Okay, so, my computer had issues making more than fifty percent of a whole image on pix2pix, but I had fun? I think, honestly, that it’s so great that I live in a time where I get to see a computer make a Nightmare Cat based on a few lines I drew. (nightmare cat is the first image, despite not looking like a cat)
Category: Deliverables-08
bookooBread – DeepNostalgia
I did this oil pastel portrait my sophomore year of high school. I thought it might be interesting to animate it – and holy crap – it is so weird seeing this. Kinda creepy but very cool.
bookooBread-GPT2
heimlich exhibits one which is identical with its opposite, unheimlich does not stand for things which are not identical, or identical with their opposite. The same applies to die unheimlich (though, perhaps, that should be pronounced einfach unheimlich rather than unheimlich).
bookooBread – ArtBreeder
This tool was so, so cool. I love this kind of insane, vomit of imagery look so this was perfect for my style. I loved how many options there were for meat… it is my favorite thing to play around with visually.
bookooBread – faceReadings
- In the John Oliver video, I was really struck by the story of the Brown student getting falsely accused of a terrorist attack. With the current biases in facial recognition technology, it is likely that stories like this will continue to occur. Our law enforcement agencies currently want to pin crimes to minorities – and this technology will only help them do that.
- “Any face that deviates from the established norm will be harder to detect”- Joy Buolamwini –> This line sort of stuck with me. It is one of the points of the video and goes along with what I was saying before. The “norms” that exist in our culture are heavily rooted in white supremacy – so as Joy explains in the video – current facial technology accepts those conditions and uses them as norms.
bookooBread -08 – LookingOutwards
http://www.sterlingcrispin.com/data-masks.html
What first caught my eye with this project was the texture of the masks. I am fascinated with certain textures, and these masks fall into that category. Some of them look like they could be rocks, and others look like a bunch of cotton balls stuck together or something. Even though it’s sort of not the point of the project, I am very intrigued by how they look. These masks are supposed to make a face unrecognizable to surveillance and facial recognition algorithms – and I think that this is a really interesting-looking approach to doing that.
YoungLee-DeepNostalgia
After using this program, I realized how incredible humans are at facial recognition because even though this animation of my brother looks exactly like him, it still looks a little off to the human eye.
YoungLee-GPT2
- Pandas are the cutest animals in the world, and you’ve got to admire the skill involved in driving them back to their miserable home before they’re eaten or go on the run. This endangered species’ drive to mate is ferocious, as the pandas in the video above show, and this male has pretty much given up after suffering two near-fatal attacks. Incredibly, the male had to be carried back to the female panda enclosure by animal wrangler Roland Pfeifer, after the poor bear tried to defend herself by attempting to fight him off.
- JHope from BTS is part of the group and he has broken the internet with his latest Instagram pictures. The singer looks super adorable in a double denim look in the photo. K-pop boy band BTS’ Jin is mesmerising his fans with his latest Instagram photos. The fans were already amazed after seeing the photos that have been released from the video promotions, but now they are even more excited and cannot stop raving about the stunning pictures. In the photo, Jin is seen wearing a denim jacket and a pair of
After using this tool, I wonder where the data came from and where different correlations are made. For example, in mine, the one about BTS made more sense even though it’s a very specific category compared to pandas.
YoungLee-ArtBreeder
I think Artbreeder is a very reliable tool to use for artists looking for new ideas. I was really surprised by the results, and I will probably use it again in the future when I’m looking for inspo.
YoungLee-Pix2Pix
I thought this was an interesting way to look at the different images of cats within this program because it seems as though all my cat designs have pretty dark fur.