welp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVGIRsKXdo
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 April 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
how far away are we from a hologram doing a full, nationwide tour?
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 April 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
i think i would bite the bullet and see a full lil boosie hologram show
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 April 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
I think this is a cooler gimmick than 3d movies, I would maybe go see some historic shows hologramed up
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
o_O
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
40% of the local trending topics when i logged on twitter this morning were about pac and/or holograms
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if his family's getting his full performance rate or just an appearance fee
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
i know this is all about idealizing tupac at his prime, but i kinda feel like 41 year-old 2012 tupac would spend less time with his shirt off
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 April 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
well his prime was his 'alive years' so unless you are suggesting they age him w/ a computer and add a shirt...
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to hell for this one, but...
...and bullet wounds?
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
i kinda feel like i need to add a drudge report siren that says 'sarcasm' to my posts for iatee's benefit whenever he is around
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 April 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
sorry I forgot about your great sense of humor jon
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
somewhere will.i.am is fuming
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
america behind the curve as usual
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
have other countries had dead stars perform via hologram?
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 April 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure, but I am sure dayo is about to tell you
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but that's not a dead person
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
dayo coming hard with the Idoru
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
she's dead in the sense that she doesn't exist! hah!
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
presumably this tech, although I think the britishes used it for their fake musicians prior: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musion_Eyeliner
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISVqiRXCc4k
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
this is incredible but i dont understand why they didnt make a giant tupac, maybe the tech isnt there idk
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
i think the idea was that it was more uncanny to have a lifesize holopac standing next to real life dr. dre and look semi-real, wouldn't have the same impact if he was standing 50 feet high
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
it's interesting that before they show they pre-announced the hologram nate dogg but let this be a surprise, maybe there'd be more talk about nate right now if he'd been a surprise along w/ pac
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
i dont care what anyone says, go giant tupac every time
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
they could just make dr. dre 50 feet high
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
giant tupac w/mini nate dogg in his pocket
if they'd had this technology 15 years ago we could've been saved from some really terrible posthumous videos with a toon pac:
http://cdn4.wn.com/vp/i/bc/f096feeac0d46f.jpg
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Are there videos of hologram Nate Dogg? I feel like he got shafted :(
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if they purposely looked for a clip to hologramize where his pants werent too large so as not to offend current sensibilities
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
oh god i forgot there was a claymation pac too
http://emptyv.multimedia.cx/images/2pac-doforlove-2.jpg
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
they should bring all the digital pacs together for one incredible once in a lifetime concert experience
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
Check this one out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtMnwZKOtwA
It almost looks like Celine Dion is really there.
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
this technology could also be used to create 'rock n roll heaven' w/ all the dead classic rock dudes jamming, boomers would pay good money to see that
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, April 16, 2012 10:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
They do in Pleasant Plains' Reoccurring 'Mulholland Drive/All Eyez On Me' Nightmare
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
luckyy
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
may you live in interesting times
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
this is so rad
― Masonic Butt (Lamp), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
may you be blessed with high quality holograms from more interesting times gone by
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
For the very first time, I wish I had been there at Coachella, mad lifted.
You thought the eye at the Blue Oyster Cult show was watching you.
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
*buys stock in hologram company*
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
Go home and there's Tupac at the top of your stairs.
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
trying not to google tupac + "minstrel show" to see if anyone's gone there
poor guy is dead and they're still making him rap and dance
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
this could lead to exquisite new highs of poor taste in mash up culture
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
holograms of biggie and pac forgiving each other and hugging in the afterlife
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
"Shouts to Obi Wan Kenobi, my only muthafuckin hope!"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
cant wait for the exciting genre(s) of holorap/holowave /indigram
i like things that make me feel like im actively living in the future instead of passively succumbing to the present
― Masonic Butt (Lamp), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
thinking abt how futurists want to upload our minds to the internet and become immortal and how itd effect tupacs art to be disembodied, just occasionally projected for profit, the deep longing for corporeality in rap form
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
totally getting a hologram of myself projected at my funeral
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ as a surpise appearance would be even better
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
figure this will happen on at least some scale, but that no one will really care. maybe holo-beatles could be a thing? figure the big money is in simulcasting "event" concerts featuring tween stars like beiber and the jonas brothers, or whatever the equivalent is these days.
