New Moto Guzzi Door Mats Available Now
This piece of work was done by my sister in 1977 when her then husband bought the first Z1000 available in my home town.He still has the bike and the memory…Hand drawn with fine liner and countless hours…. I have it framed on the wall and I still am in awe of it. She did exactly the same thing for my Ducati Darmah.Now THIS Gentlemen…Is art.I once had a guy who told me that it must have been a doctored photo, until I pointed out a couple of inaccuracies in the detail that proved it couldn’t be, but you’d have to know or you’d never see them. I simply do not know if the original outline was traced or plotted, but it’s just way beyond me.
Make no mistake about my ramblings in this thread.AI is fun to play with. I enjoy seeing what it can do and learning how different prompts change the outcome. But I don’t confuse it with—or compare it to—art.Art carries an emotional attachment to the person who put the work into it. That attachment only deepens when there’s a personal connection behind it. I still have drawings I did in high school while taking art classes. They’re not great, but they’re real, and they represent time, effort, and who I was then.Sure, I could type a prompt today that would generate something technically better—but it would have no attachment to me.Even more meaningful to me are the drawings hanging in my shop that my daughter made while watching me work on bikes. She was about five years old at the time. No amount of skill, polish, or technology can replace that memory or what it represents.So while AI has its place as a tool, the countless hours, the human imperfections, and the personal history behind a hand-drawn piece are what make it art to me.
It’s all a matter of perspective.We all take shortcuts every day. We eat out, grab cereal instead of cooking, and come to forums like this one instead of learning everything the hard way through trial and failure. That’s a shortcut too—and most of us are grateful for it.AI is no different. It’s just another tool.Building an old Guzzi instead of buying a new bike is harder, slower, and less efficient—but many of us do it anyway because the process has value. The knowledge, the mistakes, the satisfaction of doing it ourselves. That’s time well spent for us.For other things, efficiency makes sense. There’s enough genuinely hard stuff in life without intentionally making everything harder just to prove a point. The key isn’t avoiding shortcuts—it’s deciding what’s worth your time and effort and what isn’t.Use the hard road when it matters. Use the tools when they make sense. That balance is different for everyone.
