2/4/2026 - Establishing Consistent Style with Midjourney Mood Boards and SREFs

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0:00 You ready for some singing? Are you
0:03 ready for some football?
0:40 Hey Vicki, what's happening?
0:44 I got me some new glasses.
0:50 What do you want to sing tonight?
1:08 Is this a place I can rest my forhead
1:15 to gather my thoughts in sweet silence?
1:22 And this is place where the feelings are
1:25 dead.
1:29 From an over exposure to violence
1:33 and this is a place I can slowly face.
1:37 The only one I truly can know.
1:41 These are tears from a long time ago.
1:45 Got these tears from a long time ago.
1:49 I need to cry. 30 years or so.
1:53 These are tears from a long time.
1:59 Go.
2:06 Oh, darling, you say unto me,
2:13 where have you been all my life?
2:20 But I have been swimming seven sad seas.
2:26 Four women have tossed me their lip.
2:34 I'd have them, but I didn't know.
2:38 These are tears from a long time ago.
2:42 Got these tears from a long time ago. I
2:46 need to cry. 30 years or so.
2:51 These are tears from a long time. What
2:53 are you doing, champion
2:56 ago?
3:16 in a westerly direction.
3:22 This one goes out to Vicki. My car is my
3:25 train. I think this is my first request
3:28 ever.
3:29 I've been driving. I've been wondering
3:34 what it is I'm running from again.
3:38 You singing along, Champy? John Mack,
3:40 what's happening, man? What are you
3:42 doing slumbing down here in these parts?
3:45 Feels like an 8-year-old man
3:49 holding on to 29.
3:55 And up ahead on that horizon,
3:59 Jesus is California.
4:08 Oh my god, my fingers are not working.
4:10 Other head of trucks carrying a wide
4:12 load.
4:14 Prefab house cut in half.
4:18 Cute little front door and two windows.
4:20 My love
4:22 ain't sure whether to cry or should
4:24 laugh.
4:26 There we go. See, I broke a home of
4:28 myself once.
4:31 As I stumbled to that door,
4:35 I read a note by the dawn light
4:39 said, "Don't you come around here
4:44 anymore."
4:46 Well, I've had enough
4:50 of this freedom of
4:53 never was good with decision.
4:57 At least that's what I've been told.
5:07 Oh, good lord. Good people. Um, I tried
5:12 to testify in some New Mexico thing,
5:14 some AI build tonight, but they didn't
5:15 call on me. So,
5:18 so I was going to make a difference
5:20 today, but then, you know, sometimes
5:22 they don't call on you and you can't
5:23 make a difference.
5:27 Hey, John Neack, if you haven't read it
5:29 yet, go read my piece on the great
5:31 repurpose. I'd love your take on it.
5:33 Maybe you can help spread the word a
5:34 little bit. Um, if you're still here, if
5:36 you don't know what it is, so I just
5:39 wrote this piece um called the Great
5:41 Repurpose that is basically the idea
5:43 that everyone's talking about job
5:46 disruption and how AI is going to take
5:47 jobs and all that. What they're not
5:49 talking about is the looming crisis that
5:52 sits underneath that, which is a a
5:54 crisis of meaning. That especially in
5:57 America,
5:59 as people have their self-worth tied to
6:02 their work, the like the tighter that's
6:05 coupled, the more dramatic this is going
6:07 to be. So that as AI replaces the tasks
6:11 of your work,
6:13 people are going to lose meaning.
6:14 They're going to lose purpose. And so
6:16 the great repurpose is a is a an
6:19 approach to at least name it and then
6:22 maybe put forward, you know, here's some
6:24 things you can do about it. Um,
6:28 it's gotten a lot of attention and a lot
6:30 of uh a lot of engagement, you know, at
6:32 least for for my uh for for what
6:35 engagement my stuff normally gets. So So
6:38 there's something there. So check that
6:39 out. John, I read part of it. We'll
6:42 finish soon. Cool. Just lost audio here.
6:45 Oh [ __ ] Everyone else, cool new specs.
6:49 Thank you. Yes, they are new specs. I
6:52 went I was gonna go I could I could have
6:55 gone
6:57 like a level more old guy or I could
7:00 have gone a level more hip. I went more
7:02 hip. I went like, you know, New York
7:04 creative director.
7:07 Insufferable New York creative director.
7:10 Yeah, I'm just not feeling it, Jesse.
7:12 Um,
7:14 yeah. I'm Could you go on ahead and
7:16 start? You know what? I'm What's really
7:18 not working for me is the curves. The
7:20 curves are just not It's It's not you.
7:24 It's not you. It's definitely me. It's
7:26 the And the font The font choice is
7:29 probably wrong. And the Well, the color
7:31 I hate drop shadows, as you know. So,
7:33 there's, you know, you've got some drop
7:35 shadows there. and and uh I I think the
7:39 company we're working for is a car
7:41 company, so I don't understand why it's
7:43 a peanut butter sandwich. Other than
7:45 that, I mean, I really think you've
7:46 nailed it in the aspect ratios
7:49 completely wrong, but other than that,
7:51 it's just, you know, you're a real
7:54 talent, you know, maybe in some other
7:56 industry. Um, yeah. No, we'll uh we'll
8:00 be getting back to you on this one for
8:02 sure. For sure. Yeah.
