sorry not sorry

So for no reason yesterday I started messing with another AI programme (I say 'another' like I've told you about the last time I tried. I didn't tell you. When I was in Perth though I downloaded an ai image generator programme and used it for a few days. I wasn't totally disgusted with what it created but I was underwhelmed. For some reason or as I said no reason, yesterday I went back and chose a random new app for this purpose and really got into it in a big way. It's so addictive! 

Each prompt (eg kittens in a blimp over the jungle in the style of... Frederick McCubbin, Stanley Spencer etc) generates four images, and I must admit I have saved far more than I should have, notwithstanding saving them is a matter of a thumb twitch. But I haven't even really had time to look at them all properly, and some are incredible. 

Here are fifteen for you to think about. I'll upload more later, airdrop is being a dick right now. 

flook october 1952

 

rabbit rabbit

14 October 2017. I feel like this is what passes for a good joke in beagle world but I'm probably just projecting particularly because they look like they're laughing or at least pleased with themselves. 

happy 100th birthday leonard teale

Leonard Teale (seen here with his wife Liz Harris a year or so before they were married) was born a hundred years ago today. I must say I have greatly enjoyed the many hours I have spent with him in the last year or so as I witnessed the many travails of David 'Mack' Mackay in Homicide. I am sorry he is no longer around. 

 

probably not THE samuel hatty

Our Samuel Hatty was 31 when this happened on 24 September 1921, so this is probably someone just trying to crash the Samuel Hatty party, but thought it was slightly worth mentioning. You're welcome. 

george

Episode 222 of Homicide, 'George' is a partially successful (bit messy plotwise) exploration of mental illness, and one of the episodes which is preceded by the information that it is based on an actual case. (It actually feels like a play someone has retrofitted to put the Homicide team into). 

It's also the first time that Alwyn Kurts starts the program by addressing the viewer in the way that John Fegan used to when someone deemed the subject matter a bit close to the bone. It's a program, he says, about mental illness and it's not suitable viewing for children (like any episode of Homicide ever was!). 

It was also first screened 23 September 1969, so, exactly 53 years ago.