My plague year, a78

Watching the madness. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 23

Gangs of infected start roaming the streets of red state towns. Huddling close together as they patrol the town. Vomiting on each other in a frenzy of joining.

My plague year, a77

Adventures in stack filtering. Of topical imagery In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 22

"Not only do i take poison everyday, but i find this scientific report that talks about the malicious effects of poison on the human body to be a political slam job."

My plague year, a76

Temporal Rank Neighborhood filter. Stack filtering of curated topical news imagery. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 21

Office of white house affairs assures us.

No one wants us to take poison everyday.

My plague year, a75

Gotta wear that mask. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 20

"I take poison everyday.  You should to."

My plague year - a74

Another procedural generative MSG image that was then processed by some source modulated effects.  Anchoring it to current events.  In my plague year.

The coronavirus saga - chapter 19

Everyone seemed to be aware of Jon Frum. Of his existence. But no one could specifically speak to have met him in the flesh.

My plague year - a73

Started out with procedural MSG. But quickly got more topical when i added some Colorization. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga- chapter 18

Stargate gives hope. 

My Plague Year, a72

Juggling many different things.  In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 17

The royal proclamation of free money. A gift to true citizens only. Mailed out to all in the land.

My Plague Year, a71

Current events. Racing at you. They tell a story. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 16

To recap the story so far. Two men sit in an office. Fairly non-de-script. A government office.

My Plague Year, a70

Counting up the numbers. And fixing weird arithmetic rounding error blit code bugs (look closely). In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 15

OFFICIAL WARNING: Ignore that last FutureBook Post. It was created by an evil AI-Bot.  Make sure to never open attachments from the future unless they are from a trusted source.

My Plague Year, a69

Shaken.    and Stirred.     in my Plague Year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 14

FutureBook. 

The social network that lets you connect with the future.

My Plague Year - a68

I like the aggregate imagery that starts to pop up as you look at this. The news cycle regurgitated and spat back at you. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 13

Today the government announced a special new government theme song.

My Plague Year, a67

Lots of crazy news. Portrayed using stack filtering techniques here.  In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 12

CNN Announces Breaking News

Speaking with us today is former White House official REDACTED.

My Plague Year, a66

More dual stage stack filtering experiments. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 11

A man stood at the podium. Blinking into the light. He stared at the camera. Which was what he knew how to do.

My Plague Year, a65

Another experiment where an effect is inserted into the input chain for a temporal ip op effect processing a folder of curated topical images. So steroid induced stack filtering. In my plague year.

The coronavirus saga - chapter 10

Michigan governor Wretchen Ghitmer stepped to the podium and began to speak. Stressing how important it is that we all continue to follow the quarantine at home rules while we assess the current every evolving situation.  We need to follow the science on this.  Think of your grand parents she says to the agitated crowd of reporters and demonstrator and miscellaneous staff members.

My Plague Year, a 64

World looks on in horror as Trump flails over pandemic despite claims US leads way. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 9

AP Wire Release: For Immediate Distribution

An innovative coronavirus testing program in the Seattle area, promoted by the billionaire Bill Gates and local public health officials as a way of conducting wider surveillance on the invisible spread of the virus, has been ordered by the federal government to stop its work pending additional reviews.

Puma goes elektro

Puma Jones explores the rave culture.

My Plague Year, a63

Expanding the concept of stack filtering to include a effect processing step on the individual randomly selected frame images prior to inserting them into the temporal ip op effect.  Prototyped it as a 2 stage process, but will probably add it as a new Gallery Show feature. Working with curated topical imagery from current events. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga- chapter 8

The biker looked out at the crowd in front of the Stone Pony, finest strip club in all of the Texas Panhandle's immediate vicinity.  Maybe even better than the Polo Club.

These people were angry. They were riled up. They wanted answers.

My Plague Year, a62

When things were so hectic that we missed one. Did you notice. We did. 

Sorry. Very busy in the code dungeon.   Details to follow. Pretty cool ones. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga -chapter 7

The Senate committee meeting was in full swing. Everyone was agitated. People wanted answers.

