AI Field Notes: Reconstructing Moments That Were Never Photographed
Field Note for The Mother Road Chapter 2: Get Your Kicks on Route 66
It all started with a little 2x3 inch black and white photo from over 70 years ago.
I was thinking it’s a shame it wasn’t from our “migration” trip on Route 66, for which I have exactly no photos. Until right then, for some reason, I hadn’t thought about image generation as a resource for the memoir project. In fact, even then I was only thinking in terms of AI “Photoshopping” the car and me onto a background photo of the corner in Chicago where US 66 starts from its eastern end.
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