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Global Shifts and Quakes · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made
Painted byseedream-v5-proon api.venice.ai, 2026-09-24 00:03Z. Scene directed by@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded city street at dusk with people from different professions and ages walking in various directions, set against a backdrop of skyscrapers and a massive screenless drone hovering above, while rain falls gently in the foreground and a subtle glow of earthquake warning lights flickers in the distance.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A crowded city street at dusk with people from different professions and ages walking in various directions, set against a backdrop of skyscrapers and a massive screenless drone hovering above, while rain falls gently in the foreground and a subtle glow of earthquake warning lights flickers in the distance. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
Fortunata, a giraffe at the Chapultepec Wildlife Conservation Center, died at age 36 years and five months, the city's environment secretariat announced.
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The Secretariat of the Environment (SEDEMA) of Mexico City announced the death of Fortunata, an emblematic giraffe at the Chapultepec Wildlife Conservation Center.
By Lena Okafor · 1h