Tuesday, January 28, 2025

We Mean Business

 A.I. generated business headshots of the Gilliom-Reeb family:

We're professionals: Jon, Ericka, Anikka, & Llyr.

Outtake:



Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Thursday, August 1, 2024

1,000 Years of Dracula


AI-generated nightmare inspired by a child's spontaneous utterance in a public library: "One-Thousand Years of Dracula!"

Horror!

Monday, October 23, 2023

Kilbuck Portrait

Amanda's portrait of Donald Kilbuck next to the man himself. Painted in Anchorage, AK, 1998.

Donald & his portrait.

Update: After decades of silence, I've learned the Kilbuck portrait lives! 25 years later (Oct. 2023), Donald sent me a photo of the portrait in its current location in Soldotna; specifically, "Funny River at Little Way's from the Small Plane Airport."
 

May it live forever!

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Ice Cream or Nuke?

Ambiguous images that could be ice cream or nuclear explosions. Thanks, AI!


Monday, December 26, 2022

I'm Awesome

Ericka got me this awesome card. I love it.
Text inside reads, "You're Awesome!"
Yes!


Saturday, October 8, 2022

Supplement to "My Experience Falling Through a Bathroom Ceiling"

Referring back to My Experience Falling Through a Bathroom Ceiling, I’ve always wished someone had taken a photo of the moment. I tried using A.I. to approximate an image of what it might have looked like to see me crashing through the ceiling of a high school restroom.

1.) First try - This first attempt could almost pass for a young Gary Numan plummeting from a high school restroom ceiling. Still, it misses a few key details—the falling debris that should be raining down around me, and, of course, the suit jacket I was actually wearing that day:


2.) This next image is more like it. The image includes the bits of broken ceiling that accompanied my descent. It also depicts me coming down on top of a toilet, which was an integral part of the experience. Bonus point: I kind of look like Ryan:


3.) In the next image, I look a bit like Brother Todd - kick open the door! -


4.) The last one captures my confusion pretty well, though the toilet is crazily halfway up the wall:


Anyway, I guess you would have had to have been there.

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Baby Announcements

Birth announcements for Anikka and Llyr, posted on social media:

Anikka Kathalyn.

Llyr Liev.

Saturday, December 25, 2021

First Santa

Anikka’s first visit with Santa Claus; Dec 2021. 


Santa wasn’t actually being scary immediately. Anikka just started crying like crazy when he welcomed her. He did the scary pose real quickly and on the fly for the benefit of a photo when her back was turned to him. He just did that for a second and I’m glad Ericka was ready with the camera.

Friday, September 10, 2021

R.I.P. Jon L. Gilliom: Jan. 5, 1948 – Sep. 7, 2021

It’s been quite a week and I’m sad to say my father, Jon Sr, isn’t with us anymore. “Uncle Jon” was a lion-heart who loved adventure and family, and I know he will be missed by many.

(Photo: Columbia, MO; Aug. 2017).



Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Found: Marilyn


Found while browsing one of my mother's old yearbooks.
Marilyn was apparently hell on wheels at Lancaster (Indiana) High School in the late 1960s.

Friday, February 5, 2021

COVID Parking Control

Parking control in the sun’s glare. County employees working at COVID vaccination sites. Gonna have a weird muzzle shaped reverse sunburn.


Sunday, December 20, 2020

Curbside

Back to work: Reopening Library of the Canyons for curbside service during the COVID-19 pandemic.



Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Apple Dumpling!

In Colonial times, "Apple Dumpling," is what people would say when they would punch somebody in the nuts as a joke, according to a children's history show I watched.

"Apple Dumpling."

"Apple Dumpling."

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The Golden Lion

I got this when we saw Dick the Bruiser wrestle for WWA at the Fort Wayne Coliseum in the late '70s or very early '80s. I've kept it for the next 40 years, so may it be preserved digitally forevermore.


Tim Golden
The Golden Lion
WWA