8:06 How's your eye feeling? It's shitty.
8:07 It's red and puffy and I got crust. I
8:10 still got crusty eye.
8:26 Um, I don't know. What are we gonna talk
8:29 about tonight?
8:33 I'm I am now
8:35 with the with the with the open claw
8:38 thing.
8:54 I have thoughts.
8:57 I'm not quite sure what they are right
8:59 now, but they're somewhere in the
9:01 neighborhood of
9:03 we just need to basically wait for a
9:05 month or two.
9:09 It's like just just go make yourself a
9:11 hot pocket. don't pay attention to AI
9:16 because I think we're probably a month
9:17 or two out from something like Open Claw
9:20 being easily installable or it'll come
9:22 from one of the frontier companies
9:26 and then
9:29 how we have to
9:32 how we use AI is about to fundamentally
9:34 change. The audio's back.
9:37 I that that seems like that could be
9:39 user error
9:42 on the uh in the John Knack household.
9:45 Maybe a kitty sat on your on your wire.
9:50 But I think you're a dog guy, right?
9:52 Please tell me you're a dog guy. Please
9:55 tell me it's not kitties in the knack
9:56 household.
10:01 Okay, this is an old trick.
10:05 Make a liptin tea. Oh, use the tea bag
10:08 as a compress
10:09 and let the tea in. That's actually not
10:12 a bad idea. Maybe I'll do that tonight.
10:19 We need AI as good as West Law. Well, we
10:23 need like listen, I
10:27 we need AI to not suck, right? We need
10:29 AI to get to get really good. But in the
10:32 last six months, it's it's gotten
10:36 better enough that that you know, some
10:38 stuff's coming. What do I want to do
10:39 tonight? I should do something. I should
10:42 do something. What do I want to do?
11:08 Hey, John Neack, you want to come up on
11:09 the old stage here? I don't have my
11:11 producer,
11:12 so I don't know how to bring you up. Oh,
11:14 I know how I could do it. Wait, you're
11:16 over on
11:18 you're over on LinkedIn. I can figure
11:20 this out. Hang on. I think my producer
11:23 went went sleeping.
11:28 How do I invite you? Um, that's hang up.
11:31 There's plus
11:34 copy.
11:36 If you've not met John Knack,
11:39 he's a swell dude.
11:42 So, what I'm going to do, John, is I'm
11:44 going to message you on the LinkedIn.
11:51 And if you want, come on up because I
11:52 want to hear what's going on with you
11:53 and what you're seeing in the world. And
11:55 I want to hear what you think about
11:57 OpenClaw and all that happy horseshit.
12:00 So if you're still here, there's your
12:02 StreamYard invite in LinkedIn. All
12:05 right, click there, join.
12:09 And if not, then whatever.
12:15 Currently, they can't site accurate case
12:17 law citations.
12:23 Yeah. Well, I listen, I think when you
12:25 start getting into extremely vertical
12:30 applications like, you know, that kind
12:32 of specific law requirement, um, it
12:35 probably makes sense to do, you know,
12:37 customtrained models and things like
12:38 that. Um,
12:42 will generous general purpose models get
12:45 there at some point? They will. They
12:47 will. They're just not there right now.
13:02 Oh, wait. I got to do this. I don't have
13:05 producer Brandon here telling me what to
13:06 do. So, I'm doing poorly.
13:13 Oh, yeah.
13:16 Never a dull moment. All right. We don't
13:19 have John Knack in there, so I guess
13:21 he's skittered off to put the kiddos to
13:24 bed.
13:27 Oh, lordy, lordy, lordy. Does anyone
13:30 have any questions about AI or tools or
13:33 anything they want me to play with
13:36 tonight? I will I will play with
13:40 whatever you want me to play with. Get
13:42 your minds out of the gutter,
13:45 garbage people.
13:54 blue.
14:01 Have you tried blue or blue? What's your
14:04 name? Blue. Blue age. Have you tried
14:06 perplexity? Is perplexity any better at
14:09 at the law citation stuff? because it's
14:12 it's designed to uh
14:16 you know to do research but like they
14:18 they are all pretty crappy like like
14:21 they they act really good like here I
14:23 got you all your research and then you
14:25 know half of it doesn't even exist
14:31 style creator
14:34 you want to do style creator and
14:36 midjourney we can do that
14:44 yeah they still hallucinate. Yeah,
14:46 perplexity still hallucinates there. It
14:48 looks like it looks like some of the
14:50 some of the researchers right now are
14:52 making progress on a replacement for rag
14:56 which is retrieval augmented generation
14:59 that are going to be a lot more
15:00 accurate. And it's basically like I
15:03 don't quite understand it but it's
15:05 basically like easily retraining a model
15:07 with specific information. Um rag is
15:11 like this separate database that
15:12 reference references chunks of
15:14 information.
