I have just been to the 20Books Sevilla conference, and it was just as inspiring as I’d expected. Before I set off, I asked ChatGPT to come up with some ideas for “author merchandise” (because I’m still on my challenge of creating 52 AI-assisted artworks during 2024.) One of the ideas it suggested was “Author merchandise for recipe book authors”, which should include “A recipe book title etched onto a wooden spoon”. So here is my interpretation below. To be honest I’m nor sure this even counts as an artwork, but I thought that authors of recipe books could put their book title on one side…
![QR code on back of ChatGPT's suggestion for a spoon for recipe book author](https://i0.wp.com/www.lasersister.com/wp-content/uploads/20240309_204102-1.jpg?resize=618%2C1024&ssl=1)
…and then they could put a QR code for their website on the other side of the spoon:
![QR code on back of ChatGPT's suggestion for QR code on a spoon for recipe book author](https://i0.wp.com/www.lasersister.com/wp-content/uploads/20240309_204116.jpg?resize=900%2C900&ssl=1)
As it happens, I didn’t actually meet any authors of recipe books at the 20Books conference so I couldn’t show them my spoon-based wares, but that doesn’t really matter because I’m just doing what the AI tells me to do.
I met lots of lovely writers (even though none of them were authors of recipe books), and I also made a drunken promise commitment to another author (which I will explain more about at a later date…)