Celebrate Creativity

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 409 - Living with the Beast, Part Two We begin this episode with a discussion of generative AI -  Now Generative AI models are trained on vast datasets of existing content (e.g., millions of images, billions of words of text, hours of music). During this training, they learn the underlying patterns, structures, and relationships within tha...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - This is episode 408 - Living with the Beast,  Part One  I'm gonna start with a prompt I gave Gemini that is really a bad example of a prompt because it is just so blooming short - it doesn't really say much.  But, in my opinion, the AI did a very good job with its response. My rather simple prompt was “Can AI truly be creative?” And Gemi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 407 - Redefining Humanity Let me start out by saying that I was using Gemini as a source for a podcast episode, and completely unexpectedly it gave me an audio clip called “redefining humanity - why AI can't replace consciousness.” It is really quite good, and you can hear it at the end of this episode. But I had no idea how it got th...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 406 of Celebrate Creativity - the personal side of genealogy - I continued my discussion with Gemini AI regarding genealogy with the following question - How would you suggest that a listener interested in his or her ancestors begin a journey in genealogy? That's an excellent question, and here's how I'd suggest a listener begin their journey into...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity -  episode 405  - The Practical Newside of Genealogy. I recently spoke with my cousin - a brilliant lady who is really into genealogy - this lady could go on for hours talking about the family ancestors - and that conversation with her gave me the idea of having a podcast episode or two about the world of genealogy.  So, I began typing the following...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity - episode 404 - an insider pushing for integrity  This episode will delve into the profound and often surprising role of the Catholic faith in the life and work of Stephen Colbert. I want to explore how his deeply personal spiritual journey, marked by both profound loss and a powerful conversion experience, has shaped his worldview, influenced his u...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 403 - Judicial Suits - this is the first of several  episodes composed of a winding conversation that starts with information regarding judicial suits, what I thought was a hallucination on the part of Gemini, Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, and ending with a look at Stephen Colbert. Support the show Thank you...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate creativity - Episode 402 - The Future of History - My hope is that listeners get more out of their AI interactions - and I certainly will be helping you along the way.  I also plan nothing less than for "Celebrate Creativity" to become a vibrant, intergenerational hub for exploring the enduring power of human imagination, supported by the exciting po...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - previously celebrate poe - this is episode 401 - From Poe to AI, Part Two - In this podcast episode, I wanna be getting away from Poe for now and delving more into AI. And now when I talk about AI or AI bots, just think about websites that use AI can you can ask a question - more about that later. Now, opening a play on Broadway certainly is a dem...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - formerly Celebrate Poe.  This is episode 400 - From Poe to AI, Part One -  and I am especially excited at the new possibilities that this new direction allows. Let me explain: A few days ago, I wrote a short note to my podcast host, buzz sprout, not really knowing what to expect - I wrote - I do a podcast called Celebrate Poe that has had 398 epis...

Send us Fan Mail Hello - this is George Bartley - just wanted to let you know that starting with Episode 400, the name of this podcast will be changed from Celebrate Poe to Celebrate Creativity - this way, this podcast can really delve more into 19th century writers, as well as human creativity, and the use of AI in literary and historical research - a lot more fun than it might appear at first!  ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 398 - Leaves of Music, Part Two Well heIlo, Walt Greetings, George. Now In the previous episode, I began a conversation with Mr. Walter Whitman specifically about opera. Well Mr. - I mean Walt - What would you say was the role of music in general in your works? Music in general was a central metaphor in my life and work, both as a metaphy...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 397- Leaves of Music - Part One Before getting into Whitman’s literary output in earnest, I would like to have at least two episodes about Walt Whitman, and what is often seen as a controversial and sometimes even unfamiliar art form - Opera.  First I'd like to begin, with a recent incident that has stayed in my mind since it occurred. A kin...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Poe for episode 396 Finding a Home, Part Two. This will be the final episode before the Fourth of July - a day when we celebrate the birth of this country and hopefully are especially mindful of democracy and it's foundations.  So out of necessity, this episode will be a few minutes longer to a deal with such areas ranging from at Edgar Allan Poe bohemian...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Poe - episode 395 - Finding a Home, Part One Welcome back Walt. That's hard for me to get used to. I'd rather call you Mr. Whitman out of respect, but if you prefer the familiar Walt understand. Thank you George. Remember that even my family even changed my name from Walter to Walt. Then the name Walt it is. First let me ask about your writing - what...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Poe - where - and who knows - maybe next month is also about Walt Whitman. This is episode 394 - Simplicity.  In the past few episodes, this podcast has dealt with some very complex issues such as slavery, but in this episode I would like to talk with Mr. Whitman about something that was central to his upbringing, and that quality was simplicity. Support the s...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Whitman.  My name is George Bartley. This is episode 393 - Schoolteaching Years When we left Walt in the previous episode, it seemed that his future career seemed set in the newspaper and printing trades - he saw the ability to print text that brought about images and emotions in the minds of other people to be almost magical. This was finally a vocation that...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Whitman.  My name is George Bartley, and this episode  392 I Sing The Body Electric In the previous episode, Celebrate Whitman dealt with the artist’s three months in New Orleans.  I had planned to talk with Mr. Whitman about his perceptions of the slave markets there, but it turned our to be more than enough for an episode all itself.  So in this episode, I w...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Whitman - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 391 Sojourn in the South. Greetings,  Hello, Mr. Whitman. As a Youth, you worked in the printing industry in New York at the Eagle - a connection that lasted throughout 1847.  But, as I understand it, you made an extremely memorable shift.  Could you tell us about it in your own words? Certainly,  - Now...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate poe  - Episode 390 - The Quaker Preacher Today I want to talk about Elias Hicks - a fascinating person who greatly influenced Walt Whitman. Greetings, Mr. Bartley. Hello, Mr. Whitman.   Now today I want to talk about Elias Hicks. Ah, Mr. Bartley - you mean the Quaker preacher.r   Yes, Mr. Whitman - the one and the same. Yes, I find the subject of Elias Hicks t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 389 - What Did Whitman Read? Ghost sound     Hello, Mr. Whitman. Greetings, George. Mr. Whitman - I mean Walt - we have been talking about your youth.  And I understand that you were largely self-taught in many respects.  It seems that you greatly enjoyed reading Shakespeare and the King James Version of the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 388 - Celebrating Whitman Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman are, arguably, the greatest writers of the 19th century. So last year, I decided to start a new podcast about Walt Whitman called celebrate whitman, as well as continuing celebrate Poe. Here is a 30 second promo for that new "Celebrate Whitman&q...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 386 - What Did Whitman Sound Like, 1 In previous years, I have always done episodes about Walt Whitman simply by talking about his life. I did not use the format of me talking in the first person, and asking questions from Walt Whitman because I simply didn't know where to start regarding the topic of what did Walt Whitman sound like.  There...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate Poe - episode 387 - what did Whitman sound like part two - in the previous episode, my big concern was coming up with a voice for the imaginary ghost of Walt Whitman that sounded definitely distinct from my natural voice as George, as well as embodying the communication styles of Walt Whitman.  And by the end of this episode, I hope you Will agree that I came...

Send us Fan Mail They took each other's hands. Each gave way to the impulse of his manly love, rarer, alas! but as tender and true as the love of woman, and they drew nearer and kissed each other. These words are from what is generally agreed to be America’s first gay novel.  Stick with this podcast as we delve into the 1870 novel Joseph and His Friend, and this is Episode 385 - America’s Fir...