AI-Generated Art Out of Famous Poetry With Wombo Dream App 🎨 Wombo #1

Ashley Marie Egan
11 Dec 202128:01

TLDRIn this creative video, the host explores the use of the Wombo Dream app to transform famous lines of poetry into AI-generated art. Starting with a personal note about the temporary suspension of their Poetry 101 series, the host dives into a fun experiment, applying various styles to lines from poets like Maya Angelou, William Butler Yeats, and Robert Frost. The video showcases the diverse and sometimes unexpected artwork created, highlighting the abstract nature of AI art and its ability to offer unique interpretations of classic poetry.

Takeaways

  • 🎨 The video showcases AI-generated art created from famous poetry lines using the Wombo Dream app.
  • 📚 The trend of using AI to create art from poetry is inspired by Trista Mateer, a talented poet with five collections available on Instagram.
  • ⏸ The creator's 'Poetry 101' videos are temporarily suspended due to work commitments with their small business.
  • 🛑 The creator mentions a need for a break and plans to focus on fun and less stressful content for the next few videos.
  • 🖌️ The process of creating AI art involves selecting poetry lines and choosing styles for the artwork, such as 'vibrant' or 'steampunk'.
  • 🤖 The AI's interpretations of the poetry are abstract and can be seen differently by different viewers.
  • 🎭 The video includes experimenting with various styles to see how they match with different poetry lines, like 'mystical' for Maya Angelou's verse.
  • 🖼️ The creator finds some AI-generated pieces to be very fitting for the poetry lines, such as the one for Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'.
  • 🎭 The video also explores how the AI interprets lines from poets like Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, with varying results.
  • 💔 Some AI-generated art pieces are not to the creator's liking, leading to multiple attempts to find a suitable match for the poetry.
  • 🌌 The video concludes with the creator sharing their own poetry and the AI's interpretation, which they find to be a good representation of their words.

Q & A

  • What is the main theme of the video?

    -The main theme of the video is to create AI-generated art based on lines of famous poetry using the Wombo Dream App.

  • Why are the 'Poetry 101' videos being suspended until the end of December?

    -The 'Poetry 101' videos are being suspended because the creator has been very busy with work for their small business, which has left them with no time to write proper scripts for the educational videos.

  • What is the name of the poet mentioned in the video whose poetry collections are recommended to check out?

    -The poet mentioned in the video is Trista Mateer, who has five poetry collections available.

  • What is the first line of poetry used in the video to create AI-generated art?

    -The first line of poetry used is 'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' from a poem by William Butler Yeats.

  • What style did the creator choose for the artwork based on the Yeats poem?

    -The creator chose the 'vibrant' style for the artwork based on the Yeats poem.

  • How does the creator describe the AI-generated artwork for Maya Angelou's line 'You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air, I'll rise'?

    -The creator describes the artwork as having a building rising into the sky with lights and other buildings in the background, which may resemble a ship or a contraption from a steampunk setting.

  • What style was used for the artwork of Robert Frost's line 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by'?

    -Initially, the creator used the 'pastel' style, but later chose 'festive' to better capture the essence of the poem.

  • What is the creator's opinion on the AI-generated art for Emily Dickinson's line 'Because I could not stop for death—he kindly stopped for me'?

    -The creator finds the pastel artwork with a creepy scarecrow and blood imagery to be more fitting and representative of the line from Emily Dickinson's poem.

  • What issue did the creator encounter while trying to create more AI-generated art pieces?

    -The creator encountered an issue where the Wombo Dream App crashed and would not allow them to record any more art pieces.

  • How does the creator feel about the AI-generated art for their own line 'Scars are stars on your skin, beautiful reminders that the darkness didn't win'?

    -The creator really likes the AI-generated art for their own line, as it captures the essence of the poem with an abstract face or body with stars emerging from wounds.

Outlines

00:00

🎨 AI Art from Poetry Lines

The video introduces an experiment of creating AI-generated artwork based on lines of poetry. The host acknowledges the influence of Trista Mater, a talented poet on Instagram, and mentions the temporary suspension of her 'Poetry 101' videos due to work commitments. She plans to use the Wombo Dream app to transform famous and original poetry lines into art, starting with a line from William Butler Yeats, choosing a vibrant style for the transformation.

05:01

🌟 Maya Angelou's Resilience in Art

The host experiments with the line 'you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air, I'll rise' by Maya Angelou, initially choosing a steampunk style for the AI art generation. The resulting artwork depicts a building rising into the sky, which the host finds interesting but not entirely representative of Angelou's work. A second attempt with a mystical style is more satisfying, capturing an abstract sense of rising above adversity.

10:01

🛤️ Robert Frost's Diverded Paths

The video continues with the famous line 'two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by' by Robert Frost. The host first tries a pastel style, resulting in an abstract piece with paths and hill curvatures. A festive style is then tested, leading to an image of a festive road through trees, which the host feels is more fitting for Frost's theme of choosing one's path in life.

15:02

🌸 Sari's Blossoms and the Sleep of the Dead

The host explores a line by Sari, 'sheets of white blossoms new garnered, to perfume the sleep of the dead', using a synth wave style chosen for its contrast to the poem's mood. The AI-generated art surprisingly features flowers and a pink coloration, which the host finds to be an apt representation of the poem's essence, despite the style's initial seeming incongruity.

20:07

👻 Emily Dickinson's Encounter with Death

The video delves into Emily Dickinson's 'because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me', experimenting with dark fantasy and fantasy styles. The dark fantasy version is too abstract and unsettling, while the fantasy style fails to resonate. A pastel style is finally chosen, resulting in an image of a figure that seems to be bleeding, likened to a scarecrow, which the host interprets as a representation of death's constant presence.