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
also having it climb out of the coffin xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
^ good short story idea at least
bless
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
wait you know what would be cool, watching a hologrammed super bowl
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of feel like I'll just have enough money in my estate to pay for a 3d model of me, but they won't have enough money for animation so it'll just be my likeness performing Tupac songs with his voice
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
― iatee, Monday, April 16, 2012 11:32 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yup courtside seats for all
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, hologramming of real-life stuff in real time will be big. plus we could all have chess sets featuring monsters!
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
eh chess is just a game for computers to play w/ each other
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Hologram Pac was totally lip-synching.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
hologrammed farmville maybe
would like to see gr8080 collaborate with hologram chaki on new 'found IRL' picture thread.
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
keep wanting to be a pedant and say this isn't a hologram, but whatevs
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
hologram dom p could offer zingers until later discovered that he's just a projection on a hanging bedsheet.
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
dude
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
what if
It was a holla! - gram.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
this is fucking bullshit. not a hologram.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
if this isn't a hologram, does that make it a hologram of a hologram
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
what if we're all holgrams.
ain't no hollagram girl
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
what if... holograms
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
wait you know what would be cool, watching a hologrammed super bowlLooking forward to Holmgren Hologram.
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
i saw this and it was amazing, but hard to get a feel for how it was in person, given that i was watching it in 2-D. i guess i sort of just doubt this is an actual hologram? don't you need to use some crazy 3-D capture camera technology to make a hologram? you can't just extrapolate a hologram from video footage
(i realize there is probably a listicle that explains all this)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
if it were a hologram you'd be able to move from side to side and see a different angle of tupac, but no such luck
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
they can make 3d movies from 2d movies, like u dont see pac from all angles, just front on but he looks a lil popping out
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
you can't just extrapolate a hologram from video footage
This pretty much looks like a 3d computer model of Tupac which could be kind of like a hologram, but you'd have to be able to actually pan around. Everyone there saw the same angle, no matter which side of the stage they were on. He just probably looked kind of distorted.
For a really-real hologram, they'd have had to capture him using a camera that picked up all available light etc etc and it'd have to be video of him from life
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
tbh i don't really give a shit about holograms, wake me when we get a Star Trek: The Next Generation-style holodeck
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Were you all wearing your special hologram glasses?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://couchcutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/medium_trek-dream-team-geordi.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
we were promised holograms
― Masonic Butt (Lamp), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
tbf the hologram didnt even look that much like tupac
http://i.imgur.com/Y5UfM.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
holorihanna would prob be more popular than holopac
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
sure as hell didnt look much like the tupac i ran into at the mall coupla weeks back
― Masonic Butt (Lamp), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
it's interesting that before they show they pre-announced the hologram nate dogg but let this be a surprise
Coulda swore I heard something about this on Saturday as the follow-on from the Nate Dogg thing.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah maybe...but the nate thing was pretty well known in the press like a week ago, no mention of 2pac at the time
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwy4lvRD1K1qdlh1io1_400.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwy4lvRD1K1qdlh1io1_400.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwy4lvRD1K1qdlh1io1_400.gif
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
the Tupac hologram
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 April 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Heavens! ;-)
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Monday, 16 April 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
Hahaha
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
Tupac is in hell right now totally pissed off that you guys are making fun of the hologram he sent up.
― azealia canks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://oi39.tinypic.com/bakxt.jpg
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
is this real orhttps://twitter.com/#!/HologramTupac
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
"We worked with Dr. Dre on this and it was Dre's vision to bring this back to life," said Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, the San Diego company that created the hologram. "It was his idea from the very beginning and we worked with him and his camp to utilize the technology to make it come to life."
