NeoCon Dance Party Firing Line

They are locked and loaded, and ready to party. As envisioned by gallery show, working off of a folder of recent news article photos. Only galley show knows the real and true meaning of this image. Since it was generated automatically by an autonomous computer algorithm named gallery show. My friend and buddy, helping me to make new images every night while i watch the 10 part mini series remake of From Dust to Dawn. What will happen to poor Richie. We will find out tonight. What will happen to the world at large. Only time will tell.

Generated by feeding the output back into the input. Like drinking your own piss over and over until it ends up pure and clean. Or maybe that works the other way around. Only old Bill Burroughs knew the answer to that question, and he's no longer with us. Anyway, there seems to be a lot of dancing at this particular dance party recently. They seem so happy. I wonder why.

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.

Goodbye Hanalei

One more spin around the dock to say goodbye to Hanalei. Where apparently Puff the Magic Dragon and Little Jackie Paper live. I searched for their house. I didn't find it, but i did find some drunk guy changing the oil in his truck in the beautiful beach park parking lot. And what better place to change your truck's oil, i thought to myself. Than on the most beautiful beach on the entire island. Note to self, whenever i'm on the island of Kauai, always make a point of changing the oil in my rental car in the parking lot at Hanalei beach. Not this one, the one way down at the other end of the beach. Ah, Hawaii at it's finest, i thought to myself, as i watched this guy change his oil on that beautiful beach.

And what a magnificent beach it is, over 2 miles long. Wide, wide, wide, like a beach should be. Like every beach in Hawaii would be if the idiots in charge hadn't built roads literally right next to them, or allowed evil developers to build houses right at the bleeding edge of the water. But not in Hanalei for some magical reason. The magic of the camera i used that never lies to take this photo makes this shot of Hanalei seem like it's a little tiny island surrounded on all sides by water. And it is a precious gem stone, a thing of beauty in a crazy world. So maybe it really does look like this.

Slit scans are so much more fun than normal perfectly stitched panorama photos. Dare i say more artistic. You can mess with space and time in all kinds of different ways by working with slit scan effects. I actually used the Studio Artist Temporal Scan Tracker for all of these recent Kauai posts, but they are dialed in to be like more conventional slit scans. But of course nothing is conventional in Studio Artist, so all kinds of magic stuff having to do with how the images are supersize interpolated and magical aperture remapping are going on behind the scenes when you run those Studio Artist Temporal ip op effects to process your video pan footage. Any idiot can write a 1 pixel slit scan effect, but our scan tracker temporal effects have magical aperture remapping going on inside of them, so you can dial in much higher resolutions than you would get with the simple any idiot can do it 1 pixel slit scan approaches.

Welcome to Paradise

And paradise does have everything in it. Green tropical plants. A beautiful hula girl in a grass skirt. Wondrous gifts await you there. A tropical mountain can be seen in the distance on the right side. There are even some informative magazines stored in their own metal boxes which keep them dry from gentle tropical rain storms for you to read at your leisure. Telling you all about the local hot spots, the awesome vacation properties available for sale, various way to spend your hard earned money on dubious adventure experiences like zip lining, and more. My wife and i joked that they should instal a zip line from the vacation condo we were staying in right down the sheer cliff face it was hanging off of directly into the ocean, where a big shark would open it's mouth and eat you as you flew off the end of the zip line into the clear blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.

This second slit scan gives you a little more perspective on the particular slice of paradise we are featuring in today's post. Lucky for us this isn't New Jersey, or Waikiki or Lahania for that matter, because then they would have put this little slice of paradise right smack in the middle of the stunningly beautiful beach scene i posted here yesterday. But for some strange reason the good citizens of Hanalei actually had some brains in their heads, and kept this tourist mall back on the main road, which is so unusual for Hawaii since isn't hanging literally 3 feet off of the main beach like it usually is everywhere else in the state.

My Head is Spinning

My head is spinning round and round. Taking in the green lush beauty of Kauai's north shore after my visit to magical Hanapepe in dry and dusty south Kauai. If you've been following this last week's posts you're going to get a sense of the brain shock you get as you travel from one side of Kauai to the other. Like all of my vacation photographs, this is exactly what i saw as my head was spinning on the dock in Hanalei. The camera doesn't lie. And neither do my video pan slit scan experiments. I'm even listening to ThisQuiteArmy on Guitar Moderne as i type this, which is making my head spin round and round even more. My world had been transformed by a relatively short car ride in our Alamo rental car.

I had traveled from a rift in space and time in the land of the lost to a beautiful beach. One i would never find in Poipu or Hanapepe, no matter how hard i looked for it. Unlike most of the beaches in Hawaii, they didn't screw up Hanalei beach by building the houses too close to the ocean, or putting a road right on the beach. Maybe they will keep it unscrewed up for all time, which basically means until global warming washes it away in a few decades, as well as the actual town itself. Enjoy it while you can.

That Spouting Horn

The first time we went to Kauai, we said, we have to go see that spouting horn. That sounds pretty slick. So we followed the signs, and then we got there. The whole time, we kept saying to ourselves, where are the beaches? Surely there must be some beaches in Poipu. And then the road dead ends, and there is the spouting horn. As shown above. In all it's glory. But no beaches. Head to the north shore if you want real beaches.

Now you have seen it too, no need to drive down that dusty dead end road. You have seen it all. And trust me, there are no beaches in Poipu. Maybe a long time ago there were, but they've long since vanished. Take the other road instead that takes you to Hanapepe. Because a magical world of really cool art and a crazy old school dusty Hawaiian town awaits you there. And it's way more interesting than that spouting horn place. Which to be honest is just a dusty tourist trap at the end of a dead end road.

Every island has one, it's very own spouting horn. Oahu has one as well. Don't lie down over the blow hole like some crazy tourist did on Oahu. Because the end results aren't pretty. And never, ever turn your back to the ocean. Never. Especially when you are near a spouting horn.

Hanapepe Town Square

All movement in Hanapepe is drawn towards the center. So was my eye. And this is what i saw there.
Another crude tribute to James Hoyle, who apparently started the whole Hanapepe art thing. Or so we were told. It was a pretty cool place. Like stepping back in time. I mean, they even have a bookstore. How much more old time can you get than an actual store that sells books. A bookstore that isn't online, but is a place you can actually walk into. And so we did. I loved the fact that they had a bookstore. Because Maui didn't. If you are coming from the north shore of Kauai, headed south, and if you need to decide between Poipu and Hanapepe, there is no choice to be made. Set the GPS in your rental car for Hanapepe.