More AI experiments

In recent months, I've been playing around with the various AI art generators, and I've used their output as a springboard towards some fresh images. Here are some of them for yr enjoyment!

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"A Quiet Day in the Country, but with Aliens" turned out the inset photo. I've decided to go all mid-century sci-fi novella on it.

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"Vote Crispus"started with the revolutionary fists, presumably from some Third World country. One of the AI generators had a version with the gentleman in the lower middle, frozen with an accused look that I thought added a more sinister tone. There's no particular candidate named Crispus, and a vote for that person might not be in everyone's best interest. I don't think it's our central character. It reminds me of something from a Costa-Gavras picture.

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A pair of imaginary bands, Sinister Day's "No One Will Save You", which could be for a stoner metal band from somewhere like the Netherlands. I guess there's a wicked Aussie psy-trance artist with this name too. This started from a graveyard statue and a plume of smoke from a factory. And then, the album Flora from Exotic. The AI spit out a freaky-looking flower from an old series of nature shots I did long ago. I think it looks like a female-fronted indie pop band's second album, circa 1996 or 1997.

Above: A totally unauthorized tour poster for one of my favorite bands, Yo La Tengo, and their latest album, This Stupid World, which is just terrific and can be had for a low price at only the finest local record shoppes in your town.

Airborne Transmissions (a selected mix), 2021

How to Lose What We Have (in our hands)

Contains elements from:
In Our Hands: How to Lose What We Have (1950), Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.,
American Economic Foundation (Inland Steel Co. & Borg-Warner Corp.);
You're No Good (1965), National Film Board of Canada;
The Terrible Truth (1951), Sidney Davis Productions;
Ants: Nature’s Craftsmen (1920), Pathe Studios;
To Market, To Market (1942), General Outdoor Advertising Company;
Discovering Dark and Light (1965), Phoenix Films;
Sections (1947), CRM Films.

Feeding Frenzy

Feeding Frenzy
How it must be to swim among your kind,
Dull with the cold and dreary with the dark,
Enclosed above, beneath, before, behind
-Charles Wharton Stork (1917)

Contains elements from:
"Attack Patterns of Sharks"
Indiana University (1966)

bruxJaw

A test of violent paperwork
for the alpine climbing idea man.
Discovering,
Staggering,
Falling.
The waves break south.
The last fragments of Who?

To Be Determined

Contains Elements of:
The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats, 11/20
MUSIC:
Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 10, 3rd Movement (Purgatorio)
Philadelphia Orchestra (1968)
Eugene Ormandy, conductor

Objects

MUSIC: “My Favorite Things”, Andre 3000, from The Love Below, LaFace/Arista, 2003; “Happiness Is a Warm Gun”, Bobby Bryant, from Earth Dance, World Pacific Jazz, 1969; “Going Outta My Head” , Les McCann, Live at the Bohemian Caverns - Washington DC, Limelight, 1967. VIDEO: “Problems in Housing”, Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1944; “Our Food and Our Health”, Department of Defense, 1948. PHOTOS: Courtesy of the Milwaukee Historical Society

Fin de Siecle

From the Archives: This is the audio score that I completed for an experimental horror short back at the end of 2019. I'm not sure if it's available online anywhere to watch, but here's what it sounded like.

The City

1 in 5 Milwaukee city workers live outside its borders, including about 1 in 3 firefighters and police officers.
The 75 year-old residency law was removed in 2013 by a WI state law, which was upheld by the state Supreme Court.

This is a response to the effects of lifting that requirement.

Omnia Vanitas

Look back again—
how the endless age of time comes to pass;
Before our birth, it is nothing to us.
This is a looking glass nature holds up for us
in which we see the time yet to come.
After we finally die.
What is there that looks so fearsome?
What is so tragic?
Isn't it more peaceful than any sleep?

First Dream

A visual haiku about modern liminal states of being.

Contains Elements From:

“Industrial Power”
National Security Council, 1957
“Birds of Prey”
ERPI Classroom, 1938
“Tien Shan Gong Zhu”
Wan Brothers, 1941
“Tobacco and the Human Body”
Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1954
‘”Instructing the Blind Worker on the Job”
US Dept. of Education, 1944
“The Bed You Sleep In”
Directed by Jon Jost
Complex Corporation/Vanguard Cinema, 1993

Music:
“Cross Breeding”
Ornette Coleman
from “Ornette on Tenor” (1962)
Progetto TNT Jazz

As They Rode Along the Edge

Memento Mori

An experimental short for UWM
made in collaboration with Ariana Strupp.

A Messenger Has Arrived

The rabble call him lord;
And, as the world were now but to begin,
Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
The ratifiers and props of every word...

Found Sound - Phase 1

"What comfort to this great decay may come Shall be applied.


For us, we will resign During the life of this old majesty."