15:15 Um I don't know enough about the math
15:18 and how that [ __ ] works to know if it's
15:19 going to be any good. But you know again
15:21 I I feel like 2026 is going to be the
15:24 year where we'll we'll start to see
15:26 stuff where like oh okay it's good
15:27 enough now. Um, but yeah,
15:33 I can't get style creator to actually
15:35 create a style. I've actually never used
15:37 style creator. So,
15:40 um, if John Knack comes up to
15:43 Streamyard, let's see. He might, you
15:45 know what it is? He probably logged in
15:47 like naked on a toilet or something like
15:49 that and he was like, "Hey, Kyle, how's
15:52 it going?" And then I'm like, "Hey, come
15:53 up on stage." He's like, "Dude,
15:56 I'm like naked on a toilet. What are you
15:58 doing? So, that's very possible.
16:02 Sorry, John.
16:07 Okay.
16:10 If you're new here and you're wondering
16:12 what the hell this channel's about,
16:14 that's a great question. That is a good
16:16 question. Source Camp's here. Finally.
16:20 Finally, we can start.
16:22 You know, source camp Kelly John Mack
16:25 actually had to show up because you
16:27 weren't here.
16:30 See, you never know what you're gonna
16:31 walk into on AI learning lab toilet.
16:36 Sorry,
16:38 it's my new glasses. My vision is cloudy
16:41 cuz my brain has not adjusted to the way
16:43 the lenses do their thing yet.
16:48 Blue Age Gro seems to be better at case
16:50 law and citations. Well, actually, you
16:53 you know what's interesting, Blue Age,
16:55 is
16:57 in a weird way, it makes sense that
16:58 Grock would be better at that because
17:01 Grock
17:03 Grock is basically updating its data set
17:06 in real time, right? Because you can
17:08 just search for anything on Twitter. So,
17:10 I don't know how they're doing that
17:12 because most large language models, you
17:14 know, they have to take a couple of
17:16 months to train it. Um, and they can't
17:18 update it really quickly. So, Grock is
17:20 being updated very, very quickly. So,
17:22 that actually kind of makes sense to me
17:23 that it's pretty good. Um, if you're not
17:26 paying attention to Grock, pay attention
17:29 to it. They're bringing a a a 1 gigawatt
17:33 um
17:35 uh CPU cluster online or they brought it
17:37 brought it online like um
17:42 Kyle, I didn't testify until 7:45
17:45 tonight. Well, hey, Cindy [ __ ] I was on
17:48 that Zoom. I heard you testify. I was
17:50 waiting to have my name called. They
17:52 didn't call my [ __ ] name.
17:56 I spent four hours today waiting for
17:58 that stupid legislature to to start
18:03 and then I rushed home from picking up
18:05 my spiffy new glasses. I don't know if
18:07 you noticed them, but they're kind of
18:08 saucy. Um,
18:11 and I got on at 6:20 and I listened to
18:14 some whole rigomearroll about some other
18:16 bill. And then our bill came up and I'm
18:18 ready to talk and there goes Cindy [ __ ]
18:20 I'm like, "Oh, I'm next." Nothing. They
18:23 didn't call me. How dare they? Exactly.
18:28 Do they know who I am?
18:31 No.
18:34 What's the problem?
18:38 Okay. Wait. What am I doing? What was I
18:39 doing? Oh, midjourney. Midjourney. Mid.
18:42 Yeah, I know. I know. Cindy [ __ ] I
18:44 know. I know. I understand. I am right
18:47 there with you. Okay, we're going to go
18:50 here. Wait, what am I going to do? I'm
18:52 going to go there or am I going here?
18:55 I'm going there. Wait, maybe I'll go
18:57 here. Yeah, I like that one. All right,
18:59 we're going to go there. I'm a little
19:00 teeny tiny in the corner. And then we're
19:02 going to go to midjourney.
19:05 Midjourney. Midjourney.
19:12 And we got to make a style maker. Okay,
19:15 there's a couple of things about styles.
19:18 Style creator beta. Okay, so let's read
19:20 what we've got to do here. You can all
19:22 see this, right? Well, not really
19:24 because the text is this was clearly
19:26 programmed by a 20-year-old
19:28 [ __ ] 23 year olds. I know. We'll use
19:31 the We'll use a font that only It only
19:33 requires six pixels to make each letter.
19:37 Let them try to see that.
19:42 Okay. Um, find the perfect style for
19:45 your prompt in a few simple steps. Step
19:48 one, scroll the page, selecting any
19:50 image that matches your target style. As
19:53 you scroll and select,
20:02 starting sty
20:05 wait what?
20:08 This is good. This is good. it. My job
20:11 tonight is to act as if, okay, I'm,
20:17 as you probably know, I am masterful at
20:20 everything AI. But what I'm going to do
20:23 tonight is I'm going to take my acting
20:24 skills. I have a degree in acting.