Smith said he wasn't allowed to talk about the creative aspects of the production — including how the hologram was able to seemingly perform the set in synch with Snoop and whether all the vocals were 'Pac's — but he did say that his company has the ability to recreate long-dead figures and visually recreate them in the studio. "You can take their likenesses and voice and ... take people that haven't done concerts before or perform music they haven't sung and digitally recreate it," he said.
The hologram was the latest visual magic pulled off by AV, which is also behind the 2005 Grammys performance featuring Madonna and the holographic members of the Gorillaz, as well as holograms used in concert by Celine Dion and the Black Eyed Peas.
The Tupac hologram was several months in the planning and took nearly four months to create in a studio and though Smith was not able to reveal the exact price tag for the illusion, he said a comparable one could cost anywhere from $100,000 to more than $400,000 to pull off. "I can't say how much that event cost, but I can say it's affordable in the sense that if we had to bring entertainers around world and create concerts across the country, we could put [artists] in every venue in the country," he said.
The life-size Tupac was amazingly life-like, down to the late rapper's signature tattoos, Timberland boots, jewelry and movements, all of which were also recreated under the direction of Dre.
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gifpac to enterprise...
― man down (D-40), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
is that from real footage of tupac? otherwise seems like you could just get a body double, do some motion capture, pull the same tricks that movie companies do to cash in when a star dies during filming
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
no that's not how he died
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
of course it's real footage of him from an actual concert he performed, what else would it be?
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
lil wayne
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
actually the article am0n posted makes it sound like that's maybe not entirely the case, nvm
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
lol sd I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
they used a archival recording of him saying "what up, coachella"
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gifhttp://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/poochie.gif
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i haven't seen the footage or anything so i was talking outta my ass, sorry
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Looked like a good 3d model that had been animated either using motion capture or with software that does video analysis or maybe just a really good animator. The "smoothness" of it might be off due to the video quality I saw, but it really doesn't look incredibly different from a realistic video game character.
Basically what I'd saying is they just projected the Tupac character from his upcoming cameo in the new Grand Theft Auto.
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
citation: watched the video about ten times on my phone at work
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
it looked jerky and video gamey to me too
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
definitely motion capture imo
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
feel like if it were cribbed from an existing tupac concert video, the original footage would have been revealed on youtube by now
Kind of funny that they don't want to share the "secrets" of how he interacted
hologram dudes, it looks like Tupac was doing some sort of idling standing there animation and then does the "react to Snoop saying canned line" move when you hit the circle button on your PS3 controller
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
as a dead man in a hollogram he's doing better then these fake ass rappers alive lol so much they make a hollogram :Ddonaldc60 14 minutes ago
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://ridwankhodabux.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/16289-84953-mk1png-550x.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
do our younger generation still kno 2pac and the influenced he left for other rappers and niggers/wiggers who were in a strugle to get ut of the thug life/ghetto.?
― WhO WaNtZ 2 b A 2pAc!, Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:47 AM (7 years ago)
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
there's a failed Cheryl Lloyd single buried in there somewhere
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
WWTHD
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
strugle
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
Dr. Drenkenstein
― spacemindy, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
2Pac hologram jokes are real surface level. could use some deeper cuts
― azealia canks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Like, does he only have one holographic testicle?
― azealia canks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
not a lot of substance to him
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
tbh, "The Tupac Hologram" sounds like one of the lesser Deep Space Nine episode titles
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Can I get the Tupac Hologram to babysit my children, or should I stick with the Michael Jordan cutout fastened to an electric train set;.
