Digital Art / Computer Graphics / AI – Page 5

Acolouthic Hot Links

Blue Star, The Shadows (1961) Pre-Beatles instrumental group The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows.

Listen to a moth.

Donkey nannies.

Wendy’s watching.

Self Defense in MA.

“Eh. Eh. Ah, ah, ah.”

Norty Blues Episode 81.

Escape from Springfield.

Streetscapes in watercolor.

The CPI continues to climb.

Cool maps you’ve never seen.

“Nice magazine. Want to sell it?“

The Chelsea Hotel doors auction.

Typhoon Yagi & a cashless society.

The worst movie death scene ever.

Steampunk river town [via Memo Of The Air].

Tomorrow’s kitchen of yesterday [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. Vadim Solovyov 2024.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Big 8 Hank & The Rhythm Slappers

Henry “Hank” Tudor (aka Bluffin’ Hal) was dubbed the King of 8 Cylinder Retrobilly. Tudor sang lead vocal and played slap bass. Little is known about the Rhythm Slappers’ lineup other than the female vocalists were replaced numerous times for unknown reasons.

Image from Historical Men Reimagined As Modern People Living Today,
[h/t Jaime G.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Miscellaneous strays from my desktop, most previously posted elsewhere.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 859 – Freewheeling, Digital Twister & A Guitar Mandala

[Found here, here and I spun the image found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 858 – An Elephant Rat with Batbeavers, Eyeball Strutters & Palm Springs

[Found here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 852 – Pulseface, Dad vs. Kid Gamer Styles & Rubbermaids Are Go

[1st .gif made from images found here; 2nd & 3rd from Xwitter vids found here and here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Springfield’s Finest

In late 2023, graphic designer “Princess_Prompt” threw The Simpsons characters into an AI image generator to see how well it responded to text prompts:

“I wanted to imagine what a live action series of The Simpsons could look like in the flesh in an ’80s style, the era of their birth. As a fan of The Simpsons and Matt Groening’s work since childhood, I found them to be the ideal subject for experimentation.”

[Story here, images found here, more characters and a brief interview here, and Princess_Prompt’s explanations on Reddit here.]

Update: Someone made a trailer!

Hellberry USA

Opie Taylor & friend inspecting a crank from hell

Aunt Bea Taylor & Barney Fife laughing at something from hell

There are some things that AI should just leave alone. Top is Opie & Andy Taylor from hell; middle isis Opie & friend inspecting a crank from hell; bottom is Aunt Bea & Barney Fife laughing at something from hell.

[AI generator: https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img.%5D