25:07

🔥 Sylvia Plath's Ascension from Ash

The host creates AI art from Sylvia Plath's line 'out of the ash I rise with my red hair, and I eat men like air', using a psychic style. The resulting artwork is highly abstract, featuring a deformed face and body rising from the ashes, with red hair visible. The host feels this captures the essence of Plath's style and the line's meaning, expressing satisfaction with the outcome.

🌌 Personal Poetry and Stars as Scars

The host shares a line from their own poetry, 'scars are stars on your skin, beautiful reminders that the darkness didn't win', and uses a fantasy style for the AI art generation. The resulting image is of an abstract face or body with stars emerging from wounds, which the host finds to be a powerful representation of their poem. The app unexpectedly crashes, ending the video prematurely.

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Keywords

💡AI-Generated Art

AI-Generated Art refers to the process where artificial intelligence algorithms create visual art based on input data or prompts. In the context of this video, the AI takes lines from famous poetry and transforms them into unique pieces of artwork, demonstrating the creative potential of AI in the field of art. The script mentions using the 'Wombo Dream App' to generate these artworks, showcasing how technology can interact with traditional forms of human expression like poetry.

💡Wombo Dream App

The Wombo Dream App is a specific application that the video creator uses to generate art from poetry. It represents the intersection of technology and creativity, allowing users to input text and receive visual interpretations created by AI. The app is central to the video's demonstration of how AI can interpret and represent poetic language in a visual form.

💡Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke emotions, ideas, or tell a story. In this video, poetry serves as the creative input for the AI to generate art. The script references several famous poets and their lines, indicating the diverse sources of inspiration that can be used with the Wombo Dream App.

💡Trista Mateer

Trista Mateer is a contemporary poet mentioned in the script who has a significant presence on Instagram and has published multiple poetry collections. She represents the modern wave of poets who use social media platforms to share their work and connect with audiences. Her mention in the video underscores the influence of digital platforms on contemporary poetry.

💡Poetry 101

Poetry 101 likely refers to a series of educational videos that the video creator used to produce, focusing on the fundamentals of poetry. The script mentions that these videos will be temporarily suspended due to the creator's busy schedule, indicating a shift in content focus to lighter, more recreational themes like AI-generated art.

💡Abstract Art

Abstract Art is a style of art that does not attempt to represent external reality but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures. In the video, many of the AI-generated artworks are described as abstract, reflecting the subjective and open-ended nature of interpreting poetry through visual art.

💡Famous Lines

Famous Lines refers to well-known phrases or passages from renowned poems. The script discusses using such lines as input for the AI art generation process. Examples from the script include lines from William Butler Yeats and Maya Angelou, demonstrating how the AI interprets and visualizes these iconic pieces of literature.

💡Style Selection

Style Selection is the process of choosing a particular artistic style for the AI to use when generating art. The script describes the creator selecting styles such as 'vibrant,' 'steampunk,' and 'mystical' for different lines of poetry, highlighting the customizable nature of the AI art generation process.

💡Saruji

Saruji is mentioned as an Indian poet in the script, indicating the global scope of poetic influences considered in the video. The line from Saruji's poetry used in the AI art generation reflects the diversity of literary sources that can inspire AI creativity.

💡Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson is a renowned American poet whose work is characterized by unconventional use of syntax and punctuation. In the script, a line from Dickinson's poetry is used to generate AI art, illustrating how the app can interpret the complex themes and imagery present in her writing.

💡Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is an influential poet known for her deeply personal and confessional style, often exploring themes of death, rebirth, and female identity. The script includes a line from Plath's work to generate AI art, capturing the video's theme of using AI to visualize complex and emotionally charged poetic themes.

Highlights

Introduction of the video's theme: AI-generated art based on lines of poetry using the Wombo Dream App.

Mention of Trista Mateer, a talented poet with five poetry collections, and her influence on the video's concept.

Announcement of the temporary suspension of Poetry 101 videos due to the host's busy schedule with their small business.

Explanation of the need for proper scripts in Poetry 101 videos, which contrasts with the more casual and fun nature of the upcoming videos.

Demonstration of using the Wombo Dream App to create AI-generated artwork from famous lines of poetry.

Selection of the style 'vibrant' for the line 'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' by William Butler Yeats.

Description of the abstract and colorful AI-generated art that resembles birds and possibly closed eyes.

Choice of the 'steampunk' style for Maya Angelou's line 'You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air, I'll rise.'

Discussion of the AI-generated art's interpretation, which includes a building rising into the sky with steampunk elements.

Second attempt at Maya Angelou's line with the 'mystical' style, resulting in a more abstract and colorful piece.

Selection of the 'pastel' style for Robert Frost's 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by.'

Analysis of the AI-generated art that depicts a path through trees, possibly representing the 'less traveled by' road.

Decision to redo the artwork with a 'festive' style, resulting in a different interpretation of the same poem.

Use of the 'synth wave' style for a line by Saruji, an Indian poet, and the surprising yet fitting result.

Attempt at Emily Dickinson's 'Because I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me' with 'dark fantasy' and 'fantasy' styles.

Final selection of 'pastel' style for the same Emily Dickinson line, leading to an artwork that captures the essence of the poem.

Creation of artwork from Sylvia Plath's line 'Out of the ash I rise with my red hair, and I eat men like air' using the 'psychic' style.

Selection of 'mystical' and 'psychic' styles for Sarah Williams' line 'I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.'

Inclusion of the host's own poetry line 'Scars are stars on your skin, beautiful reminders that the darkness didn't win' with the 'fantasy' style.

Unexpected app crash that prevents further recording and showcases the unpredictable nature of AI-generated art creation.

Conclusion of the video with an invitation for viewers to share their thoughts and a promise of potential future videos on the topic.