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
I, Tupac
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah my guess is the CGI route, and they could motion capture some of his movements from old footage and apply those to 3D armatures. Or just have a guy wear a suit and capture it there.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g265/hipandpop/2007/tupac_shakur.jpg
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
That's the Stone Mountain statue? Every time I go, I forget to check it out.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Tupac Shakur, 19th Century wilderness preacher.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
oh lord tupac please talk to these holograms
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 April 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
new bourne movie finally named: the tupac hologram
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
also name of new sherlock holmes movie, weird
― spacemindy, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
and these suckers project it in 3-d and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_m0YtPN5vgmI/TN4E8Ry0BnI/AAAAAAAAVLY/meyWTLAQ3F4/dancing%20bear.gif
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
Now they need to do an MJ one and the world will be alittle less of a strugglethetiger117 1 minute ago
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
thetiger117 otm
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
bugger
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
i remember when i first heard of "the Hologram" on the internet, it was so nice to have 2pac back, i welcomed him
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
:)
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RKsoK.gif
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2lm9nq4ay1roxf0bo1_500.jpg
Another Star Wars 'shop, but better imo.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
Tupac Hologram and the I Ching
"Tupac Hologram" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity.[81] According to Terence McKenna, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur simultaneously. He conceived this idea over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms and DMT.[81]McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program which purportedly produces a waveform known as "Tupac Hologram" or the "Tupogram". Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching,[52] the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and sociocultural evolution. He believed that the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date of November 2012. When he later discovered this date's proximity to the end of the 13th b'ak'tun of the Maya calendar, he revised his hypothesis so that the two dates matched.[82]
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
i cannot tell you how happy it makes me to see 'terence mckenna' and 'tupac hologram' in the same post
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's pretty badass that the song they had him do was "hail mary" imo
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/40316092
― I cannot host as my wife hates Walker (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah otm some dude - it was in my head all day after I watched this, such an awesome groove but a pretty left-field choice for the big reveal
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
"WADDUP TAMPA G O P!" - Ronald Reagan hologram, 2012
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwauq6YLJn1qcccz1o1_400.jpg
― lebron traveled (am0n), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://i54.tinypic.com/zybwo8.jpg
― lebron traveled (am0n), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
John Lennon would be the obvious next choice, right?
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
they should do the guy from blind melon
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
MJ
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
Steve Jobs at 2015 Mac Expo
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
steve jobs & dimebag darrell
― lebron traveled (am0n), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Mick Mars
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
plato
― lebron traveled (am0n), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
The drummer from Def Leppard's other arm.
― Popture, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
mohammed
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
Euronymous
― I cannot host as my wife hates Walker (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
Don passantino
― I cannot host as my wife hates Walker (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, April 16, 2012 11:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you know what would be even more hilarious, if they did ABRAHAM LINCOLN
― Hoo Nu Cookies (crüt), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
"What the fuck is up, national review cruise??"
― man down (D-40), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
Breitbart holoheckler.
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently it wasn't a real hologram.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/tupac-hologram-merely-pretty-cool-optical-illusion.ars
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
wait it wasnt a hologram, just a cool optical illusion
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
the Tupac cool optical illusion
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
don't feel like dayo's post will make sense on the excelsior thread but fuck I lol'd
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
The Tupac Projection
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
Projecting Shakur: How A Dead Man Serenaded the Masses at Coachella
The Tupac Supremacy
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Monday, April 16, 2012 9:44 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
not too far away, apparently
http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46182-2pac-hologram-might-be-going-on-tour/
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
MJ i think is the super obvious pick to do a worldwide hologram tour. he was basically a hologram for the last two decades of his career anyway.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
i'd be into seeing something like a live Dre/Snoop tour w/ a few Pac hologram songs as its stage show killer app, but the idea of buying a ticket to see just that is pretty depressing
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
what kind of whimsical latinate title will the tupac hologram cirque du soleil show have?
― goole, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
THUGLIFE obv
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Tupaque
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
hah
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
It could always be worse, much worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH4AgH3CBBg
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
MJ i think is the super obvious pick to do a worldwide hologram tour.
The Man In The Mirror
― buzza, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
xxxp: I mean, their other shows based on artists are called "Love" (Beatles), "Viva Elvis" (duh) and "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour" (also duh) so I think we're going to be lucky if it isn't called "2PAC: An Urban Poet Gunned Down In The Prime Of His Life By An Unknown Assailant Makes The Perfect Soundtrack For Chinese Contortionists"
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Bellagio, 2014: Yo.
