Sweet Gold


Original digital realistic art: “Sweet Gold” by: rob kistner © 8/1/23
 

Your essesnce unearthed in Corsica
off the western Italian coast
when it comes to sweet and zesty
you are by far the most

you crossed the mighty ocean
seeds in the pockets of Peter Pieri
then down a roaring river
to the land of columbia valley

loved for earthy sweetness
your round and jumbo size
so much were you cherished
you put tears of joy in their eyes

gently selected and coddled
harvested each year carefully
the Italian growers of the valley
knew what a treasure you could be

demand spread round the state
soon America knew of your fame
so important are you today
you carry the valley’s name

whether breaded deep fried or raw
you’re the gem of WA Blue Mts.
you’ve enjoy a century of ya ya
Walla Walla — ooo-la-la


Original digital art: “Valley of Gold”
by: rob kistner © 8/1/23

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rob kistner © 7/24/23
Poetry at: dVerse

 


22 thoughts on “Sweet Gold”

    1. The photos are not photos. They are digital art pieces I created using digital hand renderings that I then programmed with control codes and prompt lines through multiple rounds of extrapolation bots — finishing final touches in Photoshop. Unnervingly real looking aren’t they. Go to this post ( https://www.image-verse.com/my-ddaies-trade ) on my site and look at some of the stuff I have been turning out with this approach. Nothing you will see there is a photograph. All digital output I created with this multi-step process. It is wild fun my friend! 🙂

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        1. Thank you very much True, but my intial code prompt lines were weak. My core digital rendering was being misinterpreted, but on my 5th rewrite, the extrapolation process finally began interpreting better my rendered core piece and code prompts. If you look below here you will see the progression from poor interpretation to the image I was finally seeking. Table, with a bowl of Walla Walla sweet onions, small white flowers, and a carafe of wine — with an interpretive representation of Walla Walla Valley in background… even ended with a couple additional accurate interpretations to consider. In the end, I had to re-render my digital core image one more time and, rewrite my prompt code line twice more, but finally my human flesh mind and the digital bot brain began to sync up, and a nice piece of art was created. I then further detailed it out for about an hour on Photoshop. Six Progressions from top left to finally the bottom right to get the final image I envisioned. There were several more iterations between, but felt there was no real benefit from showing them. Successful digital extrapolation always requires patience, tenacity, and dogged creativity — but what fun!

  4. Rob, Your poem title is perfect and your poem radiates with the hue of the golden onion.

    I checked out your other digital art and you have some amazing stuff that would make for a great prompt.

    Would it be okay for me to use one to pair with my words? My muse was inspired.

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    1. Please do True! I would be honored. Please share where you got it, in some small way my friend. 😉 I have over two thousand quality original digital art pieces I have amassed personally since my son Justin and I began seriously creating digital work together the day after my 43rd birthday in 1990… when Photoshop 1.0 was released on February 19, 1990, for Macintosh exclusively – and that lit the fuse. I can’t draw worth a shit, but I fully comprehend texture, color, lighting and visual composition, so that I had begun experimenting with Mac Draw in 1984, when it was released for the early Macintosh computer. I played with more sophisticated visual tools at Lucasfilm LTD, at my offices on Skywalker Ranch in Marin County when I worked there for George — but I couldn’t afford these for my personal digital toolbox. I got to know the guys at Skywalker Sound and Digital Light and Magic. That was incredible fun. The work my son Justin and I were doing really accelerated in spring of 2007, when the company Alien Skin released the plug-in set entitled Eye Candy for Photoshop. In the last few years, I’ve expanded to start creating surrealism and hyper-realism — learning to write prompt code lines for extrapolation bots, building visually expanded images from our initial abstract digital renderings — using those digital renderings as core beta feeds. Given the advancing arthritis in my hands and shoulders has robbed me of my ability to effectively create my mixed-media Serenity Totems — it is now exclusively digital art for me. My mind and creative vision still work fine, and Siri and I are learning to work together better and better. Her spelling continues improving, and I am getting better at spotting her typos more quickly. 😉

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  6. Thanks for this journey with the beloved sweet gold onions, crossing the ocean and bringing “tears of joy”! I love the way you paid tribute to them… and your digital art is fascinating!

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