Ormer Locklear was a stunt pilot who made movies for Hollywood. This pic is from his second movie (The Skywayman, 1920) which he was the star of and did his own stunts for. He pulled this stunt off successfully, but he died doing a different stunt on the last day of filming. They used the footage of his crash in the movie. The movie is currently lost.
Amy Goodchild published this cool article on early computer art (50s and 60s). I always show these artworks and experiments to my students because, after all these years, they still feel amazingly fresh and interesting.
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“Welcome to the post-post-post-truth AI world. You know it’s not real. But you have to eat some bread in order to survive. But there is more out there. Synthetic Personalities awaits you at the door. The Future will be weird AF.”
The Ultimate AI CoreCore Experience, provided by Silvia Dal Dosso
Contest of ” ” walking ” ” robots in my mecanical engineering NIT
by u/reddrimss in shittyrobots
From one of my favourite subreddits, Shitty Robots, a lovely “contest of walking robots”.
“We believe that image search should be visual, using only a minimum of words. And we believe it should integrate a rich visual understanding, capturing the artistic style and overall mood of an image, not just the objects in it.”
Same Energy is a visual search engine developed by Jackob Jackobson.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create the worst volume control interface in the world. Enjoy this amazing list compiled by user 0xDesigner on Twitter.
Probably the best thing you’ll see today.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.
The results
1/22
— 0xDesigner (@0xDesigner) April 2, 2023
I could watch Bobby Fingers‘ videos all day. This time, he made a diorama of when Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
I just found out that Roblox Car Crash Videos are a thing: “also known as BeamNG Roblox, refers to videos of car crashes taken in the video game Roblox, edited to replicate real-life dashcam car crashes by downgrading the quality and adding audio from car crash videos”. This trend is insanely weird (and good).
A good description of this video by Jack Stauber can be found in the comments: “This man litterally take his nightmares and turn them into awsome songs”.
In this amazing lecture writer Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shape of all stories: from Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” to “Cinderella”.
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“The LOL Verifier is a device that sits between your keyboard and your computer and only lets you type “lol” if you’ve truly laughed out loud. Bringing authenticity to the least authentic place: the internet.”
by Brian Moore
I’ve been hearing about gnomes A LOT lately – even garden gnomes! – in the context of paranormal and horror stories. This painting by Woodrow White sums up the mood of this trend very well. Here is the video-inspo for the painting.
This must be one of my favourite performance artworks of all time: Jimmie Durham, Smashing (2004).
“Wearing a suit, Jimmie Durham sits behind a desk like a bureaucrat performing his duty: smashing things. In an orderly manner, a person goes in, delivers an object, Durham smashes it with a prehistoric stone tool, violently but impassively. He stamps and signs a piece of paper as receipt and gives it to the same person, who goes off-scene. The same order of events is repeated several times during 92 minutes. This video-performance was part of Durham’s teaching residency at Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como, Italy, in 2004.” – source
Since people talk so much about “machine learning” nowadays, I think we should go back to the basics and listen to the people who first began to investigate the idea. Here is the amazing Gordon Pask, English cybernetician and psychologist, interviewed by the BBC in 1974. Here you can find one of his best writings, here is a good article about his concept of “maverick machines”, and here is a video lesson about him by Paul Pangaro.
Piper Page uploaded a full version of The Seventh Seal (1957) by Ingmar Bergman onto Youtube with oddly satisfying videos on the left and Subway Surfers on the right. My head hurts but my heart is happy. Watch it here.
Cat Graffam recreated “Judith Beheading Holofernes” by Caravaggio using Kid Pix Studio, a software released in 1995. Using the MOUSE. It was painful to watch at times, but amazing.
A film assembling music produced by mushrooms. Text from GPT3 and images from Stable Diffusion. By Eryk Salvaggio. Read more about it here.
“Corecore refers to an aesthetic that’s prevalent on TikTok under the hashtag “#corecore,” specifically within so-called NicheTok circles of NicheTokers, that plays on the -core suffix by making a “core” out of the collective consciousness of all “cores.”
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Designer and engineer Arvind Sanjeev created Ghostwriter, a one-of-a-kind repurposed Brother typewriter that uses AI to chat with a person typing on the keyboard. The “ghost” inside the machine comes from OpenAI’s GPT-3, a large language model that powers ChatGPT. The effect resembles a phantom conversing through the machine.
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I took apart my old typewriter and powered it using @OpenAI GPT-3.
Meet: Ghostwriter, an #AI creative writing companion that lets you co-write stories on paper with #ArtificialIntelligence + . pic.twitter.com/t8rP9AW51q
— Arvind Sanjeev (@ArvindSanjeev) December 1, 2022