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
the funny thing i think is gonna be now a bunch of profitable past-their-prime artists are probably going to do these elaborate 3d scans of themselves performing now so that after they die we can have a middle-aged Madonna or U2 hologram instead of a youthful '80s version
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
Rien, Mais une Partie de Gangster
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2m0jbLVGm1qlhvawo1_500.jpg
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
i find this all disturbing beyond belief but i feel like 15 year old me would be psyched at a world with an idoru tupac
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
I think doing it as a surprise at Coachella was cool, but having people pay with the expectations of seeing Holo Tupac seems really shitty to me.
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, but this is still the best combination of real/animation in the live gig sense :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRLM7NTB7S0
or of course there was this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_gnMOom7kE
there were plans to 'tour' this type of show live, but the costs were massively prohibitive.
such a shame as that could have made the plastic beach shows a lot more more interesting.
― mark e, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
hope that I live to see something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
2012: A holographic Steve Jobs introduces "the new iPhone"2015: For the tour's 25th anniversary, Madonna stages a holographic Blonde Ambition tour that's 1990 all over again2017: Peter Hook wins intellectual property rights to the look of Joy Division in 1977. Virtual Joy Division finally complete that US tour.2019: For its 50th anniversary, Woodstock is holographically recreated and runs continuously. 3 days of peace and music but without the mud!
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Also... 2019: There are rumors of a holographic Stones playing a holographic Altamont
the holographic Grateful Dead decide to stay home and jam
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/557737_10150713354648145_19343183144_9608714_1925203936_n.jpg
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
lol death!!!
― goole, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ drowning pool
;_; @ jay reatard
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
o I didnt know someone from drowning pool died - a markers is probably mad at me rite now
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
the holographic version g.g. allin = best option - if you have such a desire
(though the placing of him above hendrix/led zep etc = madness .. )
― mark e, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
― goole, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:57 PM
chuck schuldiner RIP
― lebron traveled (am0n), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
Doesn't need to be a dead person, could be either Gallagher brother.
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^^
ummmmm ..
― mark e, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxp97yL1rv1r974tyo1_r1_500.gif
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
― dayo
\(^o^)/
― markers, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
There is a Drowning Pool live album called Loudest Common Denominator.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
i would go see a holographic rodney dangerfield in a heartbeat
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
rappin rodney got my attention as well
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
Thought "The Tupac Hologram" was a new band name.
― shabba lambides (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
apparently the guy who made the hologram was on bbc breakfast this morning, don't know what was said; i like to think that the breakfast hosts grilled him on the definition of the word hologram, humphrys style
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 08:56 (eleven years ago) link
they presenters called it "a remarkably realistic 3D projection"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
to his credit the dude calls it "an old theatre trick"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 10:26 (eleven years ago) link
a coworker just emailed this to me
― goole, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
will stick with my memory of seeing him carry a window fan out of Bloomingdales.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
aw :)
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
the strangest haiku
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
*dances on top of SUV*
http://www.eonline.com/news/marc_malkin/move_over_tupacmdashmichael_jackson/309702?cmpid=sn-000000-twitterfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=twitterfeed&utm_campaign=twitterfeed_topstories&%3Fcmpid=eonline-twitter&dlvrit=48939
― yologram (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
even in death amy winehouse still not trusted with a spot on the bill of hologram festival ;_;
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
"I just wish Michael was here with us, but I'm sure his spirit will be in the house," Jackie exclusively told me this morning.
^ this sentence made me lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2p27yS2Wo1qz5tv3o1_1280.png
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
but I'm sure his spirit will be in the house
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrgmobBLWC1qjuk1p.jpg
― yologram (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
So if the foil is at an angle, does that mean that the apparitions have to be created all pulled-out and distorted like those "3-D" sidewalk chalk drawings?
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
That would be my guess.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
2012: THE FUTURE IS FINALLY HERE AND IT KICKS ASS
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
Plz let them re-create the music video for "Can You Feel It" with 100-ft. tall holograms.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Thursday, 19 April 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
haha cool that is the exact same principle behind the teleprompter i operate at work
― some dude, Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2owtksBUm1ru8pjto1_1280.jpg
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
some dude, does your studio look like a wayne white painting?
― pplains, Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://artstormer.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/no-wayne-white-0508-lg.jpg
― some dude, Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
Well played sir.
