I was experimenting with infrared photography. The photo on the right is a rea photo of Violet at Alewife Beach in East Hampton. The one on the left is AR generated by Jasper, and the animation in the middle is another Facebook Meta AI. I continue to be impressed with Facebook, which lets you animate, and I immediately took the prompt that it was infrared.
A friend sends inspirational memes, and I send back an AI image interpreting what was said. The meme was about God listening to prayers. Facebook Meta AI won’t generate an image with god as a word, so I use heaven. I am posting a lot of Meta AI. I like Meta AI’s animation. I have a lot more generated on other platforms, but I will do them later.
These images are generated from the events in 2024, when my partner Mike passed on January 31, and his yellow labrador Z passed unexpectedly two days later. Z was a charismatic, active dog, and things were defined by his activity. Z was playing when he wobbled and lay down on a cliff overlooking the ocean and passed within two minutes. Z’s sister, Violet, was with him at the time. It is a new life, adjusting to the less charismatic dog but one that is smarter. I don’t understand why things happen the way they do but I believe they happen for a purpose.
AI image of tonight’s big Northern Lights show
Arkoe, Missouri, is one of only two place names that traces its name to the 18th-century fantasy book The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins by Robert Paltock, published in 1751. The book said an Arkoe is a “water surrounded with wood.” The story is about a sailor named Peter Wilkins who is shipwrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by flying people called “Glaws,” who inhabit the Arkoes.
There’s family lore in the Conklin family about the ghost of Abigail haunting the Montauk lighthouse. According to family lore, she was the daughter of Capt Conklin, who was killed in an ice storm on the north shore.
This is an AI rendering of Jackson Pollock drip painting the 40-foot Hortonsphere gas storage ball by the East Hampton, New York, LIRR train station in 1952. While the work wowed the art world, the residents of East Hampton did not appreciate it, and it was painted over within a week after he died in a crash in East Hampton in 1956. This image is more vibrant than Pollock’s work, which had a more delicate signature style. The AI-generated image is inaccurate in placing the tracks between the station and the ball. The ball was actually between the station and the street.
This was inspired when I first saw the world’s first AI gravestone at Wellwood Memorial in Lindenhurst. There was literally thunder and lightning and rainbow.
This is an AI of an artist drip-painting a boulder in a cemetery. The inspiration for this is artist Jackson Pollock, who is buried under a boulder at Green River Cemetery in Springs, East Hampton, New York. Our stone in the cemetery, a few feet from Pollock, will be painted to commemorate this style. It is not totally off the mark to be doing this. Pollock’s style was inspired by Native American drip painting sand. They, in turn, were believed to have been inspired by paintings of stones in the West thousands of years ago. Artists for centuries painted stones in bright colors before Michaelangelo started doing his unadorned white marble statues
Violet chasing an egret on a foggy day at East Hampton Hook Pond