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https://vimeo.com/237568588
thought you might find this interesting

i DID find that interesting i now have a list of people he mentioned that i'll be checking out this afternoon, so thanks! plus i want to check out his other videos. it's a real gift to be able to cover huge topics like that in such a structured way. just really well done.

i'm not sure that he ever directly states that we're about to cross out of the uncanny valley, but i'm not sure that i agree. i have a really harebrained set of reasons why i think that's so, but maybe i'll see if i can revive your uncanny valley thread to elaborate because i'm sure 99% of ILX has learned not to click on this thread

sort of on the same topic, but i'm interested in making stuff that reflects back the uncanny valley effect, but using real life objects, sort of like this:

http://78.media.tumblr.com/83c6a26e3856b9454abe3b50c507c0bd/tumblr_ox9looUjSd1qdmmiqo2_500.gif

for christmas this year, if i can afford it, i'm going to try to buy myself a really basic photography/video setup with a white/green backdrop and some reflectors so that i can isolate objects more easily.

trembling plant fills me with a sense of panic

haha, well the effect would be less intense if you could see me crouched underneath the table shaking the legs, bumping my head on it over and over again while running over to my camera with a lens propped up on a pile of magazines in lieu of a functioning tripod. i really need to get some decent (ultra-budget) gear.

necessity mother of invention and all that

incidentally, i think that guy's thesis is that we are officially past the uncanny valley now and that the question is what do we do with what lies ahead

my instinct earlier was that the far end of the uncanny valley is still quite a bit away. but i don't know, then i asked my partner what she thought, and she thought it was within sight, that there are already examples of digital creations that already fool us. and then i remembered peter cushing's character in star wars rogue one - i had no idea he was just CGI until long after i saw the movie. so in a sense, it already passed a form of the AI test. that would have been unthinkable 15 years ago, without some sort of camera trickery (like using a silhouette or having the character underwater or something). but rogue one showed peter cushing's character close-up, in good lighting, and with lines of dialogue. so the fact that it's been done suggests that other AI efforts will also soon fool the human eye. and that's just the characters - environmental effects often fool the eye as well.

so maybe he's right.

http://78.media.tumblr.com/7b96abb30bc444fa3ba061aa359b5349/tumblr_oxzz5chAHF1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

also a jacket hanging beneath a ceiling fan that i did earlier this week:

http://weinventyou.net/post/166270758665/jacket

i might have to do another version of it - the original footage was pretty decent and then i modified it so many times that i forgot what was good about it, then tried to do a drastic salvage job at the end

http://78.media.tumblr.com/35a0e0e418bde38b9e3e2af354ed036a/tumblr_oxmjy0Hlie1qdmmiqo2_1280.gif

Wuuuuut. Makes me think for some reason of this piece where the artist filmed a helicopter but the frame rate matched up with the propeller's speed somehow so it looks like it's just hovering with a still propeller.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/c04aab5d3795170e7364dd6d74cfe12b/tumblr_oygg8oPkr01qdmmiqo1_1280.gif

https://78.media.tumblr.com/2c70deefe3ff18c24a05eaccac8158e1/tumblr_oyk3o9dvqQ1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
https://78.media.tumblr.com/a80b5ff0578d41d16b0b10d24a744ed1/tumblr_oymbymAcJq1qdmmiqo2_500.gif

the second is called rows of clenching buttholes

How To Goodbye Depression

I would like to goodbye depression, I will try anything

http://78.media.tumblr.com/d5fd7d0d5baa71792740f211f392b6cd/tumblr_oyywpguCs81qdmmiqo2_1280.gif

tbh there are worse strategies than the anus constrict plan. it’s its own sort of mindfulness

May I just say that those ceiling fans have been on my mind for weeks now.

lol

if you're jonesing for more ceiling an action i posted a short video featuring real LIVE FAN FOOTAGE here: http://weinventyou.net/post/166830543192/three-fans

http://78.media.tumblr.com/bdfa8bed154090c957041a22ec34a87f/tumblr_oz45a4qs201qdmmiqo1_1280.jpghttp://78.media.tumblr.com/ee36c190df66dd83b9e93b9ddf2c6476/tumblr_oz45a4qs201qdmmiqo2_1280.jpg

attn: Karl

Longmont Potion Castle

Z, can i get your magic touch on some of these? they're haunting me.
http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/photo/2017-photomicrography-competition

whoa, some of those are so cool! i love the granularity of the results. "In 17th place, we have..."

