THE CURATED LOG IV
By MITO Universe - @mitofilms
Welcome back to MITO Universe.
The line between real and rendered keeps blurring — and honestly, it’s getting harder to tell who’s behind the lens, or if there’s even a lens at all. But maybe that’s not the point.
What matters is the vision. Whether born from memory, code, or a bit of both, the new wave of creators is reminding us that authorship isn’t disappearing — it’s evolving.
Here’s what’s shaping our visual culture this week.
SELECTED CREATORS
Samuel Goossens / @goo.visuals
Based in Germany, artist and designer Samuel Goossens creates meticulously crafted AI visuals that feel cinematic, introspective, and emotionally charged.
With a background in photography and film, his work blends sci-fi atmospheres with natural elements — exploring solitude, fragility, and the tension between the organic and the imagined. Think space botany, archival science fiction, and emotionally intelligent world-building.
Goossens’ process is hybrid and highly intentional: starting in Midjourney and refining through Topaz, Krea, Lightroom, and Photoshop, each piece balances conceptual boldness with visual precision. His compositions often evoke a quiet nostalgia for a future that never arrived — speculative, delicate, and distinctly his own.
Melita R. / @ctrl_cd
Based in Germany, AI artist and art director Melita R. moves across series, each exploring the emotional and conceptual potential of generative tools — always with visual clarity and poetic weight.
In Landscaping, the spotlight shifts from buildings to the terrain around them — trees, shadows, and soil that quietly shape the built environment. Trees lean like confidants, shadows hum in chorus, and the land holds the rhythm — quiet, firm, and enduring. It’s a series about what frames the spectacle, what speaks without volume.
In another body of work, she introduces a fictional photographer: Eero Mäkinen, a timewitness of places thinking. His images — diners adrift in memory, benches expecting no one — form a slow archive of imagined stillness. Through him, Melita builds a world that is surreal yet grounded, tender yet exacting. A space where light, silence, and storytelling converge.
Whether working through landscape or persona, her practice expands the frame of authorship — asking not only what we’re seeing, but who’s behind the lens.
WHAT’S NEW
Soul by Higgsfield Brings AI Closer to the Feed
Higgsfield has launched Soul, a new high-aesthetic AI model for image generation that rivals real smartphone photography. Unlike other tools, Soul offers over 50 built-in presets — such as “Tokyo Streetstyle” or “0.5 Selfie” — allowing users to generate fashion-grade visuals without needing technical input. The model removes the plasticky feel seen in many AI images and produces lifelike results, from portraits to urban scenes. Trained for the eyes of everyday creators and consumers, it brings generative AI closer to the visual culture of social media, making high-end imagery feel native to the feed.
Generative AI Fuels Market Momentum
Nvidia briefly overtook Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company last week, reaching a $3.76 trillion valuation. The rise reflects growing confidence in the scalability of generative AI — with Loop Capital projecting stronger-than-expected adoption across industries. Nvidia, whose GPUs are at the heart of AI model training and deployment, is seen as a key enabler of this next wave, showing how generative systems are no longer just software — they’re shaping the future of infrastructure, labor, and value itself.
Doppl Brings AI to Personal Style
Google Labs has introduced Doppl, an experimental app that lets users virtually try on clothing using AI. Built on the virtual try-on tech announced by Google Shopping in May, Doppl allows users to upload photos or screenshots and visualize outfits on an animated, personalized avatar. The app even generates short AI videos to help users get a better sense of how garments move and feel. Designed for casual style exploration, Doppl makes it easy to test looks from social media, friends, or even thrift stores. While still in early testing, Doppl reflects a broader shift: AI tools are becoming more intuitive, personalized, and embedded in everyday consumer experiences.
KEY VISUAL
Growing out of what once felt like home… by @mateocaptures and @est_cai.
A house, a car, a street sign, a row of power lines — all familiar, all dissolving.
This short AI-generated film captures the quiet violence of change: when the elements that once defined a sense of home begin to fall apart. Not metaphorically, but literally — fragmenting, fading, eroding frame by frame.
The protagonist doesn’t speak. But the visuals do. What we see is not just physical decay, but the emotional dislocation of outgrowing a place that shaped you. The everyday details of a childhood street unravel into abstraction, leaving only memory — unstable, ghosted, re-coded.
This piece uses AI not to build worlds, but to deconstruct them. To ask what’s left when home no longer holds. And what it means to carry those pieces into what comes next.
That’s all for now — we’ll be back in your inbox next Monday.
Qué maravilla. No conocía esto que estáis haciendo por aquí. Para dentro.