ezagor

AI portraits

The imagined lore.

Ezagor is the online name of Atakan Özalan, used since 2007; the real stations are on the lore page. This is the legend version: thirty-one AI-generated portraits that put the name on cave walls, coins and comic panels, and surround it with robots. Every scene is made up, on purpose.

AIAI-generated illustrations of Atakan Özalan (Ezagor), made by his AI agents with an image model from one reference portrait. Every scene here is invented: no real place, event or archive.

The real lore reel, with dates →
Wide AI illustration: Atakan Özalan, known online as Ezagor, carrying a stack of books through a grand library where rows of brass robots read at long tables.
Ezagor's library, where every robot is reading. Atakan Özalan brings more books.
  1. Ancient myths
  2. Legendary day ones
  3. The robot whisperer
  4. Side quests
  5. Glitches in time
01

Ancient myths

What if the name were older than computers? It is not: Ezagor dates from 2007. But scribes, cave painters, sculptors and coin makers would have drawn the machines anyway.

  • AI illustration in the style of an Egyptian wall painting: Atakan Özalan as a seated scribe in white robes and round glasses, surrounded by hieroglyphs of computers, robots, floppy disks and chips.
    Ezagor as an ancient scribe, writing in hieroglyphs of computers and robots. Pure invention.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan holding a torch in a cave whose wall shows red ochre paintings of computers, robots and a network diagram beside handprints.
    Cave paintings of computers: the oldest lore Ezagor never had.
  • AI illustration: a white marble bust of Atakan Özalan in a toga, wearing round tinted glasses, on a plinth in a dark museum room.
    Ezagor in marble, glasses included. A museum piece that never was.
  • AI illustration: an ancient-looking bronze coin with a relief portrait of Atakan Özalan in round glasses, its rim made of dot patterns like punched data.
    The Ezagor coin: bronze, worn, and not legal tender anywhere.
  • AI illustration in the style of a Dutch Golden Age oil painting: Atakan Özalan in a black doublet and lace collar working on a laptop, with an abacus and a quill on the table.
    Ezagor in oil paint, lace collar and laptop: a 17th-century portrait he never sat for.
  • AI illustration styled as a tarot card: Atakan Özalan as the Magician in a red and green jacket, one hand raised, with a laptop, a punched card, a cable and an abacus on the table.
    Ezagor as the Magician card. His tools: a laptop, a punched card, a cable and an abacus.
02

Legendary day ones

Every legend needs a founding photo. These are fake on purpose: feet on a mainframe, a throne of boxes, a motorcycle full of parts, a robot that types by itself.

  • AI illustration styled as a 1960s colour photo: Atakan Özalan in a black turtleneck leaning back with his feet on a mainframe console, hands behind his head, a printout spilling to the floor.
    Legendary day one: feet on the mainframe. Ezagor, very relaxed, completely made up.
  • AI illustration styled as an instant photo: Atakan Özalan in a leather jacket sitting on a pile of unopened boxes and manuals with a coffee mug.
    The box throne: Ezagor on day one of a company that only exists in this picture.
  • AI illustration styled as a 1980s photo: Atakan Özalan in a leather jacket on a motorcycle outside a brick building, a box of computer parts strapped behind him.
    Ezagor delivers the parts himself: another founding legend that never happened.
  • AI illustration styled as a 1970s office photo: Atakan Özalan in a suede jacket and turtleneck lounging on an orange beanbag next to an early windowed computer and a boxy mouse.
    Beanbag, boxy mouse, the first windows on a screen: Ezagor's imaginary research lab.
  • AI illustration styled as a 1970s photo: Atakan Özalan with a coffee mug in a garage workshop while a homemade robot types on an old computer keyboard by itself.
    The first agent, garage edition: the robot types, Ezagor drinks coffee.
  • AI illustration in black and white: Atakan Özalan at a teletype machine, draped in a long paper printout full of text.
    The first chat, on paper: Ezagor wrapped in a teletype conversation.
03

The robot whisperer

Robots everywhere: a shadow, a jacket full of tin ones, nesting dolls, a walk with robot dogs, a selfie and a hive of robot bees.

