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Twin Engines

More tribute images to the memory of Stan Brakhage. Working with the oil rig pump imagery that so inspired me when he used it in some of his experimental films i first saw years ago. A lot of those films dealt with exploring symmetry in imagery in addition to repetition of motion.

The approach used to make this is the same sort of generative gallery show processing i've been focused on lately. So using a folder of random oil rig imagery. And self mutating gallery show techniques. In association with additional hand picked preset folders for start and end cycle processing. And self-adapting mutating masks for the gallery show technique effects derived off of the current randomly selected source image. So the effects buildup over time in the gallery show output stream, which records a generative image creation process that is essentially fully automatic and autonomous once it is defined and set into motion..

Dynamic Repetition

Another random oil rig imagery gallery show experiment. Using self-mutating paint presets along with gallery show cycle canvas feedback to the next gallery show source image as well. So the title could refer to the imagery i'm working with, or to the process used to create this particular image.

Ice Nine is my Ocean

Another gallery show screen grab created from random oil rig imagery. Although you would never figure that out unless i told you. Lot's of feedback from the canvas back into the source area as the gallery show cycles progress is what leads to the rapid divergence of the specific structural details of the source imagery being distorted and then lost as the gallery show output stream progresses.

Title is from a Kurt Vonnegut reference. How i would imagine a sea of ice nine looking. Read the book if you are clueless to what i'm talking about.

Storage Locker of the Mind

As opposed to 'Coney Island of the Mind'. I used to frequent City Lights Books in San Francisco if that reference makes no sense at all to you.

The image was generate during a gallery show run. It's actually using the Oil Rig Pump imagery i've been playing with recently as randomly chosen gallery show source images. I've been extensively playing with self mutating gallery show techniques, and this was generated using that same overall process. So the image is generative, in the sense that it accumulates or builds up in the canvas over time. And each GS output cycle canvas (recorded into an open image stream) is modified by additional presets in the Current Favorites folder prior to applying a new mutated gallery show technique. One that is also auto masked with a mutating auto-generated mask created from the current source image for that gallery show cycle.

I've been thinking we maybe need to allow for 2 different source image folders to be used in gallery show processes, to increase the level of fun (or craziness) one can achieve by working with gallery show. Again, i feel like we're all just scratching the surface of what can be achieved by this one Studio Artist feature.

Rough Rig

That churning oil rig state of mind. As envisioned by gallery show automatically processing a folder full of oil rig pump images with a series of randomly mutating paint presets. Where the output image builds up over time via overdrawing on top of the previous gallery show cycle output canvas. Another attempt at an homage to Stan Brakhage.

Homage to Stan

It always cracked me up that Stan in South Park was actually a reference to Stan Brakhage.
Anyway, i had access to a lot of his experimental films in college, and they did have quite an influence on me. So i thought i'd try a series of gallery show experiments using oil rig pump imagery, since i remember some experimental films of his that used similar imagery, except in a moving context. To capture the visual rhythm of the oil rig pumps as they moved.

I'm using my usual combo of a randomizing vectorizer gallery show technique along with custom canvas modifier presets in a favorites folder for the start cycle processing. And Surprise Me randomizing auto-masking of the technique effects, along with randomized compositing, as they are overlaid onto to the previous gallery show cycle image.