Eye of the Storm

Why do all my gallery show experiments with clown faces end up having a very dark emotional quality to them?

Moonlight

More auto-mutation experiments using the new gallery show features.

Dual Personality

Screen grab from a gallery show cycle run testing the new paint options associated with the paint preset GS techniques. Which side is the true nature of the individual being painted? It's actually an adaptive masked overlay of 2 different randomly chosen source images.

Stop

This clown wants Hurricane Ana to stop coming to Hawaii. And she seems to be listening. If you look closely, you can see this image is using region skeleton paths generated from path start regionalization. Courtesy of gallery show of course. As we continue the nightly testing. While i watch Gotham and gallery show does all the work for me. Streaming out a succession of mutated artwork. I've been playing with the new search technique GS option. Along with various constrained mutation settings, and an additional mutated favorites folder for the start cycle processing.

Clowning Around

Send in the clowns — please! Circus folk fear a national clown shortage is on the way. Too many people are apparently reading the news these days.

Clowns are becoming hard to find. You have to really look. Focus on the image. Focus on the details.

But gallery show is here to help. Searching for paint presets and then mutating them, bending them to its will. Clowning around in it's own way. And by golly it found a good one. In it's self-autonomous way. Using it's new dynamic brush constrained mutation features. In combination with some additional self-mutating water wash start cycle processing from a favorites folder. So while i may be lazy for using that water wash paint preset folder way too much, gallery show is helping me out by auto-mutating it on the fly each new GS cycle. 

Note to self. Maybe i should add preset search tag options to the start and end cycle options.

It's a Jungle Out There

It's a jungle out there some days. Dog eat dog, man eat man (well i hope not that). Microbe eat man, which can be a force of good as well as evil inside of us all as we learn so much more about our internal bacterial friends that live inside of us. And maybe there's something to reflect on there, that what appears on the surface to be our enemies might actually be our friends, helping us not just to digest our food, but to fight off infections from other not so friendly bacteria, to modify our mood, or weight. We're finding out all kinds of things about all of the stuff living inside of us. Maybe that stuff is as much a part of us as the cells in our body.

Gallery show wasn't really thinking about any of that. He (she,it) was busy auto-mutating random paint presets, actually turning them into mini generative paint action sequences on the fly using some new features we added to it recently. So this is another gallery show stream grab from these recent experiments, where you point it at a folder of really boring tube paint presets, and it creates finished portraits by auto-editing a boring paint preset on the fly, in essence building an automatic PASeq (so that you don't have to). And there's a lot more to do to improve these new features, but i think they are pretty cool, and point in some interesting new directions as we head into the Studio Artist future.

This guy looks like he has just come out of the Thunder Dome (2 walk in, 1 comes out). Although he did start out as a happy clown image. So my philosophical ramblings above came out of that fleeting thought as i grabbed this image for my daily post. Tomorrow we're headed into new fun areas, as we use Gallery Show to semi-autonomously explore alien invasions. Which also seems to relate to my many recent obsessions on bacteria here. Gallery show (and me apparently) are reading way too many news articles about various bacteria (both good and evil) recently.

Everyone Loves a Clown

Everyone loved a clown.

Because they always have a smile on their face.

Making the children laugh.

With their joyous expressions and attitude.

Circus Animal 2

Why do those crazy circus animals keep staring at you. Like they want to eat you for dinner. This circus apparently has the wildest animals of them all locked away in it. Staring at you with those crazy hungry eyes.

More meditations on life as perceived by by self autonomous friend gallery show. Randomly mutating presets and then auto-masking them. Building up imagery with a generative process over time. Dumping all of its cycles out into an open image stream, which i puzzle through later, grabbing good ones to post here. He (she, it) was obviously influenced by the 10 part mini-series remake of From Dusk to Dawn that we were watching while this image was made last night. Self autonomous artificial visual creativity at work. I was cheering GS on, because GS was on a serious roll last night, while also rooting for Richie to make it out of that underground dungeon he was dragged into. Will Richie escape, or is it already too late? This guy posted above apparently knows the answer, but he's not talking. He looks like an extra from the series.

Circus Animal

Our happy times on the magical island of Kauai are now behind us. At least for while, since i shot enough video in Hanapepe to power this blog for months. So we probably will return at some point. Back to more topical subject matter. Like evil circus animals. Who always seem to be staring at you from their cages. i wonder why. Back to my buddy Gallery Show, who does all the actual work after i wind him up. Although i made a new folder of source images for my buddy GS to work with. As he tries to master artificial creativity.