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Give This AI Image a Caption #1 – The Monday Morning Meeting Nobody Asked For

I was experimenting with Midjourney again this week, the digital equivalent of rummaging in a curiosity shop, when it produced an image that made me stop, blink, and mutter “What on earth…?” into the quiet of the room.

Not because it was beautiful. Not because it was meaningful. But because it looked uncannily like the sort of gathering you’d stumble into if you took a wrong turn inside a Tim Burton film.

I won’t explain it. That would ruin the fun. Instead, I’ll let you take it in and decide for yourself what kind of meeting these peculiar beings are having… and why the one in the middle looks like they’d very much like to leave.

A surreal, Tim Burton-style illustration showing a nervous stick-figure person surrounded by four bizarre, wide-eyed monsters: a black spiky one, a red blobby one, and two blue creatures — one offering a steaming cup. All appear to be staring at the central figure.

I spent a good minute trying to work out whether these creatures were:

  • interviewing the poor soul in the middle,
  • arguing about who has to drink the coffee,
  • or simply waiting for someone to explain why they were all summoned here at 9am.

Whatever’s going on, one thing is certain: this image desperately needs a caption. And that’s where you come in.

Your Turn, Caption This Image

Give me your best line in the comments.

It can be:

  • silly
  • serious
  • poetic
  • ominous
  • cheerfully unhinged
  • or something so perfect I’ll wish I’d thought of it myself

Next week, I’ll share my favourite captions, and I might even transform one or two into tiny stories. Consider it our weekly creative mischief session between humans and machines.

A Closing Thought

The thing I love most about AI images is that they don’t care about logic. They’ll happily hand you a scene that feels like a cross between a nightmare, a cartoon, and a philosophical debate about hot beverages. And somehow, in the middle of all that strangeness, your imagination wakes up.

So… what do you think is really happening here?


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When Six Images Became a Mini-Film: Testing Midjourney + ElevenLabs 

How two AI tools turned still pictures into moving art, and why this is just the beginning

This week I tried a small experiment that turned into something surprisingly delightful. I took six still images created in Midjourney and asked it to turn each one into a five-second video. Nothing fancy, no complicated prompting, just a simple “animate this” test to see what it could do.

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