Monday, August 03, 2020

Get funky!

I thought I'd revisit some fun and odd looking 'art' generated by Deep Dream Generator. It has been argued that it is NOT art as it uses Artificial Intelligence to merge a pattern into your photo.

At first I had no clue of what I was doing. Some of the generations turned out simply awful and made no sense. 
Then as I experimented and looked at what others were doing and how they were using patterns,...it started to slightly click...just a bit.
Still.
You can end up with nonsense or something quite beautiful.


Original [actually I added a texture in DxOElite with this photo]






Um. Teddy Bear run through a painting texture and then another colorful texture then combined into this final image.
Original:

Next some just for fun. I don't recall what the originals were.






I really do enjoy doing this as a wonderful distraction to all the other things going on.
I posted an album of these on Facebook and it was shared --- another person asked where I 'sold' them.
Nah, I don't sell them. Selling items are so much work!

However, I will probably put them in an 'art' book in print just to keep around and page through occasionally. I have an idea or two also that I might see if I can print this following image to hang on the wall. I think it is so uplifting.

It feels so happy!


I think I will finally get serious on finishing up my photo book I was going to call The Creek. I've been photographing it for a few years to sort of see how it changed through the seasons and with flash floods.

It will be like my other two self made books 

and...


I have quite a few files to back up now and save along with some thoughts to get written down.
I'm thinking of creating a few designs with winter scenes for Christmas Cards.

It appears that with being so Isolated, it may be a good thing to sit down and write out many cards?
At least I could have fun designing them.

Get Funky.
Have a good week and stay well.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love all the artistic pieces but the blue daisy is my favorite.

Far Side of Fifty said...

I like the daisy also but that first image is ever so pretty! Yes make a book. I made one a long time ago...I should make another...maybe next winter. I always make us a Calendar...when I turned the page to August guess what Sunflowers!!!! :)

Val Ewing said...

I make calendars too, they are fun.
I did start out one year taking my favorite art and whatnot and putting them in a little book sort of like having an album. I do the same with the calendar. My August page has sunflowers, cosmos, and interesting fall fungi on it!
Thanks on the nice compliments!

Val Ewing said...

I do love the daisy. That was one of my very first experiments in deep dream. But the chair is currently my favorite. I guess because it is new and so different.
Thank you.