Mister Crowley

 An experiment artificial intelligence created on 31 March, 2023. At one time, the Dream Deep program resulted in some unsettling and engaging psychedelic permutations of imagery. I abandoned using it eventually, as the move toward AI created ethical concerns -- plus the results were unsatisfactory, having a uniform fantasy-airbrush appearance. I'll make an exception and post this already-made work, which resulted from inputting photos of Aleister Crowley, and a collage using the dust jacket from Colin Wilson's book The Occult (among other things). I added a tad to it. The piece did end up with a super creepy feel to it. 

17 Years of Adalbert/Xothique

 To celebrate the 17th anniversary of this blog, here's a new cartoon I drew (digitally) recently: An imagined trip, including both Ken Kesey and John Creasey on the bus, Furthur. Their lifespans overlapped in part, although they belonged to different generations. Outside of a slight similarity in their names, and the fact both were writers, they had few similarities in their approaches.

-JBF

Slide Photo: Dutch Harbor, Alaska

 

Slide photo by Bruce W. Falk; WWII-era Naval station, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, circa 1958. 

Cartoon: Mom Classics 2

 

Parental Snapshot, circa 1951

 

A photo of my father (Bruce W. Falk), circa 1951. From a negative.

Slide Photo: Sports Car Racing in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1958

 

Parental (Bruce W., and Hazel M. Falk) slide: "Sports car racing, Fairbanks, 4-58."

New Cartoon

 

A new cartoon I created (drawn digitally), based on my mother's accounts of a restaurant operated by Greek immigrants, where she was employed as a waitress. The time frame was toward the end of World War Two. 

Slide Photo: El Morro Inscription Rock, 1958

 

Parental slide photo (by Bruce W., or Hazel M. Falk). Inscription Rock, El Morro National Monument, New Mexico; circa 1958. 

Normalcy (2025 Collage)

 A recent digital collage of mine: Normalcy (2025; with material from newspapers.com). -JBF

1989 Photo

 

A photo of me, from 1989; when I had recently returned from Eugene, Oregon. -JBF

Kamakura, 5 December, 2024

 

A photo I took; Great Buddha at Kamakura, Japan; 5 December, 2024. The moon and Venus appeared behind stacks of fulgent clouds; crows flew and rasped in mystery, about the evocative statue.