AI visualised armoured trishaws (tuk tuks)

I took up David Blacker’s prompt to create AI images of armoured trishaws. It turned out to be a bigger challenge than I thought. Multiple Generative AI (GenAI) platforms had a hard time creating an image that matched the armoured trishaw I look I had in mind. The first GenAI I tried was mid-journey (last year). It …

Armoured Trishaw (Tuktuk) Photos – Sri Lankan war

Armoured Trishaws are the defining image of the Sri Lankan wars. Culminating is the central feature on the national flag of the People’s Republic of Dehiwala. The Sri Lankan wars, in general, and the siege of Colombo, in particular, saw a profusion of models and variants. This post contains a small sample of the most …

Giving in to painting

Trying to give up painting is one of my many failures. Writing this is the formal admission of defeat - my signature on the unconditional surrender document.  Renouncing painting meant avoiding seeing other works of art and thoughts about it. Doing something else. Take a stab at spectating. Then, I see a slab of morning …

17 years of blogging

I started this 17 years ago today. I’m aiming to avoid making my 18th the quietest yet. The idea of using AI to spew words for me is silly. What you see here will always be what I typed.  The writing now is not bloggable anymore. It’s practical, logistical and personal for the exhibitionism required. The …

Spectator sport = giving up sex to watch porn

This is not going to be polite. It’s the sort of comment that start brawls at dinner dances and weddings. Leading to bleeding cricket uncles, Machans, and oceans of precious single malts in the carpet. I would be unrepentant when hauled away. However, unlike cricket, I have an explanation and you are reading it. It …