It's strange but fascinating how the most peripheral often becomes - against all the odds - the centre of attention, the unassuming chorus-girl in a stage musical who against all expectations suddenly becomes the leading lady. And so it was recently, when, in the gallery depicting my biker-themed LOTR pastiche's Fellowship of the Ring equivalent (click here to view it), and which contained some characters not present in Tolkien's original trilogy of novels, I included among them a picture of some bikers visiting a special Middle-Earth market whose vendors were Grey aliens from a neighbouring planet, selling all manner of bizarre extraterrestrial wares. I also included a video clip that I'd created from this very strange but fascinating picture, plus two screenshots from that video clip, thus totalling four alien market images in all.
The single original alien market picture had been produced by the AI image-generation program ChatGPT, in an unexpected (at least by me!) response to my verbal prompt requesting Fellowship-related pictures & videos. Moreover, although that picture & its three second-generation images weren't really applicable to that gallery's theme, they were undeniably very intriguing & eyecatching, and were therefore well worth retaining in some capacity. So, by simply adding a line in its text about some alien markets with Greys as vendors existing in this biker-themed LOTR pastiche's version of Middle-Earth, I was able to include them in my Fellowship gallery after all.
Once that gallery containing them was uploaded here in my blog, I thought nothing more about those curious ChatGPT-engendered images - until I started receiving communications from viewers commenting favourably about them (in contrast, none of this gallery's mainstream, applicable images has so far received any attention from viewers at all!).
Picking up on this evident public interest, I decided to prepare a gallery devoted specifically to the very engaging & engrossing scenario portrayed by this quirky quartet of fringe, ostensibly-peripheral images. But this time it would not be based in Middle-Earth.
I've utilised several different programs to generate pix showcasing a vast array of different alien types & alien wares on view in just a few tiny subsections within this absolutely colossal, multi-sectioned planet-market, with bikers (including a few alien bikers) browsing their spectacular sights, and this present gallery is the result. Moreover, bearing in mind that it was the image that inspired this latest gallery, I have used the original ChatGPT-generated alien market picture from my LOTR Fellowship's gallery as my Emporia gallery's opening picture (see above), and I've also included the video clip that I'd created from that original picture, plus the two screenshots from the video clip,
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More of my AI-created biker images & videos next time!
Plus: please click here to access a chronological listing of fully clickable links to all galleries uploaded by me on this blog. NB - all of the images & the video clip included in this page's gallery were created by me, RebelBikerDude, using the AI image-generation programs Grok, Grok Imagine (re the video clip), Dream Lab, Adobe Firefly, NightCafe, Cici/Dola & FreeGen, for non-commercial, entertainment purposes only, and do not feature any real-life persons or copyrighted characters.