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Prateek Arora

@ekpraet

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I was on CNN-News18 earlier today! Got to talk about sci-fi on national television. What a trip.

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🌟 Dive into 'Indofuturism' with Prateek Arora ( @ekpraet ) – a vibrant rebirth of creative storytelling! 📚 Experience the fusion of diverse creative elements in this exciting narrative renaissance🎨✨ #TheBreakfastClub | @Sonal_MK | @toyasingh

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Pankh Mela is a celebration of Neelpankh, the immortal cosmic bird that visits India every summer Wherever Neelpankh is sighted is where this mela is held that year, and rich folklore has since developed around this tradition A visual thread about a fictional event 🧵 #AI

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Amphibious Autorickshaws #AI #IndianSciFi

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The Lost History of Indian Sci-Fi These photos, posters, and schematics were recovered from Vyoma Talkies, a long-defunct film studio in Bengaluru, located not very far from the Indian Institute of Science

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New Delhi's iconic "Dillibot". If you know where this is, keep it to yourself 🤫

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time to build.

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An interesting evolution of this archetype is visible in the work of @simonstalenhag The mecha has moved further into the heartland, and now has an intimate, parasitic relationship with those drawn to its power It has become a distributed, grotesque, sinewy super-organism

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(Very) early experiments with text-to-video. All three clips are 100% generated from text prompts. Things are about to get weird.

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Old Delhi by Night, a visual thread 🧵 #AI #Midjourney

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I run a science-fiction and fantasy zine on Instagram with a focus on Indian creators. (Artwork featured: Foundation by Vibhav Singh)

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The Lovers

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What if cosplay culture had made its way to India a little earlier and adapted itself to the local context? Using AI to visualize the fictional East Delhi Comic Con of 1997, an ongoing thread 🧵

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@DudespostingWs Photo I took of a watermelon seller in Pune, India

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A school in New Delhi, 2027

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By 2025, Noida had become a hub for robotics startups Some engineers began experimenting in their free time, and a badass competitive mecha-fighting subculture emerged Those who built and fought these bots came to be known as MECHABAAZ #AI #IndianSciFi

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MechaMumbai / AI Video Experiment. All clips 100% generated, via image input + text prompt combos. Made using @runwayml ’s #Gen2 .

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Rocketganj. A suburb on the outskirts of Delhi, across the Yamuna. I grew up here. A visual thread 🧵 #AI

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Daryaganj Dino Run > Pamplona Bull Run

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Nuclear Family (their new son has a uranium core)

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The Auzaaris are a migrant community of constructor cyborgs. Currently some of them are in Mumbai. Have you seen them?

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Behind The Scenes at Neo-Bollywood, an ongoing visual thread #AI

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Very cool concept vehicle built for the Indian sci-fi movie Kalki 2898 AD

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Mecha Kumaris of the Deccan Machinist Empire. Protectors of the Cyberabad Supercompute Cluster.

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Convinced that Runway is going to be one of the most influential companies of this decade

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Introducing Erase and Replace A new AI Magic Tool that allows you to transform your images simply by using a natural language description. Available now:

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Maruti 8000. Like many others growing up in the dunes where there once used to be Delhi, this was my first car and what I learned to drive on.

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The (Fictional) Lost History of Indian Sci-Fi, an AI-augmented visual narrative These photos, posters, and schematics were recovered from Vyoma Talkies, a long-defunct film studio in Bengaluru, located not very far from the Indian Institute of Science

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SURYANAUTS. An Indofuturist Adventure.

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SURYANAUT // Building a world around this archetype. More soon.

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Hyper-Adaptive Rainwear. Bring it, Mumbai.

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The fictional Pātāl Rock music festival, hosted at a mysterious haveli in the Thar desert It is said that only a chosen few are called to the haveli, and it is invisible to the rest Many have lost their minds in the desert trying to find it A visual thread 🧵 #AI

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Rocketganj Dreams 🌀 More experiments with @runwayml Gen-2

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India Is Online

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With my work at @IndiaArtFair :)

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daydreaming about solarpunk mumbai #ai

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Abandoned shrine, Rocketganj

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the future doesn’t always arrive when we’re ready for it

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Trombay Excavation, 1957. This discovery was made in the vicinity of the Atomic Energy Establishment, now known as the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. #IndianScienceFiction #AI

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Qayamat Qillla, last seen a few hundred kilometres outside Delhi. Have you visited?

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From the materials recovered, it seems the studio made at least two films - Atom Azaad, a superhero movie about a freedom fighter who gets exposed to nuclear radiation, and Bharatvimān, the story of a multi-generational Indian spaceship that predated Star Trek

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@hvpandya Well, Birbal did solve a cold start problem once

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Flowcal Trains #AI #IndianScienceFiction

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DISCO ANTRIKSH (1983): When Bollywood-loving aliens abduct Bombay's hottest disco dancers, they have to give the performance of a lifetime to stay alive 🛸🕺🏽

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Greater Noida Special Economic Zone, 2047

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Portals, a thread 🧵 #AI

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The Battle of Baghpat is a very important moment in the history of the Indian internet

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Third anniversary of my favourite Star Wars episode of all time - The Battle of Baghpat. The Force is strong within the locality:

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Cybertruck x Indofuturism moodboard

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This City Does Not Exist

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सूत्रधार #ai

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in this case, quite literally

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They're definitely having a destination wedding

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DALLE 3 doesn't always get text right but it's still really great for certain kinds of prompts. Here's a vintage Indian newspaper ad for a tabletop fission reactor.

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You watch the algo, the algo watches you 👁 Messing around with @runwayml 's new img2video workflow. Very promising.

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love the fact that there’s cool ISRO merch now 🌟

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Mumbai

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Power Throuple

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Given the proximity to IISc, it's possible that many of the people making these films were rocket scientists and materials engineers by training, especially since their props and costumes seem quite advanced for the time

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(he’s going through a phase)

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Atomshāla, a school for the seriously curious 👁️

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Rocketganj. An industrial suburb on the outskirts of Delhi, across the Yamuna. A visual narrative about a place that doesn't exist, inspired by a place that does.

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बाज़ार

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Surreal. I’m on WePresent 😵‼️

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वब्बा लब्बा डब डब #genai

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Granth Gothica, a fictional family album with a terrifying secret After the photos were upscaled and colorized, some startling details came to light Twisted limbs, crooked fingers, otherworldly faces Who, or what, is in these pictures? Who took them? When? Why? #AI

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Not much else is known about them, and the prints of the films they made are thought to be lost forever

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Gullyrockets! #ai

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Last few days of Rocketganj, my first solo exhibition of AI images

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An Indian science fiction film will make a billion dollars at the global box office this decade

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They’re definitely having a destination wedding

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Bollywood, by Wes Anderson! #aiart

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Been experimenting with putting myself in some of my images lately. Somehow feels right to be a part of the worlds I'm building. Looking forward to the day I can make a whole movie this way.

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Did you take your house for a walk today?

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स्पाइडर-मनुष्य

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Chandrayaan-3 launched successfully today and is currently making its way across a starry night :) Wanted to post something to remember this day. (Quick edit of an image from the ISRO Instagram page)