20:27 I'm going to act like I'm totally
20:30 clueless, right? And it's because I've
20:32 got chops, you know, it's going to be
20:35 believable. It's going to seem like I'm
20:36 clueless. So, if you're new here and
20:39 you're like, why are we learning from
20:41 someone who seems to be learning with
20:43 us?
20:45 It's just deploy. It's just part of the
20:47 act. Like, tomorrow you'll come back and
20:49 you'll be like, oh my god, he's a
20:50 genius.
20:55 All right.
20:59 Okay. As you scroll and select, the
21:02 styles on display will grow closer to
21:05 your target.
21:08 Okay.
21:12 Track your custom styles progress by
21:15 viewing the preview jobs on the right.
21:17 Continue refining your style until you
21:19 find the perfect one. It will take
21:21 around five iterations of your style to
21:23 stabilize. Then you'll notice a lot of
21:26 refinement from 5 to 15. Past 15, it's
21:29 all about nuance.
21:39 Okay, there's sample prompt. A man makes
21:41 eye contact with an older woman sitting
21:43 across from her in a subway. I actually
21:45 like that prompt.
21:48 Group.
21:51 Oh, okay. Group. One older woman, two
21:55 middle-aged women, two younger adults.
21:57 Location subway car. Expression.
22:01 Focused curiosity.
22:03 And then there's an SREF.
22:09 Well, all right. So, let's make it. And
22:11 I'm going to turn on No, no, I'm not
22:14 going to turn on personalization. Let's
22:15 just make it.
22:17 Oh, okay. I see what we're doing here.
22:21 Select images and scroll to refine your
22:25 style.
22:29 A man makes eye contact.
22:32 None of these are in a subway.
22:36 Oh. Oh. Oh, I get what's going on now.
22:39 Okay.
22:43 Oh, this actually that is my prompt.
22:46 Chat GBT wrote this prompt.
22:52 Okay. Okay. Let's see. Wait, wait, wait,
22:53 wait, wait.
22:55 This this is from um this is from the
22:58 music video from the from the great
23:00 repurpose music video. Instructions all
23:04 unclear. I was a whole mess. But watch
23:07 what happens when you start clicking
23:08 poop show. Okay, that's okay. That's
23:11 okay. Here's what we're going to do.
23:13 We're going to do a much more simple
23:14 prompt. We're going to do
23:17 um
23:22 dis
23:24 let's see
23:26 disc
23:29 at the
23:31 Senate
23:35 [ __ ]
23:41 Wait, end session. Reset. Reset session.
23:46 Okay. Disted at the Senate.
23:49 We're going to have no style references,
23:54 but we are going to make it landscape.
23:57 Okay, we did that. Go.
24:00 Okay.
24:03 Okay. So over here on the right
24:08 dist at the Senate.
24:18 Okay, got it. So we'll say I like this
24:22 one and I like this one.
24:26 And then do I
24:29 hit go?
24:31 Submit again. No. Wait. Wait for it.
24:36 Nothing's happening.
24:38 I definitely know what I'm doing.
24:41 Any of you that are thinking he doesn't
24:44 know what he's doing, you're wrong
24:46 because I'm clicking on things and when
24:48 you click on things, things happen.
24:52 The ideal minimum. Select images and
24:55 scroll to refine your style. Oh, I see.
24:59 Oh, I get it. Okay. Okay. Wait. I'm
25:01 getting it. I'm getting it.
25:05 Okay. All right. I'm getting it. So,
25:07 yep. Okay. Got it. Got it. So, okay. So,
25:11 here's what happened. Here's what
25:12 happened.
25:14 It's my new glasses. I can see what's
25:16 happening.
25:19 Okay. So, the ones I selected, it's it's
25:23 scrolling. It's It's like It's like
25:25 adding these all in
25:28 to to a look and feel.
25:32 And then when you get to a certain uh
25:35 amount,
25:37 um it basically submits the
25:41 the prompt using those additional
25:43 images. So, we're going to go through.
25:46 We're going to grab her. We're going to
25:47 grab him.
25:50 We're going to grab
25:52 crazy guy here. We're going to grab
25:55 Spaghetti Lady.
25:58 See over here on the right? See where
26:00 this thing is is scrolling down?
26:03 We're going to grab this. We're going to
26:04 grab this. We're going to grab this.
26:08 We're going to grab this.
26:10 Going to grab this. Going to grab this.
26:13 Going to grab this. And this. All right.
26:16 Now, it's doing another submission. And
26:19 it's saying we're supposed to get to
26:21 five is where it's supposed to be good,
26:26 I think.
26:28 Okay. But we want images.
26:31 We want the images I already generated.
26:35 If you're looking for control, I don't
26:37 think this is it. But watch what happens
26:40 when you start clicking poop show.
26:44 So I generated these and then it
26:47 generated these and then it generated
26:49 like these. I actually like. All right,
26:51 let's keep going. We're going to grab
26:53 this one. We're going to grab this one.
26:55 I like this one.
26:59 Uh,
27:03 like this one. Oh, what did I do? Oh,
27:05 no. What did I do?
27:10 No.
27:12 God damn it.
