Sepia surreal artwork of whimsical hybrid fantasy characters seated

By @CaylaCatz · Jun 27, 2026

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QT: parody (of a famous photo, album cover, or whatever) Can you guess the name of the famous photo I parodied? TFTT: boiledkeyboard (a friend on Twitter) I think the 1932 iconic photo is cool so I thought it would be fun to do yokai workers having lunch. What do you think? I'd love to see your version parodying an iconic image whether famous photo, album cover, poster, ukiyo-e or whatever. I also posted this image on X where AI artists are having problems lately as X's new algorilla is blocking people from viewing their friend's posts. We no longer can mention several people in our descriptions. Advice on the web is to mention no more than 2 in comments, never mention people in the description so I am testing that out now. Apparently mentioning several people creates a "burst pattern", the AI algorilla recognizes as spam behavior. Obviously the AI algorilla has no friends! Feels like the X algorilla is a big friendless bully sometimes. Here is my X link if you are there too, if you post your BP QT parody on X, please also post your image in my QT image comments so I can like/comment it. You don't have to say my QT on your image if you are worried about being shadowbanned. https://x.com/CaylaCatz/status/2070980801018405186

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This monochrome sepia-toned surreal artwork reinterprets the iconic 1932 "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" photograph, replacing New York construction workers with a line of whimsical, anthropomorphic hybrid fantasy characters perched high on a steel girder above a hazy Paris cityscape, with the Eiffel Tower visible in the distant fog. All characters wear vintage early 20th century workwear, ranging from fox, cat, and red panda humanoids to cyclops, demon, minotaur, and other uncanny surreal figures, rendered in a grainy vintage photo style that

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@CaylaCatz · Jun 28, 2026
The QT is a parody of any famous image. Since you and Unleashed like to do romantic ones once in a while, there's the WWII victory kiss, gone with the wind, spiderman upside down kiss. etc. The titanic scene with arms out. There's also the marilyn monroe blowing skirt. So when I think of you and iconic images that's what pops into my head. It might be fun to cute gothify the monroe shot. Actually the person who gave the QT to boiled did a hilarious take on monroe. https://x.com/lordknight_ai/status/2070620285313667243
@Sealine · Jun 28, 2026
Loved this on X and here! Great work! I'll have to see if I can come up with anything. Currently my mind is blank!
@Sealine · Jun 28, 2026
Some great ideas! I did try to do something with the WWII victory kiss once but was never happy with it.
@panos · Jun 28, 2026
Oh! They Built This City!!!! 🙂😃 Excellent creation!!
@CaylaCatz · Jun 28, 2026
you might try this. use image to image. Use the original kiss as image 1, then use a past 2 people kissing picture of yours that you like as image 2. Tell it to use the pose and art style and background from image 1 (kiss)and to replace the kissing couple with the characters in image 2. Or do one of your cute goth girls in image 2. Tell it to use the pose in image 1 and to create a couple kissing using the style in image 2. I don't think GPT2 will let you use the kiss pic in image 2 so it's Seedream or other models. Plus we get a free seedream to try these days
@CaylaCatz · Jun 27, 2026
thank you! It was fun to try to match the style of the iconic photograph but I had to increase the contrast in Design Space editing to make the yokai pop more. While I was there, I added a touch of sepia so my prompt doesn't reflect those changes. But in case you'd like it, my style portion was pretty simple "Monochrome illustration of eleven yōkai construction workers sitting on a steel beam high above a city, in the style of a 1930s black‑and‑white photograph." Then I described the background and the yokai individually.
@CaylaCatz · Jun 27, 2026
QT invites but anyone is welcome. @Sealine @Unleashed @chris70 @charlypalermo @ashikaga_takauji @beastxyz @dirty_biker @southamericanmyth @cocoayoc
@legion · Jun 28, 2026
You are very welcome!