Nicholas Tortora

Surrealist Biomechanical Skull Emblem

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 1152 X 864 (1.00 MP)

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  • Prompt: Otherworldly machine wove creatures inspired by psychedelic trips Be certain that the nature of mind is empty and without foundation. One’s own mind is insubstantial, like an empty sky pulsating. Look at your own mind to see whether it is like that or not. Divorced from views which constructedly determine [the nature of] emptiness, Be certain that pristine cognition, naturally originating, is primordially radiant – Just like the nucleus of the sun, which is itself naturally originating. Look at your own mind to see whether it is like that or not! Be certain that this awareness, which is pristine cognition, is uninterrupted, Like the coursing central torrent of a river which flows unceasingly. Look at your own mind to see whether it is like that or not! Be certain that conceptual thoughts and fleeting memories are not strictly identifiable, But insubstantial in their motion, like the breezes of the atmosphere. Look at your own mind to see whether it is like that or not! Be certain that all that appears is naturally manifest [in the mind], Like the images in a mirror which [also] appear naturally. Look at your own mind to see whether it is like that or not! Be certain that all characteristics are liberated right where they are, Like the clouds of the atmosphere, naturally originating and naturally dissolving. Look at your own mind to see whether it is like that or not! There are no phenomena extraneous to those that originate from the mind. [So], now could there be anything on which to meditate apart from the mind? There are no phenomena extraneous to those that originate from the mind. [So], there are no modes of conduct to be undertaken extraneous [to those that originate from the mind]. There are no phenomena extraneous to those that originate from the mind. [So], there are no commitments to be kept extraneous [to those that originate from the mind]. There are no phenomena extraneous to those that originate from the mind. [So], there are no results to be attained extraneous [to those that originate from the mind]. There are no phenomena extraneous to those that originate from the mind. [So], one should observe one’s own mind, looking into its nature again and again. If, upon looking outwards towards the external expanse of the sky, There are no projections emanated by the mind, And if, on looking inwards at one’s own mind, There is no projectionist who projects [thoughts] by thinking them, Then, one’s own mind, completely free from conceptual projections, will become luminously clear. [This] intrinsic awareness, [union of] inner radiance and emptiness, is the Buddha-body of Reality, [Appearing] like [the illumining effect of] a sunrise on a clear and cloudless sky,. It is clearly knowable, despite its lack of specific shape or form. There is a great distinction between those who understand and those who misunderstand this point. This naturally originating inner radiance, uncreated from the very beginning, Is the parentless child of awareness – how amazing! It is the naturally originating pristine cognition, uncreated by anyone – how amazing! [This radiant awareness] has never been born and will never die – how amazing! Though manifestly radiant, it lacks an [extraneous] perceiver – how amazing! Though it has roamed throughout cyclic existence, it does not degenerate – how amazing! Though it has seen buddhahood itself, it does not improve – how amazing! Though it is present in everyone, it remains unrecognised –
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  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

Amorphous Tiger

• Model: MirageMaker

• Size: 1024 X 1000 (1.02 MP)

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  • Prompt: ADD Tigers to the image: Tiger blues: Guitar:: eletric tigers playing guitar
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Memento MORI

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 1264 X 944 (1.19 MP)

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  • Prompt: Cosmic skeletons dancing (which he can't answer), "You used to be much more... muchier. You've lost your muchness," and the advice, "You can't help that [going mad]. We're all mad here. I'm mad" (though from the Cheshire Cat, often associated with the theme), plus the insightful "It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. MEMENTO MORI
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Mars Volta themed shit

• Model: MirageMaker

• Size: 1000 X 1024 (1.02 MP)

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  • Prompt: Quake video game aesthetic: boss monster skepeton crazy dude with many abilites and spells. THE MARS VOLTA FRances The mute Chrome THE FETAL MIRAGEYou must have been phlegmatic in stature The gates of Thanos are a spread eagle wide You let the shutters make sackcloth and ashes Out of a blind mans picaresque heart You take the veil You'll take the dive You take the veil It's not over till the tremulant sings These ides of march Are they so make believe How tempts the revenant Slice up and not across You take the veil You'll take the dive You take the veil A mass of gallon sloth As flys have walls for feet A rapturous verbatim-someone said but who is to know And when you find the fringe The one last hit that spent you You'll find the ossuary spilling by the day The iconoclastic had it coming for years They know the prisons that you have yet to fear Where thumbs hide inside of sleeping bag mouths Adlib your memoirs by casting a drought You take the veil You'll take the dive You take the veil A mass of gallon sloth As flys have walls for feet A rapturous verbatim-someone said but who is to know And when you find the fringe The one last hit that spent you You'll find the ossuary spilling by the day Knife me in hobbling Talking in its sleep again Knife me in hobbling Talking in its sleep again Knife me in hobbling Talking in it's sleep again Knife me in hobbling Talking in 'it's' sleep again Virulent hives-of bedpost piles Virulent hives Who brought me here? Forsaken, depraved and wrought with fear Who turned it off The last thing I remember now Who brought me here? Forsaken, depraved and wrought with fear Who turned it off The last thing I remember now Who brought me here? WHO DO YOU TRUST? WILL THEY FEED US THE WOMB:: CHROME THE FETAL MIREAG will they feed us the womb?
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