27:14 Starting over. Okay, at least now we
27:16 know what's going on. So, dist at the
27:18 Senate, we're going to get some images.
27:21 And now I'm going to go select some. You
27:23 know what I'm going to do is I'm just
27:24 going to start selecting blue things.
27:28 and purple and green and newspaper.
27:33 I have no [ __ ] discipline. Blue,
27:35 green.
27:37 Uh, I kind of like that rainbow guy. I
27:39 kind of like that. Oh, look. Three
27:42 blues.
27:45 Blues,
27:47 purples, greens.
27:52 I wonder if it's using my choices to
27:54 give me new images down below. Oh, I bet
27:56 it is. I bet it is. Yeah. Look how cool.
27:59 Look how cool these these images are.
28:01 So, it started out with this generic
28:03 [ __ ]
28:05 And now we got some blues and purples.
28:08 Blues, purples, and greens. And they're
28:10 kind of crazy good.
28:13 And then here's new ones coming in.
28:16 So, we're going to grab this. We're
28:18 going to grab this.
28:20 We're going to grab that dude. We're
28:22 going to grab this dude. And this dude.
28:24 Oh, I like scratchy guy. I like modern
28:28 art guy.
28:30 Um, I like that.
28:34 Oh, I like that. I like that. All right.
28:38 Now, we're That's That's number three.
28:40 So, here was one. There's iteration one.
28:44 There's two. I think I liked one better,
28:46 but that's okay. Two's being built or
28:49 three is being built as we speak. So,
28:51 we're going to do that one. That one.
28:52 That one. No, not that one. that one.
28:56 And then I like that one. I like that
28:59 one. I like that one.
29:02 I like that one.
29:05 I like that one.
29:08 That one.
29:11 That one. That one.
29:15 Oh, love that one.
29:21 Love that one. All right. There we did
29:23 five style creators.
29:26 This is kind of cool.
29:29 I'm I'm actually kind of digging this.
29:35 Scroll to refine. Let's grab that. That
29:37 that
29:51 Okay.
29:53 So, what do we got here? We got those.
29:55 Those are kind of cool. Those are kind
29:57 of cool.
30:00 Pin to pin preview.
30:04 Pin preview.
30:10 Now, what happens when I say end
30:12 session? Is that going to give me a
30:13 style?
30:19 Where's my style?
30:22 Is this it?
30:25 Finding style.
30:31 Um,
30:42 mood boards.
30:47 Where'd my style go?
30:55 Oh, I see. Okay, I got it. Got it. Got
30:58 it. Okay, so here's what's happening.
31:00 Okay,
31:05 I actually kind of understand this.
31:08 Um,
31:10 I think it's kind of a useless tool, but
31:13 it could be good if you just want
31:15 inspiration. Okay, I posted the style I
31:18 want to create in irregulars.
31:21 Yeah, that's not how this is. If Okay,
31:24 if you've got the style that you want to
31:26 create in irregulars, do you know what
31:27 the style
31:30 what the uh what the sref was for it?
31:37 Oh, look. We've got a survey, by the
31:39 way. Go to the AI salon, take our
31:41 survey.
31:44 We're trying to figure out what the hell
31:45 you people want.
31:49 What do you want in the A salon? Hello,
31:52 my name's Kan.
31:54 That's what you like to do today in the
31:56 air salon.
31:58 Go answer our survey. Tell us and we'll
32:01 do more of that [ __ ]
32:04 Um,
32:06 okay. So, here's Side Hustle Mimi.
32:12 I like that style.
32:15 Do you
32:18 I want to build a whole story. Well,
32:19 what I would do is I So, there's a
32:22 couple of things you can do. Okay. So,
32:25 what I would do, no, is I would go to
32:27 Gemini or um chat GPT
32:32 because you can just upload these two
32:33 here. Let's go try that. So, let me grab
32:37 let me just do this as a screenshot.
32:48 Okay,
32:50 we're going to go here and we're going
32:52 to go here
32:56 and we're going to go
32:58 and then I'm going to go to chat jeopet.
33:02 I'm going to go new chat. I'm going to
33:04 do temporary chat. I should do that more
33:07 often so it doesn't pollute my memory.
33:09 And I'm going to go paste. So, there's
33:11 those images pasted in. I'm going to
33:13 say, I want you to make me an image in
33:18 this style of a
33:25 couple of cool characters
33:31 standing
33:34 by a 1970s
33:39 muscle car resto Odd.
33:46 So, it's analyzing that look and feel.
33:50 You're currently on temporary chat.
33:53 Fine.
33:55 Damn it.
33:58 I want you to create.
34:04 By the way, something you should know
34:06 about chat GPT is you can't make images
34:08 in a temporary chat. Everybody knows
34:10 that. But again, I pretended not to know
34:14 it so that you don't feel so bad about
34:17 yourself. See what's going on here? It's
34:20 like a codependent kind of relationship.
34:23 All right. Fantastic.
34:26 I want you. I want you. I don't even
34:30 need to say I want you. I can just say
34:31 make this [ __ ] I want you to make me a
34:36 NAS image where some cool dudes
34:41 are standing
34:44 next to a 1970s
34:48 muscle car.
