your current favourite piece of art

[floatyhippyflower]

I completely forgot to update this topic. My friend Lesley's animation finally went live late last year, showing on Channel 4 as part of their Random Acts series. It will also now feature at the Toronto film festival in summer. Nic, who served as editor, has a section on her website (posted a few months ago if you scroll back) with photos of some of the props she made for it under Other Things off the top of my head. Anyway, Spatulahead. This is it:

http://vimeo.com/74584231

:wub:

 

[Hyper Acid]

That was absolutely amazing. It ended at the perfect moment, had me laughing.

This is the first animation I ever did sound for, (quite recently), it's not my current favourite piece of art, but I'd love some feedback on it:

 

[oceanz]

"Each painting is constructed by beginning with a monochrome underpainting in the complement of the featured subject. Subsequent layers of semi-opaque through to transparent colors follow with up to ten passes before the end result is achieved. The process is in essence a modified version of techniques used by Northern European Masters, Vermeer being of the greatest in influence." Dennis Wojtkiewicz

 

[oceanz]

3'30" vimeo animation "Land"
^via an Opiuo tweet "beautiful"

 

[oceanz]

Simon Haiduk (links to his album Quartz Lake on Merkaba Music btw there's a new comp Resonant Mind up nxt wk)

artbysimon.com

 

[oceanz]

from synapticstimuli via nomadic cortex

 

[enuui]

 

[RYKANSLOPE]

weirdness

 

[oceanz]

I'm not entirely sure what Google's doing here going deeper into neural networks

- but it seems like some sort of feedback loop is letting the computers find animals in the sky!

hope some more hi-res images surface soon - but there's some wonderful random pics so far

 

[oceanz]

some more craziness from neural network feedback dreaming computers:

^that's bonkers eh - it's like compared to the pic above, the computers have looked at the field long enough to imagine they can see a whole city skyline in the foreground and...is that a bicycle top left? It thought it was a Hippo before!

 

[bez23]

That's totally astonishing - good find!

 

[oceanz]

I just saw Google has released a version of that deepdream iterative image feedback mayhem and there's user images surfacing with <hashtag>deepdream. Here's a few of them so far:

^ProfLeary - with some sort of indian temple pillar above his shoulder and phantom hounds in the background

^apparently started off as a half-eaten doughnut!

^?! woah! I'm loving the puppy dog knees!

a dozen or so images on flickr

 

[oceanz]

Google Research Blog: DeepDream opensource code info

seems like it can make some beautiful textures - no idea how much user input there is in the process - some pics have a few versions and there's different styles a bit too

wow and someone's made a sort of live rendering zooming fractal using some of the tech too - http://www.twitch.tv/317070 info

 

[Hyper Acid]

That has inspired me immensely, thanks so much for sharing, much appreciated.

 

[oceanz]

I've not explored it all yet - but looks like there's another texture it can make too

 

[Hyper Acid]

http://gizmodo.com/oh-god-someone-ran-fear-and-loathing-through-googles-n-1716036990