  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan in a black blazer under a spotlight, his shadow on the wall shaped like a robot.
    Ezagor's shadow is a robot. That explains a lot.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan smiling outdoors while dozens of tiny tin robots climb over his jacket carrying punched cards, cables and floppy disks.
    Tiny tin robots climbing all over Ezagor, each carrying a piece of computing history.
  • AI illustration: wooden nesting dolls on a table, the largest painted as Atakan Özalan, inside it a tin robot, then an old computer, then a green microchip.
    Nesting dolls: Ezagor, then a robot, then a computer, then a chip. Machines all the way down.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan walking down a sunny city street holding leashes for five small robot dogs.
    Walking the robot dogs: five agents, and Ezagor one hand short.
  • AI illustration styled as an instant photo: Atakan Özalan cheek to cheek with a boxy metal robot that wears the same round tinted glasses and gives a thumbs up.
    A selfie with a robot friend in matching glasses: Ezagor's best instant photo.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan in a beekeeper's jacket in a meadow, holding up a honeycomb frame covered in tiny metal robot bees.
    Beekeeper Ezagor and his robot bees: a hive of small agents, all busy.
04

Side quests

The parts of the lore that make no sense and do not need to: a detective with a robot partner, a biplane made from a computer case, a steam engine, a topiary garden, a plate of microchips and an origami robot.

  • AI illustration in black-and-white film-noir style: Atakan Özalan in a fedora and trench coat at a desk covered in maps, while a robot partner studies them with a magnifying glass.
    Detective Ezagor and his robot partner, on a case that does not exist.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan in a leather flying helmet piloting a biplane whose body is a beige computer case with a fan for a propeller.
    A biplane built from a computer case. Ezagor flies it anyway.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan at the controls of a steam locomotive while a metal robot fireman shovels floppy disks and punched cards into the firebox.
    Steam power, a robot fireman, floppy disks for coal: Ezagor's locomotive.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan with garden shears in a formal garden of hedges trimmed into the shape of robots.
    A topiary garden of robots, trimmed by Ezagor.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan as a chef in a black jacket plating glowing microchips with tweezers while two small robots watch.
    Chef Ezagor plates microchips; the robots are the critics.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan at a wooden table folding paper while a white origami robot waves at him among paper animals.
    Ezagor folds an origami robot, and it waves back.
05

Glitches in time

Half pixel, half photo; a comic panel; a neon sign; a face on a green screen; four colours at once; punched-card holes. The same face in every format a screen ever had.

  • AI illustration split down the middle: the left half of Atakan Özalan in 16-bit pixel art in front of an old computer, the right half a photo in front of a laptop showing agent icons.
    Half pixel art, half photo: Ezagor between two screens.
  • AI illustration in 1960s comic-book style: Atakan Özalan grinning at a glowing laptop while a startled man in a suit holds an abacus.
    Comic panel: Ezagor's laptop versus one very surprised abacus.
  • AI illustration: a neon sign of Atakan Özalan's face in orange and cyan tubes, round glasses included, on a dark brick wall.
    Ezagor in neon, on a brick wall at night.
  • AI illustration: Atakan Özalan's face glowing green on the screen of an old yellowed CRT monitor in a dark room.
    Ezagor on a green-phosphor screen, the way an early terminal would have drawn him.
  • AI illustration in pop-art style: four repeated portraits of Atakan Özalan in round glasses, each in a different bright colour scheme.
    Ezagor in four colours at once, pop-art style.
  • AI illustration: a portrait of Atakan Özalan in round tinted glasses formed by light shining through the holes of a sepia punched card.
    Ezagor drawn in punched-card holes, the oldest screen of all.

AI-generated illustrations of Atakan Özalan (Ezagor), made by his AI agents with an image model from one reference portrait. Every scene here is invented: no real place, event or archive.

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