34:51 Use this image for
34:56 style reference.
34:58 So, this is one way to do it. Let's see
35:00 how good chat GPT does here.
35:05 Kyle is such a giver. I really am. I
35:08 really am.
35:10 Visa, I just joined. What AI model is
35:13 that? Uh the one we were on before was
35:15 midjourney. Now I'm in chat GPT
35:18 and I'm going to show you how that style
35:20 maker works. But it is abs that style
35:22 maker is absolutely not what you're
35:24 looking for. No.
35:26 This looks like it's going to give us
35:28 the right kind of image.
35:31 If it helps, I have my midjourney
35:32 profile linked. Okay, cool. Beautiful.
35:37 Was that an
35:39 You have your midjourney profile linked.
35:43 You mean on the Yeah, look at that. So,
35:45 that worked,
35:47 right?
35:49 That's cool.
35:51 I think
35:54 Yeah.
35:56 Okay. So there's there's chat GPT. Now
35:59 let's go to Gemini. Let's go grab our
36:01 prompt.
36:05 Copy.
36:08 Copy. And then we're going to go to
36:10 Gemini.
36:13 That's ide Gemini.
36:19 And then what we're also going to try to
36:20 create, no me is a mood board in
36:22 midjourney because I I don't think you
36:25 can make a mood board with two images,
36:27 but maybe you can. All right, there's
36:30 our prompt. Let's go back to here.
36:34 Let's go grab this again.
36:41 Let's go back to Gemini and paste that
36:44 in.
36:48 Go.
37:09 Yeah, that worked too. I think that's
37:11 even better. That's a nice That's like a
37:13 1972
37:17 Mustang
37:19 fastback.
37:21 Cool thing with the cool chickydos. I
37:24 said cool dudes. It gave us cool
37:26 androgynous chickydos. I like it.
37:30 I dig it. All right. So, there's two
37:32 ways you can do it. Now, let's go back
37:34 to MidJourney and see if we can wrangle
37:36 this [ __ ] into shape. Okay. So,
37:39 what we're going to do is we're going to
37:40 go back to this. I'm going to download
37:43 these. So, save image as
37:49 one
37:50 downloads.
37:52 Save image as two
37:57 downloads. And then, actually, let's go
38:00 grab because I think chat GPT did pretty
38:02 good. Let's grab this one. Save image
38:05 as. We'll call this three
38:09 to downloads. And then let's go to
38:11 Gemini and we'll grab this one, too.
38:13 Save image as. All right.
38:17 And it's going to be called four. So, we
38:19 have four images.
38:23 We're going to see if Midjourney can go
38:25 on ahead and not suck.
38:27 And then I'm going to show you how this
38:29 thing work, this style creator thing.
38:32 So, we're going to go to mood boards and
38:34 I'm going to say create new mood board
38:36 in the upper right right there.
38:39 I'm going to upload images.
38:42 So, I'm going to grab all four of those
38:49 and it's going to upload two of them.
38:52 And it's not going to upload two of them
38:54 because they're AVIF files. So now you
38:57 get to hear a Gen Xer get pissed off
39:00 because some dweebs in some [ __ ] lab
39:03 somewhere decided that images needed to
39:06 be 3% more efficient. So they created an
39:10 entirely new [ __ ] file format that no
39:13 one [ __ ] uses.
39:17 So what we're going to do because we've
39:20 experienced this before is we're going
39:22 to whine. Okay? We're gonna whine and
39:25 we're gonna [ __ ] and then we're going
39:27 to go fix it because we know how to fix
39:29 it. But someone,
39:32 some little punk ass 25year-old, you
39:35 know, if if we if we uh encoded the the
39:38 the pixels, the the data image and the
39:40 pixels, the color space, we could
39:44 nobody cares.
39:48 The internet's fast enough.
39:54 I just want [ __ ] to work.
39:59 [ __ ] noodle head.
40:02 Whining Wednesdays.
40:05 Okay. So, so what we're going to do is
40:07 we're going to open this with preview on
40:10 my Macintosh
40:12 computer system.
40:14 Calm down.
40:16 I'm here now. Everything's going to be
40:19 okay. Thank you, producer Brandon. I I
40:22 was just about to seriously lose it.
40:28 But you're here now. It's going to be
40:29 good. Good lord. Okay, we're saving two
40:32 as a JPEG now. And now we're going to
40:34 save one as a JPEG.
40:43 I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.
40:48 Okay, we're now we're go back to to
40:50 Midjourney.
40:52 Midjourney let us select it, but it it
40:54 then it wouldn't render it. Why? Cuz
40:59 idiots. Okay, where did I save those?
41:01 Did I save those to the desktop? No, I
41:04 saved them to the wrong folder. So now
41:06 I'm even more pissed off.
41:14 Okay, let's go back here and figure out
41:17 where the [ __ ] I saved them.
