Tag: art

Posted in stories

The Silent Portrait: A Tale of Artistic Horror

Posted on by Mike

For this story I thought I would begin by seeing what image Midjourney would conjure up with the single-word prompt ‘Art’. It gave me a few but there was something abut this one that intrigued me.

I put the image into Claude with the prompt, ‘Use this unusual picture as a prompt for a somewhat eerie 300 word short story.’ I used the latest version of Claude which is Opus 4.6 and it took a while ‘thinking’ before it actually produced this story.

Continue reading “The Silent Portrait: A Tale of Artistic Horror” →
Creative abundance in the form of an artist surrounded by an abundance of materials
Posted in AI and Creativity

We’ve Entered the Era of Creative Abundance. Here’s How to Thrive in It

Posted on by Mike

If you’d told me twenty years ago that one day I’d be creating stories, images, videos, and audio with the help of a machine that lives in my browser, I’d have smiled politely, nodded, and quietly assumed you’d had a funny turn. 

Yet here we are. I’m seventy-five, tapping away in my little shed at the end of the garden, watching as creativity spills out of me faster and more joyfully than it ever did when I had a school to run and assemblies to plan. And the strange thing is, I’m not overwhelmed by this new era. I’m energised by it. 

Because despite the noise, despite the panicked headlines, despite the grumbling in certain corners of the writing world, something extraordinary is happening. We’ve entered the age of creative abundance. And abundance changes everything.

Continue reading “We’ve Entered the Era of Creative Abundance. Here’s How to Thrive in It” →