Not Sure If Art
A second limited edition (of 50) screen print I did for the “Memes” show featuring over 100 artists at Gallery 1988, Melrose. Show opens tomorrow, Friday 4th 7-10PM and all of the work will appear on the website on Saturday. Best times.
Around Valentine’s Day in the US and UK, these things called candy hearts (or conversation hearts or sweethearts) appear: small and sugary, bearing a simple, short Valentine’s message. There are only room for a few characters, so they read something like “LOVE YOU” or “CALL ME” or “BE MINE”.
I collected all the genuine heart messages I could find, and then gave them to a learning algorithm called a neural network. Given a set of data, a neural network will learn the patterns that let it imitate the original data - although its imitation is sometimes imperfect. The candy heart messages it produced… well, you be the judge.
The neural net did produce some that would pass for - and arguably improve upon - the standard messages.
DEAR ME
MY MY
LOVE BOT
CUTE KISS
MY BEAR
LOVE BUN
Others were in the same spirit, but perhaps not quite as effective.
YOU A LOVE
AM GOOD
YOU ARE BABE
ME MY <3
YOU ARE IT
HEART ME
SWEET PEAR
COOL CUD
FANCY MY HERO
Others were, um, strange. I don’t know what they mean, but some of them might work on me.
ALL HOVER
OOG LOVE
TEAM BEAR
TIME HUG
PIN A FACE
YOU’RE ME
SWOOL MAT
BOG LOVE
I HONKER
HOW COT
BEAR WIG
FANG
BE A GOOL
TWEET UP BAT
WIRLY OOT
I WANDER
TIME STAR
These will probably not be one of the standard messages anytime soon.
STANK LOVE
SWEAT POO
LOVE 2000 HOGSYEA
HOLE
HOW U HOT
YOU ARE BOA
CHERT FACE
LICK
SWEAT PEAR
LOO GIN
YOU A GOO
LOOK BIG
YOU ARE BAG
U HACK
There was yet another category of message, a category you might be able to predict given the prevalence of four-letter words in the original dataset. The neural network thought of some nice new four-letter words to use. Unfortunately, some of those words already had other meanings. Let’s just say that the overall effect was surprisingly suggestive. Fill out the form here and I’ll send them to you.
Also, if you need more love help from the neural network, check out the pick up lines it wrote.
Heart pictures made using https://cryptogram.com/hearts/
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IAN MALCOLM: FROM CHAOS by John Larriva, part of Brandon Bird’s The JP Show (Just People), a humans-only Jurassic Park art show.
You know what I love about this? EVERYTHING.
My submission for a certain upcoming art show. :p (See previous post.)
I wanted to draw a scene that somehow showed the essence of the series, that these people meet through chance (and a desire to improve their Spanish) and end up having this huge impact on each other. I love that about Community, it’s one of those shows with a big heart.
Here’s a Valentine I made for YOU.
You can see it bigger here: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8512/8473311381_1c483ab969_b.jpg
I love you! Happy Valentine’s Day!! SMOOCH
Our cups runneth over!
Oh man… You guys know those “How to Draw…” books by Christopher Hart? I think we all do. If you’re unfamiliar, there are a bevy of books out there, across all spectrums of art that one might want to learn about, that this guy Chris Hart goes around and collects artists to contribute to. Mr. Hart is not a terrible artist, but he’s not as polished as the talent he gathers for these books, lacking a style of his own and foregoing a sort of deeper knowledge of his subject that artists acquire only after specializing in their medium, style, and application. Again, he’s not terrible, and versatility is an admirable trait in the illustration world, but sometimes the lessons he teaches in these books leave something to be desired. See image above for a prime example of this.
Okay, onto the bigger picture… This week, Ryan Estrada posted this:
What hell?
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“not a ton of personality” = “doesn’t presently want to bang you”
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By Brian Warmoth
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Coran Stone Continues to Make His Action Movie Mark on Comic Book and Cartoon Icons [Art]
By Brian Warmoth
Coran Stone cartoons only exist on our fantasy lineup of animation channels. But you probably already know that. Last year, Stone’s ThunderCats and Super Mario Bros. art had us hooked with his soft color palette and happy facial expressions. This year he went even deeper, however, showing us such eyeball-shocking concepts as a hypothetical Inspector Gadget, Mega Man, RoboCop and Iron Man team-up.
Finally, someone dares to draw an Optimus Prime who transforms into a hundred-foot semi truck.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Transformers fans! Before the deluge of Toy Fair news begins, let’s take a moment to celebrate love in the Transformers universe with a few of the most famous romances - and a few of the memorably more one-sided ones, too! But this is only a small list - reblog and tell us some of YOUR favourite Transformer pairings!
Arcee and Springer
Blackarachnia and Silverbolt
Poor old Kelly and Side Burn
Mirage and his bizarre infatuation with Megatron!
Strika and Obsidian
Seaspray once fell in love with the alien Alana - and the feeling was mutual!
And no list could miss out Domey and Rewind!
Since I’ve been blogging Headmasters scenes, let’s have a look back at some of my favorite romantic and not at all creepy or just plain wrong moments from that series…
Wheelie and Papika… and Daniel?
AUGH!!! Too creepy, Wheelie!
How about Chromedome and his crush on Arcee?
Ugh. Way to ruin it by being a perv, jerkface.
Meanwhile, Brainstorm found these two guys sneaking around in a darkened alley…
Hm. Cyclonus looks shocked at the idea, but Scourge doesn’t seem too bothered.
Of course, we can’t forget Pipiro and Koro, can we? (No matter how hard we try.)
The course of true love doesn’t always run smooth in Transformers, eh?
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