My Plague Year, a61

Scraping the news barrel. For outrageous current events. Details to follow. In my plague year.

The corona virus saga - chapter 6

He had been sick for a long time. Locked at home. One of the many forgotten ones. Lost and alone.

For a long time it seemed like the end. Difficulty breathing. Night sweats. Shakes and chills. Bad fever. Things reached a disturbing intensity and he was afraid that the end was truly upon him.

My Plague Year, a60

The days go by. In my plague year.

So this local luminary guy is convinced that Hawaii locals will riot unless tourism is allowed to flourish once again unfettered by any restrictions. ? ? ? Really.

Bet you didn't think it was a dynamic brush. Think again.

The corona virus saga- chapter 5

Later that night. After the crash.  Very close to the actual impact site in fact.  So extremely close.  A man stumbled up a hill onto the adjacent road.

He looked around, quickly made a decision, and immediately started high tailing it into town.  Into Wuhan town.

He also started coughing.

The coronavirus saga - chapter 4

The thing that everyone failed to notice was the giant rail-gun attached to the outside surface of C/2019 Q4. Hanging there out-stretched as it approached the solar system.

My Plague Year, a59

More craziness.  More insanity.  In my plague year.

The coronavirus saga - chapter 3

On the following date, REDACTED, an asteroid crashed into an area outside of Wuhan China.

Like many things in this saga, it was a significant event that happened without anyone paying any real attention to it.

My Plague Year, a58

THE BLACK-SWAN EVENT

With the private sector offline, the stakes for the CDC test could not have been higher.

In my plague year.

The coronavirus saga - chapter 2

Two years later, a second visitor named C/2019 Q4 arrived from outside of our solar system. Perhaps from some other place in our galaxy. Or beyond.

And it's fascinating because no one had bothered to visit in at least hundreds of years. Maybe never. And now exactly 2 years later after our first strange visitor, a second one arrived.

My Plague Year, a57

So, how well have we done? Well, abysmally. Prepare for a wild ride.  In my plague year.

A leaked report from the CDC suggested that, rather than moving in the right direction, the death totals were likely to get considerably worse very fast — with an average of about 3,000 deaths (and 200,000 new cases) a day as soon as June 1.

The median projection — 3,000 deaths a day, as soon as the end of this month — is quite horrific, a 50 percent increase above our current peak. But for the lifetime of the model’s projections, no single day of data came anywhere close to as low as the median prediction. For the last two weeks, with the country’s infection and death rates shaped profoundly by social distancing and shelter-at-home orders, the results have fallen at or above the model’s 75th-percentile projection. That percentile, on June 1, yields a projection of more than 7,500 deaths every day.

For most of the lifetime of the model, when the data reflected fewer lockdowns and less social distancing — that is, when it reflected conditions more like the ones we are going to see more of going forward — daily deaths fell at or above the 97th-percentile projection. For June 1, that projection is for 15,000 deaths every day. If that rate held for a month, it would produce 750,000 deaths just in June.

The coronavirus saga - chapter 1

This series of posts are screen captures of a telling of our current era written in the future.  If you don't understand how that could possibly work you really need to rush out and read a copy of William Gibson's novel 'The Peripheral'

Let the story begin.

My Plague Year, a56

Loving quick editing dynamic brush effects.  Fixing the embedded bezier interpolation for these kinds of dynamic paint effects has also lead to a whole new set of Studio Artist features. In my plague year.

a Portrait of Devastation

The last time the economy was in free fall, I wrote this: “The economy is unraveling so fast as to defy analysis through the usual statistical models. Among the phrases found in normally sober reports from the nation’s top economic forecasters yesterday: ‘god-awful,’ ‘wholesale capitulation,’ ‘shockingly weak’ and ‘indescribably terrible.’”

That jobs report, from November 2008, indicated that employers had cut 533,000 jobs. Analysts expect the April 2020 job losses to be 41 times worse.

The age of misinformation

Great quote from the Guardian today. Praising social media companies, “is like praising Philip Morris for putting filters on cigarettes.”  And of course let's not forget the great misinformer himself.

My Plague Year, a55

Crazy rants. In my plague year.