Ferguson Missouri

Aim for the head. And then shoot them another 7 times. Just to be sure. Because they might be zombies. Serve and protect, i believe that's the motto. But who is getting protected anyway? Food for thought.

Image was generated using gallery show with a randomizing ip op technique that only generates vector ip op output. With some of the new auto masking running in surprise me mode processing the randomly selected source image. Start cycle processing is a auto mutated paint preset category. Output image is a random grab from the middle of the gallery show image stream. Gallery show is over drawing on top of the previous cycle output, so i guess it's doing dynamic painting. Source image folder is full or campy irony, the kind i like the best.

Rough Seas Ahead

Steer the boat carefully, cause there's rough seas ahead.

Terror awaits, all because of THEM.

But our boys are on it, using covert action to monitor THEM.

Everybody's Terrified of THEM

Everybody's terrified all the time.

We're scared of THEM.

We better bomb THEM quick.

Before it's too late.

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.

The Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health sent you home with an aspirin.

But there's talk of conspiracy and mayhem about.

And remember to wash your hands nice and clean.

Before you get to your business and burn all the bodies.

Dark Passage

A dark walk though dark times. More Gallery Show experimentation, which seems to be my modus operandi these days. If you watch it closely while it automatically does it's thing, you keep learning more about how to improve it. Plus, you can eat dinner at the same time. Which is quite hard to do with a physical paint brush.

It's interesting, because if i watched a normal human artist to learn from them, it could take days, weeks, years to watch them finish pieces. It could take me forever to learn anything working that way, by watching a real person work. But Gallery Show churns out several hundred finished pieces in a few hours. Are they all master pieces, no, of course not. But i can learn quite a bit really quickly by watching a semi-intelligent machine work.

And i sure do learn a lot in a short period of time working this way. And i learn from the mistakes as much or more than from the successful pieces it creates. So here we see a small example of what the singularity will be like in action, when it swings into full force. And why it will be an inflection point in human history. Because things will get a whole lot faster and more sophisticated really quickly.

I'm working with auto-masking and masking in general in a very interesting new way with these new experiments. Which you yourself will be able to play with once you get your hands on a copy of V5.