41:21 This is exhausting. Tik Tok pin. Brandon
41:24 is the emotional support producer. I
41:27 saved them to the desktop. Okay. Okay,
41:30 people. We can go find them on the
41:31 desktop. This is not This is not a big
41:34 deal.
41:35 There's no reason anyone should be this
41:37 upset
41:40 except they're not here. They're not on
41:42 the desktop because they got saved to
41:44 some other desktop.
41:50 This is what this 25-year-old engineer
41:52 did to my life. This is what This is
41:55 what they did.
41:57 Are they happy?
41:59 I think they are. I think they're happy.
42:01 I'm going to save it to downloads. This
42:04 is two.
42:06 Save this one. Gonna export it. Gonna
42:09 save it to downloads number one. And
42:11 we're going to go back to midjourney.
42:14 15 minutes later,
42:17 we're going to watch as Grandpa Kyle can
42:19 figure out how to upload a file. But
42:21 it's not my [ __ ] fault.
42:26 Uh, what happened there? Oh, these are
42:28 Well, whatever. Doesn't [ __ ] matter,
42:30 does it? Yeah. Okay, fine. We're just
42:33 going to upload that as a double. Great.
42:36 Okay, so now, so this is a midjourney. I
42:39 mean, this is a mood board.
42:41 Drop images over this page. Click here
42:44 to select from your gallery. So, we're
42:46 going to say use in prompt. Okay. So,
42:49 no, I'm going to copy this style
42:52 reference and I'm going to put it as a
42:54 comment in your thingy here. I'm going
42:57 to reply
42:59 and I'm going to put this here.
43:03 comment.
43:05 Um,
43:08 let me go look at your
43:15 funsized
43:18 funsized AI.
43:22 Yeah, they don't these don't have style
43:24 references to them.
43:26 All right. All right. Whatever. Okay.
43:32 So there's there's our our our style
43:35 reference. Our mood board is up here. So
43:37 I said use use uh use in prompt right
43:40 there. So now I'm going to do um
43:45 girls jumping rope. And there's there's
43:49 a couple other things I'm going to do.
43:50 Rope.
43:52 I'm going to go look at my settings
43:56 and I'm going to put stylization at like
43:58 100. So stylization, what I've learned
44:02 with with uh
44:05 SREFs, which might be different than
44:07 mood boards, this is a mood board, that
44:09 if your stylization is at zero, it
44:12 doesn't follow instructions. So I move
44:14 it to 100 to start and I turn off
44:15 weirdness and I turn off variation or
44:18 vary or whatever that was.
44:21 And then I'm going to hit go. We're
44:23 going to make some emagages
44:26 and we're going to see if midjourney now
44:29 if that little mood board with three
44:31 images now works. I really like
44:33 midjourney
44:34 when I have 15 minute procrastination
44:36 breaks. Yeah, it's good for that.
44:42 Ah, this looks like it's going to work.
44:45 There you go.
44:49 So, now you can just use that that mood
44:51 board that I that I pasted in there and
44:55 just start giving it specific prompts
44:58 and then and then what I would do no is
45:00 this go make images using this or use
45:05 yes uh midjourney is still free inside
45:07 meta as far as I know you can do it in
45:10 midjourney here but you can also do it
45:12 in um Gemini or chatgpt just put paste
45:16 the images in there and say match it and
45:19 then anytime you get an image that's
45:21 exactly what you want, add it to your
45:23 mood board, right? So, go to your mood
45:25 board, start with two or three images,
45:28 start making images from that, start
45:30 doing it in Gemini and Chat GPT, and
45:32 just go get images you like,
45:35 and then just keep adding those to the
45:37 mood board. And and once you get in sort
45:39 of 15 images or so, it it'll probably
45:41 pretty good. Like, these aren't bad for
45:43 for uh
45:46 you know, for just having three images
45:47 in there. This is at least in the
45:50 neighborhood.
45:52 you know. Uh oh, where's mood board?
45:55 I'll show you in a second. That one's
45:57 really good. Love that one. That one's
45:59 good, too.
46:02 So, mood boards are over here on the
46:04 left.
46:06 Down here, you've got explore, create,
46:10 and then down in aesthetics, you got
46:12 personalize and mood boards. Let's go to
46:15 mood boards.
46:18 And so you can now now I've got this
46:20 mood board based on her artwork. I can
46:23 just click on that.
46:25 And now you can just drag and drop
46:27 images to this page.
46:30 All right.
46:33 And then to get the code you say use
46:36 imprompt. If you click on that, bang, it
46:39 adds the code up here. Now, there's a
46:41 weird thing that mood boards do which I
46:43 find really annoying
46:46 is
46:49 when you say use and prompt, it gives
46:51 you a big long number and
46:55 when you um
47:01 when you actually render the image, it
47:03 gives you the mood board name.
47:06 So, anyway,
47:08 all right.
