The Twelve (Generative) Days of Christmas – 2024 Edition

Last year I did a fun little experiment where I asked a few different generative models to generateimages based on the classic Twelve Days of Christmas song. For those unfamiliar, the song is about a series of gifts given over twelve days: partridge in a pear treetwo turtle dovesthree French hensfour calling birdsfive golden ringssix geese a-layingseven swans a-swimmingeight maids a-milkingnine ladies dancingten lords a-leapingeleven pipers pipingtwelve drummers drumming To be clear, this was done for fun, nothing more. Also, the prompts were literally just the lyrics, nothing more (with some exceptions, see the details below). In a ‘real world’ example if you wanted to generate images... more →
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30 Days of Crashes in New York City

Between June 16th and July 15th, 149 people were injured by cars in the planned New York congestion zone and 4 people were killed.At the beginning of June New York Governor Kathy Hochul canceled New York City’s planned congestion zone. Under the planned congestion zone vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan would have been charged a fee. In response to Maps Mania… more →
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The Twelve (Generative) Days of Christmas

I tend to have a lot of silly ideas. Not useful ideas. Not good ideas. Silly ideas. Randomly yesterday I was thinking about the Twelve Days of Christmas song. If you aren’t familiar with it, it starts off with a gift for one day, then repeats and adds a second day, and so on and so on. The gifts are: partridge in a pear treetwo turtle dovesthree French hensfour calling birdsfive gold ringssix geese a-layingseven swans a-swimmingeight maids a-milkingnine ladies dancingten lords a-leapingeleven pipers pipingtwelve drummers drumming I thought – what if I took each of these phrases and dropped them into an AI image generator? I did, and the results were… kinda fun. Before I show... more →
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