Reimagining Elma: A Dream Town Built on Heritage
Hello everyone! I hope you haven’t missed me too much. Today, I took a little mental vacation and created some AI-generated images imagining how I would love to redesign my hometown—Elma. Of course, I know this is a dream project far beyond my budget, but sometimes dreaming is half the fun! If you are new to this blog, this is just a place that I regurgitate the strange, creative lurking in the recesses of my brain. And - I have made other AI images of Elma in this blog. I even designed images of food for restaurants that could be served in my imaginary dream land of turning Elma from a meth lab to a place people might want to hang out To start, I thought about the common family names that have shaped Elma’s history. Some of the names that immediately came to mind were Beerbower, Arnold, Olsen, and Huttula, along with others like: Byles — one of Elma’s earliest pioneer families Waldrip — another founding family name McDonald / MacDonald — Scottish roots commo...