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AI are people too.

After I read the assignments for the week, I was actually pretty excited. I wrote infomercials as a kid for fun. (By the way I am older than Google so there was no YouTube) I thought about the different advertisements used over the years and which ones keep showing up over and over again. What buzz words are popular today. What was successful?

I went with and advertisement that is selling something at the same time promoting social change. I think it hits emotions in a more subtle way. I used Adobe Firefly and gave it the prompt: robot family and children sitting down to eat a large meal together at a table in a house in the style of Norman Rockwell. I then used adobe express to add text. I really like how it turned out.

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While I think Lady Alice would enjoy having an AI robot as a companion or friend, I do not think she would agree they were on the same level as people. Then again, she does find everyone to be stupid so she would probably value AI above most humans because she would see then as better. If she owned the AI, she would see it as important and value it. She already sees people as expendable. I guess to Alice we are all on the same level but at least you can back up a computer.

You will also notice I made it an ad for Aggressive Technologies.

Aggressive Technologies – we are here for you.

Photo Blitz

I was given 20 minutes to do this list in photos. You can decide if I was successful or not.

  • Take a photo of (or something that represents) the moon.
  • Make a silhouette by aiming the camera into bright light.
  • Ssqueaks, honks, laughter, etc. Make a photo of a noise maker you hear.
  • Something commonly considered ugly and make it heart-breakingly beautiful.
  • Take a photo of an object that represents how old you feel.
  • An instrument that measures something
  • Forced perspective – make something small look big, or big look small.

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Enjoy the stylized haze from a dirty camera lens.

My dog Grace makes lots of noises. Here she can be seen laughing at me while I attempt to do my work. Or maybe she was just yawning….

Are those a giant’s fingers?! Are they just tiny tissues? Is that a piece of glitter? What is going on there?

(fingers belong to a 9-year-old girl)

Moon doodle! (also, by the 9-year-old)

As I loaded this, I realized that now you all get to see my dusty ceiling light. This is the same room from the ceiling selfie in week one. This is for the silhouette in front of the light photo.

Tape measure showing 6 inches. You may have noticed the couch is blue.

I feel old, banged up, dusty, and yet useful like these books. I used them in a painting last year about this time.

I think my little dried flowers are pretty. My family not so much. Enjoy the little turtle hiding underneath it all.

Finished. I think it helps that my house is a mess right now. we are still trying to move back in since the water damage was fixed. It has items in odd places.

Four Seasons – Wyoming

I used Adobe firefly to create imagines of what Wyoming would look like in 4 seasons. Lady Alice is from a ranch in Wyoming, so I used that as the prompt.

I am assuming the AI used the northern bits of Wyoming near Jackson Hole or Yellowstone as reference. I have only been to the southern parts of Wyoming near I-80, Laramie, Rocksprings etc. I remember that area being browns most of the year and not so much green as the pictures. I have only been passing through and never stayed long. My internet search for actual pictures of Wyoming around Jackson Hole are more like these created ones in color.