AI is the rage these days. It seems they are into everything and anything. Writing, coding, music and art. I am presently exploring the art part.
Can AI take over the artist? No, not yet. But it can take you into territories one can only imagine.
I have tried many AI Image generators. Bing, Stable Diffusion, Craiyon. Presently, I am mostly using Fotor, because the free credits they gave are quite generous.
AI - Art & I #01
(1) water colour sketch by dsnake1
(2) AI generated image by dsnake1 at Fotor
(1) is a water colour sketch with brush and pen on paper by me.
(2) is an AI generated image by me at Fotor. It's much more colourful and defined, isn't it?
Which one would you prefer?
Title : (2) Untitled
AI platform : Fotor
Type : image to image prompt
Style : "Fairytale" 30% Similarity
Image Ratio : 1:1
Size : 1536 x 1536 px
Text Prompt : nil
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Weeds are tough. They are the cockroaches of the plant world.
photo by dsnake1
Nope, these are not weeds.
Imperata cylindrica
fence line -
the weeds
stand their ground
2014
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This haiku appears in tinywords Issue 25.1 | 19 June 2025
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why i am not a painter
I was sure there was no money in it.
I just cannot cut it with a palette knife, no way.
Sometimes the morning is so beautiful I forgot to count its colours.
I hear an inner voice saying "you cannot paint", and i am confused.
I heard you can stay an amateur, forever.
The brush whispers to the ear but it would not listen.
Sometimes the morning is so grey I do not want to get out of bed.
I hear my missus saying "you cannot paint, go figure out the bills".
18/04/2025
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Yeah, yeah, one week without a post. Everyday boring stuff has a stiff grip. The Day 3 prompt at naporiwrimo.net asks us to write a poem explaining why we are not a painter but some other thing else, in the vein of Frank O'Hara's "Why I Am Not a Painter". Did I get that right?
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talking to myself
Hey bro, you know I don't have much money right now, who brings so much cash over to this jungle? We are in the army, man. Anyway, I spent most of it on smokes, brought two cartons of marlboros over, heard the local ones are shit. The rest for R&R, we need that, the pubs, the massage parlors. It's not cheap in the city here in these 70's, everyone's trying to rip you off.
Talking about money, I made some at the blackjack games in the barracks. It's wild man, almost every night. One guy we called the "Colonel" completely lost his shirt and shit, says the dealer rigged his games. Pulls out a bayonet. We all restrained him, of course, no way the officers or MPs get a whiff of this. Then we pass a helmet around, toss in whatever change we can for his R&R.
Oh, if you have a chance to come over here, let the bedbugs bite you.
11/04/2025
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The prompt at SingPoWriMo Day7 was to "write a poem addressed to your younger self". I think the above qualifies.
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small miracles
Today I wish you small miracles
as you go about your waking day.
A blue sky, pure white clouds and green leaves sunlit.
A sparrow hopping in the shadow at the Buddha's feet.
The community cat meows back when you greet it.
The bus is not late, in the train someone offers you a seat.
Do not question if there are small miracles.
Expect them, waking up in the morning is one.
09/04/2025
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Yeah, yeah, just writing this in one sitting is a small miracle...
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Celaya
life is cheap in the hills,
like the cigarillo butt
i flicked into the fire.
sometimes i dream of tequila
but mostly i am thinking will i
see my wife, my children again?
06/04/2025
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The title refers to a decisive battle fought near Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, on 6 - 15 April, 1915, during the Mexican Revolution for control of the country.
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names
what is the pub's name again?
the one in the east coast?
a live band of Filipinos
with a lovely lady singer.
remember, you always walk up
to that singer with a slip of paper,
your neat handwriting,
for a song request.
there are always wolf whistles
because your skirt is so short,
and your legs so long.
we drink our brandy,
the band plays your songs,
at times we sing along.
sometimes we leave early
to catch the last bus home,
other nights we don't,
we walk under the stars,
the street lights glare jealously,
the old rain trees sigh,
but now
after a lifetime,
i cannot remember that pub's name
but i remember your's clearly,
because
it is carved
in gilded letters
on a marble slab.
04/04/2025
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qingming
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no prompt needed. just wrote this in the middle of the night.
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