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
xp to forks amazing that the pug gets a face and nothing else does. And the Bichon gets a nice curly tail :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 19 April 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qE18o.jpg
― dayo, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
The Who clearly missed an opportunity here:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/olympics-organizers-ask-keith-moon-to-play-closing-ceremony-20120413
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
wow, "The Symphony of Rock" sounds like it's going to be great!
― Number None, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
Drake 1 Hr(s), 5 Min(s) Ago
YOLO
Hologram Tupac REPLIED 24 Min(s), 17 Sec(s) Ago
Speak for yourself.
― some dude, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
ha
― fanute gingrich (The Reverend), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
R.I.P. it was a hologram
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/11/technology/digital-domain-bankrupt/index.html
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Can't wait for the Makaveli hologram!!
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
Tupac hologram now in secret Cuban exile with the real Tupac, who is very mystified by this turn of events
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120628094638/memoryalpha/en/images/8/89/Thomas_and_William_Riker.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
Well maybe not.
i've heard that a major label is throwing the idea re a hologram supergroup around.
i.e. taking the idea behind gorillaz to the next level.
no ideas as to who they would be using but still, the very idea just seems wrong ..
kurt cobain and jim morrison together at last perhaps ..
― mark e, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:54 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― very sexual album (schlump), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
worth repostinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m25xswzGz41qzpixmo1_1280.jpg
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 07:38 (eleven years ago) link
Is George Harrison in hell then?
― Number None, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 09:44 (eleven years ago) link
Who's to say that pic isn't Hell?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
All right, Tuomas, help me out. Who's on the far right?
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
Johnny Cash? I'm not sure.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Forrester and Leonard Cohen are both still alive, so it can't be them.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
I think his attire would imply it's Cash, tho the hair looks weird...
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
why is everyone relaxing while amy winehouse has to serve drinks? doesn't seem fair imo
― =life on the chesapeake= (reddening), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, not in a million years would I have gotten this right:
http://scintillates-with-awesome.tumblr.com/post/20711668010/jim-morrison-kurt-cobain-amy-winehouse-bob
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
Because it is her wine house.
xp
is Hendrix on the Newky Brown there? respect tbh
― it's-a me, irl (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
haha Meir Ariel
he's kind of the Dylan figure of Israel, but Israel is a pretty small country
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
he's good though
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I have this image of the unused Tupac hologram just sitting slouched on a box in some warehouse now, blinking his eyes or exhaling condensation at programmed intervals
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
Poor Frank Zappa isn't even allowed in, he has to stand on a ladder and look in through a boxy window.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/W0Fja.png― lag∞n, Monday, September 10, 2012 8:14 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was sort of hoping that wasn't a picture in the background of that GWB shot, but instead a little window that Laura Bush was photobombing through
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Monday, September 10, 2012 8:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
umhttp://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.24034/title.ol-dirty-bastard-s-virtual-performance-will-happen-according-to-rock-the-bells
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson have apparently been singing their duet to holograms of each other. I guess how effective it looks depends on where you're sitting, but it is kinda funny to hear the crowd go apeshit in this video, right around :30 or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpSvAxQhPtI
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
singing their duet to holograms of each other
way of the future
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
How long before a commercial model? Like in 5 years can I just download the Beatles and have them play at my bbq?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
it's basically just a projector + a reflective surface + an appropriate transparent surface on which to project it (the illusion is pepper's ghost, what a lot of magicians use). like, the setup is of course not trivial but i suppose ppl could be having the beatles play their bbq right now if they wanted
― dyl, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
See: the Tupac hologram
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
according to the radio ads, eazy e has been added to the holo lineup along w/ odb
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/T2ageoz.jpg
― 乒乓, Thursday, 24 October 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hollywood-hologram-wars-vicious-legal-798401
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 May 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yuSBgBC35I
almost bought one of these on a whim yesterday (i believe they are around $500 USD). this is new handheld holography tech from China. apparently there are a bunch of consumer grade LED holograph projectors on the market. the future's gonna be cool.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
holy shit, that is really cool and i would love to see what other things can be displayed besides coca-cola bottles, mcdonalds, and $ signs
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
i think they are basically video players and take the usual formats AVI, MP4, etc. they are around 40cm in diameter, about the size of a shield. imagine setting up several of these in a room - you could do some amazing stuff!
