How Many Heads Can A Dragon Have?

 

Jessie Czebotar has told some wild tales as I have been documenting here and on my Substack for the past 3 years.  We were told by her fan base that she has remained consistent all this time so her stories must be true.  

Well, not really.  I found a clip and posted it on X about how Jessie said in an interview with Dave Zublick that she had 7 kids.  When at the time she had six (one son is now deceased).  The shocked look on Zublick's face is priceless!  Very odd as she offered no correction for this obvious error.

In this video, Jessie Czebotar's Dragon Tales is another example of her play loose with her stories.  She has claimed for a long time that she has seen Satan in various human and animals forms, in this instance, dragons.  Only she can't seem to keep the number of heads straight.  She bounces back and forth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_sjyo6T5i8

At X

https://x.com/GeoartsPhoto/status/1881447175282176108

The Age Of Digital Women

 

Early on when they approached me they were obviously using computer generated images of women. They don’t have the look of actual photographs and something always seems off. I started out in 3D rendering with the Commodore Amiga in the mid-80’s so I can spot a fake swiftly. And these early images were so badly done it just about defeats the purpose of trying to snag someone with these images. I would offer that some men probably were. Some guys can’t get past a pretty face. Having been a stock photographer I noticed quickly that something wasn’t right. Such as the backgrounds lacking the proper depth-of-field (background blur) and the general look of exquisite perfection among the models. Who has skin like this? All CGI models look perfect as do the environments they are placed in. They are of one race, no others.

For more and image examples please go to my Substack post:

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/the-age-of-digital-women

Book Review: NASA Lies by Lawrence Rowe

New post at Substack.

A NASA photographic analysis.

NASA LIES is a book seeking to show fraud in the Apollo moon landings by comparison of the Hasselblad images taken from space and on the surface of the moon mixed with various explanations regarding rocket science and its effects.  In this review I’ll concentrate on the photographs primarily. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/book-review-nasa-lies-by-lawrence

A NASA photographic analysis.

Breakdown Of A Haunting

 When you cross paths with unseen things.

When I arose on the morning of June 22 of 2011 I made my mother her tea and waited for her to come out.  She didn’t.  So I went to the bedroom and saw her lying there, mouth open, her right hand clutched in a fist on her chest dead.  Though stunned there was time for grief later.  The first matter of business was to call my father who was attending to family business only to learn from my aunt that he had already left and was heading home.  He had no phone with him.  My heart went out to him because he was coming home to discover his marriage of 57 years was over and the woman he loved was gone to this world.

Full article at Substack.

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/breakdown-of-a-haunting

NASA’s Apollo 13 Mission Report

How does one weigh pounds of water in Zero G?

The main thing that caught my attention was the many references to various weights of onboard liquids such as water, fuel and non liquids such as oxygen while in space. The measurement is in pounds.  While the other mission reports document various weights it is usually regarding how many moon rocks were collected or how much weight the astronauts lost during the  mission.  With Apollo 13, this is the recording of liquids—in a weightless environment!

Full post at my Substack:

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/nasas-apollo-13-mission-report

AI Image Creation With Grok-2

 

Instant picture making with a sentence.  

Musk announced Grok, the company’s answer to ChatGPT, in November, while Grok 1.5 debuted in April. The chatbot is available exclusively to Premium subscribers on X. Musk's xAI startup is also preparing to build what might be the world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, which will handle Grok training.  Emily Price, PCmag.com.

Long before I became a photographer I had studied art.  Fine art to begin with and later graphic design and advertising.  During this time I’ve done some of everything for designing logos, airbrush illustrations, fine art painting, portrait painting, etc.  Later, when home computers became the next big thing I was interested in using them for design and art projects.  I recall my first experience in the mid 1980’s with 3D rendering using Sculpt 3D on the Commodore Amiga.  Just rending a few objects took hours, sometimes in the evening running the computer all night to render simple images.

One day I received an email from one of my photo stock agencies that AI images were acceptable for submission and sale.   I knew nothing about it and was unsure where to start.  Then recently, Grok-2 was announced by Elon Musk for August.  Up until then I had only used Grok to answer questions for research purposes.  I didn’t know it could render images as well.  Once I learned that Grok could create images I decided to explore what it could do.  What follows are my experiences with this new imaging technology.

Full article with examples posted at Substack--

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/ai-image-creation-with-grok-2

 My latest post at my Substack.  Part one of my trip to Tikal in 1998.

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/tikal-to-teotihuacan-part-1