Sometimes, as proclaimed by the title of this present gallery, AI-generated images can be too good for their own good, as I'll explain a little later here! But first, here is some necessary background info regarding this gallery and its contents:
Creating countless biker-themed AI images for this blog of mine during the past 8 months no doubt helped revive far-distant memories in my mind of a small stash of VHS home video tapes that had been filmed about 35-40 years ago by various family members and at least two different girlfriends, showing me alongside or astride my several motorbikes that I'd owned down through the years, using a very basic, early video camera, whose tape recordings' picture quality was adequate more than admirable. Nevertheless, I greatly treasured the resulting videos, because they were the only record that I had of me from my rebellious Wild Youth days back in my late 20s when, as I freely admit, I was not lacking in attitude, (over-)confident swagger, or assertiveness - in short, and as my American friends would say, I was definitely a bad-ass biker, lol. (More about that a little later here.)
Sadly, however, this stash of video tapes had somehow been misplaced during our house move in the early 2000s, and after undertaking several unsuccssful searches for them I'd reluctantly conceded that they must have been lost or even discarded in transit and that I'd therefore never be able to watch what was taped on them again. Imagine my surprise but delight, then, when, following yet another search for them earlier this month after their memories had newly resurfaced, I found them, wrapped inside a large paper bag concealed amidst several other such bags that contained some items of glassware and ornaments from our old house that I'd never got around to unpacking here in our new house.
Very anxious to discover their condition after such a very long time, as I knew full well that video tapes are not known for their viewing longevity, I binge-watched all of them. As a result, I was both happy & relieved to find that although there were sizeable segments on each tape that were unwatchable and unsalvageable due to a combination of crinkling and mould - the twin terrors always faced by video tapes & their collectors - in among these predominantly wrecked portions were some small yet perfectly watcheable, well-preserved snippets showing me as I still so well remembered, standing alongside, sitting asride, or even riding my mean machines!
So what I've been doing since rediscovering my tapes is subjecting those precious few still-watcheable vid clips of me preserved on them to a lengthy, laborious, but very fulfilling programme of restoration - firstly creating digital copies in mp4 format that could be played and edited on my laptop, then utilising resolution enhancement software to improve their viewing quality as much as possible. I've currently achieved excellent results with nearly a dozen video vid clips - so much so, ironically, that at least two Facebook friends mistook one of these restored real-life clips (but not the same one) for an AI-generated vid (more about that later here)! However, there are many more clips still awaiting attention, so this could be a very long drawn-out process, but to see a younger, fitter, and so much more vibrant me, resurrected like a veritable leather-jacketed phoenix from the ashes of the past, makes it all well worth while.
Moreover, by including them in their very own gallery here, despite the fact that they are definitely not AI-generated videos, means that these real-life vids now have a permanent online home, where they can be watched & enjoyed by so many viewers, after having spent the previous three to four decades concealed from the world inside a paper bag!
But what has any of this to do with AI images, which are after all the subject of my AI biker art blog? Let me explain.
" So I replied: "It doesn't actually do that, I slide it across the front of the saddle, look closely." That was the way I always dismounted from this particuilar bike, a Honda CX500, because it was too tall for me to throw my leg over the saddle like I do with most other, lower-slung bikes such as my Harley (had I tried it with the Honda, I'd have probably overbalanced!). Anyway, what I decided to do in addition to posting my reply was to create via the AI image-generation program Adobe Firefly a bona fide AI vid that hopefully would show this friend what moving my leg through the bike would have really looked like.And here are my other real vids of me in biker mode during the 1980s-2000s:
Finally, here as promised is the AI-generated vid created by me that envisages how I'd look if I could move my leg directly through my Honda motorbike, lol:
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 program Adobe Firefly, for non-commercial, entertainment purposes only, and do not feature any real-life persons or copyrighted characters.
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