Brutal Beauty

BRUTAL BEAUTY Is an AI-Generated mini music video. The inspiration came while walking towards the East River in lower Manhattan. I marveled at the sight of this huge blocky building across the water in Brooklyn. It was like a concrete box supported on the north side by a plausibly thick leg, but on the southern end, an impossibly thin one. Wondering how it didn’t topple over, I noted that this was a more updated version of the post-WWII architectural style called Brutalism. Because the edifice seemed to limp along with fragile humanity, I questioned how I could infuse the human into what many think of as a cold and impersonal style of architecture. Basic Midjourney Prompt: "Imagine the stark, commanding presence of Brutalist architecture fused with the subtle contours of human beauty. Craft a series of close-up portraits where the raw concrete textures, sharp angles, and monumental forms of Brutalist buildings are anthropomorphized into the features of stunning individuals. Each face, whether male or female, of any ethnicity, displays the distinctive characteristics of this architectural style: eyes like deep-set windows peering from a concrete facade, cheekbones mimicking the bold protrusions of a structure, and lips as defined and sculptural as the building's bold form. The faces are beautiful and formidable, each a personification of the Brutalist ethos." TOOLS: Midjourney, Magnific, RunwayML and After Effects SONG: “Youthless” by Beck