I took a photo submitted by a student and spent 2-3 hours playing with different prompts in playgroundai.com, a site that makes it easy to use Stable Diffusion or Dall-E to “reimagine” an image in a different style.
AI Seinfeld BANNED For Transphobic Comments
Lots of interesting issues raised by this one. I need to be on Twitch and TikTok but I’m too old and lazy. Tell me about these things, young friends! AI Appropriation of Seinfeld is just the start!
The first track here is a slideshow of AI images in which Douggy Pledger (https://www.facebook.com/douglaspledger) imagines a Kafkaesque sitcom and generates images from it using Midjourney AI. The soundtrack is a trackhack® by Adam Emond of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” but beats 2 and 4 are swapped. The second part of the video features video editing by one of my favourite artists, Ryan Celcius, accompanying trap beats by DOWNSTATE (Great ambient/drum and bass/lofi mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeIZnAaHL88).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZcvMeQfYuI
YouTube Algorithm Mashup #2
מאה שירים ראשונים א (Israeli Children’s Show) vs Pink Panther Theme from a cartoon title sequence
YouTube Algorithm #8 (Ethereal Snake x Stormzy)
When you need a break from studying and want some parasocial company. Guaranteed contact high.
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos was a series on British television where archival clips were re-assembled into absurdist narratives while voice artists and sound effects engineers provided new soundtracks. The series was written and produced by Geoff Atkinson and Kim Fuller for the BBC using a wide variety of footage held in the BBC vaults. This is a radical example of postmodern decontextualization, but the Monty Pythonesque anti-narratives created are often very funny, and I admit that some of the laughter comes from the painful recognition that the people in the video clips (most of which are documentary footage) are being taken completely out of context and with no regard to what they were actually doing or saying.