I’ve been having a lot of fun the last couple of months using AI Art tools like Stable Diffusion, in combination with Photoshop and other tools, to create fun imagery for the silly games we play on my podcast Where I’m From. This holiday season, I thought it would be fun to have my friend and collaborator Kelly Rands from The Humor Mill Orlando come on to play Santa Claus for a special improvised holiday episode. We had a ton of fun talking, but the show is built around having photos, videos, and other documentary footage to cut to while my guest-of-the-week tells us about where they’re from.
PROBLEM: Santa Claus isn’t real.
POTENTIAL SOLUTION 1: Lock down our improv by picking one Santa Claus origin story and using that to guide the interview, limiting the amount of improv we could do since there would be so many “facts” to remember.
POTENTIAL SOLUTION 2: Don’t lock us in and let the improv scenes flow, then “yes, and” our conversation with fun, funny imagery.
I picked Solution 2, mainly because I’ve been looking for a project that would let me sink my teeth in it.
AI-Assisted Holiday Wallpaper Collection
All told, the Where I’m From episode with Santa Claus (embedded above) contains 80+ original Christmas images. Some of them are goofy. Some of them are silly. All of them were created with Stable Diffusion, Photoshop, and about 25-30 hours of honest labor on my part.
Please, feel free to use these as wallpapers next holiday season. The first one is my favorite. 🙂