Date: 09/06/2026 - Upvotes : 247 - Words : 673
LMAC253: Shocking Joking
Hello, LMACians! 😎📷
It took me a while to decide to publish a collage again for Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 253 - ✨80 HIVE in the Prize Pool!✨ https://ecency.com/@lmac/lets-make-a-collage-a-contest-for-all-creatives-on-hive-round-253-80-hive-in-the-prize-pool
Of course, there were several reasons for this, even though—as those who follow me know—I’m a big fan of collages. Well, first of all, I’d like to mention LMAC vacation this summer—yes, I could have posted some freestyle collages during that time, but I always ran out of time :) I was always busy with something new... Then, I’ve noticed that the LIL gallery is on a sort of hiatus; in fact, when I check what’s new there, I see that the last 100 photos are mine—my last post was in April—and not everything has been published. When I asked for help on Discord, I saw that things are pretty quiet there, too... And last but not least, the emergence of AI technologies in practice—where I can actually create much better collages just with a text prompt than anything I’ve tried to do so far. Whether you like it or not, all of this is depressing...
Well, what can we do? Everything is changing—not just the world around us, but we ourselves are being forced to change too, and I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse.
And now for today’s collage.
100% human-made, mine—the base is a photo by @quantumg, and by using photos in LIL, I’ve added my personal take on AI tech, which may or may not be understood. You see, lately, as ordinary people (me too) have started using this, I’ve gotten the feeling that we’re playing with things we don’t fully understand—things that are already beyond our capacity to comprehend (or maybe it's just me who thinks that, hahaha). I’m not yet sure if we’re digging our own grave, but something is definitely going to happen to humanity—and very soon. I hope, though, that it’s for the better.
Sources for the collage
LMAC Gallery
Contributed to the #LIL by @seckorama.
Contributed to the #LIL by @seckorama.
Contributed to the #LIL by @quantumg.
Contributed to the #LIL by @angeli-b.
Contributed to the #LIL by @alex2alex.
Contributed to the #LIL by @alex2alex.
Contributed to the #LIL by @clinton19.
The creation process
I created the collage using Photoshop. I partially modified the original background photo and added objects from the LIL gallery in layers.
Hope you have fun!
By the way: What I was doing—editing a collage in Photoshop (which took me about 3 hours, including writing this text)—can now easily be done by an AI agent—you just give it links to the images, and if you’re crazy enough 😆, access to your account on an online editor (e.g., Canva or Adobe Cloud), tell it what you’d like to edit, and it’ll be done in a couple of minutes :) You can also install the AI agent locally...  LIL Beneficiaries:
- 20% goes to @lmac
- 2% goes to @quantumg
- 2% goes to @angeli-b
- 2% goes to @alex2alex
- 2% goes to @clinton19
If you're interested in video presentations, the links below are videos made from my collages with sound for each year in the LMAC community:
https://ecency.com/hive-174695/@seckorama/hcjnaqus
https://ecency.com/hive-174695/@seckorama/nouxlfyg https://ecency.com/hive-174695/@seckorama/ctfirqxo https://ecency.com/hive-174695/@seckorama/oymlouqz https://ecency.com/hive-174695/@seckorama/llrhnfcs
My contribution to LIL - LMAC Image Library - 1408 images up to date.
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