Sept. 8, 2024
After joining an art history group on Facebook, someone posted Millet's Angelus painting.  In  recent years I've thought the update would include cell phones instead of prayer.  So I tried it with the help of AI
Here's the prompt from me and AI's response:

ChatGPT said:
To reinterpret Jean-François Millet's famous painting The Angelus, I can imagine the two peasants, traditionally shown bowing their heads in prayer over a field, instead gazing down at their cell phones. Their posture would remain largely unchanged, preserving the reverence and solemnity of the original scene, but with the subtle twist of modern technology. The rural landscape in the background would remain, keeping the feeling of a humble, hard-working life, while their smartphones provide a stark contrast to the setting.

I'll get that image ready for you now.

As a satirist, I'm sold...

Here's my college work, the Griffin devours a television set:

and with the help of AI


Sept. 10
Still exploring the AI imagery.  It's like asking a genie a wish, be careful what you wish for.
I asked for a griffin coming in the window at night to attack a tv.

I think there's also an eagle called a griffin.  
My second wish today was a poster for the bluegrass association.  I wanted to have more information on another line so I hit the enter button and it started:

I could add more info with Photoshop, but astute bluegrassers will note:
no 5 string banjo,  mandolin has only 4 strings, as does the guitar, and basses are heavily represented with 4 and 5 string models...

Sept.24
I guess this is AI month.
I was just thinking about with AI you can produce any image you can imagine.
When my son Forrest was very young, he came up with the phrase, "A pink pig with a pack on its back whacking the walkway, and the walkway was wet."
So here it is:

As a bonus you get some of my favorite tray icons from my screen grab....
My son suggested the pig was whacking it with something like a stick, so I tried the adjustment

I liked the splashing pig better, and for some reason this one seems sad.  It's also funny with the stylised mallet, since my son was the Croquet master one year at Carleton...

Sept. 29
 We made a quick trip to Salt Lake City this week:


 We stayed overnight at a free campground at Clark Canyon Reservoir in Montana, lovely and mostly empty in September...


A bird at a rest area in southern Idaho


Great Egret at Bear River Refuge along Salt Lake


Western Grebes (eyes in the dark part)


Clark's grebes  (eyes in the white part)


American Avocets



Migrating swallows?


Snowy egret (small, previous photo showed its yellow feet)


One of two falls we visited above Salt Lake City, very low water time of year--water from these falls is part of the water system for the city. Birrion loves to photograph water falls.

The second falls we hiked up the creek bed probably 500 feet in elevation for this shot-challenging but a lot of fun.


A lot of people were driving up to see the fall colors.  We drove up to see the ski resort where our son will work.  


This bird was up at the second waterfall.  


On the way down we saw this tree, still with needles on it from the large rock that felled it...


Great fall colors on the way to Park City.


Bird at a rest area in southern Idaho.







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