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FireShot%20Pro%20Webpage%20Capture%20045%209%20by%20Meta%20AI.pdf

a PDF captured by Fireshot Pro of a session with MetaAI 'imagining' nine images based on my textual prompts.

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This is maybe way too long and uninteresting to those of you who are REAL artists which I consider myself NOT -BUT- for anyone who is interested in using AI as image generator and who as I was puzzled by how to save an entire web session to help memory, here is a PDF record of my session.…

And here's what happened:

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It generated the following:

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I just watched this ol' [1935] Disney 'toon and it's started my day with a smile. So... here 4U2 it is at Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRB2YlQOSBI

Y'r ol' Bud, Fike

I did and asked Meta AI and here's what it produced.…

Just got these in the mail. Will repay close study!

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Y'r ol' Bud, Fike 24 May…

This is a FASCINATING book and available as a PDF from the Western States Envelope and label website. Just search for "Benjamin, Maynard. History of Envelopes 1840-1900 pdf"

Just found Postcrossing, an organization started in 2005 for people  trading postcards around the world in Jean Trals's IUOMA page which I looked at due to today being her birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jean. There was a link there to the history of postcards and the postal system which includes a VERY LARGE collection of historical postal images perhaps of interest to some of us.

here's a link to one: …

I sense that we think of mail art as visual or perhaps textual [poetry] art but there is a whole Universe of other art, think singing, dance, instrumental music. And, with that to prime our mindset, allow me to introduce you to an amazing guitarist, Jin San Kim, 19-yr old Korean, self taught, sounds as if he plays with at least 40 fingers...

Here is a link:…

Hopefully ONE of 'em'll reach GB!

one being reposted Bleu Cat from Coco [Muchmore I presume.

and the other, the cover of her card showing a new project, 'Sardines'…

Although a mail 'artist' who can't draw, I CAN scribble and then feed it thru both Deep Dream and Meta AI to get the real Fike!

Sample 1

In the dimly lit recesses of the postal abyss, a legion of lunatic letter carriers conjure an unholy ritual to summon the Snailmail Gods. As the moon hangs low in the sky, they dance with reckless abandon, their mailbags aflutter like the wings of deranged birds. The wind whispers secrets in their ears, and they scribble frenzied notes on envelopes, imbuing the mail with the…

Just found at TEMU, postage stamp stickers for cheap!

https://www.temu.com/search_result.html?search_key=postage%20stamp%20stickers&search_method=user

YOB, Fike

Gifted and LOVING it!