4th place in particular is a micro-nightmare

xpost i emailed LPC but i accidentally hit Send halfway through the second sentence. speaking of micro-nightmares. it's so weird, i've never done that before until earlier this year. two in a year! at any rate, it creates a panic because you want to quickly follow-up with the rest of the message. anyway, we'll see

a long time ago i was talking about making projections for a music video. it finally came out today! i made the projections for the ending sequence (3:33 til the end), both making them and also doing the projections at the shoot. it was fun! and nerveracking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgmGi_bvFKs

Nice work KM!!!

bravo! are you working with an agent now?

hahahahahaha, noooope, that's for sure.

you should be!

in happier news I've been going back and forth with LPC, it might actually turn into something! (h/t gr8080)

when are you gonna show more art in NYC, pal?

as soon as i figure out what the heck i'm doing / nevaaar

i do have a show in chicago coming up next spring, though. better than nothing! and i've been putting off making a "reel" for a long time because i wanted to include this projection footage in it. now i have no excuse, but hopefully it'll help me get some more work, too

Ahhhh this rules! Love the work man, so cool!

Btw I tipped you off for the LPC gig too just saying :D #fanboying If that leads to something the universe will be corrected again and all will be good. I'm busting for you ma.!

*man

H/T LBI too!! :)
H/T kurt schitterz

but actually i should not H/T at all because i'm not sure it's a thing yet. but at least we're talking!

He got back to you after you sent a half-finished email. Deal is sealed imo :)

just saw this - this is awesome news!

in the meantime, can i request something from my new macro-terror?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9LJblkoo8

oh my god, that is intense. that article is really good, too. the exchange at the end of that

Q: and the vibration of that, would be?

love
forthnecity? (forth density?)
creation
creators
empowerment, ummm
not needing anything
lacklessness
confidence
freedom
joy
ecstasy
innovation
technology
...
intergalactic communication
meeting of civilizations

forthnecity? (forth density?)

update: lol, i can't believe i was hearing that as "forth" and not "fourth". after reading on in the the article, i see it's 4th density (out of 8), which happens to be the density jesus was on. good to know

whoa

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*ORPwEquVbANQBSfcrZ_Pvg.jpeg

dammit, almost every single image/video in that article is credited except for that one

You gotta make some synesthesia-inducing gifs!

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/4/16733778/noisy-gif-hearing-movement-auditory-neuroscience-synesthesia

i want to make one that induces the feeling you get when someone rolls up the bottom half of their shirt and drums on their belly just after dinner and everyone else wants to die - ratatatatatatatatatata!

gr8080 i meant to add, the guru stare video you posted reminds me of the last three minutes of this:

https://youtu.be/32iX5lbVDto?t=28m38s

<3

http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2017/06/01/detail/the-gif-elevator/

i just missed that by a few weeks, last time i was in queens! next time, i suppose.

http://78.media.tumblr.com/2084efa14274387f126103aa177233e4/tumblr_p0zmcdsmrV1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://78.media.tumblr.com/9f076be4b2461692138c78ef91454dd6/tumblr_p0zmcdsmrV1qdmmiqo2_500.gif

man, sorry for bringing this noisy issue up on multiple social platforms in a single day, but i have spent all day struggling with encoding/compression settings for a video. the GIFs above have a really low frame rate and quality - the actual video moves much faster and more crisply and i was excited to share it! i spent all night working on it.

but it turns out that while i can render a crisp, HD 1080p .mp4 that looks great on my computer, the same video looks like absolute garbage on instagram, twitter, and facebook. it even looks terrible on Vimeo, where I uploaded a 200 MB 1080p version.

https://i.imgur.com/D7pxHMQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/uwvjyUN.png

The top image is a screenshot of what the real video looks like when I play it off of my desktop. the second is a screenshot of how the same 1080p video looks on Vimeo at top quality playback. it's crazy! i'm thinking the issue is that the different platforms probably use some form of auto-noise reduction in their compressors, so even if you upload the highest quality noise it just makes it even easier for it to noise-reduce. but i have nooooo fucking clue what i'm talking about. if anyone else knows and could school me i'd really appreciate it.

anyway, i have learned my lesson, which is not to bother working with noise (possibly a psychologically healthy thing anyway)!

It seems like any sharing platform will fuck up your shit. Just upload your full rez MP4 somewhere and put it in a video tag on a web page and call it KarlTube.