Top Nine 2022 • Some years back there were these websites where you could generate your "Top Nine" Grid, containing your most Liked Posts. For the last couple of years that's not been there because Instagram itself has introduced new content types like Reels, and also there are multiple metrics that come into play now. So now we would have to generate these from within the app itself. Here's mine as of 16 Dec 2022, I set the time period as a year and got all content types sorted by Reach, and Posts sorted by Likes and Reach. I wish these metrics were much better obviously but that's out of one's control. I'll do this again at the end of this month and if there are any major changes, I'll post another Reel. #karthikabhiram #endof2022
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I'm not against AI Art • @karthikabhiram • Of late there has been a lot of conversation on the topic of people using AI tools to generate art, and a movement also to Say No to AI art. Personally, I am not against it. With all due respect, I understand the opposing viewpoints and concerns but I'm more fascinated than anything else, and I think the tech itself is not to be faulted. As with any technology, it can be misused. I wrote quite a long piece about it and it exceeds the caption limit, so I've included it as slides in this Post. Apologies for the very small text size, but that was the only way I could include everything and the actual AI images as well. #karthikabhiram #saynotoaiart #sayyestoaiart #aiart #aigeneratedart #lensa #lensaapp
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Wednesday (2022)Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar"Wednesday" is a Netflix show based on the character Wednesday Addams from the "Addams Family" franchise. It's a dark comedy / mystery series with 8 episodes, featuring Jenna Ortega in the title role. Wednesday joins the Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for outcasts (students like her, who are either supernatural creatures or have powers). She starts experiencing sinister visions and is led to solve a murder mystery at the school. Some of the episodes are directed by Tim Burton.The show has been receiving praise but it's probably not the type of content I'd immediately jump to see. A clip featuring Jenna's dance from one scene, set to "Bloody Mary" by Lady Gaga (which isn't actually the music in the scene) became popular (apparently on Tiktok first and then came to Instagram Reels), and all I had to do was to watch it, and even till now, Instagram is showing me lots and lots of Reels featuring Jenna Ortega and the show. So I watched it, and liked it quite a bit. I didn't think it was entirely new though, since there was a sense of familiarity about it all, and it perhaps went on for longer than it needed to. For me, the blend between the older, Harry Potter style fantasy elements and the Riverdale type modern high school elements didn't always work.However, it was engaging enough, kept one's interest in the mystery, and Jenna Ortega (and the rest of the cast) did very well. There are references to the older Addams Family show and movies.I drew Wednesday, the drawing was done with 0.5 mm 4B mechanical pencil on A5 Brustro sketchbook. You can swipe to see a scan. I missed it by a day but had I put this up yesterday, I could have said that I posted a Wednesday drawing on Wednesday!#karthikabhiram #dailymoviesketch #wednesday #jennaortega#theaddamsfamily #pencil #pencilart #pencildrawing#artistsoninstagram#708 / 15-Dec-22
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Anyone else noticed this? On my Samsung phone when editing the Profile Picture, I got the option to enable my Meta Avatar also, so that if someone swipes left or right on the Profile Picture, they'll see the Avatar also. #karthikabhiram #Reels #boireeltime @Instagram
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Full moon from a few days ago (and I believe that other dot is Mars). From @samsungwithgalaxy #withgalaxy #S22 30X. Edited in Lightroom. #karthikabhiram #hellohyderabad #reels #boireeltime #bornoninstagram
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Photos from @churrolto Kondapur, from a visit there with @harinarayanan_ps and @punniless last month. #samsung #withgalaxy #teamgalaxy @samsungwithgalaxy #karthikabhiram
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Late in posting this but thought to put it up anyway — last Saturday I had conducted a Photography Workshop at Badruka College of Commerce and Arts. Thank you @theatricsclubofbadruka and @sandhya.chandra.5 for inviting. Here are some pictures from the day. #karthikabhiram #workshop
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More Lensa AI Avatars • So I paid ₹290 more (earlier ₹190) and generated 100 more AI avatars through Lensa app, for a total of 150 images now. In this Reel, you can see all the 150 avatars (overdose of variations of my face maybe), and the images are indeed fascinating to see.A few more thoughts on apps like this Lensa — I personally don't have a problem with them because I see it more as a novelty thing and not something serious. It's no different from the other apps that manipulate faces like what we've had for a few years now. Maybe dedicated and more advanced platforms like DALL•E and Midjourney can possibly step over the line where one might just be satisfied with the AI generated image over what a human might create. But at least for Lensa, I don't see it competing at all.For one, the images are all 1024×1024 square, not very high resolution, and there's no option to control the resolution or composition (to extend the image beyond what's already generated). Also, the styles here are random, you can't ask for a specific style. If I see an avatar of someone else's that I really like, there's no way I can ask Lensa to create a similar one based on my picture.Out of the 150 images I think only a small percentage of them are really good. There is this really nice one (supposed to be Anime style) which I have now set as my Profile Picture on Instagram. But for many of the others, while the ideas are great, if you zoom in and look closer, you'll see quirks where eyes are generated weirdly, there are more limbs, limbs or fingers fusing into each other, the wrong number of fingers on hands, which make them look body horror grotesque.I'm posting this as a Reel for the algorithm and reach. I'll make a separate post with selected images later, so that you can check them out properly (I'm thinking a combo of collages and individual images in Carousel).#karthikabhiram #lensaapp #lensaai #aiart #artistsoninstagram #reels #boireeltime #bornoninstagram
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Mirror Selfies 2 feat. @karthikabhiram • audio by @shreyaguptoo — 73 pictures, from Sep 2022 to Dec 2022A few months ago I posted a Reel with a set of mirror selfies with very short intervals so that it looks kind of like an animated clip. I've been wanting to post a "sequel" to the Reel, and today Shreya Gupto posted a Reel on her Instagram with an audio about Mirror Selfies. The timing coincided quite nicely, so I decided to use that audio and make this Reel. The earlier Reel had 82 pictures from May 2022 to September 2022. I wanted to include selfies from after that till present. So, this Reel has 73 images. But since the audio is only 8 seconds long, the timing for each of these pictures is even shorter (0.12 seconds as opposed to 0.3 seconds in the previous one). Like the first one, this was also made in the Reels editor only, I imported each picture, zoomed in to fill the frame and then adjusted each to achieve a centre composition. As far as I can make out, iPhone doesn't allow the last step, so I think this is possible because I'm using a Samsung phone!Thanks again @shreyaguptoo for this audio and for making this Reel happen 😀@samsungwithgalaxy #withgalaxy #teamgalaxy #karthikabhiram#reels #Reel #bornoninstagram #boireeltime #mirrorselfies
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Lensa AI Avatars • I decided to give this AI avatar generating app a try! I paid ₹190 for these 50 Avatars. I am aware of the discussions around AI generated art vs creatives and artists — it's a blurred line for sure. If I was a working artist (which I am not) and if my art was part of the dataset used for training these AI models, would I be fine with it? Personally I think I would be, though I can understand why some may not. For now, this is absolutely interesting for me, much of the AI art out there is fascinatingly realistic (except for eyes, ears and fingers of humans — these are giveaways) and as @mkbhd said in his latest video, let the robots rehearse their revolution! #karthikabhiram @lensa.ai #lensa #lensaapp #Reels #boireeltime #bornoninstagram
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