47:11 Fantastic. Now, let me show you what
47:14 happened with the stylization, the style
47:16 creator thing. So, what this is is this
47:19 is more like a
47:22 like a creative tool, like a a creative
47:25 conceptualization tool. So, you start
47:28 out with a prompt and then you just
47:31 start clicking on images and as you
47:34 scroll down the page clicking on images,
47:36 at some point it will kick off a new
47:38 prompt. And then you do that like five
47:40 times and you end up so like each four
47:44 of these is a different layer, right? So
47:46 this is layer one,
47:49 right? That was layer one. Now here's
47:51 layer two.
47:55 Now here's layer three.
47:59 Now here's layer four.
48:02 Now here's layer five.
48:06 Now, each one of these, what I've
48:08 noticed is if we go back to create, each
48:10 one of these has its own style
48:13 reference.
48:14 So, you can grab the style reference for
48:17 these four images. You can grab the
48:19 style reference for these four images.
48:21 You can grab it for these four images.
48:23 You can grab it for these four. You can
48:24 grab it for these four.
48:27 But when you get to five, the the style
48:31 is pretty much baked in. So you'll get
48:33 really consistent stuff is I guess guess
48:35 what they're saying there.
48:39 It's pretty groovy.
49:10 Anyway, all right. Got it.
49:15 Pretty cool. Um,
49:19 I'm going to get out of here. My um
49:22 eyeball is killing me and I had a long
49:24 day today. So after you click se select
49:27 from the gallery
49:29 it just remembers.
49:32 No what happens is this. So look wait
49:36 after you click select from the gallery.
49:39 No the way you use Okay. So so wait I
49:43 don't know what you're talking about. So
49:44 if if I'm in mood boards
49:48 okay
49:50 way midjourney works.
49:54 I'm so sorry, Kyle.
49:57 I hope you're over your cold, too. I
49:59 think my cold is just tied to I think I
50:01 just basically have like infection body.
50:04 So, I've got an infection eye and I
50:06 think my body's like, "Hey, we're going
50:08 to we're going to cough a little. You're
50:10 going to feel generally like [ __ ] Uh,
50:13 we'll probably find some some other part
50:15 of your body to attack.
50:20 It saves it to the mood board." Yeah.
50:22 So, okay. Okay. So, if I'm in a mood
50:23 board, if if you just upload new things
50:26 to the mood board, it will make the mood
50:28 board more sophisticated. And then if
50:31 you want to use it, you you click use
50:33 and prompt. And then you can just copy
50:35 and paste this code at the end of any
50:38 prompt. D-p
50:41 space M and then the big long number.
50:45 And then I assume here, let's try this.
50:48 We'll we'll let me go
50:50 let me go to create. Let's download one
50:53 of these. That looks pretty good. That
50:55 one looks pretty good. So, we're going
50:57 to download this one. I'm going to go
50:59 back to my mood board
51:02 and I'm going to add
51:06 back
51:09 drag and drop images. Oh, upload images.
51:13 All right. So, there's the girls jumping
51:15 rope. So, I just added a fourth image.
51:19 All right. So now I'm going to say using
51:21 prompt.
51:25 Yeah, it looks like it's the same
51:26 number. So So the So you can change the
51:29 mood board. The number will stay the
51:30 same. And then you can change the name
51:31 of it. So this is mood board 15. I can
51:33 just do we can call this creepy dolls.
51:36 Creepy dolls.
51:39 And then I say use imprompt. And then
51:42 I'll do um
51:44 let's see um
51:47 girls doing math at the blackboard.
51:56 And now it's going to do its thing. And
51:59 you'll notice over here it says mood
52:02 board creepy dolls. And so I can just
52:05 click on mood board creepy dolls
52:08 and it'll add it to my prompt for the
52:11 next prompt. It's a shorter code once
52:14 it's rendered once. I don't know why.
52:24 Oh no. North Carolina. Hope you feel
52:28 well soon. It's everywhere and easy to
52:29 get hard to get rid of. Awesome.
52:36 That's these are cool. This is a really
52:38 cool uh this is a really cool mood
52:40 board. By the way, if you wonder how
52:42 Kelly Bash gets, you know, gets good
52:45 results, like once you sort of figure
52:46 out a style you like and you can get
52:49 these mood boards and styles dialed in,
52:52 you can you can just crank [ __ ] out in
52:54 styles that you love. All right, Groovy,
52:57 I'm going to get out of here. Let me go
52:59 take care of my body. And uh I hope you
53:02 all have a swell evening. Uh go check
53:05 out the AI salon, especially if you're a
53:07 member of the AI salon. Please, please,
53:09 please, please, please, please, please
53:12 go fill out the survey. Brandon and Andy
53:15 put together this survey. We want to
53:17 hear from you. What are we doing?
53:18 >> Survey is not out yet.
53:20 >> What's that?
53:21 >> Survey is not out yet.
53:23 >> It just showed up on the on the AI salon
53:26 before.
53:28 Never mind about the survey. I But a
53:32 thing popped up below here that said
53:33 survey was out. So maybe I got it wrong.
53:36 All right,
53:38 >> it's coming. So the message is not
53:40 wrong. It's just it's just pre
53:43 >> Oh, it's not out yet. All right. Well,
53:44 so never mind. Bye.