Sonic Youth Gossip - generate some "art"

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generate some "art"

William Gibson posted this link to his blog about a Dutch site with an "art" generator.
All you do is fill in the artist and the title field, and an image is produced as a sort of amalgam using your search terms.

http://nag.iap.de/?ac=create&lang=en

I tried it using "Picasso" and "Las Meninas" and got
the following monstrosity.

I was rather ambitiously hoping it might morph together several of the Maestro's versions of his tribute to the Velasquez masterpiece. Instead, the result was the above which, is still, I guess, interesting. The program at work seems to apply a few randomized techniques to a mixture of pictorial elements obtained through multiple google image searches.

other examples
http://nag.iap.de/?ac=stats&lang=en

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/bl...84269750718970

ANOTHER OF GOD'S LITTLE TOYS
posted 8:38 AM

William Burroughs, in the early 1960s, called the audio tape recorder "God's little toy", enthusiastically incorporating it into his "cut-up" methodology.
As far as I know, WSB never much took to personal computing, but playing with this, yesterday morning, I was reminded of his having remarked that a heroin addict can find simply staring at his own shoe sufficient entertainment for a good three or four hours.

B a l k a n E r o t i c E p i c

This program is obsessed with a crappy posterize effect.

The Bluestorm:

Dream Pikachu:

Thanks for the bumps and kindly wading through all the "DDN versus" threads.

I just got through playing with this a little more and it seems the two and four image options are getting the better results.

I would probably end up cropping these up myself if I chose to use anything generated by this site.

I am getting some okay results every now and then, but yeah, most of them are crap. This is actually one of the better results I got for "sonic youth" + "sonic youth" using the 4 image option.

dora maar + dora maar 2 images

sonic youth + sonic nurse using 2 images setting

sonic youth + richard prince using 2 images setting (some nice results)

Searching for Ken Kagami on 4 image setting.

All using the four images option:

Outside the camp:

Atlantean 1274:

Cross Landscape:

awesome thread, atari

amazing tool here.
various MUGSHOTS

EXPLOSIONS

MATISSE

i really do quite like this one. type in "paris" and you get two americans.
paris texas and a sinister looking paris hilton.
the cowboy hat definately adds to the american charm/irony.

And some 6-image ones:

Saint Stained:

Birkenhead Failed:

Birkenhead Glory:

And there will your heart be also:

I quite like this game.

That's a nice Matisse one there, racehorse.

These with "red room" in the title field didn't come out so well.

That one Hip Priest did with the bus is crazy cool; like the Birkenhead one too.

Just a note, but it seems to me that the title field has more bearing on the result than the artist field.

artist leaping over his painting.

more klein, i like the orchestra, it makes for quite a surreal situation really.

jean cocteau

stein: picasso portrait and photo.

Quote:

Originally Posted by atari 2600

...it seems to me that the title field has more bearing on the result than the artist field.

I think so. All of mine have had the artist name 'Sebastian', with no obvious result.

I've been trying the eight-image option, but nothing even remotely attractive. No luck either with titles involving the word 'tavern'.

i found that if one image doesn't work then pressing search again for the same criteria will give a different image.

gr how do i post them?