The Four-Color Rift

Beneath the water-stained plaster of a Midwestern ceiling, a quiet transformation begins. As the boy cracks the spine of U.F.O. & Outer Space, the room’s dull tungsten glow is shattered. A radiant spiral of cosmic energy erupts from the pulp pages—rainbow lightning laced with stardust and memory.

The swirl ascends, turning the ceiling fan into a spinning vortex. On the walls, silent guardians—Zorro, Conan, Tron—begin to shimmer, their eyes flickering with sudden awareness. The floorboards hum. The globe spins on an invisible axis. The boy is no longer just reading; he is summoning. In the static charge of the air, the line between paper and reality dissolves.

[workflow: a bunch of nanobanana prompts to create various components. Image searches to retrieve magazine and poster images. I took my 20+ items into Affinity Photo for composition, including multiple layers and mask work. A bunch of pixel brush experiments to get the magic swirl.]

• UFO & Outer Space no.19 from 1978 (USA) artwork by Luis Dominguez
• Conan der Barbar no.8 from 1982 (Germany) artwork by Bob Larkin
• Alien Worlds no.8 from 1984 (USA) artwork by John Pound
• [Zorro] Four Color no.425 from 1952 (USA)
• Ripley's Believe It or Not! True Ghost Stories no.11401-2 from 1979 (USA)
• Schoolhouse Rock! poster from 1975
• The Explorers movie poster from 1985 (USA)
• Tron movie poster from 1982 (USA)
• The Karate Kid from 1984 (USA)

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UFOs Captured On Film Flying Over Egypt

 Here are some images I tweaked after creating them within Tengr.AI.

UFO visiting the pyramids of Egypt

As the sun beat down on the Egyptian desert, a strange and wondrous sight appeared in the sky. A UFO hovered above the ancient pyramids, its metallic hull glinting in the bright light. Below, a small caravan of traders rode camels across the dunes, oblivious to the extraterrestrial visitor hovering above.

[Workflow: UFO visiting the pyramids of Egypt was created using Tengr.AI with only a few post-edits  from me in Affinity Photo.]

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UFO Lands Near Clonakilty

As the news of the UFO's landing spreads, the small town of Clonakilty in south Ireland is abuzz with excitement. UFO itself appears to be emitting a soft, pulsing glow, which is attracting a swarm of curious bees and butterflies from the surrounding wildflowers. Who knows what secrets the UFO might hold, or what messages it might bring from beyond our planet? One thing is certain, however: this small town in south Ireland has just become the epicenter of an intergalactic adventure that will be remembered for generations to come.

[My Workflow: FourTengr.AI images were created (horizon, sky, flowers, and UFO), merging portions into this widescreen image. Post edited artifacts out, then added new layers of clouds, brushed in some more flowers, electrical discharge, and the energy glow using Affinity Photo.]

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UFO Spectral Mapping of the Arizona Desert

UFO caught on film actively spectral mapping the Arizona desert floor south of Tucson.

Affinity Photo Workflow: A few image prompts using Bing DALL-E, and Meta AI Imagine to get me part of the flying saucer.  Sky image pulled from an astrophotography search, van with reflection borrowed from a car ad, cactus masked from other images.  Laser beams. ring lights on saucer and spectral mapping grid (mesh warping funtime) were added by hand in Affinity Photo.   A lot of masking to get the desert skyline and road added. Boxes and buildings dropped in for extra features.

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Celestial Menagerie Expedition Earth

UFO collecting another pack animal for their celestial menagerie...

[Affinity Workflow: collect images from the USDA public website of farms, found some mules on a public free image, UFO from stock images, added more lights. used brushes to make the tractor beam, particle brushes, a motion blur effect on a mule. hand brushwork on cloud fixes.] --- took me longer to collect all my image materials than to combine them together.

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UFO Sandblasting the Arizona Desert

Image captured of a UFO probing the Arizona desert floor with modulating plasma beams during some late-night experimentation.   There are some surveillance cube-shaped drones flying a perimeter loop around the spacecraft during the operation.   Composited from a few Meta AI Imagine prompts (for inspiration), grabbed a bunch of skyline+desert+UFO image searches, and then combined it all with additional Fx work inside Affinity Photo.

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Beef. It's What's for Dinner

Beef. It's What's for Dinner. Interplanetary cattle rustlers at work during a midnight raid on farmer Joe's grazing pasture.

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Aliens Invade Old Tucson

My digital editing pen-pal Rens van Daalen (@IAmRensi), who lives over in the Netherlands took my photo and created this nice alien invasion image. Rens even made a quick video walk-thru of how he got from start to finish from my original photo taken in October 2023 at Gate's Pass in Tucson Arizona.