Kate Beckinsale (b. 1973) is an English actress. She's well known for three things: (a) her work in action movies like Underworld, Van Helsing, and Total Recall; (b) her roles in British costume dramas like Much Ado About Nothing, Emma, and Cold Comfort Farm; and (c) having seemingly found a way not to age.
But this TI is trained on one particular moment in her filmography: 1998's The Last Days of Disco, a Whit Stillman film in which she and Chloe Sevigny play preppy Hampshire College grads in Manhattan circa 1980. They work low-level jobs in book publishing by day and haunt the city's declining disco scene by night. LDOD concluded Stillman's "doomed-bourgeois-in-love" trilogy (after Metropolitan and Barcelona); Beckinsale and Sevigny later reunited for Stillman's 2016 movie Love & Friendship.
A slight change from my usual formula: This embedding was trash after my usual 300 steps, so I kept going until I hit 1,200. Not sure if that was due to the quality of the images (cropped screenshots from a 25-year-old movie) or their similarity. The rest remained the same: 30 images cooked on base SD1.5, 16 vectors per token, a 0.004 learning rate, a batch size of 6, and 5 gradient steps.
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