traveler0621/reality-restaged

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Reality Restaged Documentary memory. Surreal stage. A Codex skill for transforming documentary, travel, street, and human-centered photography into restrained surreal cinematic tableaux. The goal is not to simply apply an AI style to a photograph. Reality Restaged preserves the people, gestures, cultural details, relationships, and documentary memory of the original photograph — then rebuilds the world around them. Real people. Real gestures. Real cultural memory. An impossible world. ⸻ What it does Reality Restaged analyzes a source photograph before transforming it. It looks for: * the visual hero * relationships between people, animals, and objects * culturally meaningful details * accidental documentary moments * the strongest visual contradiction hidden inside the image It then develops a restrained surreal composition using principles such as: * cinematic staging * negative space * scale distortion * spatial folding * impossible architecture * controlled color fields * realistic human proportions * photographic film texture The philosophy is simple: Reality first. Surrealism second. ⸻ Visual Direction Reality Restaged favors: * minimal cinematic compositions * strong negative space * theatrical staging * restrained surrealism * bold but controlled color relationships * realistic people and animals * subtle analog film grain * natural photographic lighting * culturally respectful reinterpretation It avoids: * generic AI fantasy aesthetics * excessive surreal decoration * plastic skin * oversharpening * duplicated faces * distorted anatomy * unnecessary objects * repeating the same surreal device in every image ⸻ How to use Give Codex a documentary, travel, street, or human-centered photograph and ask it to use the reality-restaged skill. For example: Use reality-restaged to reinterpret this travel photograph as a restrained surreal cinematic tableau. Or simply: Use reality-restaged on this image. For concept exploration: Use reality-restaged and give me three different surreal directions before generating anything. For an existing composition: Use reality-restaged. Treat this image as the master composition and only modify the element I specify. ⸻ Installation Clone this repository into your Codex skills directory: git clone https://github.com/traveler0621/reality-restaged.git ~/.codex/skills/reality-restaged Then restart or reopen your Codex environment if necessary. ⸻ Core Principle The skill follows one central rule: One impossible thing. Instead of filling an image with surreal objects, it looks for one strong intervention capable of changing the meaning of the photograph. That intervention might involve: Scale. Space. Shadow. Repetition. Gravity. Reflection. Material. Absence. The result should feel less like an AI illustration and more like: a real photograph of a world that could never exist. ⸻ Master Lock Mode When an image has already reached a successful composition, Reality Restaged treats it as a master. If the instruction is: Only change the fish tail. It should only change the fish tail. If the instruction is: Keep everything else exactly the same. Composition, lighting, scale, color, subject placement, and approved visual elements should remain locked. ⸻ About Reality Restaged began as a personal visual workflow for reinterpreting documentary photographs collected while traveling. Rather than replacing documentary photography, the skill treats the original photograph as the memory from which a second, impossible reality can be constructed. Documentary memory. Surreal stage. --- ## Examples Selected works created with Reality Restaged. ![Reality Restaged — Selected Work](examples/18E61BD8-1EB4-49A7-814C-6696A52B32CC.png) ![Reality Restaged – Selected Work](examples/FB095DCD-FC13-4E9A-B8EA-91CD55E103CE.png)

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Reinterpret documentary, travel, street, cultural, and human-centered photographs through the distinctive Reality Restaged visual language: radically simplified theatrical environments, large saturated color fields, strong negative space, cinematic…

2026-08-12

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