ugly fake "nature" images. Sorry about the big carbon footprint - NOT. We have just replaced you.

Silly beasts sometimes forget to retract their fur cleaning tools. :)

Snoot alert: Cold & wet, incoming!

Great photo. All the more so 'cause it's real. ;)

Oops, AI is spreading here, too...

Can't wait to see what they do with infowars. :)

I've heard of "golden hour" light, but this is... way over the top.

:)

I'd know Mt. Ranier anywhere. :)

Skill + Luck x Equipment = Wow

vs. evidence that Democratic voters have a limited tolerance for genocide. The Green Party did very well in the Presidential race - guess why?

Well, it appeared to work but not visible so far. I'll try a picture: Suburban Utopia in Temple Terrace: