/sectionb: CLEARANCE
Posted on March 29th, 2024 – Be the first to comment… in which Brock has his first experience with the pod and a mysterious encounter with the agency.
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/sectionb: DEUXIÈME SÛRETÉ
Posted on December 15th, 2023 – Be the first to comment… in which a couple of the newest members of Section B reveal some things about themselves while the transpacific voyage of the Merle continues.
/sectionb: BEZOPASNOST
Posted on October 15th, 2023 – Be the first to comment… in which Section B enjoy some much-needed rest, relaxation, and extended introductions.
/sectionb: LEGEND
Posted on July 29th, 2023 – Be the first to comment… in which the agents of Section B enjoy a fine breakfast on the Merle and in the process some of them become better acquainted with Dominic.
/sectionb: DEAD DROP
Posted on July 6th, 2023 – Be the first to comment… in which the agents of Section B travel to a misunderstood exfiltration from Thailand.
/sectionb: BLACK OP
Posted on June 4th, 2023 – Be the first to comment… in which an unexpected solution to a few big problems presents itself.
/sectionb: BRUSH PASS [DSD version]
Posted on March 19th, 2023 – Be the first to commentI’m happy with the result but much of the process is manual so I may have to spend some time slapping together some automation for the next installment.
From: https://www.torontocitylife.com/sectionb/2022/03/25/2-brush-pass/
/sectionb: COMPROMISED [DSD version]
Posted on February 13th, 2023 – Be the first to commentI’ve been thinking about producing a more immersive rendition of /sectionb. I’ve also been thinking that producing a “Parapsychological Spy Thriller” via conventional means is not be the correct approach. It needs to be a little more artsy, interpretive, associative. Unfortunately, illustration and animation aren’t really my thing.
Although I can draw some basic proportions and I try to pay attention to composition and colour, I can’t produce the type of visual output that modern artificial intelligence can. But as it happens I also dabble in code so it wasn’t long before I was fucking around with Stable Diffusion and similar software. Unfortunately, if I wanted to use the AI to produce short films the still images it spat out would need to be animated using something like morphing — doable but laborious.
By one propitious circumstance a fairly recent upgrade to Stable Diffusion by Deforum popped up in my search results one day and as soon as I saw a few samples I got giddy. Not only is the animated output of DSD dream-like and trippy, which is very apropos for /sectionb, it also improvises around the periphery of supplied prompts/themes in surprising ways, which is also quite apropos.
Initially I tried adding voice narration but it just didn’t fit so instead I converted the text to subtitles/closed captions, chucked in some original music, and after that the video basically just produced itself.
/sectionb: KOMPROMAT
Posted on February 13th, 2023 – Be the first to comment… in which Brock and Rebekah put on a convincing performance and a deep secret is revealed.
/sectionb: BLOWBACK
Posted on February 12th, 2023 – Be the first to comment… in which inspiration opens locked doors and an escape plan is hatched.
... with pictures
... with sounds
... with videos
... with opinions
... that's shorter
... that's longer
