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The making of a celebrity jeweller.

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Lucy Sky is heiress to the real estate empire established by her philanthropist great-great-great-great-great-grandfather in 1821. She bursts upon the celebrity jewellery circles with her first bespoke boutique in London and has never looked back. It seems nothing can stop her meteoric rise. Except perhaps the man who loves her from afar. Soon to be the leading lady in a fast-paced graphic novel by Tan Choon Hong. 

Tribute to the Great Ages in Advertising: The Stoney Seventies

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Let's join ChatGPT on a journey to relive the times of our lives in the great ages of advertising covering the 60s, 70s and 80s. We’ll kick off the series with the 70s, my favourite period.  Escaping the horrors of war into a bubble of peace love joy.  Note: I will edit out the 60s and 80s material for followup posts. We'll engage ChatGPT in a Q&A fashion to be our guide, and use Leonardo AI to generate the illustrations. Me:   Hello ChatGPT, please help me write an article on the key trends in advertising design and how they reflect the lifestyles, clothes, fads, music, hopes and dreams of society during the 60s, 70s and 80s. For each era please provide a catchy subhead, for example, 1960s era: the golden age advertising when advertisers pushed “hip” and ditched “square” to win the young. Please write in some detail, in a incisive and friendly tone with a dose of satire, puns and humour where appropriate to keep readers engaged. Directed at the general audience...

Which came first, chicken or egg? You decide.

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Watch video on linke below From the time our cavemen ancestors first gazed at the stars and started pondering everything from the trivial to the profound, humanity has been debating which came first, chicken or egg. In those days it might have been focused on dino or egg. This is my take, a video created with generative AI.   The Making of the Video  Step 1. Songwriting After keying in a prompt into Suno outlining what the song is all about it spewed out in seconds two versions with the following lyrics: [Verse 1] Which came first the chicken or the egg Round and round it goes playin' on my head Feathers and shells and mornin' sunlight Crackin' jokes 'bout what's wrong or right [Verse 2] Cluckin' around in a barnyard chase Egg rolls down in a fast-paced race Chickens laugh with a wingful glee Mystery spins like a carnival spree [Chorus] Chicken or egg it's a riddle we sing What hatched first the bird or the thing Round and round goes the fun debate Let...