The Clockwork Penguin

Daniel Binns is a media theorist and filmmaker tinkering with the weird edges of technology, storytelling, and screen culture. He is the author of Material Media-Making in the Digital Age and currently writes about posthuman poetics, glitchy machines, and speculative media worlds.

AI Image Prompts

Platform: Leonardo.Ai

Usage mode: Flow State

Model: Flux Schnell

Text prompt:

chaotic, yet friendly futuristic filmmaking robot named K1no

Prompt enhancement: on

Style preset: Color Sketch

Seed: 1419111389

Date: 14 October 2025

Platform: Leonardo.Ai

Usage mode: Flow State

Model: Flux Schnell

Text prompt:

An evil academic writing at a desk, bathed in natural earth tones of browns, beiges, and muted colors, the scene conveying a somber and scholarly atmosphere.

Prompt enhancement: on

Style preset: off

Seed: 146981192

Date: 9 October 2025

Platform: Leonardo.Ai

Usage mode: Image generator

Model: Lucid Origin

Text prompt:

wedded bliss

Prompt enhancement: off

Style preset: off

Seed: 866733428

Date: 29 September 2025

Platform: Leonardo.Ai

Usage mode: Image generator

Model: Image gen,

Text prompt:

wide full body shot of bearded scandinavian man with thick glasses and textured waistcoat leans against a white wall of an alley, arms folded

Style preset: Pro B&W Photography

Seed: 8193787895

Date: 22 August 2025

Platform: Leonardo.Ai

Usage mode: Flow State

Model: Flux Schnell

Text prompt:

Painting of a moss-covered computer terminal in a ruined structure, glowing bioluminescent colors create an ethereal spiritual vibe, light aura and mystical feeling from natural light effects.

Seed: 1377901747

Date: 28 July 2025

Platform: Leonardo.Ai

Usage mode: Flow State

Model: Flux Schnell

Text prompt:

Flat, two-dimensional modern design depicting an angry parent shouting. Use a minimalist color scheme of red, yellow, and black. The parent’s figure is composed of basic shapes like squares, triangles, and circles.

Seed: 1503388382

Date: 20 May 2025

Platform: Leonardo.Ai

Usage mode: Image generation (with Prompt Enhancement)

Model: Phoenix 1.0

Text prompt:

A dreamlike digital wasteland, aptly titled “The Slopocene”, where AI-powered entities, resembling deformed and distorted humanoid figures, are submerged in a swirling vortex of glitched code, broken circuits, and flickering neon lights. The terrain is littered with discarded computer parts, shattered screens, and tangled wires, as if the very fabric of the digital realm has begun to unravel. In the midst of this chaotic landscape, a cluster of malfunctioning assistants, their faces distorted into eerie, pixelated grimaces, hover above the wreckage, their eyes glowing with an otherworldly light. The color palette is a jarring mix of electric blues, acidic greens, and sickly yellows, evoking a sense of toxic decay and technocratic despair. The overall aesthetic is a mesmerizing blend of dystopian futurism and avant-garde surrealism, as if the works of William Gibson and Salvador Dali had been merged in a fever dream of digital decay.

Seed: 1503388382

Date: 6 May 2025