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🧠 Creative Systems @ ArtisanOSAlpha ⚡️ No-code workflows blending imagination & AI 🎨 Midjourney Experiments | ⚙️ ChatGPT Prompts 📍 Los Angeles 🔗 robhestand.substack.com

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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · Jul 8

ArtisanOS Alpha | Lab Notes from the AI Riptide:
Your weekly drop of prompts, workflows, and creative sparks to fuel your next breakthrough.

Explore what's next → robhestand.substack.com 💙

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"Analog Renaissance: Why Pens, Paper, and Vinyl Are Thriving in 2025" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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"Best Midjourney 7 SREFs: Volume 2" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 9h

#promptoftheweek
Knowledge Base - Influencers:

✍️ "Your ROLE is a Chief Cultural Historian at an Internationally Acclaimed Publication. Your TASK: Highlight obscure yet massively influential figures or events in [INDUSTRY], showing their unnoticed impact."

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"Craft Epic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Stories with ChatGPT" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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"AI in Hollywood: Monthly News, October 2025" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 1d

Trading favorite art styles today—curious to remix someone else’s approach. 😂🎨

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"AI in Hollywood: Monthly News, October 2025" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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TischEins @tischeins.bsky.social · 2d

Before the week rushes in — what’s one visual style you want to explore more deeply?
Drop a word or mood below 👇

Me: Cottagecore

#aiartcommunity #creativejourney #tischeins

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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 2d

⚡️New post alert - live tomorrow!

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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 2d

🖌️#6458

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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 3d

"Vectors of Velocity: Futurist Dynamism in Still Frames" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 3d

"Language is wine upon the lips."

✍️ — Virginia Woolf

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AI ART and VIDEO @aivideoart.bsky.social · 4d

a study in #water and #facial expressiveness
was happy with the putcome over at #nightcafe
#aiart #aiartcommunity #digitalart #genart #devart

#lovefromlondon

"FORMED OF WATER"

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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 4d

"AI in Hollywood: Monthly News, October 2025" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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🖌️#6523

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Artistic Cass ♥︎ @thesereneartist.bsky.social · 5d

#QP Your Dynamic Art
"Casino Night"

#Ai #AiArt #AiArtCommunity #AiCommunity #MidJourney

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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 5d

ArtisanOS Alpha | Lab Notes from the AI Riptide:
Your weekly drop of prompts, workflows, and creative sparks to fuel your next breakthrough.

Explore what's next → robhestand.substack.com 💙

Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 5d

🎨 👉 My creative secret sauce: structured prompts that guide initial vision, paired with unstructured experimentation for joyful discovery.

Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 5d

"Vectors of Velocity: Futurist Dynamism in Still Frames" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 5d

"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, somewhere in the air."

✍️ — Jules Renard

Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 6d

"Vectors of Velocity: Futurist Dynamism in Still Frames" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 6d

🖌️#6236

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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 7d

"You’re Worldbuilding the Hard Way—Here’s the AI Shortcut" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 7d

"Vectors of Velocity: Futurist Dynamism in Still Frames" via #ArtisanOSAlpha 👇
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Rob Hestand @robhestand.substack.com · 7d

Awesome 😎

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