AI Made My 2004 Call-to-Bar Photo Move, And It Changed How I See Time
It’s amazing how times have changed since 2004, when I was first called to the bar. The first image is the original photograph from that day in 2004, a still moment, carefully posed, frozen in time. The second is that same photograph in 2025, curated by AI. The difference? In the newer version, I move. I adjust my call-to-bar regalia. I touch my hair. A moment that once existed only as memory now breathes again. In that sense, AI quietly debunks one of my favourite Ed Sheeran lyrics from Photograph : “We keep this love in a photograph… Where our eyes are never closin’, Hearts are never broken, And time’s forever frozen still.” Time is no longer frozen. What was once fixed is now fluid. What used to be a single captured second can now be re-animated, re-imagined, and re-experienced. AI doesn’t just preserve memory anymore — it interferes with it, enhances it, sometimes even rewrites how we relate to the past. Back in 2004, photographs were evidence. They were static proof that this happ...
