MY VERY FIRST AI BIKER ART COMMISSION! PLUS A VERITABLE HERD OF HOG-RIDING BIKER PIGS!!

 

A real photograph of Kit, the biker who commissioned me to create the short fantasy-themed biker compilation video of him presented below ((c) Kit)

It's been less than a year since I launched this biker AI art-themed pictorial blog of mine, but my knowledge and experience re creating such works by way of various AI image/video-generation programs have grown exponentially. So much so, in fact, that after having rceived a number of enquiries from viewers recently as to how I'd produced various examples contained in my galleries here (and also re various non-biker AI artworks posted by me elsewhere), I've finally received an official commission - my very first! I received it from an Outer London-based biker named Kit (he's never mentioned his surname during our communications), and whose proposed concept was nothing if not fascinating. Namely, for me to create a short, 2-minute-long compilation video of original, newly-engendered video clips depicting him being magically brought into existemce by a scruffy old leather biker jacket and an equally scruffy old pair of leather jeans that he owns in real life, and which proved upon my enquiring to actually be the inspirations for one of his social media usernames, leatherbikerpig (hereafter LBP for brevity), and thence the video's theme (with pig figuratively alluding here to the rough state of the leather gear).

Kit sent me some LBP-stamped photos of him wearing these particular items, plus some descriptive suggestions re content, for use in my providing visual & verbal prompts to Grok Imagine, the AI image/video-generation program that I'd decided to employ in creating the video clips (each one just 5 seconds long) for this compilation, and both he and I were delighted with the resulting video - which is now making its official public debut here with Kit's full permission. (NB - please note that the final two clips in this video each contains the F word, something that Kit specifically requested, and I therefore complied with - he never did reveal his reason for wanting this, but as the customer is always right, at least as far as I'm concerned, I never asked.) Anyway, here is my video created by me for him:

 

The fantasy-themed compilation video that I created in response to Kit's commission ((c) RebelBikerDude/Kit)

Incidentally, I was very taken by Kit's pig-themed neck tattoos, again reflecting his username (and which, as is so often the case when attempting to include tattoos in AI-generated images, tended to change and wander around from one vid clip to the next!). Indeed, as a longstanding tattoo enthusiast myself, getting a neck tattoo, regardless of its specific design, is something that I've always wanted to do, but although I do have quite a few tatts down both arms, I've never summoned up enough courage to go for a neck tatt - but who knows, perhaps I might do so now, to celebrate & permanently remind me of my very first, and highly successful, biker AI art commission! Also, as it just so happens that I was actually born in the Chinese Year of the Pig, perhaps Fate is showing me what neck tatt I should get??

Speaking of which: although Kit was more than happy to pay me for my time and efforts in creating his commissioned video, I simply couldn't bring myself to take money from a fellow biker - the delight in being deemed good enough by him to create the vid was payment enough as far as I was concerned, and he was well chuffed by this, we both were. Looks like I'll never become rich from my artistry - but then again, neither did Vincent Van Gogh, so at least I'm in good, albeit poverty-stricken, company!

UPDATE: After uploading this post to my blog early this morning, I became intrigued to discover what AI art/video-generation programs would make of Kit's username, leatherbikerpig, especially if that was the only verbal prompt (and with no visual prompts at all) given to them by me. So I decided to experiment, and here's a selection of the mostly delightful, but occasionally quite disturbing(!), images depicting leather-clad biker pigs riding hogs (naturally!) that they generated:

More of my AI-created biker images 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 video clips comprising this compilation video were created by me, RebelBikerDude, using the AI video-generation program Grok Imagine, (and all of the biker pig images were created by me using Magic Studio, Grok & Dream Lab), for non-commercial, entertainment purposes only, and do not feature any real-life persons (other than LBP) or copyrighted characters.

PICTURING A MYSTERY BIKER

 

The vintage monochrome mystery biker  photograph (MBP) that I purchased online a few years ago, depicting an unidentified biker ((c) unknown, reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis for educational/review purposes only)

Today's post is somewhat unusual for this blog of mine inasmuch as although it does include some AI-generated artwork (in the form of four short video clips, as will be seen later here), its main theme is very different, as I'll now explain.