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
Like chopping your fingers off while trying to grab Pokemon.
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8516409/joint-buddy-holly-roy-orbison-hologram-tour-dates
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/files/styles/1500x992_gallery/public/media/buddy-holly-hologram-2019-billboard-1548.jpg
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
rivers cuomo is looking good, honestly
― RUSSIA’S SEXIEST POKER STAR ELECTROCUTED BY HAIRDRYER (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
I thought it was Andy Samberg, TBH
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGSQtuxOcg
https://i.imgur.com/FF1vbFd.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to hire a Buddy Holly impersonator and, like, give him a hotel room every night than invent hologram technology that you then have to lug around the country
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRauG4RxNMI
https://i.imgur.com/GAoCiFI.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
that dude is the lamest looking buddy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
no holograms involved, but this is an interesting interview with holly herndon on the recent song by Travisbott, which is an AI trained on Travis Scott (without his permission).
herndon touches on the possibility (the inevitability, according to herndon) of labels using AI to create new songs which mimic the voices of older singers. Just train an AI on a bunch of tracks of an elvis voice, then have elvis guest on a new song. "My music may suck but I'm on a major label (ft. Elvis)". interesting to think about, and given the strange popularity of shitty remixes of older songs, it does seem inevitable.
...Spawn, Herndon's "collaborator," was trained on different, consenting human voices ranging from Herndon’s own to that of a 14-piece choir; she denies that Travisbott is an extension of her work even outside of ethical considerations. “We used audio material [instead of MIDI], which is actually much harder.” When she spoke with The FADER in 2019 about Proto, Herndon said she saw something like Travisbott coming: “I think we're going to see a flood of automated compositions, people using neural nets to extract the logic from other people's work, and a lot of appropriation. We're going to see big issues around attribution.” Now that this future has arrived, what’s next? Speaking over Skype, Herndon succinctly broke down her concerns while rejecting the “evil robot” vision of the future....Q: Do you think that one day voice modeling is something that could buttress this tendency to keep revisiting the same pop archetypes?A: Oh, 100%. Are you kidding me? There's so many labels with gold mines worth of master tapes that they're just dying to reanimate. That's definitely going to happen.We'll see what the public decides that they want, or what they don't want. We also decided as a society that it's okay to not pay for music. So I don't know, maybe we're going to also decide that entertainment trumps everything else. We're going to see a lot of retro fetishism artistic necrophilia. And maybe some of it's even going to be interesting. But we have to figure out the ethics around it, and I don't think anyone's even wanting to have that conversation. We're still all excited about the shiny new toy instead of thinking about what it means.
...
Q: Do you think that one day voice modeling is something that could buttress this tendency to keep revisiting the same pop archetypes?
A: Oh, 100%. Are you kidding me? There's so many labels with gold mines worth of master tapes that they're just dying to reanimate. That's definitely going to happen.
We'll see what the public decides that they want, or what they don't want. We also decided as a society that it's okay to not pay for music. So I don't know, maybe we're going to also decide that entertainment trumps everything else. We're going to see a lot of retro fetishism artistic necrophilia. And maybe some of it's even going to be interesting. But we have to figure out the ethics around it, and I don't think anyone's even wanting to have that conversation. We're still all excited about the shiny new toy instead of thinking about what it means.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
um.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 02:49 (three years ago) link
here we go!
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/kiss-achieves-music-immortality-with-new-hologram-bandmates-for-live-gigs-1559888.html
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 3 December 2023 16:25 (three months ago) link
The logical next step is to make their aging audience into holograms too.
Imagine you don’t have to walk up those endless arena hallways and stairs anymore on the way to your seat, just watch the concert straight from the retirement home and see your younger self stagediving & crowdsurfing.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 3 December 2023 17:49 (three months ago) link