the manifesto imagery:
a statue with multiple people within it. a group of people lifting up a young girl who is reaching for the sky. the young girl at the top has her arm stretched out as much as she possibly can. she really is reaching with all of her effort. and her face shows this effort as well as joy as well as positivity (because she has all of these people supporting her on her effort!).
and the lifting is in layers. not as much as the following, but still you can see the notion of layers: a ground circle of people lifting up the layer above that lifts up one more layer - which is the young girl. so she is the 3rd layer.
the emotions in the people supporting her are mixed: some are elated, some have worry (like she might fall off), some have a lukewarm reaction, one is also envious. there are mixed emotions to represent the range of the human condition and how we react to someone doing well.
note: all of the people in this statue shot have a stake in the girl's upside (i.e., in her personal stock).
ok now we have to represent personal ai. to me this is like an aura that fits the shape of the person. just like dbz super saiyan - that same yellow aura wave thing.
the thing about personal ai is that it is personal to every single person in the shot. so each person in the shot will have their own aura! and some are super saiyan but some are only kaiyoken (whatever that is called - which is like a more reddish one). we basically want some sort of spectrum here from no color aura to more reddish and eventually the yellow super saiyan type aura. everyone will have an aura corresponding to their current potential. the girl reaching at the top will ofc have a super saiyan aura.
ok so we've knocked out the personal stock (village lifting her up), and personal intelligence (aura), now how do we represent the personhood? i guess that would just be the people? actually yes! beautiful. personhood is an emergent property. there is no such thing as pointing to a specific "self". we find ourselves by working with others, by helping each other realize our own potentials. this entire scene represents personhood!
and we prob want some kind of color gradient in the pic itself. like what the girl is striving for is the sun that is off screen, but you can feel its radiance in the shot. and i actually want to visualize this in two ways and we can see which one makes more sense:
- the sun is directly vertically above the frame, and so you can see a small part of the sun's arc in the shot directly above everyone, and beyond the arc ofc you also have the sun's aura of sorts. and then the framing becomes purely just vertical: everyone is helping the girl reach straight up.
- the sun is at the top right out of the frame, and similarly a small part of arc is in frame in the top right, and now everyone is sort of bending to the right - like the foundation layer of the group is still at the center, but every layer on top is like moving to the top right and the girl is then really really reaching to the top right of the frame. – almost like a plant bending in all sorts of ways to reach the sun. in fact, exactly like that. if you blurred your eyes it prob would just look like a plant! and the girl is like the leaf that is reaching out the furthest.
note: the sun's radiance illuminates the girls face in all variations - in fact we should make the super saiyan aura match the sun's radiance - to sort of symbolize that our strength / power comes from striving toward our shared goals. with something worthwhile to strive for, this entire system doesn't make sense. and i buy this! i think an aimless life is actually quite misaligned with fundamental human nature.
ok i think this might be good enough to get started. i want you to create this in a way that gives us some knobs and stuff to play with. like a slider for the kind of saiyan auras, something for the texture of the statues, one for the position of the sun perhaps, one for the film grain in the shot (super important! - it's gotta have that sort of cinematic beautiful aesthetic). anyway, i'll leave the rest to you - anything you think we'd want to tweak and play with i'd like to see that as a toggle-able / slide-able / whatever choice within the scene.
this should prob be blender (push back if you think there's a simpler way to do this!).
an aside (not in this scene) - but there is a 3 symbol representation of personhood, personal intelligence, and personal stock: heart, pi symbol, dollar symbol. heart because the core differentiator for humans in world with ai is that we have heart: we can feel, we can love, we can suffer. pi symbol because personal AI = "pai" sounds like pi. and dollar for incentives / coordination. this is cute.
references:
the super saiyan aura.
^ another variant. this is the og one. i actually think this is better! let's lean toward this, but yea we can play with it.
^ this is the kaiyoken
but yea you get the point though. the people lifting people up - but ofc this has many many layers, we don't need this many.
and the statue look i want sort of resembles this:
like you see the statue approach they took here for this movie. i really really vibe with the statue angle here and i want to try it out for this manifesto image.
^ ok this is something that lauri published recently on x. i looooove this visual. so powerful. the original he edited: 
(from unsplash: ).
maybe we can play with this effect too? maybe not. feels a bit diff from what we are going for, but i'm open to seeing if there's something in this style that also works for us?!
