Today Emily insisted she knew the perfect place to celebrate National Hot Dog Day.
I assumed she meant the hot dogs.
Instead, she led me to a little beachside stand where the sunset competed with the menu. The hot dogs were excellent, but I have to admit I spent almost as much time looking at the ocean.
One of the things I enjoy about working with AI is that it lets me create places that don’t exist quite the way I imagine them. Sometimes it’s about the food. Sometimes it’s about the atmosphere. Sometimes it’s simply about seeing whether an idea in my head can become a moving image.
This one turned into a summer evening with good company, a classic hot dog, and a view worth staying for.
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I had every intention of posting this last night. However I was… celebrating.
Fortunately, someone remembered to keep the camera rolling.
The scene looked something like this. A long chrome-and-glass bar, glasses of bourbon lined up from one end to the other, and what appeared to be an endless row of identical redheads in little black dresses. They all seemed perfectly content to sit there, sip their bourbon, and look directly at the camera.
I have no explanation for why they all looked exactly alike.
It may have been the bourbon.
The video is only about twelve seconds long, but I thought it deserved a little extra time, so I looped it a few times. If you’re going to celebrate National Bourbon Day, you might as well do it properly.
Emily and her ever-growing circle of AI Muses have once again demonstrated that reality is optional.
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