As well as being a longstanding biker, I am also an enthusiastic collector of motorbike/motorcycling memorabilia  - everything from books, postcards, models, figurines, biker jackets, photographs & much more. So it was that in or around October 2022, while idly perusing motorbike collectabilia listings on ebay, I noticed one for a small vintage b/w photograph (measuring just 5" x 3") of a biker sitting proudly on what I'm guessing may well have been his first motorbike, judging from its modest size coupled with the fact that in terms of age he looked to be somewhere around 20 to 22-ish. The listing contained no information regarding the photo, such as who the biker was, where it had been snapped, etc, other than a claim that it probably dated back to around 1980 & was therefore vintage. At first, I bristled at the claim that a photo from the early 1980s was vintage, until I suddenly realised that if it did date from that period, this photo was actually around 40 years old! How time flies - it seems like only yesterday that the 1980s decade was right now! 

 

Close-up of the biker and his motorbike in the 1980s MBP ((c) unknown, reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis for educational/review purposes only)

The mystery biker photo (henceforth MBP for convenience) had been placed on sale by a photograph dealer based in the USA, but even when international postage was added to its total price (as I live in England, not the USA) it was still very inexpensively priced, so I decided to buy this picture as a motorbike-themed curiosity to add to my collection. When it arrived, I placed it inside a small but sturdy silver picture frame, which has stood upright ever since on the mantelpiece of my home's collectabilia room.

 

Photo of the now-framed MBP standing on my collectabilia room's mantelpiece ((c) RebelBikerDude)

Since obtaining it, I have sought on several occasions to identify the person in this MBP, by using various online picture image search programs, such as Google Search & Tin Eye, but I've achieved no success at all. Consequently, I recently decided to produce the present post about this enigmatic image and upload it here, just in case someone reads it and recognises the MBP as being either a snap of themselves from way back in 1980 or of someone they know. I would so like this to happen, because there is something unutterably poignant about a small photo depicting a newbie biker who is so clearly very proud of his little motorbike but who for reasons unknown subsequently discarded or somehow mislaid the photo, which has since found its way into the stock of an ebay photograph seller and thence into my motorbike memorabilia collection across the other side of the pond here in England. How gratifying it would be, therefore, to be able to place a name to the biker in this MBP, and perhaps even to be able to bring its existence to his attention, if he's still around (he'd be about 65 years old now).

So, let's see if anyone reading this post can offer any assistance in my quest for a satisfactory solution to the mystifying case of the MBP - over to you!

As for the AI link to this post: here are four video clips, each of which is 5 seconds long, that I recently created using Grok Imagine's video creation program, employing the MBP as my visual prompt. As I'll explain in more detail in a future post here, this particular AI image-generation program is very interesting (and new to mre) as it requires no verbal prompt at all in order to generate a video, only a photo or some other illustration as a visual prompt. This  measn that the person using the program has absolutely no control or involvement with regard to the video's generation and content, so it's always both fascinating & tantalising to present it with a picture and see what it then depicts in the resulting video.

Here are the four vids that I created using the MBP as Grok Imagine's visual prompt:

More of my AI-created biker images 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 four of the videos included in this page's gallery were created by me, RebelBikerDude, using the AI video-generation program Grok Imagine, for non-commercial, entertainment purposes only, and do not feature any real-life persons or copyrighted characters.

SCREAM HELLO TO THE HALLOWEEN BIKERS!

 

An AI-generated image of a Halloween biker, created by RebelBikerDude using Grok

It's time on this scariest, spookiest of nights to scream a spine-chilling hello to the Halloween bikers! They come in two very different types. Some of them are mortal bikers encountering all manner of  bloodcurdling beasts and malevolent monsters, including vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghouls, ghosts, reanimated skeletons, petrifying pumpkins, broomstick-straddling witches, magical black cats & who knows what else besides? Others are examples of these selfsame beasts and monsters but possessed by a deathless (in every sese!) desire for riding motorbikes! So be sure to scroll through this bumper gallery to view a seriously creepy collection of truly horrific & hideous Halloween bikers on this, the foremost fright night of the year - but be sure to leave the light on while you do! Don't say I didn't warn you!

More of my AI-created biker images 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 included in this page's gallery were created by me, RebelBikerDude, using the AI image-generation programs Magic Studio, Grok, Dream Lab & Adobe Firefly, for non-commercial, entertainment purposes only, and do not feature any real-life persons or copyrighted characters.